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Submitted by Jeffrey on Mon, 2008-10-06 13:45
I don't think I belong to a "generation" as social scientists classify them. I live in too many worlds; shift between too many paradigms. For example, I am old enough to remember life before the Internet, before the World Wide Web & email (I started college in 1992), but young enough to use them, and their variants to their fullness. I'm old enough to have been taught how to write paper memos and young enough to have never written one, using email instead. I test out and use most Internet technologies before most of my peers, but I don't own a cell phone, or text at any respectable pace.
A part of this odd positioning is due to my early maturity as a youthful. I took an interest in more adult issues and discussions from an early age. So I felt more a part of my parents generation than many. I identify with Mr. Bailey's observation of this son George, "Maybe you were born older, George." (from It's a Wonderful Life) On the other hand, I took a personal interest in technology and the internet which was the foundation of the generations younger than me. I also remained single far longer than usual, mixing and living with "younger generations".
None of this provides super-human power, or untouchable perception. It does give me some rather unique perspectives, but that's all.
