GENERATION LAP

n.

The tendency for young people to be increasingly more technically savvy than their parents or elders.

"It's not a generation gap; it's ageneration lap. Gen Xers are lapping their elders in terms of their superior technological knowledge,' says Heather Neely, a Palo Alto management consultant who conducts workshops to help companies manage Gen Xers."

— Rebecca Kuzins, "Young boss, older worker, new problem,"The San Francisco Examiner, March 7, 1999

This term was coined by Don Tapscott in the October 14, 1996 issue of Advertising Age:

"We're shifting from generation gap to generation lap as kids flash by their parents on the track, lapping them in many areas of daily life.This generation of Net-savvy kids, quite frankly, doesn't trust its parents' ability to drive fast enough in the wired world."

1.5 generation

13th generation

beanpole family

Bull Market Babies

digital native

Generation 9-11

Generation D

Generation Y

Millennial Generation

nexter

N-Gen

nexus generation

screenager

skipped-generation

transliteracy

videophilia

Demographics

Pregnancy and Parenting

Technology (General)