The "fundamental difference", in my observations, is a willingness to explore interfaces. I reckon it's because before computers, most devices were relatively s

The "fundamental difference", in my observations, is a willingness to explore interfaces. I reckon it's because before computers, most devices were relatively single-purpose, and had a limited interface that you were expected to either be already familiar with, or could get away with a very limited understanding of (how many people used more than 5 buttons on their tv remotes?). Wandering off the beaten path was either not possible, or likely to mess something up. Computers, on the other hand, are wildly more complex, and thus their interfaces need to do a lot more. Finding what you want to do involves some level of exploring the interface, which comes naturally to, say a child introduced to a computer, but grates against the learned behavior of someone who's only interacted with a much simpler world.