The internet has given birth to a new socio-economic group dubbed 'Generation
C', which stands for content, connectivity, creativity, collaboration and
communication, it was claimed today.
This generation of users will be more able to communicate with a wider cross
section of people, and find common ground across previously divisive differences
as a result of the internet's proliferation
The report was published by the
Social
Issues Research Centre (SIRC), and conducted on behalf of
Rackspace
Managed Hosting.
Tomorrow's Generation C will be nicer than today's Generation X, which author
Douglas Coupland, who originally coined the phrase, describes as "
underemployed, overeducated, intensely private and unpredictable".
Peter Marsh, director of SIRC, said: "Generation C will be middle aged by
2020. This generation has grown up under the web ideologies of open access,
co-operation, exchange and sharing of information, as will all further
generations. This will have profound implications for our society.
"Although the tendency is to focus on the internet's negative implications -
unsociable generations only able to connect via the web, predators stalking
social networking sites, piracy, spam, phishing and identity theft - we suggest
that, although these will remain as problems, they will not predominate and a
more positive future lies ahead."
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