The bulk of today's gerontologists and demographers do not yet grasp what's coming. Ken Dychtwald's Age Wave and Cheryl Russell's Master Trend create the impression that Boomers will be much like today's busy senior citizens—except better-educated, more selfish, and (an easy prediction) much more numerous. This kind of forecast leads to the conclusion that early next century, younger generations will be overwhelmed by extravagantly doctored, expansively lobbying, age-denying old people. To support their consumptive Sharper Image lifestyles through old age, Boomers would have to impose
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