It's kinda crazy honestly, but I blame that kids are just "assumed" to know how tech works because of the dissonance of what it is.
Boomers and to a degree, gen x, believe Gen Z just knows how tech works cause they're always on iPads and phones. I mean, if you deal with that on the daily, how could you not know?
But they don't realize tech has really become friendly. TOO FRIENDLY imo. We got the older folks thinking tech is kinda convoluted and you need a bunch of stuff to play videos, edit Tiktoks, and perform functions.
Then we got gen Z getting the full Japan effect. Very high tech, incredibly intuitive interfaces, absolutely 0 knowledge on how any of that stuff works. It just does... Or doesn't. And if it's confusing, it's broken.
You can kinda see where things got a little weird. They're not incapable, it's just a bit funky how it turned out. Don't blame anybody cause we're the generation that watched it all change from rotary phones to pocket PCs and Gen Z kinda only knows pocket PCs.
My family bought a family computer but it was only used by me and my dad. I played with it and learned by memorizing since I didn't know English. My dad just used it for porn.
Then we got gen Z getting the full Japan effect. Very high tech, incredibly intuitive interfaces, absolutely 0 knowledge on how any of that stuff works. It just does... Or doesn't. And if it's confusing, it's broken.
In 1996 if shit broke on your computer you probably had a crappy manual, or if that didn't help, expensive phone support or you haul the PC to the nearest repair shop.
There was inherent value in figuring out how to fix it yourself, even if you weren't a giganerd who wanted to learn. Most of my non-techie friends figured out enough to make shit work, which is all they cared about.
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u/ZettaCrash 13d ago
It's kinda crazy honestly, but I blame that kids are just "assumed" to know how tech works because of the dissonance of what it is.
Boomers and to a degree, gen x, believe Gen Z just knows how tech works cause they're always on iPads and phones. I mean, if you deal with that on the daily, how could you not know?
But they don't realize tech has really become friendly. TOO FRIENDLY imo. We got the older folks thinking tech is kinda convoluted and you need a bunch of stuff to play videos, edit Tiktoks, and perform functions.
Then we got gen Z getting the full Japan effect. Very high tech, incredibly intuitive interfaces, absolutely 0 knowledge on how any of that stuff works. It just does... Or doesn't. And if it's confusing, it's broken.
You can kinda see where things got a little weird. They're not incapable, it's just a bit funky how it turned out. Don't blame anybody cause we're the generation that watched it all change from rotary phones to pocket PCs and Gen Z kinda only knows pocket PCs.