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Will Gen X Return Back Glamorously?

Are Gen Xers the first generation to confront modernity of new age? Does gen X represent the transition from world of analogy to digital,an important experience to tell the different of those meaning?

a Gen Xer, digital painting by Louis K Wang, 1997

As society study claims gen X is the generation of human modern history that grew up with computer and explored the possibility at the dawn of digitalization. This in turn stimulated the software industries with corresponding developments for backup storage, use of the floppy disk, zip drive, and CD-ROM. Meanwhile, the increasingly widespreading dial-up Internet access enabled millions of late Xer teens to log online, paving the way for “digital native” millennials.During the process, vast data created reference to people of next generation, globalization and the new way of  business engagement.

Researchers and popular media defined the generation as people born from 1965 to 1980. Most members of Generation X are the children of the Silent Generation and early boomers; Xers are also often the parents of millennials and Generation Z.

As children in the 1970s and 1980s, it is a period of shifting societal values. The development of hi-tech drove the world economy up. The Mass media brainwashed people with commercials and information to shape personal identity to society. If you want to know more about this rampage experience of human history, please check out more by artworks that reflect the culture.

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The original concept of “Cookie House” where a storage from culture gens of identity, Digital Art by Louis K Wang,2002.

Are you a Gen Xer? Or you want to have a soul of generation X. Will gen X fades away or means something in contemporary culture? Maybe it is the time to find out the truth by joining offline events to enjoy the fun of being in a maze of diversity.

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