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2000/2001-Present - New Silent Generation or Generation Z
1983-2001 - New Boomers
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How telling that the older generations are trying to name the younger generations in terms of themselves.
"New Boomers" is obviously crap, everyone calls them "Millenials." (And by everyone, I mean your average journalistic fluff-piece, the ultimate indicator of vernacular culture.) And like Bruce said, generations are drawn along lines of experience. The beginning of Generation X is basically anyone who was too young to remember the Vietnam War. Millenials are those who are too young to remember a time with zero computers. We don't know yet what the defining thing of this generation will be, partly because it literally doesn't exist until the generation is already 5-7 years old. It could be smartphones, I think. My kids don't remember a time without smartphones, and they were born 2006 and 2008. Then again, if World War III breaks out next year, that will probably be a more memorable legacy that we will define my kids' generation by instead.