If that would be considered an issue, it would be the least worrying thing about smartphone addiction.
Even if you would want your kids to grow up to become developers, there's no reason why they'd have to "learn computers" when they're young.
Even if you would want your kids to grow up to become developers, there's no reason why they'd have to "learn computers" when they're young.
There isn't much we can do about this trend, it will continue no matter if we want to change it or not. But talking about a trend and what consequences it will have is still interesting.
Applications being able to assume that you have a keyboard, mouse and big screen really allows them to create way more powerful interactions while any tool made for a smartphone will be severely hampered by its UI limitations.
Exactly, so more people than ever know how to use computers.
Seems like a great benefit that they don’t have to deal with all the unnecessary complexity.
Being forced to learn enough computers to log on to your bank doesn’t make you more employable.
I mean, what's the societal benefit from young people "knowing how to use computers"? It's not like they won't learn when they enter university.
Also, I don't think the claim is even true, where I live kids have to use computers every day in school from around 10 years old.
> 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.
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.
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.
Sure there is! We can start making an actual organized attempt to teach computer literacy in schools. We've been leaning on "children will learn this stuff on their own" for too long, and the result has been that students from less privileged backgrounds often never learned it -- it's about time we fixed that.