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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (6 children)

My friend works with a lot of Zoomers and he says that they grew up with working tech while we grew up having to debug shit all the time. So Zoomers are as helpless as boomers but millennials had to learn how shit worked.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly this. Technical literacy in zoomers and Gen next is going to be worse than boomers.

Everything is fast and all the details of the technology are hidden from them

That being said I'm sure they will use technology in mind blowing ways. But have not idea how it works.

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