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?

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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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? - asklemmy - dmv.pub

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.

They already are.

I recall seeing studies posted back on Reddit basically stating that since modern tech is (usually) easy to use and highly polished, young people simply don’t understand how the underlying tech really works. On the flip side, those of us who grew up having to set up comm ports and allocating extended RAM and set dip switches on computers kind of had to learn how all this worked or else none of our stuff would function. If you understand the basics then it is easier to deal with stuff when it goes wrong - it doesn’t become an unsolvable box of mystery.

I have much more faith in getting a problem resolved nowadays by a younger Boomer or Gen X’er who tinkered with some of the early computer tech from the 80s & 90s, than a Zoomer or Millennial who has only ever used iPhones and modern Macs.

Mellenials aren’t “young people” anymore
Youngest Millennials are 25, so by nearly all metrics, yes they are still “young people”.
Oldest is like 40 years old. That isn’t young by any metric.
Middle age is roughly 50 years old, so 40 is indeed young. And 40 is what the oldest millennials are turning. You clearly glossed over the fact that many of them are still in their 20s.