Re: Pearls Before Swine: Talking Technical with Young People

On 26/12/2024 08:40, Charles Packer wrote:

On Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:44:34 +1300, Your Name wrote:
 

On 2024-12-26 03:56:13 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:

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Pearls Before Swine: Talking Technical with Young People
     https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/12/25
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The technology changes are so great in just a couple of decades that
people do not understand how old technology worked.
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Lynn

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There are loads of YouTube videos of youngsters trying to use things
like a rotary phone, cassette tape player, etc.
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Then again, the same happens with every generation. Few adults know how
to use something like a spinning wheel or drive a horse-drawn wagon. :-)

 Is anybody else here old enough to have had grandparents born in
the 19th century? Theirs arguably was the generation to have
witnessed the greatest technological change. Neither of my two
grandmothers, from the Midwest, ever learned to drive a car.

That's partly cultural.*  But soon, no one will.
* Saudi Arabia permitted women to drive cars
only very recently.  The U.S. allowed women
to own cars, ah, quite recently.**
** Specifically to finance the deal.