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Those Millennials won't save us, they will be the reason for our doom. Once the internet dies and the cell phones gives everyone brain cancer, how will these twits fix anything?

They are all manufactured personalities who would start to get the shakes without their gadgets. I can remember a time before all this tech and we seemed to be okay. We sure played more outside and read more inside. We walked 40 miles to school, daily, in the snow, uphill, both ways, without shoes.

Who am I to talk because I love my computer. I suppose if I had and used a cell phone or IPad I would fall in love with them too. I know if I lost my ability to get online that I would no doubt die. That's a good thing, right? See, I am an idiot and I am smarter than these kids. How can they save the world? Maybe by not destroying it because they aren't paying enough attention to it to see how it really operates. So the less they get their grubby mitts on the better. I think I am beginning to fall for this theory.

 

TIME’s Joel Stein — who has a few Millennial traits himself — examines the overwhelming negative data about Millennials and argues that rather than being inherently self-centered or overconfident, millennials are just adapting quickly to a world undergoing rapid technological change. They’re optimistic, they’re confident and they’re pragmatic at a time when it can be difficult just to get by. Those aren’t bad qualities to have, even if it means they spend too much time on their phones.

 

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