Comments on: Generational Computing http://www.paulrjmuller.com/blog/generational-computing-20/ Digital is my Analogue Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:18:39 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Paul http://www.paulrjmuller.com/blog/generational-computing-20/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Paul Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:24:47 +0000 http://www.paulrjmuller.com/?p=20#comment-3 Hi Michael, I should have been more specific about the time frame I was talking about. Grew up with meaning the formative years from 6 -12, when a good deal of acculturation takes place. While Atari & Colecovision Came out in the late 70's they didn't reach a saturation point until 82'-84'. By tethered landlines I was comparing the Landline, home based phone to a mobile cell or car phone. I try to gloss over some topics and explanation to shorten the article, i won't do that nearly as much in the future. The video game timetable is a bit off, and I could have found a better argument. I was comparing the saturation of technology related youth pastimes between generations, based on access alone. Most people in their 40's i know adapted quite well to using technology, but take the number of people you know around 40 years old who shun or dislike new technology and compare that the same question framed to a 15 or 20 year old age range. You would be hard pressed to find a large population of technopobes at 20 yrs old today because of penetration of tech into their young lives. Good comment though Thank you! Hi Michael, I should have been more specific about the time frame I was talking about. Grew up with meaning the formative years from 6 -12, when a good deal of acculturation takes place. While Atari & Colecovision Came out in the late 70’s they didn’t reach a saturation point until 82′-84′.

By tethered landlines I was comparing the Landline, home based phone to a mobile cell or car phone. I try to gloss over some topics and explanation to shorten the article, i won’t do that nearly as much in the future.

The video game timetable is a bit off, and I could have found a better argument. I was comparing the saturation of technology related youth pastimes between generations, based on access alone.

Most people in their 40’s i know adapted quite well to using technology, but take the number of people you know around 40 years old who shun or dislike new technology and compare that the same question framed to a 15 or 20 year old age range. You would be hard pressed to find a large population of technopobes at 20 yrs old today because of penetration of tech into their young lives.

Good comment though Thank you!

]]> By: Michael http://www.paulrjmuller.com/blog/generational-computing-20/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Michael Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:56:06 +0000 http://www.paulrjmuller.com/?p=20#comment-2 The first part of your post I disagree with on the part "If the person is 40 today then they grew up in a world still dominated by black and white television, lacked video games and had tethered land lines." How many 40 year olds did you interview? I'm turning 40 this year and that is not true at all. 40 is a time when color tv's were not "cable ready", most video games were displayed in 8 and 16 bit like Atari,NES and ColecoVision. We also did not have only tethered land lines, we had cordless phones but you had to pull up the antenia first for better reception. The first part of your post I disagree with on the part “If the person is 40 today then they grew up in a world still dominated by black and white television, lacked video games and had tethered land lines.”
How many 40 year olds did you interview? I’m turning 40 this year and that is not true at all. 40 is a time when color tv’s were not “cable ready”, most video games were displayed in 8 and 16 bit like Atari,NES and ColecoVision. We also did not have only tethered land lines, we had cordless phones but you had to pull up the antenia first for better reception.

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