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I'm going to swim upstream and say that age, in and of itself, isn't a problem, but complacency and self-satisfaction are. You can be 80 and learn something new
by msla 6y ago
I'm going to swim upstream and say that age, in and of itself, isn't a problem, but complacency and self-satisfaction are. You can be 80 and learn something new if you really want, assuming no mental problems, and you can be 20 and think you know everything there is to know and be resistant to learning.
The subsidiary problem, which can be remedied as long as the people want to learn and think they aren't too good to learn new things, is familiarity: It is hard to know what regulations will mean in a practical sense if you leave all your social media accounts to interns and suddenly have to bootstrap your way up from email all the way to Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and Instagram.
Being old can be a handicap when learning about technical fields, but the old have no monopoly on smug, self-satisfied idiocy.
- spfink 6y agoAbsolutely, I was referring to age more as it relates to the shape of the world and technology as they grew up rather than purely a hit against mental capacity (though for some members of Congress it's definitely both). For example, Orrin Hatch asking Zuck in 2018 how they make money makes you assume that he doesn't use Facebook. Pretty sure anyone born in the last 30 years could immediately tell you that it's through selling ads. The younger generation has grown up as big tech has and has a better understanding of the control and influence of these companies on their day to day lives that the older generation doesn't always understand.
- amelius 6y agoI think age matters not because of technical abilities, but instead because the age group that is active on FB is different from the age group representing them in those hearings.
- ivalm 6y agoFB has A LOT of old users.