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.

444

You are viewing a single comment
View all comments

My friend works with a lot of Zoomers and he says that they grew up with working tech while we grew up having to debug shit all the time. So Zoomers are as helpless as boomers but millennials had to learn how shit worked.

I think the shift will be from the boomers who are completely helpless to the zoomers who are overly confident but lack the actual knowledge or ability to fix anything on their own.

Probably an upgrade but not by much.

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?

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.

Exactly this. Technical literacy in zoomers and Gen next is going to be worse than boomers.

Everything is fast and all the details of the technology are hidden from them

That being said I'm sure they will use technology in mind blowing ways. But have not idea how it works.