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> Tech illiteracy of young people How do you mean? Do you mean as in they're all end-users rather than able to create things?
by taurath 7y ago
> Tech illiteracy of young people
How do you mean? Do you mean as in they're all end-users rather than able to create things?
- megous 7y agoPeople not able to type on a regular keyboard, because all they know is swiping.
- taurath 7y agoEveryone types in school though.. and takes notes on laptops.. no?
- megous 7y agoI'm just relaying what my gf that teaches young people told me. Some even told her that they'd prefer "typing" essays on a mobile phone, because their ability to use real keyboard is low. To me it's baffling, but I didn't grow up with a smartphone.
- chubot 7y agoI don't have a concrete prediction, but I can see it being a problem that lots of young people use locked down phones rather than an open-ended device (which usually has a keyboard and mouse/touchpad). Maybe in 10 years laptops will have transformed into tablets, with the same locked down app stores, and a keyboard and mouse will seem like an ancient relic. (I'm not sure if another input device will come along in 10 years, the way touch did with the iPhone). That seems too negative though. I think there could just as likely be a big new platform that means more young people are creating software than ever. Here's a concrete prediction: the tech stack may be stratified by age. That is, Gen X-ers will know C, C++, and Python; millenials will know JS, Python, and perhaps Rust; and millenial's children will be creative with something even higher up the stack.