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Upvoted, because you have good points, but... >> Younger generations understand less tech than older generations, although they use tech more than older genera
by ghoward 5y ago
Upvoted, because you have good points, but...
>> Younger generations understand less tech than older generations, although they use tech more than older generations.
> That's an interesting premise but I don't know how true it really is.
An article came out recently about that: https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-direc... .
- Silhouette 5y agoThe contrast in that article is very much what I mean. Kids are not using files and folders today, they don't understand what is going on under the hood the way many of the previous generation did because they have never had to. But when it comes to navigating Insta, grandpa had better take a seat and watch the experts. There has definitely been a loss of capability and effectiveness in one sense (and that is a very serious concern, just not the one I'm talking about here) but in another sense the kids are very naturally navigating things like social networks and phone apps in a way many of their elders find similarly unintuitive. I think Big Tech challenges the assumptions modern kids make about how their devices should work at its peril.