[xyrnoble]

I realize you were joking but "get of my lawn" is normally something that the rich say to the poor. In this situation it's the opposite. Also, I'm young enough to be in the "next generation" and, at least in my case, the GP is wrong. The previous generation assumes they can get lost in the noise. They imagine all our data flowing into a human machine for processing. They don't understand the power of machine learning and fail to grasp the degree to which this data will increasingly determine outcomes in their individual lives.

[hueving]

>I realize you were joking but "get of my lawn" is normally something that the rich say to the poor.

No it's not. A lawn is a very middle-class thing in the US. It is stereotypically an older person that spends a bunch of time keeping their lawn pristine since they have no small children.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_kids_get_off_my_lawn!

[bluetwo]

Exactly. The rich have signs that say "Get off my lawn"... The middle class have to get off the couch to say it.

[KGIII]

I'm not sure I'd make absolute statements based on arbitrary birth dates. Some of us have created the very things you use and are well aware of the implications. I'd also make no such assumptions based on someone being younger than myself.

[xyrnoble]

I didn't intend for my statements to be absolute. I could have thrown in some seem tos and generallys but I felt like the "at least in my case" covered it. I've spoken to older people who are very aware of what's coming and/or already here. It's just not the common case. I'm not making a hard assumption; It's more like a branch prediction.

[KGIII]

You may wish to edit your first reply. "The previous generation assumes..."

[xyrnoble]

It's too late to edit. If I could I'd change it to "the previous generation seems to assume..."