I noticed that Despite being on their phones 24/7 most 17- kids are not tech savvy to almost digital illiterate , what happened ?
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They never had to figure anything out... And if doesn't, their attention span probably just moves on to the next shiny thing.
At this point millennials should be able to teach their kids tech
Millennials: the generation that has to teach Tech to both their parents and children
Addicted to social media and and enabled by convenience apps
the smartphone happened
They only ever got the best of the UI. No backend needed.
It’s like getting a digital camera in your pocket. Why would you ever fuck with how film works, I can just take a picture and see it
Someone said that Millennials are the first generation to have to teach Tech to both their (boomer) parents and their (GenZ) children.
There's an analogy to Cars. Boomers grew up tinkering on cars, changing the oil manually, wrenching in the garage on a Sunday, etc etc... But by the time Millennials were driving, car technology just "worked", so while most millennials maybe have some vague awareness that there's a jack under the floorboard of the trunk, they've never changed a tire (and probably never will).
Same thing with Tech. Millennials grew up with personal computers that were "Beta" products: expensive, buggy, and slow. Lots of times you had to "hack" them just to make them work properly.
Now all of that's been ironed out, and most Tech just "works." Gen Z kids never had to install a sound card or upgrade their RAM, and they probably never will.
It is only now that we are starting to understand that there is only a small subset of Gen X and Millennials who are ‘tech competent’ and it is all downhill from here.
This is why we have to solve the most endemic and pressing problems of technology now, or else humanity is doomed to be entrapped and enslaved by technology.
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A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Steve Jobs laid the groundwork.
when the first iPhones came out I hated them. It felt like a parental controlled TV for kids. I couldn’t access anything, couldn’t tweak it , didn’t know what it’s doing in the background it felt like a phone for dummies , that was my impression , then I watched everyone get even dumber with tech from it , all they knew is how to tweak their social media , once you tell them anything even the settings they give you the fluoride stare confused
You can blame Steve Jobs
They slipped into becoming mindless consumption junkies
Buy your kids a raspberry pi before any other device and get that little tike to code
Less creativity. Better UX. More walled gardens.
My opinion is that in a not so distant past, digital technologies and the internet were things that the misfits (not everyone) used to flee from "reality". Today, those technologies have been appropriated by that "reality". It's now a gray medium without that love, passion and dreams it had in the past
it's because being tech illiterate is still seen as 'being cool'.
how many people proudly proclaim "im not good with computers" and then look at me like im supposed to complement them on that, is astounding.
followed shortly after by them being enraged that they cant figure out some problem with their devices or computer.
"it just works" happened, combined with app-centric OSes.
Technology now caters to everyone, not just geeks.
It must work, even for grandmas.
Hence, no tinkering is needed, and many times isn't even possible (iOS, for example).
What really stumps me is that people don't know or understand basic filesystem structure.
They don't know about files/folders any more, as is the paradigm on desktop, in contrast with app-centric OSes.
They know apps, with their content. Many don't care to have their files offline, saved on disk, back them up etc. They work with them in the context of an app, and assume the app will always be there with their files, notes, documents, photos.
UX was intact their enemy. Get them back into a DoS interface and see how they get on. 🫡🙌
Force them on FreeBsd
Hi sarah 😉🤟🏴☠️ Interesting observation! Is it possible that constant access to technology has led to more passive consumption rather than active learning? Maybe we’ve become so accustomed to convenience that we no longer need to understand the inner workings of the devices we use. But what happens when the world requires more than just swiping and scrolling? Are we setting up future generations for a rude awakening?
No free knowledge required anymore.
We’ll have a generation not able to think for themselves.
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Maybe they are not doing much besides passively watching short videos appealing to their lowest conscious aka "car crashes":
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Idiocracy?
There's a difference between using tech and understanding it- most people my age probably don't know that the internet is a physical entity connected by fibers and wires and powered by physical datacenters which host websites on physical servers. Heck, I didn't get that until a year or two ago. It's a consequence of being born with access to this stuff.
Technically illiterate decision makers and parents confused using gadgets to digital competency.
I'm a tech guy and there are no gadgets in my home. No gaming consoles, mobile phones, or recreational computers.
My eldest child just got their driver's license and so he now has a smart phone, but his time on it is limited.
I talk to parents and hear their conversations about this topic, especially when my kids were young. FOMO was a huge driver for parents to fill their kid's life with gadgets, and now the conversations are related to their kid's digital addictions (an emotional outbursts), as well as an inability to focus for more than a few minutes which the parents turn to medicating their kids with meth in order to counteract.
I find this to be so true
"Tech savvy" is a relative term. Not long ago people had never seen an automobile, now look at us.
They are purely tech and content consumers.