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Re:“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do an... by Jensson on Thursday October 07, 2021 @02:11PM (#28790071)
Learning something for work isn't the same as having one at home that you can play with growing up. Share of homes with computers is going down if you don't count smartphones. This means that less kids who wants to do things with computers will be able to do it.

> It's not like they won't learn when they enter university.

That is a good point, add "increases the burden for people to enter university" and "increases the divide between those with degrees and without" to the lists of problems this causes. Soon people will probably assume you don't know how to use a computer if you didn't go to college.

Re:“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do an... by Grustaf on Thursday October 07, 2021 @02:28PM (#28790306)
> Learning something for work isn't the same as having one at home that you can play with growing up

Before you said we were talking about society. Society doesn't care about people's hobbies.

> That is a good point, add "increases the burden for people to enter university" and "increases the divide between those with degrees and without" to the lists of problems this causes.

Do you have any support at all for these statements? It seems to me that more people than ever have access to computers, at younger ages. When I was at university in the late 90's people didn't bring laptops, now elementary school kids do. And every other boy is addicted to Fortnite.

Re:“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do an... by CRConrad on Saturday October 09, 2021 @08:49PM (#28814768)
> Before you said we were talking about society. Society doesn't care about people's hobbies.

Society is built out of people; people are in large part built out of their hobbies as kids. TL;DR: You're wrong.

> It seems to me that more people than ever have access to computers, at younger ages. When I was at university in the late 90's people didn't bring laptops, now elementary school kids do. And every other boy is addicted to Fortnite.

My kid has had a laptop for school work since he started högstadiet (9th year), and is addicted not to Fortnite but, uh, "CS GO" I think (though on another laptop)... And (despite my occasional attempts to impart some knowledge) he knows fuck-all about what we would consider basic computer usage. TL;DR: You're still wrong.