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.

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    21 year ago

    Not likely. You have to remember that Boomers grew up with zero computing in their lives, thus they never did get a general education on computing.

    That general education instils the foundational knowledge and habits, and is extended by new technologies, not replaced by them.

    • HeartyBeast
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      41 year ago

      Boomers invented most of the IT paradigms we use today, including the internet.

      • @legion02
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        61 year ago

        A couple boomers did, the rest were blissfully unaware.

        • HeartyBeast
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          I think you are blissfully unaware of the vast numbers of boomer engineers and IT innovators who built the world that we live in to today. The 70s-90s built the core of pretty much everything. Since then it’s been a question of scaling up and making stuff pretty

          • @legion02
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            11 year ago

            I’ve been in IT for 17 years. Some boomers are tech savvy but not nearly at the rate that x/millennials are.