L2's Generation Next Forum dissects the characteristics, influence, and brand affinities of tomorrow's affluent consumers.
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Bio
Jane Buckingham
Jane Buckingham is one of the world's foremost experts on Gen X, Y, and the upcoming Z Generations. She authored Teens Speak Out at age 17, and twenty years later, still helps Fortune 500 clients and individuals gain insights and actions around the difficult to understand youth generations.
Buckingham pioneered the trend forecasting field by creating Youth Intelligence, and later went on to create and publish The Cassandra Report, a leading trend forecasting study that has become an industry wide standard for all things "cool."
Recently, Buckingham launched a new multimedia business in synch with the digital age. Her company, Trendera, utilizes digital platforms to enable a synergistic relationship between digital and traditional research. Trendera has also launched several websites and iPhone apps for consumer use.
Computer-delivered electronic system that allows the user to control, combine, and manipulate different types of media, such as text, sound, video, computer graphics, and animation. The most common multimedia machine consists of a personal computer with a sound card, modem, digital speaker unit, and CD-ROM. Interactive multimedia systems under commercial development include cable television services with computer interfaces that enable viewers to interact with TV programs; high-speed interactive audiovisual communications systems, including video game consoles, that rely on digital data from fibre-optic lines or digitized wireless transmission; and virtual reality systems that create small-scale artificial sensory environments.