Review
GenTech is a refreshing compendium of socio-cultural events that took place in America over the generations. The author carefully dissected each particular generation, beginning from the G.I. Generation (1901-1924), Silent Generation (1925-1942), Boomer Generation (1943-1960), Gen X (1961-1981), Millennials (1982-1999) and lastly iTech (2000-present). He emphasized their worldview and respective contributions to cultural, socio-economic and also technological growth of the United States in particular and the world at large.
Going through the pages of GenTech will not just leave the reader with nostalgic feelings of how the world used to be, or how fast things have changed but also what is to be expected in the coming years.
The book highlighted how technology is evolving; paradigm shifts as well as how human perspectives are following in its paths.
In essence, this book could be described as an analogy of the technological progress that has taken place in the world, particularly within the United States, and how it affects what would be available in the near future. Thus, aside being beneficial as an enlightenment tool, it could also act as a guild in helping investors or businessmen to make the right choice, in terms of specific areas to invest or avoid as the case may be for long term gains.
GenTech An American Story of Technology, Change and Who We Really Are is highly recommendable for everyone!
Official Review: ILoveUniqueBooks.com (4 out of 5 stars)
Whether you're a technology nerd or wizard, this intriguing book will help you connect the digital dots. You'll see how technology is profoundly shaping our culture--and you, like it or not. Plus you'll discover how technology affects each generation differently, for better or worse.
Thom Schultz, founder and president of Group Publishing, author of Why Nobody Wants to Go to Church Anymore and filmmaker - When God Left the Building
More than 20 years ago, John Naisbitt coined the term 'high tech/high touch' as a lens to help us understand our rapidly changing culture. Today, Dr. Rick Chromey takes us on a deeper journey of the ramifications of high tech's profound influence on our lives... we learn not just how pervasive technology's touch has been across the generations, but why technology's implications have forced us to change almost all our behaviors. Whether your life is more high touch or high tech, Rick's insights will help you make sense of our ever-changing world and prepare you for the future!
Andrea Syverson, Marketing Strategist, IEP Partners, Inc.
From the Author
GenTech will be released in May 2020 and that's a significant year. It's the first of a new decade. It's a year that mirrors perfect "20-20" vision. I also believe it will prove a year of unbelievable new technologies that will begin to reimagine, once again, how we work, play, worship, interact and live. These "hairy" technologies--holograms, artificial intelligence, robotics--will further transform our lives and take us down a new road to a place we can only imagine, but our children and grandchildren will inherit comfortably.
Consequently, GenTech is a book about Americans, our story and our times (and the technologies that influenced us since 1900). It's a work that challenges assumptions and corrects ideas about generations. If you've grown weary, as I have, of generational boxes like "boomers," "Xers," "Millennials" and "Gen Z," then you'll appreciate GenTech. We are not generations that can be crammed into a box and labeled. We are not alphabet soup. In reality, we are generations wired by unique technologies that guided us in youth (between the ages of 10-25).
We are generations of technology. We are GenTech.
From the Back Cover
The G.I. Generation. Silents. Baby Boomers. Gen Xers. Millennials. Generation Z. Every generation has its label and box. But the real question is: Why?
Enter GenTech.
It's a whole new way to look at American generations. Instead of the conventional fixed and linear dates for generational cohorts, Dr. Rick Chromey proposes a fresh understanding that's loopy and fluid, rooted to the technology each generation experiences in their "coming of age" years. Since 1900, there has been more technological change than in all of previous combined history. The airplane. The automobile. Radio. Television. Nuclear energy. Rockets. Internet. Cellphones. Robots. Furthermore, there's been a massive cultural shifting unlike anything witnessed since the Dark Ages gave way to the Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment, Scientific, and Industrial Ages. Consequently, postmodern generations (born since 1960) have grown up in a new, cyber, wireless, and visual high-tech culture that's forever changed how we do business, learn, socialize, broadcast, entertain and worship.
It's technology that shapes us. It's technology that gives every generation its personality. It's technology that seeds who we'll become tomorrow. GenTech opens a whole new perspective on how to view the world, and understand why every generation matters.
About the Author
Dr. Rick Chromey is the founder and president of MANNA! Educational Services International, a nonprofit organization dedicated to equipping leaders, teachers, pastors, and parents. Chromey travels widely as a speaker, writer, and consultant in topics ranging from pop culture and history to creative communication and human motivation. He holds an earned doctorate in leadership and emerging culture and currently serves as an adjunct graduate professor for Hope International University. He’s penned five print books and twelve digital books, including Sermons Reimagined, Leading With Style, and Motivate Me, and currently resides in Meridian, Idaho in the Boise area.
