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"Kids Can't Use Computers" is now ten years old, and it's only gotten worse
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this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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My wife and I were just talking about this the other day.
I'm not in IT but I work as an industrial maintenance electrician, and knowing how computers work solves more problems than people realize!
It's so frustrating when people are like "Well I don't need to know how computers work."
Every aspect of our lives is governed by computers in one way or another. I can't imagine not being curious to know how they work.
People feel the same way about cars, electricity, food preservation. People's lives are interdependent on massively specialized technical disciplines and most of them couldn't care less. I understand that the amount of specialization that goes into some topics means you can't be an expert on all of these subjects, but some people just could not give a single shit how any of it works, and do not have any understanding of the ways in which it might stop working.
I've come to greatly resent any sort of technology or design being dismissed as "magic", because I've met too many people who mean it literally.
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