Obviously the answers here might be a bit lower than other places…

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    1 year ago

    I don’t think the average baby boomer knows how to download an mp3 or play it on a smartphone.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, (wild estimation) 0.5% of boomers worked in various fields of computer science and were absolutely brilliant with what they accomplished. They built the foundations of everything that we used today, and enabled us to work at levels of abstraction that make our lives way easier.

        But still, the average boomer needs to call their grandkids over to switch their TV from HDMI 1 to HDMI 2. I’m being a little bit hyperbolic, but the boomers who didn’t work in tech spent most of their adult lives with virtually no exposure to the computing metaphors that younger generations understand implicitly.

        The difference between them and younger generations is that the average millennial grew up using computers, and so the average millennial had vastly better computer literacy.