I was reading this article about “generational wars” in the Independent.
It was droll, and at the same time poignant, as it had tinges of nostalgia in it, harking to the past while looking at the future. My dear departed friend Viji would have called it Intimations of Mortality, rudely paraphrasing Wordsworth.
I am a baby boomer ( not that we ever stopped baby-booming in India, ever!)
When I was beginning work in the 70’s I though of myself as a Gen X person even though the term had not been invented yet
I continued to work hard and play hard ( shouting rants such as 18-till-i-die and sex-and-drugs-and-rock-and-roll!)
I have made it through no fault of my own to the 21st century.
And see the millennials calling this earth as their own.
I was part of those that struggled with telephone-booth size mobile phones ( we called them handphones in those days to differentiate them from cordless ones), choosing whether Explorer or Netscape was better as a browser, thinking that an AOL account would somehow mysteriously increase my net speed which peaked at 64 kpbs, and composing songs to the tune of my dial up sounds.
I was also part of the launch of smart phones, and ,as everyone did, taught myself to overcome Nokia’s rule of thumb to full digit communication
I remain (as this article suggested to me) a Gen X guy.
But sadly I was not born with a silver touchpad in my brain.
Gen X still rules the big world of politics ( with many baby boomers thrown in), the world of really big business and finance , and certainly has its finger on the weapons of war.
But it is the last analogue generation of Planet Earth
Many millennials ( the early ones born in 1982 to 1995) were still analogue in their upbringing.
Those born post 2000 are digital. And in fact those born after 2007 when the iPhone was launched are even more so.
And we will need to coin another phrase for them.
Welcome to the Digiverse!
So It Got Me Thinking 