Social psychologist and NYU professor Jonathan Haidt joins'Fox & Friends Weekend' to discuss banning social media for children in the United States. Babies born in the year 2025 will begin the newest generation – Generation Beta. Following Generation Alpha (2010 to 2024), Gen Beta will comprise a new group of kids born between 2025 and 2039. The Australian research firm McCrindle predicted that Gen Beta will make up 16% of the world's population by 2035, and many will live to see the 22nd century. The research and analysis group, led by demographer and futurist Mark McCrindle, wrote in an article that Gen Beta "represents a pivotal chapter in our evolving world."

Australian workers could end up thousands of dollars richer each year by quitting their jobs and reskilling to enter the technology industry, new research has revealed. The nation is to poised to undergo a tech jobs boom over the next five years, a report launched by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg on Thursday claimed. The news comes as Australia's economy goes from bad to worse, posting the slowest annual growth since the year 2000, with the prospect of a jobs boom offering a sliver of hope for workers frustrated by continuing wage stagnation. An estimated 100,000 new information technology (IT) roles will be created by 2024, bringing the total to about 792,000, the report titled Australia's Digital Pulse 2019 and commissioned by the Australian Computer Society (ACS) said. While reskilling into the IT industry could give the average Australian worker an $11,000 salary increase, the nation is likely to struggle to find workers with the skills to meet the oncoming tech jobs tsunami, the report warned.

The first generation to grow up entirely in the 21st century will never remember a time before smartphones or smart assistants. They will likely be the first children to ride in self-driving cars, as well as the first whose healthcare and education could be increasingly turned over to artificially intelligent machines. Futurists, demographers, and marketers have yet to agree on the specifics of what defines the next wave of humanity to follow Generation Z. That hasn't stopped some, like Australian futurist Mark McCrindle, from coining the term Generation Alpha, denoting a sort of reboot of society in a fully-realized digital age. "In the past, the individual had no power, really," McCrindle told Business Insider.