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Good question Benjamin ! Present generation has better knowledge. They also have better means to collecting, accumulating and making meaningful use of knowledge. There are business Intelligence and analytics tools which would help you to draw conclusions faster. Information technology is great contributor and enabler for all this.

But wisdom needs your judgement, your instincts, your belief systems. You need to have very firm convictions and value systems. Unfortunately present generation does posses all this as much as older generation.

Hence to answer your question, present generation is better in terms of knowledge not wisdom !

By present generation i assume you mean 90's and 00's, wisdom as someone already mentioned is gained through experience and age you meant intelligence.

The present generation has studied only how to click yea...are you saying past generations only studied how to go to libraries and find a book? The PC just added convenience and it was created by your generation and previous ones in the first place

I believe every generation gets better as the knowledge of the previous generation is available whether they have the hunger to learn is up to them but even more is available after every generation.

The new generation is also sometimes referred to as the Boomerang Generation or Peter Pan Generation, because of the members' perceived penchant for delaying some rites of passage into adulthood, longer periods than most generations before them. These labels were also a reference to a trend toward members living with their parents for longer periods than previous generations.

As a group, Generation Y are said to be much closer to their parents than their parents' generation, the Baby Boomers were. While 40% of Baby Boomers in 1974 claimed they would be "better off without their parents" according to one study, 90% of Generation Y'ers claimed to be "extremely close" to their parents in another study. Most also claim that the older generations had better morals.

Generation Y'ers never truly rebelled against their parents, unlike prior generations, often enjoying the same music, movies and products as their parents. Generation Y has been described in a New York Times opinion piece as entrepreneurial and, "a 'post-emotional' generation. No anger, no edge, no ego."

Yet, Generation Y wants to be more connected and less isolated than previous generations. They manifest this desire in their full-on embrace of social media and their desire to live in places where they can be around others; i.e., the densest, most active, areas of cities.

The intellectual elite and without a doubt more intelligent. Humanity's collective knowledge is now only a few clicks away. If you want to learn about a particular subject, it is now easy to. Take me for example, I LOVE science particularly astronomy...would I have bought a boring old book? Probably not. However, I was able to watch 1,000s of documentaries and interviews in only 6 months.

If you're talking about the majority, then I'd have a hard time believing that the previous generations were less intelligent than this current one. Pop-culture has led to self-obsession, materialism and ignorance. People want to fit into this mold to be 'popular'; this diverts them from learning.

I think the present is better because we have more knowledge to things than we had in the present generation. We are getting more international, better educations and we don't believe in witches and burn innocent smart people. We have the technology to get closer to the past and study it. Because before you can look into the future you have to know what's behind. Most of us talk more than 1 language. We can get food from all over the world by just walking around the corner. We can travel to the other side of the earth within 2 days.

In my opinion, I think we got smarter. Especially about health. In the older generations they didn't knew what to do when someone got cancer.

Well, being that wisdom comes with age and the experiences of life, I believe this generation is not as wise as the last. It's an ongoing thing and as generations age their wisdom improves...

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Honestly this generation sucks. We are to depended on the internet and electronics and we are not very wise people

It is a matter of acquiring knowledge by all generations.and every generations come with new technology, development and experience. We cant't which one was/is better. Thanks.

90s kids are best of both worlds.

20s half suck. can't imagine 2012 kids. ew.