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.

  • infyrin@lemmy.world
    12·
    1 year ago

    No.

    I’m one of the few people who’s been growing up and having had been enamored by the progression of technology. But I’ve always been let down by how for every step of that progression we achieve, it’s been mishandled and held back because of the people we currently have who are not used to it or don’t care.

    And if I make it to 70, I would be hopeful that we finally have governments who’re full of people that have had familiarity with technology, to finally take hold, regulate and embrace these developments. Rather than where it is now, where every tech company is rushing and already have established vacuums of power, because of how they dance around with a very non-tech savvy government.

    • Roboticide@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      Same. I wasn’t alive at the time, but just looking at history it doesn’t seem like the advancements from the 40s to the ~80s were as significant as the 80s onward. The atom bomb was a huge technological achievement, but apart from instilling a whole new fear into the population, it doesn’t compare to the impact the semiconductor and specifically personal computers have had on our lives.

      I get why people over 60 struggle. There was absolutely nothing like it for most of their lives. I grew up with dial up and AOL, and while those are gone, I understand the same core technological concepts that evolved from them, and I don’t expect anything nearly so revolutionary happening to us. I mean, it’d be cool, and if it happens I hope I could adapt.