Generational Tech Attitudes

I'll tell you a story: I was born not so long ago, but before internet existed and I had my first connection at the age of 19 in 1995.When I was a kid I grew up between the city and the countryI knew about animals, how they behaved, what they ate and what was their role (cows for milk, chickens made eggs, pigs for ham)Fast forward 30 years, my nephews know every burger place around and where to eat the best chicken snacks but have never seen a chicken or a cow alive, the younger on

I don't get it, the elderly of today (80-90) we're in their prime when the whole microcomputer revolution took placeYou need to be actively avoiding technology for the last 50 years to not be able to use a smartphone or PC todayAn evening of tutoring won't undo that mindset

I'm going through the same thing. Grew up dreaming of having a pocket computer. Nowadays you can basically live your entire life on the internet, as others are doing the same; people (think they) get their social needs met, buy food, do their work, find partners, anything. And it seems like a big part of the younger crowd wants (?) this trend to continue.I don't want to speak for you, but I think there's a big crowd that's unique here: we have one foot in the "old wor

I think age is an important factor as well.Think of it this way, most college aged kids today barely remember things in 1995. We just have an abstract idea of the early-mid 90's: no internet, limited scope of computers, primitive game consoles etc. Nowadays technology is a huge part of out lives so it amplifies the effect of "Holy shit we've come a long way."I don't mean to assume your old or anything but even if my parents did have a laptop I certainly wouldn't have remembered it or even

I find a lot of folks share this sentiment but from where I sit it just sounds so much like the “kids these days” crap that spawned all of YOU folks when you were younger. I grew up so inspired by the internet culture of the nineties, people that understood a technology and had a passion for wrangling it to do great things. We had a mixed run and the internet today has simultaneously exceeded these early dreams by orders of magnitude in some ways and has become absolutely Orwellian and backward

yes, not too many people tinkered with their computers then. But the real question is: how many of those who tinkered then, would tinker now if they were born in the 00s? Probably less then if they were born in the 80s, just because e.g. ipads or smartphones are not to be tinkered with. I mean many pupils have problems just working at a laptop (e.g. understanding the file system) because they never did it at home where all they might know are smartphones. So there definitely is a very different

I find it interesting how computing is starting to mature. It used to be something that only the latest generation was privy of. Everything was state of the art and always changing. My parents didn't understand me playing video games, it was not something they could grasp. Now, my daughter will probably be there when the Internet is a 100 years old, some ancient invention from a generation long gone. Computing will feel very different from how it feels to me.

you're seriously too young to understand. i am 32 years old. the first time i went online was in 1999. before that i had personal computers, yes. but no internet whatsoever. can you even imagine a world without google and wikipedia?i got my first mobile phone in that time frame.my parents were born after ww2. your time as a youth shapes you, forms your understanding of the world. you translate everything you see into analogies of the past. a mobile phone is a like a normal phone without a

I was referring to the fact is that Internet has become a basic infrastructure this days and people just use it. They don't ask or understand "where does it come from". They just use it. When you are born into something ("digital natives" as some call them) you don't even consider how it used to be. Current state is normal for you. This is your starting point and you build upon it. Same as electricity, you turn the switch and the light is on.I had a black and whi

It's funny how the future kind of crept up on us. I'm at the right age to remember 8-bit computers as an oddity in just a few homes I knew about, to today's always on, always connected, satellite directed super technology ultra modernism. But I don't ever remember passing date where I was suddenly "in the future". I remember think it was going to be the 2000s, and here we are almost a generation in, and there doesn't seem to have been that kind of earthshaking