1) what people (everyone, but more so those currently in their 20s and 30s) do over the next decade will formulate the backbone of society. As the people who were born too early to capitalise on changes to technology and born too late to experience the golden era of the digital boom, Gen Y and Gen Z have the capacity to understand both worlds i.e. the Bridging Generations. The unique position this creates means pulling forward the ancient into the contemporary, a skill of synthesis and creativity. (Time is a relative construct anyway right)
2) this generation will fail to provide adequate scaffolding for the later generations (Generation Alpha onwards) to the detriment of innovation. The next generation will be formulating on empty air (Peter Thiel’s argument). Arguably this ‘starting more from scratch’ is occurring right now as we need to reformulate 19th Century perspectives (like Victorian-era classrooms) and retranslate them for a technolgical environment instead of just transplanting physical processes into the digital realm and assuming or hoping the mapping is adequate. Maybe this is this century’s burning of the great Library of Alexandria to pave the way for the digital.
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A few thoughts:
1) what people (everyone, but more so those currently in their 20s and 30s) do over the next decade will formulate the backbone of society. As the people who were born too early to capitalise on changes to technology and born too late to experience the golden era of the digital boom, Gen Y and Gen Z have the capacity to understand both worlds i.e. the Bridging Generations. The unique position this creates means pulling forward the ancient into the contemporary, a skill of synthesis and creativity. (Time is a relative construct anyway right)
2) this generation will fail to provide adequate scaffolding for the later generations (Generation Alpha onwards) to the detriment of innovation. The next generation will be formulating on empty air (Peter Thiel’s argument). Arguably this ‘starting more from scratch’ is occurring right now as we need to reformulate 19th Century perspectives (like Victorian-era classrooms) and retranslate them for a technolgical environment instead of just transplanting physical processes into the digital realm and assuming or hoping the mapping is adequate. Maybe this is this century’s burning of the great Library of Alexandria to pave the way for the digital.