Reply #152: for the large part it's not their fault

[mark414]

my father is a boomer (he's 56) and is pretty well versed in computers/etc. but he's still a boomer. and he grew up in a world where he was in college when the VCR was a tremendous breakthrough in technology.

me, i am 22 years old, and right on the cusp of the late 20th/21st century techno-revolution. and while i'm old enough to remember life without cable TV, before the internet and cell phones, before home phones were cordless, i still mostly grew up with the new technology. and so it naturally came to me since i was surrounded by it.

i have an assortment of friends and/or cousins who are only 4 or 5 years younger than me...though young enough to not know life before windows 95. and their relationship with all the older and emerging technology is one of wonder - it is a 6th sense, a 5th limb. but then in 30 years their kids and grandkids will see them as dinosaurs too...