(SOS 110) Living in the Information Age Written Assignment 4 Introduction The recent economic trend has future implications on the personal and family lifestyles of the current population. This owes to the reality that America is in the midst of an intense demographic revolution that will change the current state of the economy. According to Ewing (2012) the first baby boomers (the American population that was born between 1946 and 1964) turned sixty-five years old. The same author further asserts that an estimated 77 million Americans, covering almost a quarter of the entire population will reach their retirement age in the next five years.