If you're under 40, chances are you've no idea how to fix stuff.
Young people in Britain have become a lost generation who can no longer mend gadgets and appliances because they have grown up in a disposable world, the professor giving this year’s Royal Institution Christmas lectures has warned.
Danielle George, Professor of Radio Frequency Engineering, at the University of Manchester, claims that the under 40s expect everything to ‘just work’ and have no idea what to do when things go wrong.
She argues that they've grown up with factory electronics that they've come to expect will simply work all the time; inscrutable "black boxes", if you will. And when a component does fail, they simply toss it and go buy something new. You'd think that with their constant harping about Saving The Planet™ they'd be more interested in learning how things work and how to fix them when when they eventually stop working, but you'd be wrong.
Most of the hipsters don't even know how to open a computer to clean out accumulated dust. When it stops working, it never occurs to them that the circuits might be overheating due to the insulating qualities of that dust. So they just dump it and go buy a new one. It's probably why they like to store their data "in the cloud" rather than in, say, a backup hard drive.
Learning stuff takes time that they could be using to update their social media pages.