Generation Alpha: anthropologists expect a technological breakthrough
“You are making me a guilt trip now. I don’t like it,” my 11-year-old stepdaughter reproaches me for making her feel guilty by telling me how bad it is for poor dogs without evening exercise. I'm actually making myself feel guilty because other feelings haven't worked - this is the 10th time I've asked her to go on a fuzz walk. I have one last trump card up my sleeve - confiscating gadgets, but I don’t have time to get it. She is already unhappily trailing behind the leashes, complaining of fatigue, since 60 pets in Metaverse also require care and attention.
Generation Alpha, born after 2010, needs to be on the defensive. They know how to protect their boundaries and subtly violate yours. At school, these children come to the principal and talk not about the fight that happened, but about how they felt superfluous or lonely during the break. And in any unpleasant situation, parents are threatened not with leaving home, but with additional hours with a psychotherapist due to mental trauma. Experts believe Generation Alpha, born with phones in their hands to millennial parents between Zoom calls, will write new rules for life. These children will become the most educated generation in the history of mankind, the most involved in technological development and the richest. They already influence trends, both fashionable and social, and know how to count money, although the oldest of them are now only 10-12 years old. 9-year-old Ryan Kaji became the highest paid blogger in the world in 2020 - he earned $29,5 million from advertising integrations on the Ryan's World channel. Alpha will not rest on blogger laurels - by the age of 15, children of technology will begin to invent new services, applications and open startups. Anthropologists expect technological breakthroughs and inventions from them. By 2050, alphas may have so adapted the planet to fast consumption and easy money that school and higher education, which for their parents defined the future, will become a ridiculous relic of the past for them. Express courses, video lessons and classes via video communication will become the main source of knowledge; it will be possible to gnaw on the granite of science in a couple of months. For everything else there is artificial intelligence. With love and matrimonial values, everything is more complicated than that of buzzers and millennials. Representatives of the alpha generation can live with their parents until they are 40 years old because it is convenient. Going on dates, traveling, living with someone is all a lot of stress for them, so millennial parents may not count on a free old age. But if you're full, please.
Author: Yunia Pugacheva
