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"I'm a baby boomer and am the complete opposite. It has been my experience that age (young/old/middle) makes little difference in whether a person is mechanically inclined, so to speak."

That may be true, UCANSEE2. Here's the reason for my commonly stated assumption that more younger folks are more technically inclined. I live on the CO Rockies and am the only technically inclined Baby Boomer for many miles.

A few of the young people here are the only ones who show any desire to learn a technology or get their hands dirty (necessity), even though there are no vocational/technical schools for useful technologies (building houses, hot rods, machining, etc.). The community colleges only have programs in regulatory and social troublemaking. How many of us Baby Boomers have recently swapped or rebuilt a transmission or engine, done some welding or building construction?

Most of the people my age or older are employed by local government or retired with government or government-derived pensions (government-derived: e.g., government contractors). They spend their time indoors, manufacturing gossip to make trouble for others and most likely smoking pot.

The situation might look very different in some of the other parts of the country, where fewer Baby Boomers have good retirement prospects or where local governments don't listen so much to neighborhood NIMBYs (the "not in my back yard" folks).

But then look at the prospects for employment and income for many of the younger folks. Many more of them may soon be in situations where they'll repair and build or else.