re: Why can't old people grasp technology?

My boss is old (in his 40s) and I have to show him how to do stuff all the time

You old folks couldn't make it without us millenials!

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generation of people who pride themselves on "doing it themselves"

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i wish i could tell people to just "google it yourself" without sounding like a total shithead.

My dad still rocks a flip phone. He didn't have a cell phone at all until 7-8 years ago

Have an 85 year old friend who has ipad , iPhone, and Alexa totally figured out.

I have no issue with a retired elderly person not grasping technology. I do have a problem with smaller companies hiring/keeping on board people who cannot use the programs necessary to perform their job.

My old job hired a woman in her 50s to replace me when I was promoted, and I had to spend 2 weeks training her because she couldn’t figure out Outlook. I can’t tell you how many people I encounter currently that have no idea what a Google doc is, or that scan me multi-page documents all in individual attachments, etc.

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You old folks couldn't make it without us millenials!

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None of my single friends in their late 50s, early 60s have any trouble finding women in their late 30s early 40s to date, while you have your nose stuck to a screen playing with some app they are hustling your wife or girlfriend.

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Why can't old people grasp technology?
Seriously, for a generation of people who pride themselves on "doing it themselves", I've never seen something turn them into whining, fit throwing babies like technology does.

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I'd like to see you get thru a strength of materials class or thermodynamics class armed with nothing but a slide rule.

Us old folks like to get right to the nub of the job - you pride yourselves in all the "'mother may I" procedural bullshite you learn to navigate on your way to not having to actually think about anything but the next menu option.

Remember it is us old 'dumbasses' that invented this shite for you. And we put a man on the moon using nothing but a computer with not much more computing power than your garage door opener.

Let the NorKs put an EMP over us and we'll see who is in better shape to survive - Hell, you wouldn't be able to figure out what day it is.

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Mid 40s.

Who do you think laid the groundwork, technologically, for all the technology you complain they can't understand?

Electronics used to be HARD to interface with. It continues to get easier for not only users but designers as well.

How many 20 somethings banged out code by popping registers in and out of an 8086 microprocessor?

I understand technology just fine, I'm just not in love with it the way younger people seem to be.

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I'll be 79 on Thursday. I worked at NASA coding a rotating drum computer in machine code back in ''64. I can still remember that "03 2345" meant to multiply the current contents of the register by the contents of storage location 2345 and place it in the register. Previous contents of the register were moved to a 'salvage' register so it could be used until replaced. The drum rotated at a speed that executed each priority instruction 20 times a second. If you needed it faster than that you had to code it twice, once on each side of the drum. It took four instruction cycles to execute a multiply - you could not do any other computation during that time, however you could perform boolean operations.

There were no 'compilers' for this - you got a printout of the computer memory in order to debug your program.

I'd like to see some of the current 'youts' cope with that thing.

That was the computer system that drove the Gemini Mission Simulator at NASA. Things started getting more advanced for the Apollo program, but it was all bare knuckles coding in machine language.

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My daughter invented a font when she was 5. 
160 IQ + 

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Which online IQ test did she take?