This week's Newsweek column by Bob Stone chronicles what might be the single, unifying experience of our generation: fixing our folks gadgets. He calls us "Generation Tech Support":
Next week, millions of college students and young
professionals will head home for the Thanksgiving holidays. We’ll sit with our
families in warm, candle-lit dining rooms eating stuffed turkey, reminiscing
over old photographs, preparing holiday shopping lists and … Please. Let’s be
frank. We are going home to fix our parents' computers.
Forget the generational tags you’ve already heard, like Gen X and Gen Y. We are the Tech-Support Generation. Our job is to troubleshoot the complex but imperfect technology that befuddle mom and dad, veterans of the rotary phone, the record player and the black-and-white cabinet television set. Next week, on our annual pilgrimage home, we’ll turn our Web-trained minds and joystick-conditioned fingers to the task of rescuing our parents from bleeding-edge technology on the blink.
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