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That probably indicates that many computer users prior to 2013 were using computers to get at certain key functions like chat rooms, IM, online videos, games, e
by api 5y ago
That probably indicates that many computer users prior to 2013 were using computers to get at certain key functions like chat rooms, IM, online videos, games, etc. Now that they don't have to use "computers" to get those things, they don't.
If you strip away that residue I would suspect that the number of true computer literate people has increased steadily since the PC revolution.
- Retric 5y agoMost people start becoming computer literate to do stuff, after that they can keep digging to understand more. If a tablet/smartphone/XBox just works then why bother with a PC? As such, I think computer literacy has probably dropped over the last 9 years as fewer people get started. Which in general isn’t a bad thing compare the number of people who know how to do even basic car repair in 2022 vs 1960.
- mostlysimilar 5y agoI feel phones are an inferior input device and their broad adoption at the expense of full computers (with keyboard/mouse) is a shame. Phones "just work" but phone screens are too small and touch keyboards too imprecise to do any long-form typing on it. I think the adoption of the phone as the most popular interface for the web has made the quality of software interfaces decline, and has made things like forums less mainstream, both of which are a shame.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 5y ago
- vannevar 5y agoYes, I'd bet that outside the office, the vast majority of "computer use" between say, 1998 and 2013 was for email and web browsing. That functionality moved to the smart phone, leaving mostly gamers and the computer literate as the remaining users.