I wonder if a case might be made for aging societies versus younger, growing societies—or at least consideration of a age distribution within societies. I think it obvious that those born into technology will adapt very easily and will be much more disposed and able to digest the related innovation and changes related to state X they were born into.
The older generation has the option to keep doing what they were doing, not adopting the new technology (complain about cases of fixing things that are not broke and the newfangled way of doing things) and so be even more behind the curve or put off by the related innovations.
Societies exhibiting growing shares of the aged and declining birth rates/population (China, South Korea, Japan? perhaps some of the western countries but I’ve not seen claims there) might display the most challenge in terms of adopting and adapting to new technology, seeing what is really possible with it and building on it.
I wonder if a case might be made for aging societies versus younger, growing societies—or at least consideration of a age distribution within societies. I think it obvious that those born into technology will adapt very easily and will be much more disposed and able to digest the related innovation and changes related to state X they were born into.
The older generation has the option to keep doing what they were doing, not adopting the new technology (complain about cases of fixing things that are not broke and the newfangled way of doing things) and so be even more behind the curve or put off by the related innovations.
Societies exhibiting growing shares of the aged and declining birth rates/population (China, South Korea, Japan? perhaps some of the western countries but I’ve not seen claims there) might display the most challenge in terms of adopting and adapting to new technology, seeing what is really possible with it and building on it.