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ArishMell · 70-79, M
I do not think that at all.
If I were to, it would be because we are forever being told it is so by glib politicians and ignorant journalists.
Worse, the word "technology", coined decades before programmable electronic computers were even possible, is so loose and ill-defined it is really a non-word that could be applied to anything the least bit technical. Indeed, that was its original intention: a short-hand for any almost any form of engineering.
I assume here you mean anything involving computers and telecommunications, but the age aspect is a myth. Perhaps it is generated or at least spread by gossip-column types who want us oldies to keel over and leave the world to those Bright Young Things living by their Artificial Indolence!
There are plenty of people in their eighties happily using computers and "smart-'phones".
There also people in their twenties who struggle with such equipment, some perhaps by being unable to afford it.
Older people are more likely to have a very broad range of technical knowledge and practical skills to levels many young people now lack because they are not taught such knowledge, or imagine it needless..
If we keep only to "IT" many older people have grown up with it privately or professionally since the days of Microsoft MS-DOS. Or even before that, when you had to understand computers and programming to be able to use them for relatively simple mathematical and filing work. (My first brush with computers was at work, in the days of MS-DOS and writing our own programmes in BASIC.)
Merely being able to use a so-called "smart"-'phone, have a social-medium account or find train time-tables and buy groceries on the Internet, does not make you "tech-savvy" to use one the tackiest slang-words devised.
That only means you can use the instrument and services. Can you also create a spreadsheet containing formulae and graphs, write a document to more than scrappy memo level, operate a photo-editing or CAD programme reasonably well?
The real "tech-savvy" are those who can create complex databases, write programmes at code-level, design the electronics.... but even if they were users rather than makers, there are now many people who have retired from long careers in front of keyboards and screens.
Besides, being weak at using a computer or "smart-'phone" does not necessarily mean you are ignorant of "technology": you might for example be an expert carpenter, metalworker, car-mechanic, electrician... all "technological" skills.
If I were to, it would be because we are forever being told it is so by glib politicians and ignorant journalists.
Worse, the word "technology", coined decades before programmable electronic computers were even possible, is so loose and ill-defined it is really a non-word that could be applied to anything the least bit technical. Indeed, that was its original intention: a short-hand for any almost any form of engineering.
I assume here you mean anything involving computers and telecommunications, but the age aspect is a myth. Perhaps it is generated or at least spread by gossip-column types who want us oldies to keel over and leave the world to those Bright Young Things living by their Artificial Indolence!
There are plenty of people in their eighties happily using computers and "smart-'phones".
There also people in their twenties who struggle with such equipment, some perhaps by being unable to afford it.
Older people are more likely to have a very broad range of technical knowledge and practical skills to levels many young people now lack because they are not taught such knowledge, or imagine it needless..
If we keep only to "IT" many older people have grown up with it privately or professionally since the days of Microsoft MS-DOS. Or even before that, when you had to understand computers and programming to be able to use them for relatively simple mathematical and filing work. (My first brush with computers was at work, in the days of MS-DOS and writing our own programmes in BASIC.)
Merely being able to use a so-called "smart"-'phone, have a social-medium account or find train time-tables and buy groceries on the Internet, does not make you "tech-savvy" to use one the tackiest slang-words devised.
That only means you can use the instrument and services. Can you also create a spreadsheet containing formulae and graphs, write a document to more than scrappy memo level, operate a photo-editing or CAD programme reasonably well?
The real "tech-savvy" are those who can create complex databases, write programmes at code-level, design the electronics.... but even if they were users rather than makers, there are now many people who have retired from long careers in front of keyboards and screens.
Besides, being weak at using a computer or "smart-'phone" does not necessarily mean you are ignorant of "technology": you might for example be an expert carpenter, metalworker, car-mechanic, electrician... all "technological" skills.