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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Do you think millennials who grew up with the early Internet and home computers will be as bad with future technology as boomers are with current technology?

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Do you think millennials who grew up with the early Internet and home computers will be as bad with future technology as boomers are with current technology?

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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

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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Depends on the personality of the person.

I knew someone born in 1905 who was excited by personal computers and happily using email into her 100s.

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