• Fears over older people's IT skills
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This problem will only get worse in the future. Every century seems to have more advances than the one before. Young people now may know computers, but before too long something new will come along and if we (as in every person that isn't retired and is living in a 1st world country) will have to do some serious learning to keep up to date.
I can see this happening with my generation once something like quantum mechanics becomes mainstream. I hope I'd be one of those old guys who at 80 is using the latest tech like a boss.
A lot of old people i met just outright hate new technology and don't even want to use them or learn how to use them at all.
the solution is to forcefully turn old people into cyborgs once they reach the age of 70
[QUOTE=The golden;47938352]This.. It's not just that they don't know, it's that they don't even want to know and they feel that having to know about it is some sort of insult to their intelligence or something or a threat to their beliefs. Unfortunately modern technology is a threat to the ways of thinking and life that these people used to consider their daily lives. Who is it that is most likely to make some bullshit theory up to try and get you off the computer or away from the TV? Yup, it's probably your grandmother. My own grandmother blamed every illness or negative bodily function I ever had on my computer, because she saw it as a threat because I wasn't living the type of life she is used to kids living back in her day. These older people don't understand that almost every single career or form of education requires the use of a computer of some sort. Pretty much every. single. one. It's very quickly becoming a requirement of daily life. Everything from jobs, shopping, even banking is now all moving digitally. Not only are they opposed to it - they have no idea how any of it works. Trying to get them to learn about it means fighting both these problems.[/QUOTE] And the moral of the story is to always keep an open mind when it comes to new tech
[QUOTE=UberMensch;47938094]I can see this happening with my generation once something like quantum mechanics becomes mainstream. I hope I'd be one of those old guys who at 80 is using the latest tech like a boss.[/QUOTE] "Son, I'm sick of you and your crazy sub-atomic bullshit!" "Shut up dad, I'm going to put my quantum harmonizer in your photonic resonation chamber!"
So, it's a problem because they want people to still work after they are 70 or something... retire them and give youth the chance, invest in the future.
[QUOTE=ScottyWired;47939341]"Son, I'm sick of you and your crazy sub-atomic bullshit!" "[B]Shut up dad, I'm going to put my quantum harmonizer in your photonic resonation chamber![/B]"[/QUOTE] well thats incestuous
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