Do you think millennials who grew up with the early Internet and home computers will be as bad with future technology as boomers are with current technology?
Do you think millennials who grew up with the early Internet and home computers will be as bad with future technology as boomers are with current technology?
My wife and I started talking about this after she had to help an old lady at the DMV figure out how to use her iPhone to scan a QR code. We're in our early 40s.
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Same. I wasn't alive at the time, but just looking at history it doesn't seem like the advancements from the 40s to the ~80s were as significant as the 80s onward. The atom bomb was a huge technological achievement, but apart from instilling a whole new fear into the population, it doesn't compare to the impact the semiconductor and specifically personal computers have had on our lives.
I get why people over 60 struggle. There was absolutely nothing like it for most of their lives. I grew up with dial up and AOL, and while those are gone, I understand the same core technological concepts that evolved from them, and I don't expect anything nearly so revolutionary happening to us. I mean, it'd be cool, and if it happens I hope I could adapt.
Yeah, we wrote the documentation lol