Is Generation X Our Luckiest Generation?

Why we were best positioned for the rise of our Information Age

I feel lucky to have been born in 1971 because my Generation X continues to reap the benefits of simultaneously being the Oldest Young People and the Youngest Old People. Let me explain: Thirty years ago, my college class of 1993 was literally the last to graduate in which a majority of us didn’t even know what the Internet was. Just before moving to Paris (where I planned to effortlessly become an esteemed literary novelist) my older brother, Francis…