According to this article, older workers handle transitioning to new software better than younger ones, largely because they aren’t so used to perfect/bombproof programs.
Duh.
Anyone who was in the field in the 1990’s, 1980’s or earlier has to marvel, sometimes, at how good software has gotten in genearl- at least until the realization hits that a whole lot of that gain has come from crippling the software, removing capabilities wholesale, and most particularly removing the capability to create anything with it aside from maybe short chatty messages, thus reducing all the users to passive consumers instead of opening paths to creativity… but that’s another rant. Mostly.
Still, younger people these days pretty much expect the software to be nearly perfect, and if it isn’t it wouldn’t occur to the vast majority of them to look for work-arounds or (heavens!) actually alter it, even if it is open-source… they just head back to the app store, pick something else, and post a gripe about the experience on Facebook. Again, all passive consumerism. We can’t really pretend to be shocked that an attitude based on just accepting or rejecting consumer-only software doesn’t actually produce much, in any venue.
Article (www.cio.com)
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