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.
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.
What about ancient technology? Give them a rotary phone, a tape player, a pickup, basically a good old stereo tower, worst, gave them a VCR and ask them to program it to record a show!
Also some Z and mostly A don’t type well on regular keyboards, sometimes struggle with mouse or windows environment. They only know cellphones.
As a younger person in IT, I always hate this argument of “they could never use the old stuff.” It’s such a dumb thing to use because it can logically be taken anywhere: “these damned boomers couldn’t even crank up their car properly” or “I can’t believe kids these days don’t listen to the town crier and read newspapers instead!” It’s just absurd: nobody uses those systems because we found better* options to achieve the same tasks, making knowledge of these things largely irrelevant.
I’d take Norman Schwarzkopf over Napoleon Bonaparte to command any modern military force today as their skills are for entirely different realities.
Agree for VCR stuff, but I can tell you a lot of 15-20yo struggle with keyboards and using windows on a PC, mostly all of them who only have game console and tablet/cellphone. Using a PC is not ancient