How Gen Alpha Will Change Society Forever
Gen Alpha is the first generation of humans to be born with access to mobile technology. By the age of two, many Gen Alpha toddlers can already interact with these devices in meaningful ways. Beyond watching Cocomelon on YouTube, they can navigate the app menu and even play some simple games. How will this level of access and proficiency with technology shape Gen Alpha, and how will Gen Alpha in turn change the world?
I want to acknowledge that generations are a strange concept. Grouping people in a roughly 15-year age range into one definable set of characteristics seems reductive in most cases. However, there are some instances where this distinction is useful. Generations help group people who experienced and reacted to the same historical and social events within a specific time period. The truth is that these factors unify people to an extent. When discussing how people are handling the rising cost of housing, for example, generations are a useful shorthand to demonstrate that one group of people will experience this phenomenon very differently than others.
Generation Alpha specifically is the generation that follows Gen Z, consisting of individuals born between 2010 and 2025. Most of them are still kids, with the oldest ones becoming just teenagers, while the last of them are still being born as we speak. How can we possibly know that they'll change the world when they've yet to learn how to work a part-time job or drive a car? While we can't know for sure what changes they'll bring, we do know of one major factor that influences a generation like no other: technology.
We often think of technology as another way for us to express ourselves and our will. However, the 20th-century philosopher Marshall McLuhan describes it differently, and perhaps more accurately. McLuhan is most well-known for this line: "The medium is the message." What he means by this is that the media format has more significant effects on us than the actual content of the message being sent. The format media takes changes our relationships with the message and each other. It conditions us in a specific way. In the words of McLuhan, "We shape our tools, and then our tools shape us."
The technology that we develop shapes our lives and how we interact with each other in fundamental ways. Just like how NID AI is trying to be on the better ethical side of tech by helping people transform their creativity into videos, one of the questions I get asked the most is, "How can I start making videos like yours?" Years ago, when I started, that answer would have been very difficult, and some, but not anymore.
Thanks to NID AI, the video co-pilot I wish I had when I started. With NID AI, you can say goodbye to editing timelines because you can easily create and edit videos with simple text prompts. All you have to do is give it a prompt for the type of video you want. The more detailed the prompt is, the better. Afterwards, select the audience and platform of your video, then NID AI will create an engaging script, find high-quality relevant footage, add subtitles, and even a human-sounding voice-over to give you the first cut of your video.
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The best part about it is that within Video AI, you can upload a 30-second recording of your voice in any language, and it will clone your voice. So you only have to record your voice once and use it in any video moving forward. You can get started with NID Video for free and create up to four videos a week. But if you want to clone your voice and create videos without a watermark, then I highly recommend you get the paid plan that starts as low as $20 a month, and use code APTURE50 to get twice the number of video generation credits in your first month. It gives y...