Human beings have always tried to put things into categories to analyze and understand these things. For example, in science there is the taxonomy of plants and animals, periodic table of elements and rock classifications. It just seems natural that people want to put "generations" into categories to analyze and draw conclusions about behavior and attitudes.
One way too look at it might be.....There's Alphas and Betas. Alphas lead and think for themselves. Betas follow and don't. With AI and so many media sources already thinking for youngsters and so many seemingly uable to think for themselves...............
Maybe wishful thinking by the powers that be that they will finally get the compliant population they seem to want so bad? One that just does as they are told.
I sure am glad I'm old enough to remember how to think and not depend on technology for everything and every decision I make. A friend told me his wife asked "How many feet are 120 inches" and reached for her smart phone. He got to it first and told her to just think for a moment. She already knew the answer but is programmed to rely on technology for even basic math. A 65 year old Beta. There will be many more to come in the future...........Maybe that's it?
One way too look at it might be.....There's Alphas and Betas. Alphas lead and think for themselves. Betas follow and don't. With AI and so many media sources already thinking for youngsters and so many seemingly uable to think for themselves...............
Maybe wishful thinking by the powers that be that they will finally get the compliant population they seem to want so bad? One that just does as they are told.
I sure am glad I'm old enough to remember how to think and not depend on technology for everything and every decision I make. A friend told me his wife asked "How many feet are 120 inches" and reached for her smart phone. He got to it first and told her to just think for a moment. She already knew the answer but is programmed to rely on technology for even basic math. A 65 year old Beta. There will be many more to come in the future...........Maybe that's it?
I wouldn't confuse the Greek alphabet with those "definitions" some like to ascribe to them. It's like saying somehow the number 1 is better than number 2 - they're just numbers.
Beta will meet its generational challenges just as the rest of us have. No generation is better or worse than any other, we just grapple with our daily sorrows and triumphs the best we can.
One way too look at it might be.....There's Alphas and Betas. Alphas lead and think for themselves. Betas follow and don't. With AI and so many media sources already thinking for youngsters and so many seemingly uable to think for themselves...............
Maybe wishful thinking by the powers that be that they will finally get the compliant population they seem to want so bad? One that just does as they are told.
I sure am glad I'm old enough to remember how to think and not depend on technology for everything and every decision I make. A friend told me his wife asked "How many feet are 120 inches" and reached for her smart phone. He got to it first and told her to just think for a moment. She already knew the answer but is programmed to rely on technology for even basic math. A 65 year old Beta. There will be many more to come in the future...........Maybe that's it?
I wouldn't confuse the Greek alphabet with those "definitions" some like to ascribe to them. It's like saying somehow the number 1 is better than number 2 - they're just numbers.
Beta will meet its generational challenges just as the rest of us have. No generation is better or worse than any other, we just grapple with our daily sorrows and triumphs the best we can.
@chapeau-noir
True enough and of course there are those born just prior to or just after the generational cutoff date assigned by some 3rd party. People are born everyday and those "generations" are specific to the "western world" ... I am sure folks on other continents could care less what has been generated here.
At the end of the day someone pays to get you in, you pay while you are here and then in most cases have to pay when you get out ... so the old adage that "it's all about money" applies ... sorry if that sounds morbid ...
I just think unless one has somehow ossified in their thinking, there's a lot of overlapping as successive generations come along and experiences change, time shifts, influences wax and wane, and we deal with current issues.
Simple- it was X then Y (Millennials) then Z, then starts over. A B C D etc only they are calling those letters with the old 'greek' style of Alpha, then Beta etc.
I know NOTHING about this stuff..........but the title suggests to me it's an experimental generation......lol, does that mean THEY are experimental or that their world will be ????.....
I know NOTHING about this stuff..........but the title suggests to me it's an experimental generation......lol, does that mean THEY are experimental or that their world will be ????.....
@dhbookds
Good one on the "Beta" reference ... here is a nifty colorful chart covering up through Gen Alpha ... some day they will update it to include Gen Beta ...
The Lost, Greatest and Silent Generations will always be the greatest in my book. I try not to complain because what they endured makes my generation look weak.
