Is it inevitable for the majority of people to become technologically

>>57537255
>Is it inevitable for the majority of people to become technologically impaired at least to some extent in their older age no matter what?
No.

When I was still in college I had a professor that was well within retirement age who was still up to date on the state of the art within SoCs and embedded development.

It's a matter of passion and interest for what you do.

Old people today were generally dismissive of the technology developments of the 80s and 90s, and when the boom of handheld computing devices exploded in the 2000s, they already had a huge knowledge gap that prevented them from catching up.

it isn't

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>civilization in 2066

>>57537255
Not as long as i remember the embarrassment of 2 years ago when i didnt know how to use anything computer related beyond MS Word basics because my family is shit and didnt let me have unsupervised (by them, i wasnt allowed to use a computer at school at all) computer access or any mobile devices beyond an ipod shuffle and candybar go phone until i was 17. I didnt even know how to use a web browser for fucks sake.

Thank god for those "for dummies" books. they are actually good for teaching the very very basics.

And no, i have no idea why they made this choice, they arent against tech at all, and it wasnt a religious reason, i just wasnt allowed to use a computer.

>>57537328
the internet desensitizes you man
i really wished my parents were more controlling of all the bullshit i saw up until 16 y/o
and I'm not talking about just porn either, I'm talking about all the morbid shit you find in sites like liveleak and such, I'm pretty sure I'm fucked in the head currently cause of it
Well, I've seen footage, and now I can't delete. it feels like jail

>>57537255
Are not all technology trends tending towards perfect human/machine integration? would we even need to learn new technologies in the future?

>>57537279
Fpbp, heaps of first posts blowing threads out of the water tonight

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>>57537371
>chronicles of a 14 year old who just discovered beheading videos

>>57537255
>>57537279
Really old people do have a harder time learning new things, so they tend to dislike change.
But we dont know yet how old people who lived a life surrounded by constant technological advances will react to new technology when they get old. I guess we will know when we get there.

I'm too old to be on this board

it's not that i'm inept, it's that I don't give a shit about twitter and all the nu-internet shit young people use

I'm sure people think I'm stupid because I don't know how twitter works. It's more like I'm incompatible

just as it's unfathomable to somebody like Billy Mitchell that CS:GO is better than Pac Man for lack of a better way of saying it. Doesn't mean Billy Mitchell sucks at video games, it means he's old

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>it's a "if it's new it's better" episode

Remember how digital messages between people in text used to be done with e-mail for free?

Now what do people use? Fucking SMS going over the phone infrastructure, at a cost.

We've essentially gone from something modern and efficient to a digitized version of a fax machine.

But yes, continue using your smartphone to send messages because it's "modern."

>>57537371
If you think that some fucking liveleak videos fucked you in the head youre just retarded and spend too little time outside.

Seriously, /g/

>>57537627
I'm sure you could learn Twitter if you spent <=5 minutes.

But then again you would have wasted 5 min.

>>57537371
As a kid I was never interested in seeing any sort of gore, so I couldn't be happier about that, but porn is another thing. I'm into porn since my early teens and by now I've seen anything that's possible, I think.

Now, long time after a scat orgy with tentacles, midgets and transsexual amputees impressed me for the last time ever I'm simply into softcore stuff with cute chubbies, feets and pantyhose, so I'm not really that damaged.

IN THE YEAR 2525

>>57537631
>digital messages between people in text used to be done with e-mail for free
>implying infrastructure of e-mail transmission was given for free
0/10
Even with Fidonet you had to pay for phone.

I'll try to understand for as long as I can.

I think as long as you're not a retard who dismisses everything you'll be able to understand

Older gens didn't really grow up with this kind of tech and I think it often scares them a bit and seems too complicated.

I'm 29 now and sometimes I feel like a GRAMPS about some tech though

Grandparents are fine with computer. They say that they've lived through the creation of personal computers, so why shouldn't they know how to use them?

[spoiler] they still can't into SMS though

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>>57537635
4chan fucked me up.

It's all about using constantly your brain to be able to learn new things: I see some of my older university professors being pretty good with new technologies. I think that most people just stop developing their set of skills after a certain age and become too lazy to learn anything that to them seems like magic. This does of course apply to everything, not only technology

>>57537631
messaging is free for me even without services.
not my fault you fell for the telephone, verizon, and applel jew.

>>57537665
>I'm into porn since my early teens and by now I've seen anything that's possible, I think.

Have you seen nepi hurtcore?

>>57537255
Our parents and grandparents grew up in a culture where dismissing new things was seen as a virtue, a matter of loyalty and integrity.

My parents still refer to computers as "american piece of shit" because they believe it's their patriotic duty to boycott anything made abroad. Something similar, but less extreme, happens to other seniors as well.

I met an old accountant once who told me that "kids these days" don't know shit about accounting because they use spreadsheets and not calculate crap by hand. He believes that doing calculations by hand is a part of who he is, and if he doesn't have that... well what good is he then?

That's the great divide between us and them. We don't see ourselves as tools, but as users of tools.

tl;dr older people are tools

>>57537255
The fun thing is that we may be one of the best generations for tech things, since we were born in the part of history when computing was still raw enough, but also inviting enough for kids to get into.

Right now the direction that it is heading into is into the "duplo mode", meaning that most technology is made by dumbproofing it as the first priority. Thus removing some of its raw nature.

No, they all just individually chose to give up and it became a personal meme for them, then later they just choose to say "I'm tech impaired"

Also, even if it were possible, that's perfectly fine as long as you GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE INDUSTRY. And stop wasting everyone's time, but they won't because they need money.

Replace tech with the phone, cars. How many years was it acceptable to say "I'm phone impaired" after it was out in the 10s, 20s, etc? or repeat the same thing with when they changed from rotary to a dial tone.

>hurr I don't understand these newfangled phones and am unwilling to learn, the old ways were better, but you still have to give me a job

bottom line is you need it to live nowadays and it will be at any job so it's just the same as saying I'm unwilling to learn how to drive or use a phone.

It's fine to slow down and not buy everything brand new and be just a few years behind the curve especially if what you have works. Once the boomers die, we'll have a second golden age of software in which you don't have to design it for the 1% of shits who won't learn anything. There won't be such a thing as "simple and advanced" buttons.

>>57537255
My grandfather built a his own custom loop with poo in loo fans and a case merlin or whatever those expensive as fuck cases are called. He's got a Titan X and will be upgrading to a 1080ti when it's released.

Only issue is he doesn't really game, he just likes messing with hardware. Guess it's cheaper than other hobbies.

If people are interested in tech they will learn