Second generation

The second generation is the generation following the one preceding it.

Second generation may also refer to:

• Second generation immigrant
  • Nisei, one of the second generation of people of Japanese descent in the Americas
• Second generation of Chinese leaders, see Generations of Chinese leadership
• Second-generation human rights, see Three generations of human rights
• People whose parents took part in a Blessing ceremony of the Unification Church

Arts and entertainment

• Second Generation (1964 novel) 1964 novel, by Raymond Williams
• Second Generation (1978 novel), 1978 novel by Howard Fast
• The Second Generation, 1994 collection of five fantasy novellas by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
• Second Generation (film), 2003 British television drama
• Second Generation (advertisement), 2006 television ad for Nike
• Second Generation of Postwar Writers in Japanese literature
• Second Generation (2003), a British TV serial that was aired in 2003

Science and technology

• 2G, second-generation wireless telephone technology
• Second generation computer, a computer constructed using discrete transistors
• History of video game consoles (second generation) (1976–1984), sometimes referred to as the early 8-bit era
• Second Generation Multiplex Plus, DNA profiling system
• Second-generation programming language, a generational way to categorise assembly languages
• Second-generation warfare, the tactics of warfare used after the invention of the rifled musket and breech-loading weapons
• Second-generation wavelet transform, in signal processing
• Transperth Second Generation A-series train; see Transperth A-series train

Sport

• List of second-generation Major League Baseball players
• List of second-generation National Basketball Association players
• List of second-generation National Football League players

See also

• Generation (disambiguation)