People like to say our education is much further along than the 1900's, but, most people today couldn't even pass an 8th grade exit exam c1900. It was more of a practical, no multiple choice.
Here's an 1895, 8th grade exit exam from Salina, Kansas. Yeah, it was a 6 hour exam.
Grammar (Time Limit - one hour)
• Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters.
• Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no Modifications.
• Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph.
• What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of lie, play and run.
• Define Case, Illustrate each Case.
• What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation.
• Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.
Arithmetic (Time Limit - 1.25 hours)
• Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
• A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
• If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50 cts/bushel, deducting 1050 lbs. for tare?
• District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?
• Find cost of 6720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton.
• Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
• What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at 20 per metre?
• Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.
• What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance around which is 640 rods?
• Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.
U.S. History (Time Limit - 45 minutes)
• Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided.
• Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus.
• Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.
• Show the territorial growth of the United States.
• Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.
• Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion.
• Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe?
• Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, 1865.
Orthography (Time Limit - one hour)
• What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabication?
• What are elementary sounds? How classified?
• What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals?
• Give four substitutes for caret 'u.'
• Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e.' Name two exceptions under each rule.
• Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
• Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, sup.
• Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the
sign that indicates the sound: card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.
• Use the following correctly in sentences: cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.
• Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.
Geography (Time Limit - one hour)
• What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
• How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas?
• Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?
• Describe the mountains of North America.
• Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco.
• Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S.
• Name all the republics of Europe and give the capital of each.
• Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude?
• Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers.
• Describe the movements of the earth. Give the inclination of the earth.
To describe the tail end of the Baby Boom (1946-64)- those born in the Sixties who came of age just in time for another Republican Recession. Gen Y and Z came from that.
Gen Beta will grow up in a technology-driven world, characterized by widespread use of artificial intelligence, autonomous transportation and immense digital experiences.
Gen Beta will grow up in a technology-driven world, characterized by widespread use of artificial intelligence, autonomous transportation and immense digital experiences.
Due to advances in knowledge of quantum entanglement, we're just around the corner from quantum computing. Coupled with AI integration and holographic systems, it's believed users will not be able to discern reality from simulation; or, are we already at that point and simply don't realize it.
Leonard Susskind, one of the greatest minds in quantum physics and subscribes to the Holographic Principle, stating, "our 3-D Universe appears to be a hologram: our reality coded on a distant two-dimensional image."
Although I've never paid much attention to societal labels, l I sure wouldn't want to be known as a Gen Beta, regardless of the rationale behind the naming.
The Prosperity was lost to Republican Regian trickle down economics Tax cuts to the wealthy and no new job's and inflation high recession . and repeated again GH Bush ,GW BUSH and fat Mandurian Orange 45 first term and again in his second term thanks to the low educated hicks that voted him back in . Republican politicians only have tax cuts on brain . They robbed the SSA fund's during bill Clintin's second term and never repaid it back.
This '44 model (near the end of the The Apathetic generation - that questioned everything - the protest/riots, hippies came later) started paying for all my college expenses (tuition, room & board, books, weekly spending allowance 5 bucks per week freshman year, 10 bucks/week by my senior year that included $ for washing drying cloths, entertainment, dates, gas for my $350 '50 Mercury, a copy of Hugh Hefner's months magazine (interesting articles), legal smokes (just 1 joint ever) and snacks and some beer or vodka in the summer of 1964 - only worked 67 hours per week (11.5 M-F, 10.5 Sat. straight time, OT time and 1/2pay 2.54/hour assembling Ford Mustangs at the Dearborn Assembly Plant ( part of the Rouge Complex) worked each summer up thru the summer of '67. Same hours each summer straight time jumped all the way to 2.67/hr. Motown's Big 3 were building cars like crazy along with the supporting businesses steel mills, tool & die shops, etc (Mustang were built 68/hr then - what recession? Yeah the skies were smoky and the Detroit River and Lake Erie were well polluted on the US side - Canada had blue water but the Motown sound was top shelf - didn't get better than that. Dad a vet of WW I and a Purple Heart recipient passed away when there was only 48 stars on our flag - have that flag proudly displayed in our home.
