Re:Computer Files Are Going Extinct
by cosmodisk on Sunday October 13, 2019 @05:03PM
(#21243013)
I work in an office environment with relatively young people and it is absolutely shocking how little people know about computers or some underlying technologies,despite using them all day,every day.Very few if any, go beyond of the basics of how to open up a website or create a word document. The willingness to learn something new is close to zero and always downplayed with "I'm not good with computers". I've got a feeling that to most office workers pivot table in Excel is the highest possible level of technical knowledge.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Computer Files Are Going Extinct
by bigger_cheese on Sunday October 13, 2019 @11:07PM
(#21244956)
I had to explain to someone in my office how URLs worked - he only knew how to get to sites by typing what he wanted to visit into google search. Our intranet is obviously not crawled by google so he had no idea how to access it.
I got the same "I'm not good with computers" response.
Modern web browsers are the cause of this they don't distinguish between an address and a search query -frustrating.
Browser vendors get a kickback for each search.
Re:Computer Files Are Going Extinct
by incompatible on Sunday October 13, 2019 @05:37PM
(#21243249)
Isn't this the way it has always been? Then they expect help from the rare few who do understand how computers work, while at the same time somehow looking down at them for not being "normal".
I agree, nothing has changed much and I even think it's going that route where the ones that "know" are awarded handsomely, while the "don't knows" are left on a side with peanuts.
I consider myself very knowledgeable about computers and computing.
Yet I could not fix my car, my microwave or my refrigerator if my life depended on it.
Does it make me less? Is it wrong that I use my car 2 hours a day and the only thing I know is to press a bunch of buttons?
Not for me. I enjoy CompSci technology. I wouldn't like to spend my time fixing my car.