In Competition 2647 you were invited to invent new social types for the current decade.
This assignment, which takes you into the terrain of anthropologists and marketing men, clearly failed to inspire, producing an entry of modest size that fell short of your usual standard.
There were some harsh portraits of the digital generation.

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