mustang707
·1 year agoHuman beings have always tried to put things into categories to analyze and understand these things. For example, in science there is the taxonomy of plants and animals, periodic table of elements and rock classifications. It just seems natural that people want to put "generations" into categories to analyze and draw conclusions about behavior and attitudes.
redlinear
·1 year agoHope they turn out better than the Beta dvd things 😆
go-bad-chicken
·1 year agoThe Betazoids got to pick this new generation. It was in their contact.
nuclearomen
·1 year agoit's a test generation? 😆
roccotacodad54
·1 year agoOne way too look at it might be.....There's Alphas and Betas. Alphas lead and think for themselves. Betas follow and don't. With AI and so many media sources already thinking for youngsters and so many seemingly uable to think for themselves...............
Maybe wishful thinking by the powers that be that they will finally get the compliant population they seem to want so bad? One that just does as they are told.
I sure am glad I'm old enough to remember how to think and not depend on technology for everything and every decision I make. A friend told me his wife asked "How many feet are 120 inches" and reached for her smart phone. He got to it first and told her to just think for a moment. She already knew the answer but is programmed to rely on technology for even basic math. A 65 year old Beta. There will be many more to come in the future...........Maybe that's it?
chapeau-noir
·1 year agoI wouldn't confuse the Greek alphabet with those "definitions" some like to ascribe to them. It's like saying somehow the number 1 is better than number 2 - they're just numbers.
Beta will meet its generational challenges just as the rest of us have. No generation is better or worse than any other, we just grapple with our daily sorrows and triumphs the best we can.
mr_lincoln
OP1 year ago@chapeau-noir
True enough and of course there are those born just prior to or just after the generational cutoff date assigned by some 3rd party. People are born everyday and those "generations" are specific to the "western world" ... I am sure folks on other continents could care less what has been generated here.
At the end of the day someone pays to get you in, you pay while you are here and then in most cases have to pay when you get out ... so the old adage that "it's all about money" applies ... sorry if that sounds morbid ...
chapeau-noir
·1 year agoI just think unless one has somehow ossified in their thinking, there's a lot of overlapping as successive generations come along and experiences change, time shifts, influences wax and wane, and we deal with current issues.
stainlessenginecovers
·1 year agoSimple- it was X then Y (Millennials) then Z, then starts over. A B C D etc only they are calling those letters with the old 'greek' style of Alpha, then Beta etc.
dhbookds
·1 year agoI know NOTHING about this stuff..........but the title suggests to me it's an experimental generation......lol, does that mean THEY are experimental or that their world will be ????.....
mr_lincoln
OP1 year ago@dhbookds
Good one on the "Beta" reference ... here is a nifty colorful chart covering up through Gen Alpha ... some day they will update it to include Gen Beta ...
cardxcraft
·1 year agoThe Lost, Greatest and Silent Generations will always be the greatest in my book. I try not to complain because what they endured makes my generation look weak.
People like to say our education is much further along than the 1900's, but, most people today couldn't even pass an 8th grade exit exam c1900. It was more of a practical, no multiple choice.
Here's an 1895, 8th grade exit exam from Salina, Kansas. Yeah, it was a 6 hour exam.
Grammar (Time Limit - one hour)
• Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters.
• Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no Modifications.
• Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph.
• What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of lie, play and run.
• Define Case, Illustrate each Case.
• What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation.
• Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.
Arithmetic (Time Limit - 1.25 hours)
• Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
• A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
• If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50 cts/bushel, deducting 1050 lbs. for tare?
• District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?
• Find cost of 6720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton.
• Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
• What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at 20 per metre?
• Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.
• What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance around which is 640 rods?
• Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.
U.S. History (Time Limit - 45 minutes)
• Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided.
• Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus.
• Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.
• Show the territorial growth of the United States.
• Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.
• Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion.
• Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe?
• Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, 1865.
Orthography (Time Limit - one hour)
• What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabication?
• What are elementary sounds? How classified?
• What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals?
• Give four substitutes for caret 'u.'
• Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e.' Name two exceptions under each rule.
• Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
• Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, sup.
• Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the
sign that indicates the sound: card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.
