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Have you seen a Gen Z-er trying to research something on the internet?
It's almost like the tools they were taught to use were crippled out from under them in the name of serving more ads.
Well as the builders of the current distopian present we were told all the time that we needed to create user interfaces and services where people would not need to know anything about tech and there was always a "design for the dumb user" since forever.
This is what we get by pushing that narrative I guess.
It's kinda wild to me. I used to think that as a millennial the next generation would be more technically savvy than mine for similar reasons to why my generation was more technically savvy than the last. That doesn't quite seem to have panned out and I'm not sure if I'm just not seeing things right or if technical literacy is really that much on the decline.
I was totally unaware of how bad it is until I actually read some current teachers describe horrrors of how the incoming students were so unprepared about technical literacy. It's freaking scary.
We really designed the society as it is and we're going to suffer the consequences for a long time.
To me it just means job security. But I get you, some of those people will become your boss...and it generally sucks.
I'll confess I've had the same thought... but I feel like the problem is deeper than that. If people don't have basic awareness of the devices they rely on then they in danger of becoming victims of those who do. I'd point to your average boomer on Facebook to illustrate that point.
Ok, but answer me this! Without those ads, would you even know that George Washington crossed the delaware with delicious chunky cambells soup!
What?
Those chunky soups with 130 calories and 22% of your needs in protein, ideal for a hard day of work?
Ahh well, I didn't know that!
Honestly it usually starts with chatgpt or ai. I've been watching my younger coworkers.
It's not a bad thing per-say but sometimes it's wildly wrong and they don't question where it comes from. Which bites them when we do reviews/code.
I think you mean per se.
https://www.dictionary.com/e/per-say-or-per-se/
"sometimes it's wildly wrong and they don't question where it comes from"
A stark difference from google results surely