Generation Vector
David M. Berry "The stranger will thus not be considered here in the usual sense of the term, as the wanderer who comes today and goes tomorrow, but rather as the man who comes today and stays tomorrow" Georg Simmel, 1908. A generation is emerging for whom artificial intelligence (AI) is not a revolutionary technology but an ordinary utility, rather like electricity or running water. I call them Generation Vector (born after ~2007) because their cognitive development, social formation, and cultural practices are being vectorised through pervasive algorithmic mediation, not merely born into AI but actively shaped by and shaping it. [1] The term "vector" I use here carries multiple meanings (see Berry 2026a). In artificial intelligence, a vector is a mathematical point that represents data in a format that AI algorithms can understand. Vectors are arrays of numbers, with each number representing a specific feature or attribute of data. When you type a query into a...
