Lorien
Supreme [H]ardness
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Exactly. Younger generations didn't live through the evolution and transition of modern technology. Knowing how technology workeD is just as important as how things work now. Some kid today is growing up being "forced" to accept technology how it is NOW and they have no experience using all the iterations that brought us here. Generations that came from a time where technology had just started to take off don't have much issue adapting because currently we are only seeing gradual advances and none of the dramatic changes of that past, like the transition from analog to digital.
We have also gone leaps and bounds towards making technology more user friendly, which is just a different way to say "dumbing it down" so that a non technical user can operate it efficiently enough as long as they don't poke underneath the surface. Things are so dumbed down now that a 4 year old can play stupid angry birds on a tablet.
We have also gone leaps and bounds towards making technology more user friendly, which is just a different way to say "dumbing it down" so that a non technical user can operate it efficiently enough as long as they don't poke underneath the surface. Things are so dumbed down now that a 4 year old can play stupid angry birds on a tablet.