… the English Fabians, Beatrice and Sydney Webb … made an historical study of the average time it took for an idea which at its first enunciation seemed revolutionary and revolting to be taken for granted and to be acted upon by the whole population. They concluded that the average time is twenty-eight years--roughly the length of a generation. It is very difficult to persuade adults to change their points of view; they have to die off before a new generation can accept new ideas.
‘The Population Explosion’ in The Human Situation: Lectures at
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So, does the IT revolution change everything? Do adults not adapt to change more quickly or is it just that the adolescents have taken over the world?
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