COLUMBUS, Ohio — Welcome to the world Generation Beta. This new generation is anyone born between 2025 and 2039. 

What You Need To Know

  • Any baby born in 2025 is part of the new Generation Beta 

  • Generation Beta babies are born between 2025 and 2039

  • Many of Generation Beta will live to see the 22nd century

Halle Milne just gave birth to her daughter, Ellie. Milne is a millennial, and said it’s crazy to think about having a child that’s part of Generation Beta. 

“As a millennial we went though this progression of little to no technology and to this whirlwind of social media and AI and she’ll probably get the same progression of things that we would’ve never imagined would happen before,” said Milne. 

Many of Generation Beta will live to see the 22nd century.

“She’s gonna be going from iPhones, not knowing what T9 is on a flip phone and going to something that we can’t even imagine like holograms or who knows,” Milne said.

“It’s interesting when we think about the construction of these generational stereotypes, they are stereotypes. And this latest Generation Alpha, Generation Beta is a result of this company in Australia called the McCrindle company,” said Deepak Sarma, a professor of public humanities at Case Western Reserve University.

McGrindle is a company that tracks social trends and generational analysis. 

Sarma said he has some concerns about the way these generations are classified. 

“This kind of conversation about what this generation is going to be like is a very peculiar kind of futuristic science fiction and sometimes what you predict is going to happen might come true but it might come true because people think that’s what it’s supposed to be,” said Sarma.

McGrindle said that the next generation, Generation Beta, will live in a world that’s completely shaped by technology, from education and workplaces to health care and entertainment.

“We could say the beta generation is the prototype for the groups of people now who will be so heavily affected by AI and so heavily affected by chat GPT and so heavily affected by technology,” Sarma said.

And while there are predictions about what Generation Beta’s lives will be like, there’s some uncertainty, too. 

“Honestly I have no clue. I think it’s going to be absolutely wild the things that her generation can think of to build. Our society and our world and the big things that this generation can do that we never even thought we would be experiencing,” Milne said.

Correction: This story previously misspelled Deepak Sarma's name. This has been corrected. (Jan. 22, 2025)