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Technical literacy among young people is so depressing. I'm 36 so I grew up in the last of the non-digital native cohort - I vaguely remember life before the internet. But growing up surrounded by computers and the internet, but seeing many of my peers miss out, I was certain that the next generation would be so much more tech savvy. As full digital natives they will learn to code, understand the protocols on which their primary communications are built and just be steeped in this stuff from birth.

How naive I was. No one actually cares. It was like assuming everyone born after 1908 would fully understand how cars work.



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