Generation M
July 15, 2009 at 8:36 am
Every now and then I come across something that speaks the truth, that is bubbling over with idealism. In recent times, I’ve forgotten to be so idealistic, so I’m grateful to Umar Haque for reminding me.
Introducing The Generation M Manifesto
A plea to America’s leaders (and we know they’re not politicians) to allow us to bring about change. Read it yourself here.
He pretty much sums up the widening gap between ‘old school’ and new. The digital divide. The gap between “Edgelanders” (Stowe Boyd’s term) and those still living in the middle of the mainstream.
It’s inspiring to read these thoughts on an American blog (Harvard Business Review) and to know that these criticisms of big business versus small, of anti-community versus authenticity are happening across the pond. Maybe some day they might take hold.
In the meantime, read on. And open your mind.
Tags: Gen M, Generation M Manifesto, Harvard Business Review
Comments (one response)
Bang on. Idealistic, a little fuzzy but not off the scale of practical either. One thing that does annoy me about it however is that I get dragged away by the sheer number of links in the first half of the post. Nothing to do with the (very good) content, but I see this in academic US posts a fair bit. Are their brains more webveloped than ours, so that it doesn’t interrupt the parsing of a sentence for them, or ruin the niceties of what’s been written? Because it does for ponder-brained old me. Just devoting time to deciding definitively NOT to click on those links interrupts the flow.
Now I may have wandered off the point a little here…
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