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Originally Posted by MMM
I didn't mean to sound condescending, I just think it is interesting an older person would ask younger people what the most important piece of technology you've seen in your lifetime, when it's the young people who should be asking the older person.
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I actually might have to disagree here. I'm not in any way discounting the fact that those who are older have literally seen everything rise in technology, but to say that someone who's younger should ask someone older may not be entirely accurate.
The older generation saw progression and rise of technology, but it's people in my generation who are thriving on it and pushing to find newer and better things. In this sense, we have a drive to understand how the technology works rather than accepting that it "just does."
Now that we're in an age where schools even enforce that students should at least have some kind of computer literacy during their compulsary education, students already leave school knowing email, basic internet browsing, moving files, writing documents, typing skills, etc. In my school years alone, I went from moving files with a floppy disk my freshman year to either using a usb drive or just emailing files by my senior year.
Cellphones were extremely rare when I was growing up; now I'm emailing, surfing the web, and everything else in the palm of my hand. You might say, "Well they didn't have phones at all." And I can say, "Well what's the difference between SMS and MMS?" or many other technological concepts that surpass even the principles of basic landline phones.
At any given time I'll have Photoshop, iMovie, the DVD player, Safari, iTunes, and Skype, and VLC running together simultaneously. I'm linked into every one of these programs and understand how all of the information works.
My point being, now that not only do we have the technology, as well as the resources literally in the palms of our hands, we can greatly expand upon what we actually know about technology and how it works.
And even if I don't know what something is, I'll just ping Wikipedia from my iPhone.