I’m making broad generalisations I guess but I’ve heard and read (and been told, verbally by some teacher friends) a lot of anecdotes about computer literacy being super low among the younger generations. I’m early 30s and feel old - it sometimes feels like general interest in the inner workings of computers has been in decline for a while. Obviously on lemmy we’re in a massive echo chamber but out the in the normy world is getting more rare that I encounter anyone younger than me who is nerdy about computers in the way I was as a teenager. Even just owning a computer is getting less common I think. My theory is to blame smartphones - they meet most young people’s computing needs and aren’t as tinkerable as computers (for better and worse)
I’m making broad generalisations I guess but I’ve heard and read (and been told, verbally by some teacher friends) a lot of anecdotes about computer literacy being super low among the younger generations. I’m early 30s and feel old - it sometimes feels like general interest in the inner workings of computers has been in decline for a while. Obviously on lemmy we’re in a massive echo chamber but out the in the normy world is getting more rare that I encounter anyone younger than me who is nerdy about computers in the way I was as a teenager. Even just owning a computer is getting less common I think. My theory is to blame smartphones - they meet most young people’s computing needs and aren’t as tinkerable as computers (for better and worse)