Applying The Turing Test To A Group of Twentysomething Generation Y'ers

If you were to look back on past generations you would see that they all shared something in common. Regardless of the era these generations all created something new or contributed something to society. Whether it was in the field of science, art, entertainment, music or politics it was something new that was added to the mix.

But now we are faced with a new generation, the so-called Generation Y or Generation Whiners who so far have shown little promise in their ability to create something to call their own. They are all real good at recycling things from the past such as music and fashion and even art but nothing has emerged that is unique to their generation.

There is a test which was created by Alan M. Turing and naturally called the Turing Test. It was created as a way to determine if a computer has intelligence. Simplified, it works like this; The interrogator is connected to one person and one machine via a terminal, therefore can't see their counterparts. The task is to find out which of the two candidates is the machine, and which is the human only by asking them questions. If the machine can "fool" the interrogator, it is intelligent.

If we were to conduct the test above using anyone of any age from a previous generation and substitute a Generation Y'er for the machine it would be shocking to see the outcome. More than likely the Generation Y subject would fail the test and therefore show the lack of intelligence this newest generation possesses.