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Sure. In 1984, 37 years ago, a whopping 8.2% of US households sported a computer. So yeah, ubiquitous indeed. Younger people tend to be more open to new things
by _0ffh 5y ago
Sure. In 1984, 37 years ago, a whopping 8.2% of US households sported a computer. So yeah, ubiquitous indeed.
Younger people tend to be more open to new things and less set in their ways, which certainly makes a difference in this case. Note that I'm again not talking in absolutes, but about matters of tendency. Naturally, in the individual case all things come down to opportunity and choice, but it seems curious to deny the statistics of the matter.
- mindcrime 5y agoThe presence of a computer in the home is not the only measure of the prevalence of computers in society at large. I'm not ignoring anything. I was there, I lived it. And I know that being 66 is no excuse for lacking technical knowledge. It's willful ignorance, not a byproduct of happenstance. Younger people tend to be more open to new things and less set in their ways Even if that were true - and that's a pretty dubious claim, IMO - it does not necessarily follow that ... certainly makes a difference in this case.
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- _0ffh 5y ago> I was there, I lived it. Yes, so did I. I find it curious that we seem to remember that period so differently. I can easily find sources saying things like "between the ages of 25 and 60 people's ability to use websites declines by 0.8% per year", that's 28 percentage points difference in the ability to use a website. But I'll stop arguing, it doesn't seem very promising at this point.