Youth Hype‑Dread Cycle

Young adults experience a distinctive emotional cycle in fast‑moving technological transitions: simultaneous exhilaration at rapidly expanding capabilities and paralysis or despair about accelerated downside risks. That psychological state compresses career timelines, increases frantic credentialing and startup churn, and alters education and mental‑health needs. — If widespread, this cycle will reshape labor supply, political mobilization among young cohorts, and the design of education and mental‑health policy during technological rapid change.