Zero Hour for Gen X
eBook - ePub

Zero Hour for Gen X

How the Last Adult Generation Can Save America from Millennials

  1. 184 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Zero Hour for Gen X

How the Last Adult Generation Can Save America from Millennials

About this book

In Zero Hour for Gen X, Matthew Hennessey calls on Generation X to take a stand against tech-obsessed Millennials, apathetic Baby Boomers, utopian Silicon Valley "visionaries," and the menace to top them all: the soft totalitarian conspiracy known as the Internet of Things.Soon Gen Xers will be the only cohort of Americans who remember life as it was lived before the arrival of the Internet. They are, as Hennessey dubs them, "the last analog generation," the sole remaining link to a time when childhood was still a bit dangerous but produced adults who were naturally resilient. Zero Hour for Gen X is a cultural history of the last 35 years, an analysis of the current social and historical moment, and a generational call to arms. The Baby Boomers are exhausted. The Millennials are preoccupied with their gadgets and apps. In Zero Hour for Gen X, Hennessey argues that the time has come for Generation X to stand up and be counted.

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INDEX
ADHD, Internet use and, 45
AIDS, social anxiety and, 52
Alaska, universal basic income and, 112
Albright, Madeleine, 35
Alexa. See Amazon Echo
Altman, Sam, 111
Amazon Echo, 72, 80–86
Amazon Music Unlimited, 81
Amazon Prime, home device of, 80
American exceptionalism, differing generational opinions of, 59
American Press Institute, 92
Amusing Ourselves to Death (Postman), 76
Analog world: patience instilled by, 40–41; personal contacts and, 122, 123; productivity and, 41
Angels in America (AIDS drama), 52
“Anticipatory package shipping” system of Amazon, 82
Apple, 96; Apple Music, 125; exclusive services of, 71; HomePod device of, 82; millennials’ job choices and, 60, 110; privacy issues and, 81, 85, 85n, 88; Siri and, 85
Appliances, privacy issues and, 80
Army Times, 60
Artificial intelligence, 37, 51, 71, 88–90, 106; future of, 95–96, 102; privacy and, 85
Atlantic, 18
Attention spans, Internet’s influence on, 43
Automobiles, hackability of new, 89–90
Baby Boomers: definitions and descriptions of, 4; demographic numbers of, 4; economics, politics, and culture during youth of, 5–6; influence on Generation X, 15–16; negative characteristics of, 2–3, 37; war against American institutions and values, 7–8
Baby monitors, hackability of, 87
Back to the Future (film), 14
Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy (Van Parijs and Vanderborght), 114
BASIC programming, 50
Beamer, Lisa Brosius, 33
Beamer, Todd, 33–35
Begala, Paul, 7
Bell, Alexander Graham, 71
“Benching,” online dating and, 75
Berlin Wall’s fall, Generation X’s interpretation of, 19–20, 29, 30
Berners-Lee, Tim, 53, 112
Bezos, Jeff, 82, 107, 108–109
Bicentennial celebrations (1976), influence on Generation X, 16, 35
Bin Laden, Osama, 27
Bingham, Mark, 34
Boring Company, 109
Bowden, Mark, 18
Bradley, Tom, 22
Branson, Richard, 111
“Breadcrumbing,” online dating and, 75
Brick-and...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. One: The Baby Boom and Everything After
  8. Two: Watching the World Wake Up from History
  9. Three: The End of the Innocence
  10. Four: Hard Habit to Break
  11. Five: Smothered in Hugs
  12. Six: Near Wild Heaven
  13. Seven: (I Always Feel Like) Somebody’s Watching Me
  14. Eight: Great Big No
  15. Nine: Money for Nothing
  16. Ten: Right Here, Right Now
  17. Acknowledgments
  18. Index