Generation-Y aka the Millennial Generation may be more responsible for what you see, read and hear than you know or think.

Smarter, savvier, edgier and more aggressive than those before them, as in each generation, the Millennials have been responsible for fueling a revolution of sorts: in the world and in cyberspace.

Sure, thanks to Bill Gates and Steve Jobs we have computers.

• But it’s thanks to Mark Zuckerberg we have the Facebook and it’s thanks to Jack Dorsey and Isaac “Biz” Stone that Twitter exists.

And on that note, we can thank Mr. Gates and Mr. Jobs for being the driving forces in technology for the past few decades.

• But it’s thanks to the likes of people like Pete Cashmore, starting Mashable, Arianna Huffington, starting the Huffington Post and Ken “Caesar” Fisher, starting Ars Technica that technology, news, invention and social media have been able to meet with a vengence in order to satify the Millennial cravings.

Sure CNN, Fox News, the Obama administration and alike are chit-chatting about the 2009 Iranian Elections.

• But its thanks to Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, MySpace and Facebook, the Iranian people are able to stir support for their revolution like nothing the world has seen before.

Sure, Stan Lee created everything we know and love about Marvel Comics, George Lucas gave us Star Wars and our fathers intorduced us to Star Trek.

• But it’s thanks to a Millennial fan base, obsessed with Super/Comic Cons, that we have seen an emergence of Marvel (and alike) based films sprouting out of Hollywood: Iron Man, Spider-man, The X-Men trilogy/Wolverine (TBA Magneto), Star Trek 2009 etc.

Sure, the BBC and CNN have been around for years and are a definitive news source in their respective regions.

• But it’s thanks to YouTube that CNN felt the need to partner up with iReport.

Sure, Barbie has been around since the 1950s.

• But thanks to a generation of girls who refuse to settle and want more – Mattel embarked on a Barbie superstore in Shanghai, fashion lines by Colette in Paris (with photography designed by Karl Lagerfeld) and did joint ventures with cosmetic giants MAC and Stila.

Sure, we can thank Motorola for inventing the DynaTAC 8000X  and expanding what we know today as the mobile phone.

• But it’s thanks to Gen-Y that the need, not the want, but the insatiable need, for application based, smart phones with cameras, organizers, translators and multi-type text options, such as, the iPhone, Palm Pre, Nokia N97 and Blackberry, are in existence. 

And most of all, sure it’s through word-of-mouth, gossip, newsletters, stolen diaries and secret letters, ‘hot’ information has been passed along previously.

• But with the Millennial frame of mind, there are millions of blogs on the internet and counting…including this one. Who needs a telephone when you have AOL’s AIM, Skype, MSN Messanger and Meebo.

So sure, our parents’  wants overlap ours, but it’s the Millennial children, pounding the urgency for more.

What’s next? Who knows.

In an age of start-ups, online revolutions, texting (and sexting), the return of Spock  and NASA being super-cool again with the likes of @Astro_Mike — from movies to news the Age of the Geek is here: it’s cool to be smart again, it’s cool to know your pop culture and it’s cool to be a Potterhead or a Twilighter.

I welcome you to the Age of the Geek.

Use the Force to live long and blog, my friends! xx.

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Sasha Muradali runs the ‘Little Pink Book’ . She holds a B.S. in Public Relations from the University of Florida (‘07) and an M.A. in International Administration from the University of Miami(‘08). She loves Twitter and all things social media, so you should find her @SashaHalima.

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