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?

jcrabapple@dmv.pub to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 566 points –

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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Not at all. I'm a late Gen Xer, almost a millennial. I thrive on learning new technology. I live for it.

I am sure some gen Xers do fail to adapt, but at the end of the day, I don't even think it's a generational thing: Some people adapt and keep moving, some people get stuck.

Yeah I know boomers that are more tech savvy than some millennial. Really if you are curious and have an interest, you would keep up even at Biden age

I know a few people who are and do. Even 20+ years ago, I can recall old people who taught very young me all sorts of "cutting edge" tech shit. I had a greybeard teach me about IRQ addresses in the 90s, I've since forgotten it all but that's not really the point.

“Gotta change those jumpers, man!”

In my experience, if anything, late iterations of Gex X tend to be slightly better with new tech than Milennials, because we grew up having to know how it works in order to use it.

In the days of constant blue screen of death.

There seem to be a lot of us GenX /"Xenials" here in the fediverse already and I think that's why. We don't need everything handed to us in its final form.

The people that were near that X/Millennial transition are the best at adapting to new tech in my experience. Enough access to have a computer in their formative years but not far enough along for that computer to actually worked well.

Same. Except when teleporters come around. You’ll only teleport me over my dead body.

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