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user-inactivated  ·  4590 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: In which your parents are clued in to how different your life is from theirs

Something I think about a lot, slightly related, which I'd like your opinion on:

Do you think we -- the internet generation -- will understand our children, and break the mold? Has the internet exacerbated generational gaps, which to some extent have always existed, and split us with our parents in a way that's worse than it has ever been or will be? Has it, in turn, caused us to have the tech savviness to stay "in touch"?

My thinking is that we will understand our children better than we were understood by our parents. I think the difference lies in understanding new technologies, and understanding how to understand new technologies. We who use the internet do the latter almost weekly -- but our parents, grandparents, and so on dealt with new technologies much more rarely by comparison. The training that the "internet generation" has in picking up technological ideas will mean that we never get outstripped by our children to the extent that we have outstripped our parents. What do you think?