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?
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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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What's really crazy is that even $1 microcontrollers are faster than that 486 these days, and I'm pretty sure some of them are capable of running Java themselves. I was going to say something like "you have to go really small, e.g. ATtiny, to find something you need to use C on," but nope, even those can (sort of) run Java!
Not to mention the fact that you can run an entire desktop OS much more sophisticated than Windows 95 was on a $5 Raspberry Pi Zero...
Memba when we named our loop variables shit like "i" to save space in the symbol table? Uphill, both ways, in 3 feet of snow?