What (or who) comes after Generation Z?

[°Leprechaun's Rainbow]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Alpha#Successors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generations#List_of_generations

After Generation Y, commonly known as Millenials, there is Generation Z. After that it has been suggested that
subsequent generations be labeled using the 24 letters of the Greek alphabet.
That would take us to the year 2500, since each generation is about 20 years.
Now, some of us may not still be alive by the year 2500, but it's fun to think about.
My idea is that the generations after generation omega could be labeled with numbers, thus
generation omega would be followed by generation 25, 26 and so on until someone comes up with something
better. That still leaves the problem of what to call all generations going back to the appearance of homo sapiens,
but then again who really cares?

[angus]

Generation A or Generation Z,
Who the hell are you to put a label on me?
This label of the week is getting kinda lame,
The more things change the more they stay the same.

      --from "Generation Why" by the Reverend Horton Heat

[°Leprechaun's Rainbow]

Or maybe the generation after Y should be generation Y not?

[angus]

Y₀

haha!

I think that letters should not be used any more.  Generation X was a one-time-use only, and it sort of fits.  It was coined the year I graduated from college to refer to those just graduating from college, and the name suggests something about the shallowness and ennui of that generation.  

I think that a name, if we must have one, should involve the concept of being addicted to, and born with, communications devices in their hands.  My son was playing on a laptop computer as an infant, and by the age of 10 has to be torn away from the tablet and told to go outside and play with real children.  On car trips, he is entertained by playing with his mother's mobile phone.  He takes particular pleasure in announcing every stream, side road, and building ahead as we're driving.  The name of those not old enough to know how to read a map (or a book) should reflect that fact.

[Asian Nazi]

Generation theory is pseudoscientific rot

[Figueira]

Generation theory is pseudoscientific rot

As fun as it can be, I have to agree with this.

People who were born in 2001 are lucky. They don't have to have the media making generalizations about them because they're the same "generation" as people 15 years older than them.

[angus]

Generation theory is pseudoscientific rot

generation theory? 

I just thought we were discussing proper nouns to apply to people born between the years X and Y.  I don't think we should read too much into this.  My brother and I are four and a half years apart, and clearly we are of the same generation, in a meaningful sense, but people my age get called Generation X and people his age get called by a different name (Baby Boomer according to some, Generation Jones according to others.)  I didn't think the OP meant to be delve into theories, just labels to be used by marketers, pollsters, and posters on internet forum websites. 

I'm still against letter names.  I suggest something meaningful.  People who grow up watching Howdy Doody and drinking lead-tainted water from Whites Only drinking fountains are likely to have different cultural allusions than those who grow up watching Lab Rats and drinking spring water from a bisphenol-tainted plastic bottle, and the names should reflect that. 

[Crumpets]

I've heard the generation born after 2000 referred to as the iGen, which I think is pretty appropriate.

[Figueira]

I've heard the generation born after 2000 referred to as the iGen, which I think is pretty appropriate.

I think that's pretty stupid.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

I don't want to know.  Gen Z is pretty screwed up as it is (as much as I love my little 7-year old cousin.)  Nearly every generation before them was cool in its own way--Gen Z is probably going to be the generation that doesn't know how to communicate with anyone except a machine.

[Bigby]

Are they even going to reproduce or will they be too sucked into technology like Japan? I fear that they will likely be the last generation.

[Figueira]

Are they even going to reproduce or will they be too sucked into technology like Japan? I fear that they will likely be the last generation.

Because everyone is the same

[Leinad]

I've heard the generation born after 2000 referred to as the iGen, which I think is pretty appropriate.

I think that's pretty stupid.

I don't. iGen, or Generation I, it makes sense because those born after 2000 often have an obsession with technology, and are often very self-centered. It's somewhat clever.

[Figueira]

I've heard the generation born after 2000 referred to as the iGen, which I think is pretty appropriate.

I think that's pretty stupid.

I don't. iGen, or Generation I, it makes sense because those born after 2000 often have an obsession with technology, and are often very self-centered. It's somewhat clever.

1. That's kind of insulting.
2. It's true that technology plays a big part in their lives, but naming a generation after a corporate naming convention just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

'This generation', as long as it means something, seems as much to be the 'end of everything' than 'the beginning of everything', can't decide.

In any case, I see it as a total scary/fancy, can't decide, 'white page'.

Letters are annoying.

I find mine pretty cool, being kid before computers invaded everything, but knew it young enough to be quite familiar and easy with the numeric world, being kids during the end of Cold War, and teen during total capitalistic globalization, we're the last balanced ones. Rules.