LITTLEJOHN

FOR years, baby boomers have been mocked for struggling with new technology. Millennials find it hilarious that oldies can’t tell their apps from their elbow.

In my case, ’twas ever thus. When we got our first video recorder, 40-odd years ago, I had to ask Brandon, the nine-year-old boy next door, to programme it.

But now, apparently, the Adidas Gazelles (this year’s must-have trainers, so I’m told) are on the other foot.

According to a new survey, young office workers are baffled by fax machines and photocopiers and are having to turn to older colleagues for help. It would be no good asking me. Although I’m reasonably adept on an iMac — unlike dear old Keith Waterhouse, who stuck to sit-up-and-beg typewriters to the bitter end — I still haven’t worked out how to use a fax, more than three decades after they were introduced.

No matter how hard I try, the paper always comes out white side up or the machine goes into meltdown.

Just as well that faxes are pretty much obsolete.

And from what I can gather, the only time a photocopier comes in handy these days is for taking a picture of your bare backside at the Christmas party.