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.
You can already see millennials shying away from newer things Gen Z is into. Like TikTok. I think it’s an inevitability.
Boomers are not bad with technology, at least not boomers working in tech… It’s the younger guys with ipads that have no clue how anything works. :)
One teenager I met wanted to be a data scientist and had a running jupyter notebook but couldn’t write a simple python loop on his own.
I asked him why, and he said he wasn’t interested in learning that, he just wanted to do AI easily and get quick results. It was all about getting to the end result as quickly as possible and skipping the foundations.
This is the YouTube generation. Very impatient people. And you actually need patience to learn more difficult things…and you have to be OK with feeling stupid too.
The porn tech pendulum:
Boomers: So your telling me that if I know the right people and go to the right theaters, I get to see porn? (Boomers become good at networking)
Gen X: So your telling me if I buy a TV I get to see porn? (Gen Xs don’t get any cool knowledge, so they restrict porn on TV)
Millennials: So your telling me that if I get really good at computers and internet, I get to see porn? (Millennials get really good at using computer technology)
Zoomers: So your telling me if I own a phone, I get to see porn? (Zoomers don’t get any cool knowledge, move to restrict porn on the internet)
Gen Alpha: So your telling me if I install these image AIs and VR programs, I get to see porn? (Gen Alpha gets really good and working with AI and VR ‘interactions’)
First: It’s been the boomers who invented computers, the internet etc. Second: The average millennial knows little about tech. Give them an Android phone instead of an iPhone or a PC with MacOS or Linux and they’ll start looking confused at you. And tell you the way it was before was better. Try to explain to people why something is or isn’t necessary or about privacy and how our personal data gets handled and used. Most people are ignorant. Many people also have other hobbies than computers.
I’m already one of these millennial who become a boomer.
I’m for the regulation of social media with age restrictions or restricting access to smartphone for the youngest.
When I see the damage of both of them on the young generation and at school, we can’t close our eyes on the issues. We need to act and fix them.
