Imagine giving a child a rotary dial telephone and asking them to call someone. Priceless.
It would go as well as when in the early 90s I had to show a bunch of boomers how to use a mouse on a computer. I saw so many variations of failure despite me physically showing them how to move and click, even guiding their hand with my own. The best one was a woman who couldn't reach the upper-left-hand corner of the screen with the pointer because she had her massive ham-hock of an elbow firmly planted on the desk which made her mouse movement restricted to an arc. She couldn't reach the menu bar because it was outside of that arc. I kept showing her to pick up her elbow so she could move freely, but the bulk of her arm would continue to be drawn down to the desk as if gravity was 100 times normal there. She kept insisting the mouse was broken and I kept showing her that I can reach it. It was funny as fuck and I left her office and busted out laughing.
Another old guy would pet the mouse with his index finger instead of moving the mouse. He was ahead of his time since technically he was making gestures that an Apple Magic Mouse would recognize. It took him a good while to stop petting the mouse and actually move it around. It was hilarious and my coworkers didn't believe me until they got to see it for themselves. Aw yes, technology changes that are outside of one's own generation are difficult to grasp, but kids can at least learn quicker than old fogies when it comes to something different. Find me a kid that doesn't come out of the womb not knowing how to use a touchscreen.
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