Generation Divide, Gap or Potential?

Indra Zaka Permana
2 min readJun 28, 2024

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When the social gap has now simplified itself into a generational gap, with a lot of intervention by the oligarch (a subject who mostly had the intention of gaining profit in a short cycle of returns) to “take care of these businesses”, what opportunity — as nation — will we have?

The data breach is the opening of new social gestures, and new social constellations embrace that gap. The gap that needs to be acknowledged as a new potential entropy catalyst in our civilization. How could the systems be corrupted by power through the unaccountable movement of some people inside the team who create regulations? Now is still a question.

The discussion in the tech community and the data analyst community has not given a lot of strong constellations about the context of national data breaching that happen in last two week. The strong constellation that is revealed surprisingly came from the discussion among educational practitioners, and shows their concern about an intergenerational gap that has grown fast after political tension because of elections has been settled relatively in status quo.

Is It A Threat?

From the information that came from discussions, these intergenerational gaps are also generated by the politician actor. It looks like a solid plan that runs smoothly and systematically. So the plan is actually understandable and can be traced and mapped in variables of accountability.

It is part of how we shift problems into challenge, and challenge into potential. So with that, while the intergenerational map reveals a potential, it still needs to improve the mitigation, so the manifestation of the gap becomes less risky and relatively manageable.

The “Living” Big Picture

With all the consequences that all stakeholders have decided, the solution of how we mitigate the gap depends on the capacity — of whoever is the stakeholder who takes a role — in evolving the adapted big picture in a short timeline, even streaming and simultaneously applied in the field. The challenges now are not about creating creative tension, but also embracing the capacity of gen-AI from the data source to manifest and stimulate the social rhythm through an active role in the ecosystem.

The whole sources who previously involved in spectrum of strategic and research, now should be evolved as the part of the living lab in ecosystem. Creating manageable areas for all new opportunities, and always keeping the “living nerve” to be connected in enlarging the data capacities.

In the end, the intergenerational gap is always manageable, while it can be set in the spectrum of deepening the dimension of resources, not in the spectrum of creating“ lost space” in ecosystems. The lost space, or negative space, is one of the classic terms in urban design which has the potential to create systemic disruption to the purposes of the design.

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Indra Zaka Permana
Indra Zaka Permana

Written by Indra Zaka Permana

Architecture in the making, Journalism in the passion. I developed skills in Generative & Systems Scribing, Visual Profilling, and Data Analyst.

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