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Back in the mid-90s we "young people" used napster to download songs to play at parties and took digital photos that were uploaded to a website for everyone to

Back in the mid-90s we "young people" used napster to download songs to play at parties and took digital photos that were uploaded to a website for everyone to laugh at the next day. People said "look at the youth of today - they understand technology. Follow the youth of today, they will show you the future." I thought that was right till I met other young people who had no idea. The real answer is follow the software literate. Follow those skilled, trained and working with / on software each day.

adrianN 5y ago
There are barely any jobs left where people don't work with software each day.
- lifeisstillgood 5y ago
  I meant (said, not emphasised) on. As in writing code. If you write code, you are in my view a digital native. You will try to arrange the world so it can be iterated over. If you can't write code you are just a consumer. If think we can extend this a little - my son is trying to make his own videos - at some point he or his peers will use digital cameras, sound, editing and probably the new "dynamic production" things like fortnites engine. This will transform tens or hundreds of thousands or millions of people from just consumers to producers in the same way blogs (and foss) did for newspapers. It's hard to draw a distinct line, because someone skilled in video production might not write software - but I would say it is safer to draw the line at "writes code" and be fuzzy than anything else.
- rjzzleep 5y ago
  Sure, but that doesn't make you software literate in the sense that the parent was talking about. I'd say even as a software programmer you can be just a consumer. Most developers are.
elliekelly 5y ago
There was a line in the post that gets at this and I wish it were explored more deeply: > most of what Digital Natives did with technology was related to consumption, not application.

adrianN 5y ago

There are barely any jobs left where people don't work with software each day.

lifeisstillgood 5y ago
I meant (said, not emphasised) on. As in writing code. If you write code, you are in my view a digital native. You will try to arrange the world so it can be iterated over. If you can't write code you are just a consumer. If think we can extend this a little - my son is trying to make his own videos - at some point he or his peers will use digital cameras, sound, editing and probably the new "dynamic production" things like fortnites engine. This will transform tens or hundreds of thousands or millions of people from just consumers to producers in the same way blogs (and foss) did for newspapers. It's hard to draw a distinct line, because someone skilled in video production might not write software - but I would say it is safer to draw the line at "writes code" and be fuzzy than anything else.
rjzzleep 5y ago
Sure, but that doesn't make you software literate in the sense that the parent was talking about. I'd say even as a software programmer you can be just a consumer. Most developers are.

elliekelly 5y ago

There was a line in the post that gets at this and I wish it were explored more deeply: > most of what Digital Natives did with technology was related to consumption, not application.