The book focuses on the group of Americans who live a life of digital hyper-connectivity. Mostly under age 50, this would include what are called Generation X (born between 1965 and 1979), Millennials (born between 1980 and 1999), and their offspring — some, as we have seen, still infants. A leitmotif of the book is that these “digital natives,” as she calls them have been untethered from the American Dream. The author claims this group are untethered from what she sees as the traditional signifiers of adulthood. They aren’t marrying, or having children; they eschew car ownership, don’t go to church. She calls them in one instance “generation rent.” That this renting has anything to do with a shortage of affordable housing in America is never noted.

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他们自己的设备[书评]

该书着重介绍过数字超连通性生活的一群美国人。通常包括50岁以下的人，包括所谓的X世代（1965年至1979年之间出生），千禧世代（1980年至1999年之间出生）及其后代（如我们所见，仍是婴儿）。这本书的主旨是这些所谓的“数字原住民”已不受美国梦的束缚。作者声称，这个群体与她视为成年的传统象征没有任何联系。他们没有结婚，也没有孩子。他们避免拥有汽车，不要去教堂。她称他们为“发电租金”。从来没有人注意到这种租金与美国经济适用住房短缺有关。