* Oh, but I believe it happens even sooner, on a subtler level
and a younger level as well.
Let's go to video games and GenZ. I have followers on Vine
that are young; (mentioned that before but I'm kinda proud
of these kids who like my presence or whatever).
Anyway, a lot of them have a strong interest in Retro
gaming. Their dads are still gamers. They have a "link to
the past". They grow their OWN interest in the past of video
games.
They tinker. Hack. Get an interest in retrocomputing, retro
programming, obsolete tech.
They teach themselves programming; current languages; JAVA,
LUA, first to hack their own features into games, then to
make their own programs, as well as retro languages, and
writing their own compilers, and even ASM. Not school
related. It's their own interests and passions.
Flash forward: they now have at least two generations of
knowledge under their belts - their own, plus a good portion
of their parents generation and perhaps even before, when it
comes to technology.
If they maintain that "present+past" window of knowledge as
they progress forward through careers, while SOME of their
comrades will be asleep at the helm, these guys stand a
chance of not only keeping the past alive and living in the
present, but creating and keeping with future tech as it
comes along.
That's why I don't worry about the future. I was and am like
that and I know a lot of these kids are too. There will be
enough intellectual capital to survive whatever future
brings us.
*The difference is: "boo hoo the past is gone" vs "let's
enjoy the past, the present and look towards the future
simultaneously".vs those just riding the wave of the present
and not caring about the future _or_ the past. They'll be
the ones that crash
*
