The dream of being an astronaut as an adult seems to have become extremely outdated: the role of YouTuber is much better.
Far from being just a bitter personal reflection, a reflection of my stable entry into the -anta, this is the result of a real survey commissioned by Lego and conducted by The Harris Poll.
The questionnaire, administered to over 3000 children from the USA, UK and China asked the offspring to express their preferences towards five different figures.
The result is an alarming signal about how the approach towards new technologies has changed (possibly for the worse) over the last few generations.
The priorities change
Going into the details of the results, the English and American children provided the exact same scale of priorities. “Vlogger / YouTuber” beats (in order) “teacher,” “professional athlete,” “musician,” and “astronaut.”
For Chinese children, things went differently. The most desired job was that of astronaut, with 56% desired. “Vlogger / YouTuber” got only 16% of the votes.
Far from the spotlight
Despite a growing return to the theme of the space race, Anglo-Saxon children are generally interested in space, but they may be far from the idea of becoming astronauts due to the little "narrative" appeal of this topic.
After all, it's been 50 years since the launch of Apollo 11 which brought humanity to the Moon, and the stay of astronauts in the ISS is no longer news.
In other words, the survey does not investigate the reasons that pushed the children of UK and USA to desire a career in front of the Webcam rather than on a spaceship. However, he tells us one thing: certainly being an astronaut is no longer so "cool" for them.
Maybe NASA could try to bring the kids closer together by providing them with a new frontier, and the next missions announced could make millions of children and the next generations dream.
