Bill Gates, born on Oct. 28, 1955, is a Boomer and so were most of his original crew. Same goes for the Apple crowd.
Just ignore him. He went off on a loony attack on me on this exact same issue in another thread a few days ago, using many of the same false arguments he uses above but also including a couple of snide personal attacks on me and all the rest of Boomerdom, all because I included the following two sentences, that don't even mention Baby Boomers, in an otherwise purely technical post:
And IMHO, the only real differences between Gen-X and Gen-Y are that Gen-Y is growing up to be far more conservative and less whiny than Gen-Xers, who all thought they were going to change the world (gee, wonder where they got that idea from) through their big dotcom fraud, and are all pissed off that they didn't get to retire at 30 after all.That alone was enough to garner me a several-hundred-word rant about the raw brilliance of Generation X, how they've all changed the world for the better (yes, single-handededly inventing the "Information Age"), and how I'm just jealous because I'm an aging, bitter boomer.
I haven't yet bothered to tell him I'm 33.
We are talking about the internet which if anything it can be argued that Bill Gates has stifled innovation
Computers and the internet have been around since the 60's and 70's but it wasn't until the X'ers got a hold of them that their full potential was used and brought into the mainstream (i.e. Yahoo, Ebay and Amazon all founded by X'ers)
But OK, I never said all boomers were bad and Yeah Bill Gates over all has done a good job for society, There are always exceptions to the rule just like there were cowardily pacifist in the WWII generation,
There are postives and negatives in every generation
In the WWII, Silent, Gen-X and most other generations in American history the positives outshine the negatives, However with the Baby Boomers it is mostly all Negatives (And huge Negatives at that) with the positives being few and far between.