"Millennials" on the rise, "Xers" take the lead, and "Boomers" take the back seat

Do we really know anything about kids these days?
Well, Neil Howe and William Strauss said they have predicted the characteristics of the new generation that will inevitably change our world, possibly for the better, but not with out a lot of bumps in the road.
As the "GI" generation or the folks preceding the "Greatest Generation," or people who fought in World War II, age 80 to 90, are seemingly on the edge of existence, the "Baby Boomers," now in their 60s, find themselves in the elder leadership role today, explained Howe on the Coast to Coast AM radio show last night.
The predictions have been compiled through history and statistics back in 1997, before 911, which they also predicted would occur, among such things as the fall of the stock market.
The Boomers are also a generation built on "cultural" greatness, which defined the era of the 60s and 70s with Rock & Roll. This is much different from the generation that came before the Boomers, that was built solely on "foundation" and building infrastructure.
Generations shift just about every 20 years, Howe said, but the term "Senior Citizens" we will find will be phased out, as the Boomers don't want to be called the same term that was designated to the generation before them.
The Boomers are now coming to an age where they are the elders, but not like the GIs the Boomers are a very confrontational bunch, and arguing seems to be the focal point as the country has seen with protests and how they can't ever come to an agreement on Capital Hill.
The 13th generation, born from 1961 to mid 80s and now in their late 20s to 30s, are known as the "X Generation."
This generation is, "literally the thirteenth generation to know the American flag and nation. The book,"13th Generation," shows how their “location in history” (Xers were, in fact, the real “children of the Consciousness Revolution”) helps explain their pragmatic attitude and unduly negative reputation.
What's probably so interesting about Howe's and Strauss' discoveries is the Millennial Generation, that are now teenagers growing up after the year 2000.
This generation tends to be lumped in with the Gen Xers, but as Howe and Strauss point out the group of people are entirely different.
The Xers have been seemingly known as a generation to adapt to change are now becoming the generals who care mostly about the bottom line, with such cultural attributions as Hip-Hop and so forth, says Howe.
The Millennials, are different however, and will be able to work together more as a community of soldiers, with a can-do youth revolution, that trust non-profits more than business.
A decade ago, in Generations, Strauss and Howe predicted many of the youth trends America is beginning to see today. Now, in Millennials Rising, the authors show how today’s teens are recasting the image of youth from downbeat and alienated to upbeat and engaged. The authors also show…how Millennials are held to higher standards than adults apply to themselves how they’re a lot less violent, vulgar, and sexually charged than the teen culture older people are producing for them how, over the next decade, they’ll entirely recast what it means to be young and how, in time, they could emerge as the next great generation.
Looking back to the dawn of the modern world, The Fourth Turning reveals a distinct pattern in human history, cycles lasting about the length of a long human life. Each cycle is composed of four “turnings,” and each turning lasts the span of a generation (about 20 years). There are four kinds of turnings (High, Awakening, Unraveling, Crisis), and they always occur in the same order.
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