There have been questions regarding whether the 21st century generation are lost, misguided or just had enough and whether there is any solution. The answer to this would be different depending on different people and different things as well. The 21st generation are not lost, misguided or have had enough, they are just living the 21st century life. The 21st century came with many transitions that affected the generation with many positive and negative ways. Information Technology advancement, for instance, came with many transformations in the world and it could continue advancing to a point where the results of global sharing are never interrupted. This, therefore, has brought risks to the 21st-century generation due to the erosion of desirable traditional values and cultures among the people. The society itself failed to resist new changes that would lead to the erosion of cultures and traditions. Advancement of high technology has led to things like drug abuse, Social media that has led to pornography, cyber bullying and cybercrimes like hacking accounts and robbery. This shows that the 21st century is lost and lost. However, there are solutions to this. Seeing the technology advancements as positives would create opportunities and this would reduce the negatives to the 21st generation.
Education of the 21st century produces overconfident student as they interact mostly with computers in class. It makes students learn new things everyday makes them think aloud and hence lead them to try out new things on the internet. The teachers may lack to interact with them much in the classroom as most of the time they interact with the computers. The teacher hence may lack time to teach them new values in the classroom, therefore, they fail to learn how life should be. Due to this, these students later in life become parents in their adult life and do not transform their children too. This creates a cycle of a generation without morals or having fewer morals, which are repeated repeatedly. Education may also create classes among people of the most educated and the less educated. This creates a gap among people, which may not be filled unless the less educated struggle to reach the standards of the highly educated.
The economy in the 21st century is high and the living standards are high creating the “haves and have nots” in the society. They tend to live luxurious lives, which the other group may not afford. This creates difference in classes among people. The poor remain poor and the rich remain rich. They hence fail to interact in the society well and it leads to division of people into classes.
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Technology in the 21st century is quite advanced to a point where the result of global sharing is coherent. From business to culture transforming how people work together hence creating an equitable world. It, however, has its own disadvantages that have led to an immoral generation. Social media has led to the introduction of immoral behaviors that were not previously there. These include cybercrimes pornography and online frauds. Cybercrimes are on the increase due to people being too educated about the internet and introduction of computer programs among the people. This, therefore, has made people more computer literates than they were before and therefore many of them misusing technology.
To sum up, the 21st generation is misguided due to the failure of creating advantages out of the current transitions in various fields like education technology and economy. To curb making the generation more lost, the society should ensure people are taught the good value of life, how to create life better out of issues like education and technology and ensure strategies are introduced to ensure youths and the rest of the people prevent the generation from being more lost.
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