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Interestingly, I think we're seeing less people grow up with general purpose computers, and instead just have an iPad or an android tablet, or a chromebook. I
by jeffasinger 5y ago
Interestingly, I think we're seeing less people grow up with general purpose computers, and instead just have an iPad or an android tablet, or a chromebook.
I wonder what things will look in 20 years.
- entropicdrifter 5y agoAt least chromebooks have the capacity to become general purpose computers by installing Linux. But yeah, anyone who doesn't grow up with a Raspberry Pi or the like is gonna have a hard time.
- Drew_ 5y agoProbably more and more like what this The Verge report finds on how students don't really know what files and folders are: https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-direc... As things get more and more offloaded to the cloud, local computing is something only developers, engineers, and geeks will properly understand.
- professoretc 5y agoSomething like Asimov's "Profession" story, I imagine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession_(novella) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession_(novella)