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[-] amanaftermidnight@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The millennials are in the absolute worst position tech literacy wise. They had the boomers on one end and the zoomers on the other.

[-] oatscoop@midwest.social 14 points 1 year ago

My niece struggled with using a mouse when she was in middle school -- her experience with UI was exclusively touch screens prior to that.

The verge had an interesting article on this phenomenon

I'll add "it's not their fault". In the race to make technology intuitive and idiot proof we've removed the need to actually learn how technology works past a superficial level.

[-] max@feddit.nl 9 points 1 year ago

Very interesting! It’s something I just cannot fathom as a 20-something year old. Granted, I’m a software engineer, but I’m very much like the professors in the article. It’s just so intuitive to me.

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