Carl Sagan Quote

The so-called generation gap is a consequence of the rate of social and technological change. Even within a human lifetime, the change is so great that many people are alienated from their own society. Margaret Mead had described older people as involuntary immigrants from the past to the present.


The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective, Chapter 5 (p. 36), Dell Publishing, Inc. 1975


The so-called generation gap is a consequence of the rate of social and technological change. Even within a human lifetime, the change is so great...

The so-called generation gap is a consequence of the rate of social and technological change. Even within a human lifetime, the change is so great...

The so-called generation gap is a consequence of the rate of social and technological change. Even within a human lifetime, the change is so great...

The so-called generation gap is a consequence of the rate of social and technological change. Even within a human lifetime, the change is so great...