How different age groups react to new technology

[Dorsetmike]

This is an interesting quote by the late Douglas Adams, I wondered what the forum would make of it...

"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."

[MattJ]

Actually, new technology is getting boring.  It's always slightly improved versions of existing things.  I want to see something jaw-droppingly NEW.

[Newportnobby]

I can go along with 1. and 2. but would probably make 3. "Anything invented after you're fifty............."
Just my twopenn'orth

[port perran]

I can go with 1 but the other two are less precise.
I still think new technology is great and exciting (at 59) but I do get exasperated with so called major upgrades to existing technology which are billed as "groundbreaking" but are in fact minor tweaks designed merely to make people part with their money.

[sparky]

You have all missed 4... "At any age DCC is sometimes utterly baffling"

[Chetcombe]

 

You have all missed 4... "At any age DCC is sometimes utterly baffling"

[Bealman]

Good one, sparky! 

[Mustermark]

You could debate what age applies to each, but I think it is kind of true...

I'm 50 and I bl**dy love all this new fangled technology. I think it's great fun.  But that fits perfectly with Mr Adams' theory when you consider my mental age is about 12.

[Greybeema]

But it's not just about the tech.  It's how it is applied. 

Eg 3D Printing.  Great tech but if you consider that a widget is needed in the States and is supplied from Europe.  Rather than manufacturing the part in Europe and shipping it over, the part can be emailed and manufactured locally...  Delivery by email....

Now that's tech... 

[Dorsetmike]

This is a bit of an eyeopener


https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gdSHeKfZG7c

[Newportnobby]

Bit scary they know what Tazers and bombs look like

[MikeDunn]

Bit scary they know what Tazers and bombs look like

They were Tazers & bombs !!! 

I thought they were old tech ... !!! 

[Agrippa]

At least I now know that the French word for a mouse  is the French word for a mouse.
If you get my drift.

[mr bachmann]

technology ? well my car has grease nipple's , manual starting , one puts oil into the petrol , the hood is raised and lowered manualy , the traficator switch is clockwork , heating is provided by a travel rug -
all this is done manualy and it never fails .


alan

[Kipper]

I am 64, and just love all new technology. I can sit and look at it all day. I just need a younger person to show me how to switch it on!