>>110574388While it's always been this way, new thing bad, old thing good type mentality, boomers are more crippled by the technology because it's merely the anger of not having it before anyone else.
Think about it- if you went back in time with, say, a Nintendo 64, a black and white box TV, only the barest pieces of modern entertainment, and walked up to some kids in the 1960s and showed them what the future had, you'd get enough money out of probably every person in town to built another time machine.
Boomers always wanted that technology, it was promised to them in the Jetsons, in Star Trek, in every piece of futuristic media out there. It was going to be theirs, the digital library, the robots, everything.
But, by the time these things were coming out, boomers were too old to fully have the enjoyment of them. How does this computer work? You don't have time for that. There was even that one guy who though the Internet would have as much impact as a fax machine, and everything will be the same. So imagine their surprise when the Internet starts taking over, and you have no idea how to use it. And you're too old to fully enjoy it, leaving your kids to reap the full benefits of modern technology.
To boomers, the future they always dreamed of is here. They just never got the manual for it.