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this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2025
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I'm not a millenial, I'm a part of gen z.
A high amount of this generation is hopeless when it comes to tech. There is outliers and exceptions, but as a whole, tech literacy has gone down.
At the very least, your generation has the ability to eventually learn tech usage. Its not too late like it is for boomers.
I've had a not insignificant amount of people who don't want to learn how to. Boomers can learn how to. I love showing old people how to use google lens.
That's unfortunate. I used to work under a boomer boss who refused to let me teach him anything, instead whenever he was confused about something on his computer he'd just call me over. Drove me insane.
There will be people like that in every generation unfortunately.
I'm a millennial computer scientist
This is literally propaganda
This is the exact same as boomers thinking they are superior to millennials for knowing how to drive stick shift or write cursive.
I mean, its an apt analogy, but its more like people not being able to use the indicators or radio/heating system on a car.
Also, where I live every young person (at least, older than 12) can write cursive.
But both cursive and manual stick shift (at least in the USA) are being used less and less, but computers are being used more, while literacy goes down.
I think it has to do with barrier of entry. Way back in the day, you had to be quite the hacker to operate a computer (say Amiga or ZX Spectrum). Then, with Windows XP (or 98), it became easier to operate one, but some tasks still required clever ways to solve. Fast forward to now, all you have to do is click one icon at the bottom bar, write what you want in the top bar, and you got a billion answers.
Most of the stuff I learned was because the path to successfully perform stuff required knowing lots of different stuff.
For context, first PC was Win 98 when I was 7, born 1996.
For a while I drove stick, wrote cursive with a fountain pen, and wore an analog mechanical watch, and that was only about 8 years ago.