We're in danger of losing the ship generation.
I'm aware of the problems, she said. 'You can't tell the boys from the girls, they have no respect for their elders, their user interfaces are garish and unwieldy, everybody is writing a book, and their music is just noise.' Found scratched on a potsherd in Sumer.

Chapter 15 Hollow Spaces of the Forward Cone (p. 248) - Learning the World (2005)