• Question: What Will Our Generation Be Called? E.g Windsor Period? Or, Digital Age?

    Asked by caseym to Ed, Katie, Sam, Steve, Vera on 16 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Vera Weisbecker

      Vera Weisbecker answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      Hmm, normally these names are given in retrospect – we are not necessarily aware of what is the most conspicuous feature of our generation. So, no idea.

    • Photo: Katie Marriott

      Katie Marriott answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      I agree with Vera although it seems to go with the monache so maybe the Windsor Period!

      I very much liked this question!!

    • Photo: Steven Daly

      Steven Daly answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      Hopefully it would be something positive! Although currently probably the most obvious thing we are doing is destroying the natural world as we know it, so i hope it is not something to do with that

    • Photo: Sam Tazzyman

      Sam Tazzyman answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      Historians tend to decide these things in later years. I expect though that because the pace of technological change has been so fast during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II our times will not be named after her (neo-Elizabethan, or whatever it would be). This is because life is very different now to what it was at the start of Queen Elizabeth’s reign. In the past things changed more slowly so it made more sense to measure the passing of time in monarchs.

    • Photo: Ed Morrison

      Ed Morrison answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      I think in the near future we will do away with the monarchy, so we won’t be named after Kings or Queens any more. What do they call generations in countries like the USA that don’t have monarchs?

      I think that quite soon, we will start running out of fossil fuels and this will be a massive change in society. So those people might be known as the post-carbon generation.

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