Tech speakers, it's 2023. Stop using moms as your example of a non-technical audience. It's wrong, its not funny, and whatever you were saying, now most of your audience is not thinking about it.

Just use the exec team as an example instead and get on with your life.

@dymaxion
Same goes for the elderly. So many of my older customers are scared of their devices because we keep holding them up as examples of being tech-illiterate which serves to reinforce their fear.
@kim
@proactiveservices @dymaxion Also, young people are just as good at being tech illiterate these days. The GenX heuristic that tech literacy inversely correlates with age went out the window years ago.
@kim @dymaxion sooo much this, one of the ways I discuss this is that younger people - especially those still in school/college - often have lower risk aversion, and don't have to pay for things if they break them. As well as this they're still used to picking up an item to play with it. It's easy to lose this mentality as an adult. Sometimes I'll show someone the apps their phone came with with the attitude of "let's just play around with it". Oh look, a calculator. A calendar. A compass.

@proactiveservices @dymaxion @kim

I'm an old hippie who works at the library. I get steamed every time I have to shelve the Facebook (Instagram, tech du jour) For Seniors. I'm actually really good at picking up new software - I enjoy it like a new game.

People assuming that I'm techphobic or inept are showing their ignorance just like someone assuming black folks all love (fill in racist trope here)

@PeachMcD Ages ago I was looking for some books like that, as a customer asked for recommendations. They were all abominable and offensive. I think I reached out to a local Age Concern branch and asked them for suggestions, which turned out to be written for people.
@proactiveservices @dymaxion @kim Ooof, I probably needed to hear that. I don’t think I’ve done it in a presentation but I definitely have done that casually/anecdotally. Noted for the future 😣