A few days ago, the Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV saw a Colbert skit on an apparent report that Gen-Z's forming a taste for "vintage" tech. TSV thought long and hard as to how Gen-Z could know that old tech -ever- existed, because their only information source would otherwise be their smartphones. TSV is also sure that big tech would constrain their algorithms to not include mention of any media tech that existed before 2007, so TSV would think that any search results that a Gen-Z would see onscreen would either disinclude the tech they were looking for -or- display a blurb that says they shouldn't be interested in anything old because One Thing Shall Replace Another. After all, big tech is -terrified- at the prospect of having the old and the new exist together side-by-side. Not only is it a form of competition, but big tech wants to have a -mental- monopoly and not just a monetary one. They're worried about losing social power that TSV still sees them as hoarding dictatorily. So he's trying to figure out how Gen-Z could have ever found out about older tech, and it occurred to him that one thing grownups don't understand about young people is that at least a signficant minority don't value their phones as much as their gaming consoles and gaming laptops. As for the latter, TSV gets the impression that gaming laptops can also be used like ordinary laptops, kind of like before there were smartphones, so big tech's constrained algorithms would have no effect, because they're not searching for info on old tech on their phone as much as on their gaming laptops. That's why contrary to the impression that Colbert's report might leave, TSV's 80% sure that maybe only 20% of Gen-Z would care about old tech, because that's the 20% nerd slice. You got to be a "nerd" in order to show interest, so TSV's pretty sure Gen-Z isn't going to be sexting using semaphores any time soon.