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Sometimes it's hard for me to imagine how the current teenagers, and people in their 20s apparently, grew up with what I always considered Web 2.0 technology an
by qprofyeh 3y ago
Sometimes it's hard for me to imagine how the current teenagers, and people in their 20s apparently, grew up with what I always considered Web 2.0 technology and smart phones — in my mind innovations of my time. They OTOH basically had internet/gps in their hands and pockets since birth. Social media equals internet and smart phones are the only phones they know.
Are they more fuelled to invent the next thing?
- xandrius 3y agoLook back and see who invented the previous Next Big Thing(s),that's often a good indicator.
- swores 3y agoNot sure that's helpful advice... as looking back confirms that previous inventors a) didn't have access to today's tech and b) did use the most modern tech of their era, so that's a point on each side of the argument. What exactly are you suggesting that looking back at will answer this question?
- xandrius 3y agoI think every "era" had a new piece of technology which the previous generation wasn't born with but a subset was both young enough to have and old enough to start creating something. So if now it's ubiquitous computing ans GPS (as the OP mentioned), in the past it could have been having a PC or even a computing machine at all. And next it could be having personalised LLM for every little thing imaginable.
- Jensson 3y agoPrevious generations what they grew up learning to interact with was also tools of creation. Even computers allowed you to create, so 90s kids grew up learning how to create the next thing. But today? Smartphones doesn't let you create anything except tiktok shorts.