>I also fully expect the younger generation to rebel more than we did. You see it already on climate issues, with children refusing to go to school if they won’

>I also fully expect the younger generation to rebel more than we did. You see it already on climate issues, with children refusing to go to school if they won’t have a future anyway. I suspect they won’t want to keep our surveillance state or our HR centric view on society either. I don't see this in my experience. I expected my stepkids' generation to all be real eco-zealots, totally concerned about everything my generation and before have done wrong. In practice, all of them that I know are a cross section - some are quite eco minded, but a lot aren't. They aren't all as PC as I expected them to be (ditto - a cross section, including some who are strongly anti). Most of them are just completely absorbed in their own lives, via whatever social platform is currently most popular. None of them give a monkeys about their privacy, being tracked or anything else - they're totally blind to all these issues, and think that I'm a complete loon for bringing any of them up. I get the 'this is the future old man' routine fairly often, and none of them think that the consequences I'm concerned about have any relevance to them. (They range between 12 and 19 years old, FTR). I appreciate this is anecdotal, but I don't think that the next generation will be the saviours we were expecting them to be. I expected them all to be totally tech-savvy and miles ahead of me - most of them don't even understand the basics of how the Internet works, let alone any of the details. It's the magic of the Wookie Hole Witch as far as they are concerned.