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On 4/9/2025 2:50 PM, Schugo wrote:
> On 09.04.2025 11:20, News wrote:
>> In article <vt40bn$30egq$1@dont-email.me>,
>>     Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> wrote:
>> [Snippy]
>>
>>> We now have to teach Boomers and GenZ the basics...
>>
>>> ciao...
>>
>> Whoa! There........
>>
>> I'm a Boomer and while I can't comment on GenZ folks... I can comment on
>> Boomer time.
>> ...
> 
> hI!
> 
> It's not about the special geek/nerd Boomer/GenZ, it's
> about the average people in that age.
> 
> I have 4 boomers siblings (1957-1963) and I can tell you it's true.
> 
> They were kids/teens in the 60s/70s and there were no usable computers.
> Only the 1963 brother knows somthing deeper about computers, because
> he is a print technician. Even my 1957 brother who is a Dr. of Radiology
> didn't use a computer until 1998.
> 
> I grew up with late 70s B/W Pong consoles, then ATARI 2600, then C64,
> then AMIGA, then PC. 8-64 bits, 2400bps-1GBps BBS/internet.
> 
> 8 years younger makes a BIG difference between GenX and Boomers.
> 
> GenX Rulez! :)
> 

    There's a difference between understanding computers and
understanding how to use them. The "digital native" types are
not programmers. They're just accustomed to cellphones and
TV remotes. They're good *consumers* of tech.

    Most of the people who developed this stuff are boomers.
Your siblings are borderline. They likely don't share in boomer
sensibility.

     I didn't know how to turn on a computer before 1998. I
didn't have any use for one. But then I got curious. Even back
then, at the turn of the century, most people really had no use
for computers. They were for word processing and databases
in corporate settings. The PC craze was just starting. Computer
cellphones, with browsers and apps, have only been widespread
for 10-15 years. Most of the apps are newer. Cellphones
as a way of life has just recently occurred.

    I now write my own software, build my own computers, and
do a bit of web design. On the other hand, I've never used apps
to speak of and have no interest in doing so. It's a difference
between computer literacy and digital consumerism.

   I saw an interesting interview on Amanpour the other night.
(That's a PBS TV show. A TV is like cellphone streaming except
that you can actually see it.) A man was being interviewed
who was talking about his GenX buddies (later 40s and 50s).
I think he wrote a book, but I don't remember his name. (Boomer
memory, don'tcha know.) The man was saying that he felt
GenX was in the middle. Boomers had pre-digital careers. GenZ
and Millennials grew up with computers. But GenX got stuck
in between. He explained that writers, photographers, graphic
artists, media people, etc who he knew first got hit by outsourcing.
Now they're being hit by AI. A magazine staff writer has retrained
to be a psychotherapist, for example.

    So remember that when you lose your job: Plumbing and
psychotherapy are the dependable careers now. But plumbing
  is better because eventually we'll have fast-food-style therapy
done by AI. :)

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