Tech Geezers vs. Young Bloods

Lam1969 writes "Robert Mitchell talks about how technology is dividing him from younger generations: "The technologies I've watched grow have shaped an entire culture of which I am not a part." Adds Dinosaur: "Ask them [members of the younger generation] HOW the things work, and they have no idea. They are really riding on the backs of the 'old folks' like us that built the goodies they enjoy.""

Comments

Wishful thinking, meet bitterness

[Nijika]

Sad to say, but this is how many in the older baby-boom generation would like to see us. Not because it's true, but because it allows the insecure within their generation to grasp at straws of relevancy.

We do know "how things work", and worse, we're building new things that they don't understand.

It would be gracious of baby-boomers to hand over the keys to our generation, as I plan to do to the next generation when they completely usurp my power, but we won't see that from them. Remember, they got the additional name me generation for a damn good reason.

They'll hold on with as much grip as their tired aging hands, covered in some "revitalizing cream", can muster. Prepare to be belittled and insulted by them again and again until they disappear.

Re:Obligatory Simpson Quote...

[dano84065]

In ten years a few engineers will be designing new classes of electronics based on quantum principles.

Wow! Like the silicon transistor that has been around for 45 years? Its operation is certainly based on "quantum principles".

Thanks for reaffirming that the younger generation really doesn't know HOW things work.

Props for the Simpson's quote though.

Re:Old people are just as stupid.

[m50d]

No, statistically, intelligence is normally distributed so half the people you meet are below the mean. And besides, average can refer to any of mean, median or mode.

Re:Why Post to Slashdot?

[saintlupus]

I must be over the hill, but who wants to chatter endlessly with kids who've got nothing better to do?

Interesting comment for someone coming up on ten thousand Slashdot posts. Who the hell did you think you were talking to, if not kids with nothing better to do?

--saint

Re:Grumpy Old Man

[slashdot_commentator]

With commoditization, as you describe it, the common fear is that all the knowledge will one day be lost because no one has to use it anymore. You see this in a lot of B Sci-Fi movies set in the distant future, often leading to religious-based uprising (religion being the clear enemy of science, what?)

What a fascinating explanation for the rise of the Christian Shiite movement in the US. See how their limited governance and enlightened curricula like I.D. will foster the devolution of American technological establishment. So, what's the answer? Put them into secular re-education camps, and feed them only when they master basic math techniques and scientific concepts? Or just sterilize them? Why can't they just volunteer to fight in Iraq???