LogFAQs > #941947835

Well, the next generation to come to power would be Generation X. Personally, I think Gen X is still fairly old fashion in a lot of ways, however, I think they're much more open minded to new ideas, progress, and technology than the Baby Boomers are.

Remember, Baby Boomers all had parents who went through the WW2 and great depression era which was very rough, and so I think the Baby Boomers themselves are fairly closed minded and wary of change and new ideas. Also, most Baby Boomers were already into their adult years when computers started to become more prevalent, so they already had there sort of daily routines/jobs down and were not necessarily very keen on learning all about this new technology (that being computers (and even less so for the internet)).

So, the last of the Baby Boomers will retire around 2035 (15 years from now), and personally I think that's when many important things will start to happen. Mainly, I think AIs and robots will start to become much more prevalent. Also, I'm hoping that they then use that technology to start automating farms (and hopefully factories as well) on a large-scale basis, as this will then be able to provide food for much of the world.

Once this is done, there should be strict birth control laws enacted that should only allow 1 baby per woman, as this will prevent overpopulation in the future. We can then start genetically engineering babies as well if desired.

Another thing that should definitely be done (IMO) is to form a global government. The reason I think this is a good idea is because, really, there's not any more major wars going on (because of nukes), and global commerce is already occurring, so why not just come to a more official consensus? The reason (I think) is because of fear and stubbornness (in terms of traditions and cultures (these 2 things are taken very seriously by certain countries)).

As far as Zoomers (or Gen Zers) go, I'm not sure. Assuming the last Zoomer graduates from college at age 22, that will be around 2034, so the rest of the Zoomers should already be graduated from college and hopefully working a lot of science, engineering, and medical type jobs. Although, actually, at this point, Gen Y will most likely have more power, money, and influence than Gen Z (because they have more experience with certain jobs). So, if you want to know when Gen Z will possibly "change the world", I would say, when they come to power, which would be fairly far into the future actually, probably once Gen Y starts to retire which will be around 2051-2066 (31-46 years from now), and frankly I'm not sure what will be happening then, I'm hoping that AIs and robots will have already become prevalent (and possibly other important new technologies as well), however, it's a bit too far for me to make a guess at this point.