"young people just get technology in a way that older generations don't"
This is not true! The more you're accustomed to a technology the less you understand it. Teens have no f-ing clue how the internet works, how computers work. They don't spend weekends putting together a computer from scratch, and setting up a LAN at one of their friends house.
This is not a criticism, that's just how it is. I remember vividly getting my first VCR. When it was broken my dad and I were able to open it and somehow fix it up (to a point :), now who can do that?
The whole "they were born with it, they just get it" is a myth and totally backward, the more you take a technology for granted the less you understand it.
This is not true! The more you're accustomed to a technology the less you understand it. Teens have no f-ing clue how the internet works, how computers work. They don't spend weekends putting together a computer from scratch, and setting up a LAN at one of their friends house.
This is not a criticism, that's just how it is. I remember vividly getting my first VCR. When it was broken my dad and I were able to open it and somehow fix it up (to a point :), now who can do that?
The whole "they were born with it, they just get it" is a myth and totally backward, the more you take a technology for granted the less you understand it.