The Strategic Vision: The Boomers' post-industrial challenge WHERE THERE IS NO VISION, THE PEOPLE PERISH. --- Proverbs, 29:18 Previous discussions in the  Millennial Files  have summarized the exposition of a new model of United States economic history. Our model has three main components. The first is the demographic structure, the  historically unique order and arrangement of generations  of Americans as they pass through time. The underlying nature of this component has been outlined in previous files. The second component is the  technological cycle confronted by a particular generation  at any given time in history. These cycles of technology have also been elaborated on previously.  The third component has yet to be discussed and represents a critical element in our model. It is  The  factor that actualizes the first two. This critical third component is the  Strategic Vision  that a generation   forms as it confronts the   challenges  that history inevitably places before