Artificial intelligence and the 22nd century, here is the Beta generation

The year 2025 marks the arrival of a new human generation: the Beta generation. It will be marked by artificial intelligence, the climate crisis and will be the first generation to see the 22nd century. Catherine Mathys, techno columnist and foresight specialist at La Société des tomorrows, explains to us.

How is this generation different from the previous one?

Each generation has a particularity, such as the emergence of social networks for generation Z. The Beta generation will be that of technology and digital, she will live in an era where artificial intelligence will be fully rooted in daily lifeselon Catherine Mathys.

They will succeed in something that we have not yet succeeded in: innovating not for enrichment or for convenience, but for the crucial challenges of their time and ours. This brings a lot of hope.

They will perhaps experiment with large-scale autonomous transportation, automated health technologies, immersive virtual environments, they will also experience personalization of all kinds of technologies, in education, work, health, entertainmentshe specifies.

Virtual friends, social networks

Social networks and artificial intelligence would profoundly change the social interactions of the Beta generation.

They could interact with synthetic friends or lovers derived from artificial intelligence. If things continue this way, it will have a huge impact on development and social interactions.ajoute Catherine Mathys.

A generation concerned about the environmental cause

According to Catherine Mathys, the Beta generation should be very concerned about the environmental cause: It is a generation born into a world grappling with major societal challenges.

For them, ecological issues will not only be ethical, they will be essential.

Issues that have already existed for several generations, but which will have another dimension with Beta children, our generations took time to realize this, but for them, the challenges of climate change, global travel, urbanization, megacities will explode during their lifetime .

How do we describe a generation?

Delineating a generation in time is not an exact science. In the past, we were limited to children of previous generations. Today, with the increasing age of motherhood, the gap between two generations is estimated at between 15 and 25 years by sociologists.

This is the new name for generations, it is what specifies the beginning and end of each generation, to better plan and better compare the generations with each other.

Several names were given to previous generations based on world events, such as ” baby boomers », a name which refers to the explosion in the post-war birth rate. Since then, generations have been described with letters: There was Generation Alpha (2010 to 2024) and now Beta (2025 to 2039). We’ll have to get used to it, there will be gamma in 2040 and delta in 2055specifies Catherine Mathys.