• Use the following correctly in sentences: cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.
• Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.
Geography (Time Limit - one hour)
• What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
• How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas?
• Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?
• Describe the mountains of North America.
• Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco.
• Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S.
• Name all the republics of Europe and give the capital of each.
• Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude?
• Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers.
• Describe the movements of the earth. Give the inclination of the earth.
carlmarxx
·1 year agoGen-X 1970-1980 . it was around 1983 when Gen -x was used for those born between 1970-1980 .
slippinjimmy
·1 year agoA lengthy read but worthwhile if the topic is of interest to you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation
mr_lincoln
OP1 year ago@slippinjimmy
I've read part of that before and the chart I have seen before too ... of course they will have to update it to include Gen Beta ...
femmefan1946
·1 year agoWell, GenX was first used by Douglas Coupland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X:_Tales_for_an_Accelerated_Culture
To describe the tail end of the Baby Boom (1946-64)- those born in the Sixties who came of age just in time for another Republican Recession.
Gen Y and Z came from that.
https://www.beresfordresearch.com/age-range-by-generation/
I'm not sure why Gen Alpha should start now. What shift in culture will make them stand out.
Boomers- well there were a lot of us.
Gen X - missed out on the "prosperity" of our early working years
Millennials are the children of Boomers
Gen Z are called the first "digital natives".
mr_lincoln
OP1 year ago@femmefan1946
One sources puts it this way:
Gen Beta will grow up in a technology-driven world, characterized by widespread use of artificial intelligence, autonomous transportation and immense digital experiences.
cardxcraft
·1 year ago@mr_lincoln wrote: One sources puts it this way
Gen Beta will grow up in a technology-driven world, characterized by widespread use of artificial intelligence, autonomous transportation and immense digital experiences.
Due to advances in knowledge of quantum entanglement, we're just around the corner from quantum computing. Coupled with AI integration and holographic systems, it's believed users will not be able to discern reality from simulation; or, are we already at that point and simply don't realize it.
Leonard Susskind, one of the greatest minds in quantum physics and subscribes to the Holographic Principle, stating, "our 3-D Universe appears to be a hologram: our reality coded on a distant two-dimensional image."
Although I've never paid much attention to societal labels, l I sure wouldn't want to be known as a Gen Beta, regardless of the rationale behind the naming.
mr_lincoln
OP1 year ago@cardxcraft
Fortunately, our grandkids still like us reading books to them ...
carlmarxx
·1 year agoThe Prosperity was lost to Republican Regian trickle down economics Tax cuts to the wealthy and no new job's and inflation high recession . and repeated again GH Bush ,GW BUSH and fat Mandurian Orange 45 first term and again in his second term thanks to the low educated hicks that voted him back in . Republican politicians only have tax cuts on brain . They robbed the SSA fund's during bill Clintin's second term and never repaid it back.
johnrj1226
·1 year agoThis '44 model (near the end of the The Apathetic generation - that questioned everything - the protest/riots, hippies came later) started paying for all my college expenses (tuition, room & board, books, weekly spending allowance 5 bucks per week freshman year, 10 bucks/week by my senior year that included $ for washing drying cloths, entertainment, dates, gas for my $350 '50 Mercury, a copy of Hugh Hefner's months magazine (interesting articles), legal smokes (just 1 joint ever) and snacks and some beer or vodka in the summer of 1964 - only worked 67 hours per week (11.5 M-F, 10.5 Sat. straight time, OT time and 1/2pay 2.54/hour assembling Ford Mustangs at the Dearborn Assembly Plant ( part of the Rouge Complex) worked each summer up thru the summer of '67. Same hours each summer straight time jumped all the way to 2.67/hr. Motown's Big 3 were building cars like crazy along with the supporting businesses steel mills, tool & die shops, etc (Mustang were built 68/hr then - what recession? Yeah the skies were smoky and the Detroit River and Lake Erie were well polluted on the US side - Canada had blue water but the Motown sound was top shelf - didn't get better than that. Dad a vet of WW I and a Purple Heart recipient passed away when there was only 48 stars on our flag - have that flag proudly displayed in our home.