My wife and I started talking about this after she had to help an old lady at the DMV figure out how to use her iPhone to scan a QR code. We’re in our early 40s.
They already are.
I recall seeing studies posted back on Reddit basically stating that since modern tech is (usually) easy to use and highly polished, young people simply don’t understand how the underlying tech really works. On the flip side, those of us who grew up having to set up comm ports and allocating extended RAM and set dip switches on computers kind of had to learn how all this worked or else none of our stuff would function. If you understand the basics then it is easier to deal with stuff when it goes wrong - it doesn’t become an unsolvable box of mystery.
I have much more faith in getting a problem resolved nowadays by a younger Boomer or Gen X’er who tinkered with some of the early computer tech from the 80s & 90s, than a Zoomer or Millennial who has only ever used iPhones and modern Macs.
Youngest Millennials are 25, so by nearly all metrics, yes they are still “young people”.
You do realize that millennials grew up without computers right as well? Millennials didn’t even have iPhones because that came in 2007, pretty much almost a decade after the millennial generation. I’m considered late millennial growing up in the 90s, and I can tell you I had to figure everything out. I grew up using IBMs and the first Mac I used was a iMac G3 and that was only in a private school that wasn’t used everyday.
I don’t think millennials will be worse at computers than the boomers in office. They’re already tired of learning new things and want life to go back to the way it was before.
