Kids can't use computers... and this is why it should worry you

[pascal_meheut]

This falls into the old category of "there is something new so mankind will become stupid because of it".

People have said that about writing as it was supposed to prevent us from using our memory. And then about almost everything including printers, newpapers, radios, etc.
My teachers told me the same about calculators and computers: we were not supposed to use them because then we wouldn't know how to do basic tasks.

Of course, once we started to work, our tasks were mainly to use said computers to do a huge part of the job.
They were simply afraid of something new they did not understand.


P.S: my kid was born and raised in a modern environment with unlimited access to computers, Internet, smartphone, videos.
He is now a young adult, travels the world and seems to be able to do so without drooling when he talks and is even reading books...
And I have not noticed that younger people at work or any other place are lacking anything we were supposed to have because we did not have the tools they do.