Gone are the days when Computers are considered as Office-Equipment only.Having some knowlodge about Computer and having one at our own disposal is not longer a status symbol to atttract awe and attention.Lets admit it..Computers are one among many of the necessary items . Even a dingy one-room office with 3 staff will have a computer to keep track of the little activity they have.
One more such gadget is the “Moblie Phone”.Its no longer a luxury to be having a mobile.It is diffucut to ign0re “oh-you-dont-have-a-mobile-number” look.Though the handsets vary in price from that affordable by the CEO’s and those in possession by rickshaw-wallas, milkman ,or for that matter even your local roaming-in-cycle vegetable-vendor.
I am not going to continue on how useful / useless these gadgets are.I am more intrested in sharing my opinion on what various generations think ig these gadgets.(Here I am sticking to only Computers and mobile phones)
GENERATION – T (T – Terribly Traditional)
They belong to 50-75 yrs of age For this generation all the gadgets are the same.Their generalised opinion is …. its some electronic thing that belongs to my son/grandson … i dont venture to handle these things..what if i break it or
render it un-usable by pressing some wrong combination of those buttons…moreover.. i am not intrested in all these trendy-flashy-fancy things. They just seem to as sheer waste of hard earned money. one slip by us and it costs a mountain to
get it repaired…blah..blah..blah…. (over the days when these things were not freely available as of now)….
GENERATION – CC (“Cautions & Caught” between Traditional and genX)
They belong to 30-5o yrs of age
This is the “CAUTIOUS” generation.I pity them so much as they are CAUGHT between Techno-phobic-parents and Techno-centric(perhaps even techno-manic) -children .
Their opinion would be….hmm.. so how much does this gadget cost ?..(cost is prime concern..functionalities are just secondary)
Now the difficult part of convincing the Gen-T (ie parents) explaining why the gadget is worth the cost and conving the Gen- x (ie children) requesting them to take time and teach them how to use the gadget effectively and also request help on any Trouble-shoot conditions.
GENERATION – X (Techno-centric cult)
They belong to 0-30 yrs of age ( I belive, a new born’s first toy is his/hers parents mobile)
This is the “Bindaas” generation.Cost in immaterial…features and functions are not-compromised for they have their fundas innplace.Any troubleshoot with the gadget “Alt+Ctrl+Del” will solve all problems.
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I promise you will not be dissappointed………….
chao……………………………………..
very good knowledge about generation gap but ……………….
what about nowdays kids. how they look at older generation
good research on gen next
what about kids view point
how do they see the gap
Thank you very much.Please do read my immediate post “Generations Bridged”.
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