What made millennials trust technology?

[Bill the Piper]

(08-31-2019, 06:00 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: The Millennial Generation, unless growing up in extreme destitution or in a culture (Old Order Amish) that rejects technologies of entertainment has lived in the most technologically-advanced world.  Although the technology of the 1980's (like VHS tapes and VCRs) is often so obsolete that it hardly sells at Goodwill, even that was remarkable at the time. Much of what we consider technological progress is in practice doing more with lesser inputs of material; mass alone demonstrates the difference between a now-primitive 25" monitor TV that one can hardly lift and a 32" LED TV that one can handle easily. 

Technology makes access to entertainment far easier, and in a mass culture like ours that matters more than does the quality of what is on it.

So for millennials, technology = entertainment? Sounds plausible given what they write online I'm an Xennial myself, so I can partly identify, in 2003-5 I could spend hours watching bare-bellied girls dance on MTV music videos or playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
Older generations' fear of technology was about fears of mass destruction (Hiroshima) or totalitarian control (Big Brother). By the time millennials arrived, these fears have been shown to be exaggerated.