My SO (born 1981, first use of computer 1999) left her job and started at university again in 2019. She now is studying with people born around the time she fir

My SO (born 1981, first use of computer 1999) left her job and started at university again in 2019. She now is studying with people born around the time she first used a computer. Watching from the sidelines I can attest the fact that nearly none of her fellow students know how to efficiently use search engines, digital knowledge repositories or stuff like pubmed. They also have a hard time working collaboratively in a digital fashion with tools like MS Office 365 or Google Docs. Her neice is the same. She is 18,still in school and has no ability to create a thesis in Word. TOC, headlines, footnotes, citations, footers, nothing. Either they never were taught this in school or neither her neice nor nearly all my SO's fellow students thought this to be a relevant skill. But. And here is the catch. Together with her there also started few other students around her age. They also never learned the skills necessary to efficiently navigate digital research and usage of Office tools. My SO learned these skills because of her former job as well as genuine interest in these things. So from anecdata I would not differentiate by date of birth. I would make the differentiation with the question if people used devices for producing stuff or "just" consuming stuff.