browsing reddit to understand boomer ux better and learned something counter-intuitive:

I broke my back lifting moloch to heaven. ntik.me

they don't build em like they used to rip

my grandfather (born in USSR in the late 40s) could fix absolutely everything. and for the things he couldn’t, he somehow always found a way to network to someone who would teach him. he was the talk of the town

something similar happened with cars in the past. Every dude in the US could repair a car at one point bc they ~had to. Now it's so rare that 99% of people don't need to know anything about how they work to live their life

decade+ old news, sadly. generation ipad was only given tools to subscribe, like and post.

We also need to be adjusting education accordingly - bringing back the old school sort of computer classes where you learn typing, basic programming and troubleshooting, etc.  Coding skills are good for more than just coding.

It’s true. Daughter can’t navigate the internet at all. 

Too goog post. Gospel.

my bro was born in 97 and is an absolute idiot when it comes to computers

Can confirm with my gen A kids...if software doesn't work they just walk away (they are teenagers) vs my instinct to fix it. Even my boomer dad tries more fixes than they do. Ironically it's the working software that stumps him more