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you know the computer thing is it plugged in?
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Been doing IT for 20 years.
The one ray of hope is that the number of entirely tech illiterate people I deal with has decreased. They're retiring/dying. It's not nearly as common now to deal with people that don't understand how to literally turn something on. I also got out of the private sector, so I'm not dealing with the general public, which always made me want to drive my car into oncoming traffic on my way home every day.
But yeah, I always make a point of embarrassing someone when I have to drive somewhere to do something a toddler could have done if they put them on the phone with me.
There's a whole new generation of tech illiterates being born with a smartphone up their asses. I feel that 80's kids peaked at tech literacy, then steadily declined from the mid 90s maybe.
I'd say 2000s was when it peaked.
Knowledge peaked in the 2000s, but those are the 80's and 90's kids. The ones born in the 2000s had an iPhone with 14 and know nothing...
Yup. People under the age of 25 don't even understand files or directories.
iPhones and Chromebooks have abstracted everything away.
Thankfully Chromebooks have very low popularity outside US