--- title: Move Over, Millennials: Generation Z Will Change the World description: After years of headlines about Millennials, a new group of young people is poised to make their mark on the world: meet Generation Z. canonical: https://time.com/5250542/generation-z/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-04-23T15:36:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T20:03:19.657Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Generation Z Will Change the World og:description: Move over, Millennials og:url: https://time.com/5250542/generation-z/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6eb6d2a5ceb18f06/69892d8986f68e7b1f6e8df4/time-100-parkland-students.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1804 og:image:height: 1015 og:image:alt: Time 100 2018: Parkland students Emma Gonzales Alex Wind Cameron Kasky David Hogg Jaclyn Corin og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Generation Z Will Change the World twitter:description: Move over, Millennials twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6eb6d2a5ceb18f06/69892d8986f68e7b1f6e8df4/time-100-parkland-students.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # How Generation Z Will Change the World > Sponsored content. 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Photograph by Peter Hapak for TIMEPeter Hapak for TIME by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Apr 23, 2018 3:36 PM UTC After years of headlines about the so-called [Millennials](http://time.com/5087341/trevor-noah-optimist/), a new group of young people is poised to make their mark on the world. This post-Millennial generation still has several moniker, but has been most commonly called [Generation Z](http://time.com/5066641/generation-z-disruption/) or the iGeneration. They are widely considered to be young people born in the mid-1990s, and by 2020 [they will account for one-third of the U.S. population](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-beall/8-key-differences-between%5Fb%5F12814200.html). Gen-Z is also the most diverse in American history, and the first made up people who don’t know a world without the Internet or smartphones. And in the wake of [the March for Our Lives demonstrations](http://time.com/longform/march-for-our-lives-protests-around-the-world/) that followed [the school shooting in Parkland, Florida](http://time.com/longform/never-again-movement/), the world is starting to pay closer attention to this generation of Americans who are next in line as the country’s cultural and political leaders. To learn what drives these teenagers how they will shape the way we shop, work, play and vote, TIME spoke with psychologist [Jean Twenge](http://www.jeantwenge.com/), the author of [_iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy–and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood_](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1501152017/ref=as%5Fli%5Fqf%5Fasin%5Fil%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=time037-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1501152017&linkId=4545b39cd840d39610cf4f406aae9ff4), as well as consultants [David and Jonah Stillman](http://www.genzguru.com/who-we-are/) — a father-son, Gen-X and Gen-Z speaking team, and coauthors of [_Gen Z @ Work_](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062475444/ref=as%5Fli%5Fqf%5Fasin%5Fil%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=time037-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0062475444&linkId=d365e42732d88af239305a71f44bdbc3)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5250542/generation-z/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5250542/generation-z/"},"headline":"How Generation Z Will Change the World","datePublished":"2018-04-23T15:36:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T20:03:19.657Z","description":"Move over, Millennials","url":"https://time.com/5250542/generation-z/","keywords":["onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6eb6d2a5ceb18f06/69892d8986f68e7b1f6e8df4/time-100-parkland-students.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6eb6d2a5ceb18f06/69892d8986f68e7b1f6e8df4/time-100-parkland-students.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Time 100 2018: Parkland students Emma Gonzales Alex Wind Cameron Kasky David Hogg Jaclyn Corin","caption":"arkland students Emma Gonzales Alex Wind Cameron Kasky David Hogg Jaclyn Corin stand for a portrait","creditText":"Peter Hapak for TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5250542/generation-z/","name":"How Generation Z Will Change the World"}}]}] ```