[ajford]

I wonder if that percentage of tech-savvy "elderly" is going up over time. I know I remember hearing that about anything computer related 20 years ago, but many of the people in the upper age ranges now lived with computers for a majority of their life.

My grandma is not tech savvy, but can follow directions pretty well. My spouse's grandma is tech savvy to a certain level and manages her own computer and photo library. I know either of them would likely be able to hold down a button and follow some set of directions to join a wifi and upload a file.

[mauvehaus]

25 years ago, we were all bitching about having to program our parents' VCR for them. In 25 more years we'll be asking a teenager how to get TikTok beamed directly into our brains like they're doing.

[gamacodre]

I am 100% sure I will never be asking for that.

Now, figuring out how to get a containerization platform running in there might be a different matter...

[pixl97]

Until the container gets rooted and people start asking why you call yourself Tyler half the time.

[bluGill]

I knew a few elderly who managed to program their VCR. I also knew a lot of young people who couldn't.

[no-s]

>I knew a few elderly who managed to program their VCR

I tease my wife about not figuring out email until 2005. Of course I date back to the era whence we had to run down to the data center and take turns on the operator console to send each other text messages.