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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All generations end up having their day when they're unable to use new technology. So yes, of course, there will be a time when teenagers today becomes 80 and are utterly confused how to use something new.
That's a large generalization. Computers were not present in early schooling for boomers. It's important to take in account when leaps in technology occured for certain generations. Computers just get faster and smaller now. It will be a bit before we see another paradigm shift similar to what occurred in the mid 90s when home computing became a norm.
With that said, I have heard of computer literacy dropping in youth despite ubibiquitous usage of social media on phones --which obviously doesn't teach you much about how computers actually work. I'm not sure what exactly to contributes to that besides that maybe we are living in a post PC world (at least outside of working professionals in the tech industry). I work in game dev with a good amount of engineers under the age of 25 that could easily school me on low level computing architecture.
It's complex.
To sum up my opinion, I don't think age as a factor alone can be used to correlate computer literacy. We are products of our environment.
I’m 44 and I can’t understand GitHub. Discord is a bit of a mystery as well honestly. How do you make use of jumping in and out of a constantly running conversation?
yeah, I'm 49 and Discord is just something I never got into. It's a ton of message spam and there's all these hoops you have to jump through to join channels on servers to find the people you want to connect with. I usually only use Discord to join gaming servers to ask questions when I'm stuck on something rather than lower myself to asking on Reddit.