Links tagged with “cohorts”
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HM Government Horizon Scanning Programme - Social Attitudes of Young People
“The aim of this report is to assess if and how social attitudes of young people in the UK today differ from previous generations, and how they might evolve in the future.” December 2014
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Every Every Every Generation Has Been the Me Me Me Generation - Elspeth Reeve - The Atlantic Wire
Scroll down for the examples of 100+ years of oldsters moaning about kids being spoiled narcissists. (via @timoarnall)
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The Entrepreneurial Generation - NYTimes.com
This is good - this generation’s “thing” is starting small businesses. “Our culture hero is not the artist or reformer, not the saint or scientist, but the entrepreneur.” Although it falls apart a bit when suggesting hipsters have only been around for 15 years. (via Waxy)
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Generation PC, 1964-73 - Brainiac - The Boston Globe
A guide to the names of different generations. Generation X etc. (via Kottke)
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Hilobrow | Middlebrow is not the solution
(Re)Naming the generations from 1844 onwards. I’m fascinated by these kinds of divisions and identifications. (via Kottke)
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Schneier on Security: The Future of Ephemeral Conversation
“The younger generation chats digitally, and the older generation treats those chats as written correspondence. … until we have a Presidential election where both candidates have a complete history on social networking sites from before they were teenagers — we aren’t fully an information age society.” (via Oblinks)