Nepal, Feb. 12 -- "They're so out of touch."I hear it in the impatient, staccato sighs of Gen Z as they watch an older person struggle with a QR-code menu or pause, searching for the settings icon on a brand-new interface. To a generation that seemed to hear the chime of a smartphone in the womb and held a tablet as a toy before they could form a full sentence, we, the cohort born in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, look like digital immigrants who lost our maps in a storm. They see the graying hair and the deliberate pace and assume we're obsolete. They see a lack of instant proficiency and assume a lack of education.

They couldn't be more wrong.

The irony of this modern pity is that it's aimed at the most radical, rebellious, and adaptable g...