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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.
So you See that a generalization of a whole generation isn’t accurate. And then you do another generalization on a whole generation that’s wildly inaccurate.
How else? Anyone knows each member of each generation so we can interview each person what their experience is?
It's inaccurate to say something about "all" boomers and equally inaccurate to say something about any other group. But we like to discuss the general behavior we have observed. It won't fit all, and we understand that.
Without making any generalizations, we would have to say "in my life, this is what I have observed about x". That's every opinion, ever, going into that category.
So when i read something about boomers, I read it as "this person's opinion about boomers". How else?
There are tons of gen z who are amazing with computers! I'd say I'm pretty good compared to the average. But to be honest, I think every generation has a high percentage not good with computers. Everyone is specialized in something
God yeah. The teens I talk to at work are the worst at being patient. Most of them spam the chat. If I don’t respond in half a minute it’s “hellooooo hello?? Heloo? Omg wtf r u there” not even exaggerating. They will wait for nothing.
You say YouTube generation I say they're just learning how to be good capitalist. Do something easy and get quick results? You just described how everything is done these days. It's not them, it's us. They're learning it from us.
Maybe. It was a different time when we grew up. We had time to understand tech because there wasn't much distinctions. I remember having 2 TV channels and there was no handheld devices or mobile phones.
Now tech is everywhere. So they don't have "time" to focus on learning it well, because they want to make money, not learn things deeply.
I would be this Ipad generation, but came from the other side. I started "programming" with logic gates on some sort off app. This lead to me, disliking floats and mostly only using unsigned 8 bit intager and still feeling they are to big. Another problem of mine is that object oriented programming feels so abstract.