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Genz getting worse at technology use - erdna3 - 01-18-2023
Saw several twitter threads about this...interestingly, people agreed that the shift started in the 03-05 birth range, so where S+H draw the line.
Supports the idea that the Heroes endow technology (where the Nomad hacker ethos is more around "liberty", and Boomer tech having more vision (with the rants about Agile methods and object-oriented design).
RE: Genz getting worse at technology use - David Horn - 01-19-2023
(01-18-2023, 03:18 PM)erdna3 Wrote: Saw several twitter threads about this...interestingly, people agreed that the shift started in the 03-05 birth range, so where S+H draw the line.
Supports the idea that the Heroes endow technology (where the Nomad hacker ethos is more around "liberty", and Boomer tech having more vision (with the rants about Agile methods and object-oriented design).
Assuming the '03-'05 range is correct, they are the leading edge of the neo-Artists -- three of whom are my grandchildren. From limited personal experience, those youth cohorts (and younger, I assume) have no need to understand tech. It's getting almost to the point of being self-supporting, requiring little in the way of understanding at that level to use or benefit from it. Instead., the focus is on the product of tech -- Tik-Tok being the most popular and least technically involving.
When books were first produced, the technical level needed to print them was not lost on the book's readers, even though it was not understood by them. Today, printed material is ubiquitous, and no one gives it a thought.
RE: Genz getting worse at technology use - pbrower2a - 01-20-2023
At some point, knowing how to use the technology is more valuable than knowing how to create its technological basis. Cabbies do not need to know how to fix a car. Computer programmers used to need to know some electrical engineering. Cell phones, printers, and even PC's are practically throw-away items. Example: any computer running on Windows 8.1 is approaching or has reached the witching hour when programs crash. Thank you, Linux, for sparing me the cost of a new computer!
I see 2003 as the most likely start of the Homeland Generation due to COVID-19 disrupting normal ceremonies of predictable lifecycle events in childhood. We have yet to fully understand the effects, as we have yet to be certain that COVID-19 is over. An Adaptive generation typically becomes highly effective at using such institutions and infrastructure already in place to a far greater extent than in creating them. (As with the Silent, this will be true in the formation of small businesses as working for someone will be more attractive than taking the risks of starting a new business). COVID-19 broke neoliberal assumptions that employers could get away with treating employees badly with near-impunity, sweating them under proletarian conditions even if they had high levels of skill and formal preparation for their work.
RE: Genz getting worse at technology use - dennok - 03-14-2023
When books were first produced, the technical expertise required to print them was apparent to the readers, even though they didn't necessarily understand the process. Today, printed materials are so commonplace that we take them for granted and rarely think about the technical skill required to produce them.
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RE: Genz getting worse at technology use - pbrower2a - 04-14-2023
Printing created the modern world, and with it came book-binding, an essential component in supplying books. Scrolls could have been used, but those were not in style. Movable type was of course a revolution of technology forcing cultural change. To be sure, the first book mass-produced was the Bible, which would seem the least-likely book to cause trouble -- until people started to read the Bible and conclude that that the clergy were wrong in their interpretations or that the clergy were corrupt. Yes, Jan Hus' theological revolution failed because the power structures of the time prevailed effectively enough to burn him at the stake, but such people as Martin Luther, John Calvin, Ulrich Zwingli, John Knox, and Menno Simons would succeed. So would what survived of Jan Hus' legacy. The Protestant Reformation was impossible without extensive literacy and cheap publishing. So was the Catholic defense of faith.
Before Gutenberg, any inventors had to beware the hazard of the witch-hunt. Gutenberg made the right choice, for the Bible was useful without being obviously troublesome. Next would come technical handbooks on mining and farming and the supremely-practical law books. The latter would make clear that sorcery was a damnable crime.
Neither printing nor bookbinding had a patent attached. Both printing and bookbinding went from magic to ordinary commerce... fast.