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Bernice Franklin

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Just read the company the Red Cross contracted for the Haiti campaign took their main lessons learned in Europe to the US, as they are more advanced in this area. This is partly due to a public focus on creating GSM standard in Europe years ago, which allowed mobile phone companies to focus on the phone, and carriers on usage. In the US we let the carriers debate the standard (CDMA, GSM, etc.) for years and took a hands off approach. Now we have differing networks, and are slower as we have carrier gate keepers that control/feature cripple it here in the US as it needs to go through a review/brand cycle with the carrier, etc.

That has nothing to do with age, that is Public Policy and Region.

In this respect you could blame for USA phone companies and public policy, not life stage, for our regional disadvantage here. Now, finally, this being quickly addressed in the Valley with the iPhone and Nexus (notice both are on GSM?). But did see all the battles Apple (now Google) had with the phone companies. That took years to work through. There is a reason these phones are starting with USA carriers on GSM networks (AT&T/T-Mobile).

In fact, I would argue that a 45 year old with those qualities knows more about “new technologies” than a teen on it all day.

Moreover those teens without those qualities will have trouble later in life as the two are merging as critical professional skills.

Increasingly, you have will need to have both business and tech skills in the corporate world (Gen X was the “in between” era). Those who teens who don’t develop these, probably will start leaning on the technology “generational myth” as the excuse. Oh those kids!