What do we know about the generation after millennials? | Jason Dorsey | TEDxHouston

Be careful if you need a ride, call me, you're killing my game, mom, but. What I want you to notice is that it started with the younger ones and spread to the older ones. Well, the older

generation

s are finally starting to look more like the younger

generation

s and as you look at these trends, particularly technology,

what

you see is the biggest predictor of the future of the Older generations is

what

the younger generations are doing. today, so if we look to the future, why is this so important? weird and now you're looking at me stop looking at me well do you think we're going to go to a bank yeah, like we have cash next thing you

know

you want me to bring an emergency check, but what I want you to notice is this the gentleman that spoke before me?

He was 16 years old. He blew my mind with the drone business until I was 16 and every single one of them has had something great to offer, am I right? And what we believe is that the conversation about Generations is the other way around. It's about differences and they are different from us, this eternal generational friction, you

know

, young people look. to the older ones and says hey, you're old-fashioned, what are you doing with that flip phone? and the older generations look at the young people and say, you don't know anything, you don't have any experience, you don't use commas, but what?

What we believe in our Center is that we need to change the conversation and recognize the fact that each generation in this room brings something that is important and necessary and, frankly, we will all agree with me that the problems and challenges that we face today also are. big and too important for us not to focus on our generational strengths instead of our differences. I am right? It's a personal thing for me and I'm excited about it, but that's because my daughter was four years old when I go home and I see her tonight, right when I look at her, I don't just see her brown eyes and her big hair and you know she's running towards Dad, dad, dad, I see your generation, I mean, yeah, sometimes I think about how hard it was for my wife and me to have a child.

I think about the future we all want for everyone we know and love, and even those we don't know, and what I want to ask of you is to help me work across generations to unlock all of our strengths. Thank you, I appreciate it. you