Great Newsweek editorial defines the young adults of today as the "tech-support generation" who go home at Thanksgiving and patch their parents' operating systems and de-install their spyware. The related Slashdot thread catalogs the must-install apps, plugins and patches that you should bring home to the old folks to get them online.
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.
(via Slashdot)
