It's the conceit of any number of ads on television: A perplexed parent watches his son or daughter send text messages to his or her friends, and chat endlessly online. The messages of these commercials? The younger generation, raised on the Internet, is hard to understand. Its members are totally unlike their forebears.

Don Tapscott has spent years studying "The Net Generation," as he calls it. And in his new book, Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World, Tapscott tries to explain it.

As Gen Y (and everybody else) prepares to head to the polls tomorrow, we'll talk with Tapscott about how Millennials are changing politics, and the way we all interact with the government.

Tags: Grown Up Digital, Net Generation, Don Tabscott