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Blog of Author and Consultant Rob Salkowitz
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On Tuesday, the US Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of City of Onterio vs. Quon , involving privacy issues on city-issued cell phones. It wasn't pretty. This band of geriatric jurists may know its habeas from its corpus , but they are non compos Read More...
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This week's Economist quarterly technology supplement asks , "is it really helpful to talk about a new generation of ‘digital natives' who have grown up with the Internet?" Given that I've written a book on the subject, you can count me in the "yes" column Read More...
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I just saw this review of a new book called Millennial Makeover: YouTube, MySpace and the Remaking of American Politics by Morely Winogrand and Michael Hais. The reviewer, Mike Connery, is himself the author of a book on Millennials in politics called Read More...
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Dan has a post up at Future of Information Work on the question of whether Millennials are actually different in important ways from previous generations of young people (and young workers), or if they are just "troublesome" to employers because all 20-somethings Read More...
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Generation Blend draws most of its data about generational attitudes and experiences from the United States. There's every reason to believe that the digital age gap exists around the world, especially in societies that made an abrupt transition from Read More...
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Washington Post political writers Morley Winograd and Michael Hais take a generational view of US politics in the context of Barack Obama's presidential run. Washington Monthly's Kevin Drum isn't buying . The New York Times connects increasing fertility Read More...
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In the words of one of my favorite aphorisms, "if all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail." My hammer at the moment is generational theory, Strauss and Howe's view of the procession and relations between different cohorts in American Read More...
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My wife and I have belatedly discovered the fantastic new series Mad Men , currently re-running its first season on AMC or available on iTunes. Created by Matthew (“The Sopranos”) Weiner, it’s a dark comedy/drama set in a Madison Avenue ad agency in 1960. Read More...
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Sad that the first post on the new blog concerns the passage of one of the most influential thinkers on the subject of generations and sociology: William Strauss , co-author of the monumental work Generations: The History of America's Future 1584-2069 Read More...
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