My grandmother was a wizard, she forged clothing out of thin air using nothing but string and metal thumb-cap, taught to her wordlessly by the ancient ones. When a fabric would tear, she knew all the methods to seamlessly patch it up again.

My father was a wizard, he built enchanted automatons that could carry and go using metal implements, learned from reading ancient texts. When an automaton would break, he knew how to diagnose the problem and jerryrig a solution with existing parts.

I'm a wizard, I cast elaborate spells on cursed devices to funnel digital analogs of ancient texts into knowledge, learned from reading and responding to ethereal texts floating in the daedric plains. When a device gets corrupted, I know how to rescue it with the right enchantments and fortify it against further temptation.

My daughter will be a wizard, she will cast simple but powerful spells on the ever-present aeric cubes that will shape her reality, as learned by being raised by the voiceless ones who contain the sum total of all knowledge.

I've noticed that the younger generations have almost entirely been raised with Tablets, which are largely do-it-for-me devices. They don't have to troubleshoot or fix any issues, and the device takes care of sorting and organizing files and apps. Many of them have never used a mouse & keyboard, and rely on touchscreen interaction.

I think millennials have a very special position. We grew up with computers but it was during the rougher times. So they had to learn more about how things worked. Then came the easier stuff (smartphones, etc.). So we are mostly digital native but with more depth.

Can confirm. I taught a college freshman CS class last year. The keeds didn't know what files or folders were.

touches every laptop screen, tv, monitor.... "the touch screen is broken" "what's a keyboard and mouse?"

Just a quick reminder that generation alpha is at most 15 years old.

In 20 years, we search for the arc of vim