[quote=CA renter]For those of us who grew up pre-internet and pre-PC in every house, it’s stunning to watch kids get around on computers.
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What really disappoints me about most kids today is that they treat the computer+web like an appliance. That is, it offers features 1..n to them, and that’s the limit on how they think about it. They don’t try to imagine how to make it do any more than it already does, and quite frankly, don’t seem to care either. Their facility with the technology doesn’t translate into any useful skill, other than being good a good Konsumer.

Contrast this with (our? my?) early computer experience, the machine would turn on and say “READY” (or something) and that was it. You had to invest your time into it to make anything happen, and this engenders a completely different attitude toward technology.