My experience of being the old guy in the team (older also than the manager) was that the young whippersnappers[0] drive new tech adoption regardless of the vie

My experience of being the old guy in the team (older also than the manager) was that the young whippersnappers[0] drive new tech adoption regardless of the views of the old fart; the manager waves it through to keep the young-un's happy, and the old fart doesn't find out until it's a fait accompli. My experience was also that the young manager was very suspicious of the old fart. I've never had any problem working for managers younger than me; but some young managers don't know what to make of a team member that knows more than they do. [0] No insult intended; almost everything I learned after the first 10 years, I learned from people younger than me.