I read an article (archive.ph) yesterday on why employers are hesitant to hire the recent crop of college grads. 25% cited “Lack technological skills”. It’s the least common complaint, but it makes no sense for a generation that grew up with technology. People elsewhere say it’s because they grew up with dumbed down devices like smart phones and tablets.
It's absolutely the dumbest down devices. If you grew up in the 80s, you needed to understand primitive languages like basic or dos. If you grew up in the 90s, you learned how to use software to do fun stuff like torrent, play music, program funny viruses, etc. 2000s, you built your own devices regularly. By 2010, tablets, OSX, and others has begun the dumb down. Now, windows makes it near impossible to change settings, and Mac you can't really upgrade. It's no wonder kids see electronic as fire and forget, as well as disposable. It's what modern shit IS