The Shift Age Generations (Entering the Shift Age, eBook 4) by David Houle

Author:David Houle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2012-10-10T00:00:00+00:00

This generation has grown up having less gender and racial bias. They have grown up with a much more global sense of themselves, they are much more collaborative and collective in their thinking, and they are coming into adulthood at a time of great economic hardship. When they see and experience the incredibly high levels of unemployment for their generation around the world, they realize that they didn’t have anything to do with it. This leads them to often disregard the suggestions, ideas, directions, and points of view of older generations. This creates a huge generational gap of worldview between the Millennials and their elders.

This gap will accelerate the collapse of legacy thinking in the Transformation Decade, as the Millennial Generation will not respect, embrace, or buy into the legacy thinking of the Bridge Generation and Generation X.

So legacy thinking will not be passed along generationally to the degree that it has been in the past. That is why Millennials will be the ones to come up with the innovative and transformative ideas needed to retrofit the twentieth century. They will be the ones that show the way to solving the global problems of the twenty-first century.

The catastrophic reorganizational global recession between the Information Age and the Shift Age from 2007 to 2012, with incredibly high unemployment percentages in the Millennial Generation, has also changed the economic aspirations of this generation. Since the traditional paths to employment have closed, since the college degree they are now in debt to pay off is not being honored in the traditional job space, they are increasingly viewing entrepreneurship as their future. We are going to see a higher percentage of entrepreneurship and levels of independent contractors in this generation starting at an earlier age than ever before.

Digital Natives

As interesting and powerfully influential as the Millennial Generation is, I am equally if not more fascinated by the Digital Natives. As a futurist, it is this generation I have been observing closely, as they provide a view on what will be a brand-new level of awareness and consciousness in the Shift Age.

Again, Digital Natives have largely been born since 1997, perhaps a few years later outside the United States. This generation is defined by the ever-more-rapid technological change of the last fifteen years. As with the Millennials before them, I divide this generation into two groups. The first wave of Digital Natives was born between 1997 and 2009; the second has been born since 2010.

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