"Kids Can't Use Computers" is now ten years old, and it's only gotten worse

www.coding2learn.org Kids can't use computers... and this is why it should worry you — Coding 2 Learn

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www.coding2learn.org /blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/

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I love how everyone is acting like this is a new thing. People have never been able to use computers.
- This article looks like it is seriously a decade or older at this point. The writer goes on about how phones can't be upgraded or repaired and go obsolete in two years but also buys a macbook pro.
  Much of the article is some boomer going on about how they had no computers and they know computers better than people who do have computers. But I bet you this guy doesn't know how to make laundry detergent but they rely on it all the time. Bet you need manufactur-dad to the fucking rescue for you eh?
  
  I feel like he addresses this quite well in the conclusion. In regards to cars, "this is not a new phenomenon" and admits to his reliance on salesmen and mechanics.
  Ultimately, he's asking that the people who make decisions about how our world is shaped have some knowledge about the things that are going to shape the world. And that essential issue is still unaddressed. Remind me, how many years ago was it that US Congress was asking Google why the bad articles show up when you search their name?
  Oh, and our car-centric society in the US largely sucks. That may or may not have anything to do with our general understanding of a motor, but maybe it's worth considering how much thought has really gone into the implications of these massively affecting technologies.
  
  You're not likely to educate people on a torque converter just like you're not likely to educate people on subnet masking.

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