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So lets work on making the people around us more technical.

• jrm4 5y ago
  Hacker news is mostly a nice forum; but the fact that the above got downvotes is a perfect representation of exactly what's wrong with it.
• dredmorbius 5y ago
  Whilst I appreciate the sentiment, most plans based on the premise that "all the children are above average" can be true will fail. The Internet, WWW, and Google were once power-user tools. Global education has increased only modestly. The biggest change has been in lowering barriers to ease of use, including but not limited to the cost of tools. This isn't an unalloyed blessing --- the minimum viable user is both a blessing and curse: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyranny_of_the_minimum_viable_user/ https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyr...
• kyleee 5y ago
  Only if they consent though, many people do not want to be technical