who has/would adapt better.

[darren]

IVE BEEN thinking about this for a while so i thought id startthis thread.

Who has/would adapt better.
Kids now to the stuff we had technology etc.

or us in our thirties and older to he new technology of say the last fifteen yrs.

[80sChav]

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This is a great thread Darren. It is not easy to call at all, it could be people in their 30s I think (as i've self trained myself through College) as to Technolgy (typing etc), but I know there are also some Computer Whizz Kids out their Today, there was a friend at College 2 years younger than me who claimed to be one (but he wa a bit of a Walter Mitty Typed Fantasit) though.

I think I acn only call it a 50/50 call as some peoplee in their 30s and 20s are good at Technolgy but some poor, just like today. I know a friend from School, who has only just learned enough to gey by with Computers and the Internet, but i'm sure She is happy with it now with what i've told her about the Internet etc.

[victorbrunswick]

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I'd have to agree with 80sChav that it's a tough call. On one hand kids today seem to have little or no concept of things like dial phones or phonograph players as well as almost anything mechanical. But on the other hand these same kids, when it comes to today's technology, run rings around us (at least those of us who were born before 1975). They seem to know this stuff backwards and forwards like no one else's business while I still find much of it totally incomprehensible. Heck, I'm amazed that I've gotten this far!

[stud1al]

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and THEIR kids'll run rings around THEM.............................................. ...............................................I am not worried about how they would adapt to technology.I am more worried about how they adapt to learning some manners

[Sly]

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The young ones are not adapting to anything, they are learning about what is around them. The only people adapting are the people that went before. They will adapt when their technology for the years they were growing up gets replaced.

[Heather74]

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I think Darren means how would today's kids cope if they suddenly only had the technology we had in the 70's/80's

Take away their PC, ds, xbox wii,mobile phones and give them a game of pong, a zxspectrum and a landline! Heck I don't think even I could cope for more than a week, not having known todays technology

[Sly]

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They'd probably cope in the same we we did when they brought out all the stuff we have today. There'll be a lot more mechanical stuff, but I'm sure they'd be fine with it one they had a clue how it worked. Discrediting them as idiots because they can't work old tech is like them discrediting you for not being able to use new tech. In many cases most new tech is easier for us to use. Need I remind anyone that you once needed a computer degree to work one of the things?

[Heather74]

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They'd probably cope in the same we we did when they brought out all the stuff we have today. There'll be a lot more mechanical stuff, but I'm sure they'd be fine with it one they had a clue how it worked. Discrediting them as idiots because they can't work old tech is like them discrediting you for not being able to use new tech. In many cases most new tech is easier for us to use. Need I remind anyone that you once needed a computer degree to work one of the things?

Quite the opposite I think the stuff from the 70's/80's would bore them to tears in seconds! They have known far better, complicated , and challenging things.

[Sly]

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I wouldn't say new tech is challenging though. What's challenging about carrying your phone with you, your music (as in all your music) and your game collection today? In many cases one device will do that now. Back then you could fill a 3 bedroom house with all that stuff. Apart from the phone, that was usually shared.

[Heather74]

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I wouldn't say new tech is challenging though. What's challenging about carrying your phone with you, your music (as in all your music) and your game collection today? In many cases one device will do that now. Back then you could fill a 3 bedroom house with all that stuff. Apart from the phone, that was usually shared.

Yeah I agree, so it would actually be harder going back to the basic stuff after owning all the wonderful stuff you mention

They could wind a camera on with ease but imagine their horror at having to do so and not instantly seeing the picture they had just taken.
Imagine them having to wait for the tv to warm up before they could watch Ben 10

[Sly]

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Yeah. Plus having only 3 or 4 channels on a TV that weighed more than Geoff Capes.

[darren]

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to be honest i have found it very tough to adapt to the newer technology,after many yrs im still struggling.

phones are far to complicated with so many features on them.

i think kids of today would adapt to the stuff from my era far easier than i have to todays technology etc.

[80sChav]

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Yeah. Plus having only 3 or 4 channels on a TV that weighed more than Geoff Capes.

True, but thing's were different then in terms of TV. There was Video shops etc too and other Technology that was deemed marvelous (and rightly so at the time)
So in a way it's a generation lost in space I think.

[victorbrunswick]

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I think what makes much of today's technology incomprehensible to us (again I refer more specifically to those born before 1975) is that compared to the technology that existed in our time, there are "no moving parts." Instinctively a part of us wants to know the literal nuts and bolts of how something works than just an abstraction -- we want to know why when we press the button it does what it does. Even if you've spent the majority of your life in a cave and had never seen any of these things before, I should think that the inner workings of a car is far more readily comprehensible than that of a computer or mobile phone with its mysterious "little black boxes" that we trust perform the high-tech miracles of which we are accustomed to today.

On an interesting note, from 1957 to 1987 my dad worked for a large aerospace firm in what would today be called the IT Department. Back when he started in the '50s they had the monstrous room-sized computers with about as much capability as a £1 calculator today and when he retired thirty years later the first generation of the computers as we know them were just coming into widespread usage.

[victorbrunswick]

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Yeah I agree, so it would actually be harder going back to the basic stuff after owning all the wonderful stuff you mention

They could wind a camera on with ease but imagine their horror at having to do so and not instantly seeing the picture they had just taken.
Imagine them having to wait for the tv to warm up before they could watch Ben 10

Yes, Sunshine, you've got to take it to the Photomat to be developed. What's a Photomat??? Or having to get up across the room to change the channel! What? No remote??? When I was growing up only the high-end TVs had remotes.