With increasing automation and robotics, as well as a hyperconnected global labor pool, the future of work frequently comes up as an issue for Homelanders or Generation Z. After the Millennials was recently commissioned by the educational non-profit Knowledge Works to do a nation-wide generational...
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...
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...
When I first started studying the post-millennial generation my clients and readers were mostly interested in learning how to sell diapers, rattle toys and baby food to new parents and close family. As this generation is growing older, their needs are evolving too. No generation the size...
Yesterday I had the pleasure of seeing a talk by Dr. Devorah Heitner, the author of Screenwise and site Raising Digital Natives. Dr. Heitner has the unusual disposition that she doesn’t believe digital technology and social media will lead our species into an apocalyptic downfall....
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...
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...
Last week I spoke at a conference in Madrid called “No Money”. It was hosted by Spain’s leading newspaper El Pais and was literally about the transition to a cashless society. Foregoing cash in the near future is no far-fetched idea since entire countries are...
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...
It’s hard to believe that we have finally entered the second half of the second decade of the new millennium. So much has changed only in the past 5 years: cloud computing and mobile are mainstream, 3D printers can be bought at the local office...
