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  Next Generation or Next-Generation may refer to:

In technology:

  • AMD Next Generation Microarchitecture
    AMD Next Generation Microarchitecture

    AMD Next Generation Microarchitecture currently refers to:*Bobcat and Bulldozer processor cores, due in 2011*AMD Fusion due in 2011....
    , AMD products
  • Next Generation Internet
    Next Generation Internet

    The Next Generation Internet Program was a United States Government project intended to drastically increase the speed of the Internet. President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore announced their commitment to the program on October 10 1996....
    , U.S. Government project which is intended to drastically increase the speed of the Internet
  • Next Generation Networking
    Next Generation Networking

    Next Generation Networking is a broad term to describe some key architectural evolutions in telecommunication core network and access networks that will be System deployment over the next 5-10 years....
    , emerging computer network architectures and technologies
  • Next-generation lithography
    Next-generation lithography

    Next-Generation Lithography is a term used in integrated circuit manufacturing to describe the lithography technologies slated to replace photolithography....
    , lithography technology slated to replace photolithography beyond the 32 nm node
  • Next-Generation Secure Computing Base
    Next-Generation Secure Computing Base

    The Next-Generation Secure Computing Base , formerly known as Palladium, is a software architecture designed by Microsoft which is expected to implement parts of the controversial "Trusted Computing" concept on future versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system....
    , software architecture designed by Microsoft
  • Next Generation Air Transportation System
    Next Generation Air Transportation System

    The Next Generation Air Transportation System, or NextGen, is umbrella term for the ongoing evolution of the United States National Airspace System from a ground-based system of air traffic control to a satellite-based system of air traffic management....
    , the Federal Aviation Administration's massive overhaul of the national airspace system.


In television:

  • Star Trek: The Next Generation
    Star Trek: The Next Generation

    Star Trek: The Next Generation is a science fiction television program created by Gene Roddenberry as part of the Star Trek franchise. Set in the 24th century, about 70 years after Star Trek: The Original Series, the program features a new crew and a new Starship Enterprise....
    , science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe created by Gene Roddenberry
  • Degrassi: The Next Generation
    Degrassi: The Next Generation

    Degrassi: The Next Generation is a Canadian teen drama television programme, set in the Degrassi fictional universe created by Linda Schuyler and Kit Hood in 1980....
    , Canadian television series
  • Roots: The Next Generations
    Roots: The Next Generations

    Roots: The Next Generations is a 1979 television miniseries that continues the story of the family of Alex Haley from the time of Reconstruction era of the United States to Haley researching his family history and his travels to Africa to learn of his ancestor, Kunta Kinte....
    , miniseries and a sequel to the phenomenally popular miniseries Roots
  • Meerkat Manor
    Meerkat Manor

    Meerkat Manor is a British television programme produced by Oxford Scientific Films for Animal Planet. Blending more traditional animal documentary film style footage with Dramatic programming narration, the series tells the story of the Whiskers, one of over a dozen families of meerkats in the Kalahari Desert being studied as part of the...
    , series 4, which debuted in summer 2008 on Animal Planet
    Animal Planet

    Animal Planet is an United States satellite television and cable television , launched on June 1 1996 and distributed by Discovery Communications....
     in the United States, is titled Meerkat Manor The Next Generation.
In other fields:

  • Next Generation Magazine
    Next Generation Magazine

    Next Generation Magazine was a video game magazine that was made by Imagine Media publishing company . It was affiliated to and shared editorial with the UK's Edge magazine....
    , video game magazine that was made by the now defunct Imagine Media publishing company
  • Next Generation poets (2004)
    Next Generation poets (2004)

    The Next Generation poets are a list of young and middle-aged figures from British poetry, mostly British, compiled by a panel for the Poetry Book Society in 2004....
    , list of young and middle-aged figures from British poetry


As a buzzword:

The phrase Next Generation is cited as a frequently-used buzzword
Buzzword

A buzzword is a vague idiom, usually a neologism, that is common to managerial, technical, administrative, and political work environments. Although meant to impress the listener with the speaker's pretense to knowledge, buzzwords render sentences opaque, difficult to understand and question, because the buzzword does not mean what it denomi...
, in which case its meaning is intentionally vague, but carries a connotation of newness or modernness. See buzzword
Buzzword

A buzzword is a vague idiom, usually a neologism, that is common to managerial, technical, administrative, and political work environments. Although meant to impress the listener with the speaker's pretense to knowledge, buzzwords render sentences opaque, difficult to understand and question, because the buzzword does not mean what it denomi...
 for an explanation of this usage.

See also

  • Generation Next
    Generation Next

    Generation Next was a professional wrestling List of professional wrestling terms#S in the Ring of Honor promotion. Formed by Alex Shelley on May 22, 2004, the original Generation Next consisted of Shelley, Austin Aries, Roderick Strong and Jack Evans....