| Ka-pi96 said:
Isn't there a problem with that though? Firstly there's the obvious issue of those things being a long time apart. And if you're saying the current gen is based on the internet, then when will we move on to the next one? What if it's not for like a hundred years until the next big thing comes along, isn't that far too long of a time to group all of those people together? Then there's also an issue with how things actually affect peoples lives. Many of these were much more gradual changes, not everyone got a TV, computer or internet access when they were first available. There's people still without some of those things even! Just found this graph about that Definitely a gradual rather than immediate change. So even though these days internet usage is very widespread in the west, just 12 years ago less than half of people used the internet. |
The odds of an event, cultural shift, or technological advancement not happening in next ten years is hard to believe. There hasn't been a period of 100 years of stagnation since the Renaissance kicked off and if anything change has been happening more rapidly. The opposite effect could be that culture shifts so much that someone born within the same decade as another could have little in common. Someone born in 1980 and someone born in 1989 for example likely have very different childhoods and relationship with technology.
Also, I will acknowledge this is a from a closed data set of a singular national culture rather than a worldwide one.
