Originally Posted by
Porcell
Don't worry, before long we'll have "high technology" old people. My parents are right around 60 and they are pretty in tune with technology. Hell, they have more computers in their house than I do. They both have a desktop in their respective offices, they both have a laptop for the livingroom (do to mostly work / ebay related stuff, my mom runs an ebay store), and then my dad also has his work laptop. The "Nintendo Generation" is right around the low-mid 30s now. I know my friends and I joke about sitting around the retirement home playing video games.
But mainly it's about what you've lived with your whole life. If you lived the first 50 years of your life without a computer, you aren't going to put a lot of effort into learning what to do. Hell, I work with some of these people, older engineers who stumble around in Excel. But young adults these days, given the mentality of technology, I can see them growing up and easily picking up all the new tech. You have 2 year olds playing with iPads, but you have 40 year olds just as easily playing with those iPads. In 20 years when "Electric Sheet Paper" or "Hologram Glasses" come out, I'm sure that 50 year old me will be all about that shit too.