[CQ-Contest] Interesting Youth In Ham Radio (was Digest)

[Ria Jairam]

Question - do you actually interact with younger people? Or do you
simply look down on them?

I have the opportunity to work with and network with many twenty
somethings, and I know first hand that it's not really the exception.
In fact it has become kind of annoying that being tech savvy is not
unique anymore. But I digress.

But more importantly, they live in a much smaller world now with
access to more information. This in and of itself makes more
opportunities to learn. History? Geography? While you learned about it
on paper books that don't change and grow, they learn about it on the
Internet - with YouTube and wikipedia. Air travel to far-off places is
also a lot cheaper now.

Televisions are disappearing from homes, so they get to choose their
own information instead of being force-fed. There is also
collaboration on a scale we have never seen before. Certainly not
possible in your time, where even on amateur radio it was limited with
just talk rather than sharing rich content.

Point being, don't sell them short.

73
Ria, N2RJ

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Jim Brown <k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
> I beg to differ. Those you describe below are the exception, as were the
> techies in my generation. Yes, there are certainly those you describe, but
> the great masses of younger people have no clue about anything technical,
> nor even about anything of substance!  Yes, they're good at using their
> smart phones (and before that, computers) to do non-technical things. One
> big thing that has changed is that my generation learned a lot more about
> history, geography, and civics than our education system currently teaches.
>
> In short, I don't think much has changed in regard to their capabilities in
> the realm of science. The sharper folks in my generation put us in space,
> those in younger generations will take the world to places we have not even
> conceived.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
>  On 11/12/2017 2:21 PM, Ria Jairam wrote:
>>
>> With all due respect, I think you vastly underestimate today's youth.
>>
>> I work with millenials and I'm barely one myself (probably the term
>> Xennial is a better fit). They work long hours, they pump out code,
>> they work magic with a lot of stuff. To say that they don't understand
>> how computers work is inaccurate.
>>
>> Walk into Google, Facebook or any other tech outfit and you'll see the
>> level of dedication and competence.
>
>
>
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