I think part of the challenge is it's a transitional generation, people born in the early 80's could have had access to the Internet at a relatively tender age but would still remember using rotary phones, cassettes, VHS... There's a huge fundamental leap in consumer-grade technology during their formative years. And you get that weird gap, like you said, between jealously safeguarding one's identity online because the Internet was 'a wild online frontier' in the beginning versus now, where it's commonplace and accepted people will publish all manner of personal information online.
The transition from car phones to pagers to early cell phones to smart phones alone is kinda crazy. I had to rewrite a near-future novel because payphones were a thing when I wrote the first draft, but were obsolete a few years later when I returned to it.
Anyway, my suggestion for a name is Net Gen. The Internet went from a somewhat obscure thing to being completely integrated into daily life.
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Date: 2016-01-16 12:46 pm (UTC)I think part of the challenge is it's a transitional generation, people born in the early 80's could have had access to the Internet at a relatively tender age but would still remember using rotary phones, cassettes, VHS... There's a huge fundamental leap in consumer-grade technology during their formative years. And you get that weird gap, like you said, between jealously safeguarding one's identity online because the Internet was 'a wild online frontier' in the beginning versus now, where it's commonplace and accepted people will publish all manner of personal information online.
The transition from car phones to pagers to early cell phones to smart phones alone is kinda crazy. I had to rewrite a near-future novel because payphones were a thing when I wrote the first draft, but were obsolete a few years later when I returned to it.
Anyway, my suggestion for a name is Net Gen. The Internet went from a somewhat obscure thing to being completely integrated into daily life.