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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    1 year ago

    This is a bad take. Boomers created the internet, Unix, C, processors and other IC’s, other OS’s, created computer graphics as we know them now, etc etc etc. They are the pioneers we stand on, but each generation has a bell curve.

    Millennials start with the same bell curve, I assume a bit better maybe because knowledge is easier to access for those who seek it, but don’t confuse navigating an app, and knowing how to Google troubleshooting terms as some form of technical supremacy, if the internet goes away tomorrow, how many millennials will know how to troubleshoot issues or create IC’s from rocks?

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      1 year ago

      A fraction of boomers did those things. By the time computers were available to the public at large, boomers were in their 30s and 40s.