Think of how much richer our culture is because of all the traditions, foods, crafts, music, and other elements that immigrants have transported from foreign cultures into our culture. Digital natives and immigrants bring different but important knowledge and skills to the melding task. What digital immigrants can do best is to help digital natives develop and use interpersonal skills in face-to-face situations-skills that are at risk when communication becomes increasingly electronic. What digital natives can do is to help digital immigrants master the new technologies. I suspect that much of this already occurs as children and grandchildren solve the technological glitches that mystify their elders, and their elders help them solve the kinds of real life problems that aren't incorporated into video games or Internet sources.

Eight years after proposing the dichotomy, Pensky suggests that the number of digital natives is increasing and the number of digital immigrants is decreasing as computerized technologies expand into more areas of human life. This is what led him to suggest that a new form of wisdom is emerging.

Digital Wisdom
Elkhonon Goldberg suggests that wisdom emerges within the context of several interrelated concepts. Talent represents our potential ability to create genuinely novel content or performance, and genius represents its supreme manifestation. Similarly, competence represents our ability to relate new challenges to existing knowledge or skills, and wisdom represents its supreme manifestation.