And the post-millennials, Generation Z, have turned either 26 or 17 depending on how you like to classify them. As a futurist I started this blog when I sensed that my children’s generation and their future would look very different from generations before them. I knew they would deal with the effects of a multitude…
The novel coronavirus COVID-19 is ravaging modern lifestyles and upend how we relate to our schools, workplaces and socializing in general. Stock exchanges, looming of recession even before the pandemic, have embarked on a poorly engineered roller coaster, and life as we know it is quickly coming to a standstill. Governments are closing borders or…
It’s 2030. You’re managing a company that produces artificially intelligent internet connected consumer products. As you glance over your co-working hub you see people on their laptops, some in their virtual reality haptic gears. They are meeting with their teams 5000 miles away. Some are chatting with their robotic assistants which have become trained enough to…
To learn what makes Digital Natives tick, why not hear it straight from the horse’s mouth? This is why I spent the past few days at VidCom, the ultimate convention for online videos and the lives of digital influencers and their young fan base. VidCon is the brainchild of the vlogbrothers, themselves uber-successful YouTubers….
Marketers are feverishly trying to figure out how to advertise to Generation Z or Homelanders these days. One strategy is trying to make ads that Generation Z will share. But is this really a good idea? And if so, will Generation Z share your ads in their social media channels anyway? Most probably, they won’t. They will share…
If you follow generation Z news closely, you might have noticed a sudden increase in headlines that projects Generation Z as being more “socially conservative” than older generations. The finding, which claims that Generation Z are less open to same-sex marriage, gender fluidity and body adornments such as tattoos go back to a survey (actually…
Last week I attended Web Summit, Europe’s largest tech conference. This was the first year they summoned in Lisbon, Portugal having been in Dublin the years prior. The conference brings together over 50,000 attendees, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, globally renowned thought leaders and tech magnates as well as government officials ranging from city administrators to supranational…
No generation the size of 2-3 billion can be fully described with a simple bullet point list. And yet there are some generational commonalities we should be aware of. Generational research is a sifting process, and the biggest job is to weed out the noise between the true signals. After discarding myths and spurious effects,…
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The challenges younger generations face today can at times feel overwhelming. Often the source of responsibility is pointed at older generations who are presumed responsible for the mess younger people now have to deal with. I believe “blameworthiness” is an undercurrent that contaminates, rather than enlighten our ability to understand the dynamic of age cohorts sharing the contemporary at different phases of their lives. Instead…
