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Jokes aside I'm not sure what this article brings to the table except for speculation. It doesn't answer the question it poses but to suggest that AI and technology will be a part of their lives. It poses several interesting questions within the body text but doesn't dare to try to answer them. Even one of the people they quoted said it was a futile effort this early into their existence. It is good that the article did attempt to discuss the world that these kids will be born into but it does it in a shallow way. Despite mentioning Canada as the focus of the article it doesn't really talk much about the circumstances they would face in that country. Instead it focuses on making generic statements that could have also fit with an article about alpha, millennials, or even at a push gen z. I hadn't read the article when I made my original post but I think it answers the question just as well as the article does. They will be human, born to an evolving world as many generations before it, whose parents will have to face decisions about their interaction with the world through the internet as have millennial, gen z, and boomer parents before that, whom as all generations before them will have to face the consequences of climate change and the disparity between rich and poor, a generation that will also likely face exploitation and poverty unless they win the genetic lottery. Nothing defines generation beta but an imaginary line drawn in imaginary sand that distinguishes them from those from alpha born a year earlier. And yet this article proposes some distinction due to ai and tech advancements as if this is some new revelation that nobody before them has had to face. It is interesting to consider what will become of our children but this article does nothing to further that, which is a shame.