This is my third and last post in a series about Millennials and money following El País’ event No Money this April, reflecting some of the topics that were raised. Blockchain is the database system underpinning the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, but has started to draw attention on its own. The blockchain technology’s recent rise to fame…
Like 71% of others in the United States I’d rather spend time dealing with my dentist than my financial institutions. Well, my dentist is also my husband, so I guess in my case this is no surprise, but you get the point. As a millennialized generation X’er, I despise long hold times on the phone,…
Picture, picture, smile for the picture Pose with your brother, won’t you be a good sister? Everyone thinks that we’re perfect Please don’t let them look through the curtains. In her debut single “Dollhouse” last year, Generation Z artist and idol Melaine Martinez plays a little girl’s doll who ends every chilling refrain with: “I see…
One of the obligatory yearly conferences a professional futurist should attend is the one set up by World Future Society. I feel particularly obliged to attend since I am representing the Central Texas Chapter of the WFS in Austin as vice president. But alas, I haven’t attended since being a student in 2002 when I…
Resilience, not abstinence, may help teens battle online risk | Penn State University. Generation Z or the Homeland generation are glued to their devices and will live in a world where the internet will merge with the real world. This means that also the dangers of the online world will be superimposed onto reality. We can’t…
Social media has been in flames the last few days over a (now withdrawn) Barbie-book Mattel published in 2010. It started with a blog post on Pamiedotcom’s Tumblr site. Barbie: I Can Be A Computer Engineer is the gift that keeps on giving to blogs and click bait sites that thrive on stroking our growing sense of gender fairness….
If you already know what the internet of things is, keep reading. If you want to learn what the IoT revolution has to do with net neutrality and your children’s quality of life, watch this explanation from Jeremy Rifkin. Then ask yourself if the internet is really just media or public utility of the future. Yesterday President Obama suggested to the…
Although type of content varies between older and younger users in the same cohort, we see that the mobile screen is taking over as the electronic time killer of choice, while the big screen TV will eventually reduce to a – not irrelevant, but increasingly distant – number two. It is also common for children to use…
Are you mesmerized by a generation of post-millennials who figure out their new electronic gadgets faster than you can install child safety settings? Do you think this must be unique to the generation growing up today, also dubbed the digital natives? Do you think younger generations are more tech savvy because their brains are ‘wired differently”? They might indeed be…
Based on the 2012 study conducted by the Pew Research Center, the Millennial population (born between early 1980s to the early 2000s) or commonly referred to as the ‘Generation Y,’ is a group with the most number of heavy mobile and social media consumption. In fact, 61% of Millennials who belong to the age bracket…
