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I'm 22, and most of my "not tech savvy" peers and anyone I've met under 20 have zero concept of how most tech actually works. The pictures taken on your phone

I'm 22, and most of my "not tech savvy" peers and anyone I've met under 20 have zero concept of how most tech actually works. The pictures taken on your phone are not "stored somewhere", they are stored "in Google" or "in iCloud" or "in the photos app". Documents are similarily "in Google" or "in Word". There's no intuitive relation between photos and documents being the same thing on the filesystem, nor is there a concept of the filesystem at all. Generally, things jusr "work" (until they don't) and nobody asks any questions. Now, I would like to clarify that this isn't a "darn kids these days" tangent, in fact, it's the opposite: darn adults these days won't teach their kids how to use the computer! I would expect/really hope that when my generation starts having kids, computer literacy will start going up again. But for now, it's totally in the drain. With respect to developers... Most of them know a lot less than they should. This is also an education/incentives problem.

bossyTeacher 2y ago
> darn adults these days won't teach their kids how to use the computer! I would bet most of the greyhaired people on here as well as those who were born at the time of the personal computer revolution didn't have parents who were proficient in a technology that was literally just made available to consumers yet those kids learn to use a computer on their own at a time where there was no internet available to check. Why do kids suddenly need to be taught personally when they are the first generation to have the greatest amount of resources to learn how to use a computer available for free, in multiple teaching styles, multiple formats, at different levels of detail? I feel this is related to the helicopter parent mentality that replaced parenting styles from earlier periods
- Arch485 2y ago
  It ain't that deep. Back then, you had to understand the lower level concepts in order to use the computer... Nowadays, you don't. It's that simple.
  - bossyTeacher 2y ago
    Still an abstraction if you don't understand how each of the parts of the computer work. And that level of detail goes all the way down to the actual implementation of the logic gates. One who could also include how your monitor display work and the keyboard. Lower is not lowest.

bossyTeacher 2y ago

> darn adults these days won't teach their kids how to use the computer! I would bet most of the greyhaired people on here as well as those who were born at the time of the personal computer revolution didn't have parents who were proficient in a technology that was literally just made available to consumers yet those kids learn to use a computer on their own at a time where there was no internet available to check. Why do kids suddenly need to be taught personally when they are the first generation to have the greatest amount of resources to learn how to use a computer available for free, in multiple teaching styles, multiple formats, at different levels of detail? I feel this is related to the helicopter parent mentality that replaced parenting styles from earlier periods

Arch485 2y ago
It ain't that deep. Back then, you had to understand the lower level concepts in order to use the computer... Nowadays, you don't. It's that simple.
- bossyTeacher 2y ago
  Still an abstraction if you don't understand how each of the parts of the computer work. And that level of detail goes all the way down to the actual implementation of the logic gates. One who could also include how your monitor display work and the keyboard. Lower is not lowest.