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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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[–] notexecutive@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Its dependant on how much of a jump in tech we can go. To me, the next jump is immersive AR, and/or realistic AR. That could be a hurdle for people not grown up with it.

[–] lustyargonian@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I feel millennials very quickly learned to Google things that they didn't know. As long as access to information is free and easy, I think millennials will adapt but whine about how modern design isn't intuitive enough.

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[–] uis@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Nah, this is iphone issues. They do everything as inconvenient as possible. AFAIK there still no way to transfer files over bluetooth for iphone.

[–] Icaria@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I already am.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The most common complaint I hear on most websites is "I have been here on this website since the first days, and now they redesigned the site and I can't find the place to change my profile picture", so you can already see signs of this.

The reverse also applies too. I notice other Gen Z members often asking things like "how do I make a forum" when they clearly just made a forum thread (they're called threads, not forums) to ask the question. It's like the internet equivalent of "how do I get Green Mario", "why can't Metroid crawl", "why does Zelda always have to save the princess", and "what gives X-man his long nails".

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[–] mister_monster@monero.town 4 points 2 years ago

Will they? They already are. The number of people I see who don't know what a file manager is is insane. It's insane because I remember before smartphones, everyone knew what a file manager was. They forgot? I don't know. It makes no sense to me.

I think in general, people are bad with technology.

[–] maporita@unilem.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The exception to your rule may be the boomers who grew up learning how to program without OOP or a modern IDE, who could manually correct an error in a punch card with sellotape and who could write a complete accounting system to run on a machine with 32K RAM and no hard disk. Now get off my lawn.

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[–] Mockrenocks@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Damn near guaranteed.

Technology doesn't stop but at a point you get stuck in your ways. Sure you could use Windows Settings App, but you know how to navigate the control panel and the settings app is so damn cluttered. I could potentially live to be 90 something but I'm for sure intimidated by what tech would look like in 50 years.

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Gen X here, not for me but I see a lot of my age group struggling with AI. I keep trying to get them to use it and I'm even buying it for the office and it's interesting to see the reactions.

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[–] Dogs_cant_look_up@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Na it'll be the music we don't understand.

And the fashion.

Oh wait and the slang.

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[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

We’re already bad comprehending AI.

  • edit because I‘m disxlecik
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