Alfa without borders

It took tens of thousands of years for the world's population to grow to 1 billion, then in just another 200 years or so, it grew sevenfold. In 2011, the world population reached the 7 billion mark and today (November 2021) it is over 7.9 billion. This massive growth has been characterized in large part by the increase in the number of people surviving to reproductive age and has been accompanied by major changes in fertility rates, increased urbanization and average life span, and accelerated migration. .
These trends will have far-reaching implications for generations to come, such as crossbreeding, which has always existed but will become a common feature across all latitudes. Those born between 2011 and 2025 are the most inter-ethnic and multicultural generation in history. In this generation, 2.5 million babies are born every week.

Sociologist Mark McCrindle has called them Alpha generation, while others call them glass generation because they learn to interact and communicate with electronic screens, before learn to walk and write. The previous one, called generation Zetas (born between 1995 and 2010), was the one that was born together with social networks. Today the Zetas all go to school and those who go at university they will create the highest ever percentage of college graduate parents of future Beta generation children (born between 2025 and 2040). The millenials , also called Ypsilon generation (born between 1980 and 1995), are the adults of today who in the most advanced countries are taking over the management of large companies and the reins of governments, together with generation X (born between 1965 and 1980). The most seniors of our time, called Boomers II (born between 1955 and 1964) and Boomers I (born between 1946 and 1954) have seen social transformations and faster technologies. As young people they used the telegraph and today they use a tablet to work and an interactive wristwatch to communicate with their grandchildren.

A hopefully unstoppable trend of the intersection between new technologies and new generations is to give more equal opportunities to all, reduce inequalities and separations, learn from mistakes and prepare a world with greater transparency and inclusive prosperity . If "parare", that is, equalize and inspire all paths of learning and preparation, will be able to curb the separation and shooting between peoples, a new alphabet of peace and development will truly begin for the history of humanity. Looking a little at the numbers and attitudes towards technological education, important roles will be played above all by India, Nigeria and China; but perhaps the nationality or the passport of the Alpha and Beta generations will count less and less in a way that has become multiethnic, multicultural and more sympathetic to fraternity without borders.


Sandro Calvani
NP November 2021