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Abstract:

The book focuses on the group of Americans who live a life of digital hyper-connectivity. Mostly under age 50, this would include what are called Generation X (born betwe...Show More

Abstract:

The book focuses on the group of Americans who live a life of digital hyper-connectivity. Mostly under age 50, this would include what are called Generation X (born between 1965 and 1979), Millennials (born between 1980 and 1999), and their offspring — some, as we have seen, still infants. A leitmotif of the book is that these “digital natives,” as she calls them have been untethered from the American Dream. The author claims this group are untethered from what she sees as the traditional signifiers of adulthood. They aren’t marrying, or having children; they eschew car ownership, don’t go to church. She calls them in one instance “generation rent.” That this renting has anything to do with a shortage of affordable housing in America is never noted.
Published in: IEEE Technology and Society Magazine ( Volume: 39, Issue: 4, December 2020)
Page(s): 11 - 12
Date of Publication: 09 December 2020

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