It is this generation, according to many youth experts, who have the greatest potential to attain greatness. Studies have shown that there has been an explosion of entrepreneurialism by those 30 and younger. They are taking the entrepreneurial route first rather than going to corporate America. Economic adversity defines this group more than any other factor. Campus hiring is down as well as the median earnings for this age group.
Necessity is the main reason why they are striking out on their own.
The computer revolution is the prime factor that makes this possible. While the older generation were the first to be brought up around television, Generation X were the first to be brought up with computers. Computers have so changed our culture, how we obtain information, how we do everything we do, that computer illiteracy in our age is akin to print illiteracy of past generations. Twenty-somethings tend to be more confident in their abilities to work with and develop new technologies. This aggravates the older generation to no end, because in many respects it is true.