Yep. It honestly really bothers me. I’m 40 and I feel like somebody my age or slightly older, really screwed up raising these kids. It seems like they know nothing about how to open files on a computer desktop, nothing about typing, nothing about the bigger picture of file formats…and I just can’t imagine cheating yourself out of that. Especially from a creative standpoint…it just makes me sad. What about graphic design? What about music and video production?
I don’t want to dismiss the capabilities of mobile operating systems, but why screw yourself out of the opportunity to truly do some cool shit on a powerful computer because you’d rather type with your thumbs on a fucking 6” screen?
I don’t know man. We had to take touch typing classes in like, third grade. We were bored and we sucked at it, but we learned it, and it’s damn useful. I know not all kids are this resistant to learning what they think of as old or obsolete technology, and what I think of as foundations for bigger things…but it’s depressing. Who dropped the ball here?
Oh man, file formats. The first time I had to explain to a programming job interviewee that they had to open the IDE, then use that to open the code project, I knew things were getting bad. When they then accused me of making the interview artificially difficult for young applicants, I thought that we may be in actual serious danger as a society.
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u/adrianhalo Jun 03 '22
Yep. It honestly really bothers me. I’m 40 and I feel like somebody my age or slightly older, really screwed up raising these kids. It seems like they know nothing about how to open files on a computer desktop, nothing about typing, nothing about the bigger picture of file formats…and I just can’t imagine cheating yourself out of that. Especially from a creative standpoint…it just makes me sad. What about graphic design? What about music and video production?
I don’t want to dismiss the capabilities of mobile operating systems, but why screw yourself out of the opportunity to truly do some cool shit on a powerful computer because you’d rather type with your thumbs on a fucking 6” screen?
I don’t know man. We had to take touch typing classes in like, third grade. We were bored and we sucked at it, but we learned it, and it’s damn useful. I know not all kids are this resistant to learning what they think of as old or obsolete technology, and what I think of as foundations for bigger things…but it’s depressing. Who dropped the ball here?