by Kirt Sechooler                                                                                                                                  While the inexorable progression of technological development has driven the Industrial Age, a second factor continually exerts an influence on human affairs equally as powerful as that relentless technological advance. This second factor is demographic change. And to ascertain the full impact of this second great historical force, one has only to go back in time to the 1950s, the decade of calm that proceeded the turbulent "1960s." The Lost Generation & The 1950s Four decades ago, back in the 1950s, the mature adults in American society were members of the Lost Generation. We tend to think of generations only in relation to a specific time. The Lost Generation, for example, is permanently associated in our memory with the "Roaring Twenties". But the truth is that a generation's history is not limited to a particu