Hey, @taskmaster4450.
This particular round of the coronavirus has had a significant impact on our lives, and it will only deepen the longer the virus hangs around and the lockdowns continue. With some states and places around the world trying to get out of it now, we're at a nexus point as to whether or not COVID-19 becomes another mark in history, or a game changing agent. I think people have a tendency to forget way before they should about things that don't end up lasting longer, and even with things that do, like the Great Depression, or WWII, at some point, maybe a generation or two later, maybe a bit more, the horrors and lessons of that period are forgotten, and somewhere down the line, the people of the new point in time find themselves right back where their great or great great grandparents were.
So, we'll see. As it is, I don't see my life changing that much, unless I'm forced to change it. Whether that will be the case is what I'm most concerned about, rather than the virus itself. There is the virus, and there is the response to it, and while the news media and leaders like to think of it as one and the same, it really isn't. And being able to make that distinction, when it comes to unburying ourselves from the potential damage the economic lockdown is doing, will determine what direction our country and world goes.
re: the technology people
I get where you're going with this, and I agree—each successive generation is able to pick up the existing technology of the time, and what follows it, quite a bit easier because they're growing up with it. There is no other way of doing it.
I don't consider them to be any more tech savvy though than their predecessors, considering that in large part, some other generation is involved in developing it for them. In fact, I could probably argue that many, if not most, of these newer generations know less about the technology simply because they don't need to. The technology does most of the work for them. The fact they can make their way around a device, in and out of apps, and find some use case for them, isn't quite the same, in my mind, as being the technology people.
Technology surrounds us. It's in everything we own, and in most of what we do. It's part of the clothes we wear, and the cars we drive and the houses we live in and the food we eat. Technology is much more than just some smartphone, the internet and a popular app. As I said, I'm not taking issue with the premise of these youngest generations being able to pick up something and use it. I'm just saying I look at technology as an ongoing thing that has been around for much longer. The velocity is faster than ever before, but at some point, most of these young ones will find themselves on the other end and falling behind the times just as the boomers and Xers are now.