It won’t. The average person in America wants the fastest, easiest consumable distraction or pleasure reward and takes no time to learn new things unless it’s dangled in front of them in bite-sized, easy-to-follow tutorials with all kinds of sparkles and chimes when they do something correctly.
They will go to some really terrible alternative that costs money. There are a hundred thousand porn sites right now hoping that they become the next big thing.
DannyMac@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I miss the Internet when you needed to know wtf you were doing. Now everything is geared for easy, addictive consumption
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I keep telling older people who seek IT advice from me that knowing how your computer works is like knowing how your car works. And then I tell them that they’re the morons who think the engine is magic, and never change their oil until the car’s in the shop with issues and the mechanic finds what looks like mud in the engine.
Boomers hear that message, it turns out.
ameancow@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I read somewhere that a lot of people don’t even go to websites anymore, they just use apps for their social media and have no idea how to enter a web address or URL.
I feel like the last of a dying breed of mighty wizards because I can configure windows and know how to manage files.