I've always thought of it in terms of knowledge and experience available at developing ages. Consider how babies/children so easily pick up tablets and smartph

I've always thought of it in terms of knowledge and experience available at developing ages. Consider how babies/children so easily pick up tablets and smartphones while their grandparents have a difficult time discovering any kind of functionality. Consider also that as these children mature (thinking teen years) and start to seriously develop their world view, they're exposed to a different slice of technology and ideas from us, many of which enable them far more than we were at our respective formative periods. Now consider that all of this is internalized almost totally. It is a core part of who this average person is; a product of their environment and technology era. This is what I think about when I hear about some 20 year old coming out with a major advancement in a field, or who built an app at age 10, or someone at age 24 built some revolutionary device. They've had the advantage of growing up with and internalizing and thinking and reasoning with a set of ideas and assumptions that we from different generations don't have. With a degree of freedom that we didn't have. Pair that with other arguments here (less pressure, more financial freedom, etc) and to me it seems like a very fertile ground for powerful and enabled ideas. Especially in the last decade.