Fast future: how the millennial generation is shaping our world

✍ Scribed by Burstein, David D

• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A millennial examines how his generation is profoundly impacting politics, business, media, and activism

They've been called trophy kids, entitled, narcissistic, the worst employees in history, and even the dumbest generation. But, argues David Burstein, the millennial generation's unique blend of civic idealism and savvy pragmatism will enable us to overcome a deeply divided nation facing economic and environmental calamities.

With 80 million millennials (people who are today eighteen to thirty years old) coming of age and emerging as leaders, this is the largest generation in U.S. history, and, by 2020, its members will represent one out of every three adults. They are more ethnically and racially diverse than their elders and have begun their careers at a time when the recession has set back the job market. Yet they remain optimistic about their future and are deeply connected to one another. Drawing on extensive interviews with his millennial...

✦ Subjects

Génération Internet;Génération Internet--Activité politique;Génération Internet--Attitudes;Génération Internet--Conditions sociales;Technologie et jeunesse;Génération Internet;Génération Internet -- Conditions sociales;Génération Internet -- Activité politique;Génération Internet -- Attitudes