And don't even get me started on the Backstreet Boys. Authors from my generation include David Foster Wallace, Michael Chabon and the offbeat ramblings of the staffs of the magazines Might and McSweeney's. And I'll take the sarcastic, sardonic cynicism that characterizes people my age over the sappy earnestness of either the hippies or their kids any day. But the Internet, the cause of our glory and our humbling, will remain our finest legacy. Knowledge is truly at our fingertips.
Creativity has a new outlet.
When it all takes off again, watch the echo boom try to take all the credit. Through demographic chance, Generation X will spend most of its life disenfranchised. Not bad for scientifically and technologically illiterate slackers. News Jobs AP Shopping Archives Entertain.