Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills

hightrix@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Randelung@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The problem is non-savvy people classifying connecting a Bluetooth or wifi as complicated.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Connecting Bluetooth is complicated. Mostly because it doesn’t work.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s a science fiction book series which name I cannot remember for the life of me but in there is a generation ship traveling from Earth to some other star system and it’s been going for centuries.

  No one really understands anymore how to operate any of the systems on the ship. They just know which buttons to press, but they have no real understanding of what it’s actually doing.

  A lot of app users seem to be like that. They can get the app to do what they want but they don’t really understand why that’s working or what other things the app could do.

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  • hardcoreufo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not Foundation, but sounds a bit like it. Galactic empire collapses because no one knows how the technology that powers it works anymore.

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    • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      W40K has the same premise, except the “app-savvy” people are cyborg tech-priests praying to machine spirits, and which button to press is codified into rites.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No it wasn’t Foundation. I don’t think it was from a very well-known author all I can remember about it is that and they had genetically engineered cats that glowed blue to detect radiation leakages.

      The whole ship was designed so that people could forget how to operate it, and it wouldn’t really matter. Can’t really remember the justification for just not writing things down and keeping knowledge.

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• VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Dang kids don’t know how to tune a TV or do the tappets in their car!

  They’ll be screwed if they find themselves in 1980!

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