For 3.1 million or 15% of Australia’s population (those under 12 years old aka Generation Z):
1. Australia has always had colour television
2. Cut and paste has never involved scissors
3. Heart-lung transplants have always been possible
4. The internet has always existed
5. Computers access has always been readily available
6. Bill Gates has always been worth a billion dollars
7. Kentucky Fried Chicken has always been known as KFC
8. Snowboarding has always been a popular winter pastime
9. The Hubble telescope has always been focused on new frontiers
10. The Simpson’s have always been on television
11. Digital cameras have always existed
12. The Soviet Union has never existed
13. There has always only been one Germany
14. They have never seen a typewriter in use
15. They are wireless, yet always connected
16. Smoking has never been permitted on airplanes
17. Faxing is an old fashioned means of communication
18. “Google” has always been a verb
19. Bar codes have always been on everything
20. Reality shows have always been on television
21. Young women’s fashion have never been concerned with where their waist is
22. They have rarely mailed anything using a stamp
23. Being techno savvy has always been inversely proportional to age
24. They have always been able to watch wars live on television
25. Phones have always been cordless
26. Green tea has always been marketed as a health drink
27. They have always preferred going out in groups rather than on dates
28. Television stations never closed at the end of each day
29. There have always been live organ donors