An early use of the term "Generation Z" was in the 1994 book "Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie" by Hunter S. Thompson: "Generation X got off easy compared to the hideous fate of the poor bastards in Generation Z. They will be like steerage passengers on the "Titanic", trapped in the watery bowels of a sinking 'unsinkable ship.'" Other proposed names for the generation include "iGeneration", "Gen Tech", "Gen Wii", "Homeland Generation", "Net Gen", "Digital Natives", "Neo-Digital Natives", "Plurals", "Internet Generation", "Centennials", "Post-Millennials", and "Zoomers". The Pew Research Center surveyed the various names for this cohort on Google Trends in 2019 and found that in the U.S., the term "Generation Z" was the most popular by far, so much so that the Merriam-Webster and Oxford dictionaries both have official entries for it.