Digital aptitude is really just a willingness to try things with technology. Wanting to do something and so trying to make the computer do it until it does.<p>It's a mindset, and in my experience not one which is related to year of birth. My granny is in her mid nineties and loves computers - she plays around in photoshop, produces newsletters, uses the computer to do digital art, writes emails. She's always been that way - an early adopter of technology. Every time I see her she has a new kitchen gadget.<p>Contrast that to my grandparents on the other side - similar age, but completely different mindset. They both died basically having never used a computer. One real standout moment was when I was trying to teach my granddad to use a DVD player. The conceptual understanding required to equate pressing a button on the remote control and the moving selection box on the menu was missing - so even just saying "go down to 'play movie' and select it" was out of his understanding.<p>I see it amongst my generation as well - I'm in my early thirties and have always been a computer person - tinkering, installing new things, writing software, reinstalling my OS just because I can. But not all my "digital native" friends are like that. Some love computers, some tolerate them. Pretty much everyone can use an iphone, but not everyone is interested in exploring its settings to see what else it can do.<p>So our generation may be "digital natives" in the sense that I doubt there's anyone my age who can't use a phone (or understand that button presses equate to menu selections - although that may not be the case with touchscreens). But we're not a generation of techies. Most people don't care. Human nature doesn't change that much in a generation.