hmmmm
The disparity in age profile might have something to do with an attitude in HR/Mahogany row that, apparently, "they can't adapt to new technology"
The 50somethings have grown up with the internet as it expanded from its Darpa beginnings through dial up modems, ADSL in all its forms right through to FTTP; often they cut their teeth self assembling a ZX80 or 81 (OK or Altair, or Acorn Atom or Acorn System 1 or a Reasearch Machines 380Z - you know what I mean!) from a kit of parts; they know the excitement involved in opening the back of a VAX 11/750 whilst it is running and not welding themselves to the exposed 48V(?) DC high current rails; they have coaxed Novell Netware into playing nicely with Windows. They have made Windows 3.11 use TCPIP over a dial up connction and probably have several old machines, in semi-working order, propping up books which describe the fundamentals of networking, programming and hardware design.
Startlingly - to Mahogany row/HR - oldies may also have any or all of a Chromebook, a Nintendo Switch, a PS3, 4 and 5, a smart phone (either Android or Apple or both), a gaming PC that melts the electricity meter when running at full chat, WiFi controlled light switches, remote door bells and networked CCTV and a car that pretends it can drive itself...
Oldies tend know how it all works behind the scenes and have spent a lifetime adapting to new technology - why should being 50+ suddenly mean you are incapable of learning new technology? often you have an advatage because you actually do know how the now hidden parts work - back in the day things never JustWorked(tm).
Anyway - cos its the 1st of December, and I seem to have been ranting, have a pint
Biting the hand that feeds IT
