From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2002 - 08:36:11 MDT
Brian D Williams wrote:
>> From: "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com>
>
>> Oh, and as another couple of pieces of trivia for disussion --
>> Where did the term X-generation come from? and What are we going
>> to call the post Z-geners? The S-gen?
>
> Generation-X was the title of a book by Douglas Coupland describing
> the generation in question. The term then came into general use.
>
> Others are describing the next generations as "Y" and "Z" already.
They need not bother. I am a proud member of the Children of the
Singularity.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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