In the 18 years since we wrote Spaced, this extended adolescence has been cannily co-opted by market forces, who have identified this relatively new demographic as an incredibly lucrative wellspring of consumerist potential.
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His hobbies and interests defined who he was, rather than his professional status. For Tim, he channeled his childhood passions into his adult life, cared about them as much, invested in them, the same level of time, importance and emotion. For Daisy, it was the pursuit of her girlhood dreams and fantasies. For Tim and Daisy, not having to grow up in the way their parents did, simply meant a continuation of their childhood. What fascinated Jess and I was the way we utilised this time. Why this happened is a whole other sociological discussion: a rise in the student population, progress in gender equality, the absence of world war all these things and more contributed to this social evolution. The children of the 70s and 80s were the first generation, for whom it wasn’t imperative to ‘grow up’ immediately after leaving school.
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One of the things that inspired Jessica and myself, all those years ago, was the unprecedented extension our generation was granted to its youth, in contrast to the previous generation, who seemed to adopt a received notion of maturity at lot sooner. It’s essentially what Spaced was about, at least in part. Having said that, the idea of our prolonged youth is something I’ve been interested in for a very long time. When you do lots of them, you get sick of your own opinions and start espousing other people’s.
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Now, maybe I was being a little bit trollish, I can be a bit of a Contrary Mary in interviews sometimes. It has come to my attention (thank you google), that the excellent website, Io9 picked up on some controversial comments I made to the Radio Times, which can be summed up in the above headline. From the wonky opening that brought you “Fuck you Star Trek fans” and “Phwooar, Princess Leia”, comes this … “Nerd culture is the product of a late capitalist conspiracy, designed to infantalize the consumer as a means of non-aggressive control.”