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This is valid late 90's critique on Windows. In the modern day, it's valid critique on the entire state of computer software. There used to be a time where I could run "ps axuw" on a then modern Unix system and understand exactly what the fuck was going on and what each process was for. These days the nerd-favoured systems are also a big mess of complexity.
I think a lot of older nerds also under-appreciate the position tech has taken in the world in the meantime. Look at it like electricity. When that first popped up, people involved with it knew all the ins-and-outs, they -had- to know all the ins-and-outs. But by the time I grew up, electricity was a done deal. You flip the button, lights go on. Same has happened for the rest of the world with IT. You click the icon, facebook pops up.
You being up an interesting point. Let's expand electricity a little bit.
If I flip a switch the lights come on. I don't need to understand it but someone does. And because electricity can be deadly of handled wrong, everyone in your proximity handles electricity the exact same way (and this is enforced via law). This means only a few people anywhere need to have the deep knowledge of how it works for the rest of us to get light.
Compare this to computing - sure you click the button and get Facebook but that button could be designed any number of ways. Like electricity the generation who tinkered is past (well passing), but unlike electricity firm standards on how to design your Facebook button have not been written in blood.
I for one am terrified of what the next 10 years of the business IT landscape is going to look like as we need to start absorbing kids who grew up on iPads.
It'll be fine. There's always some cohort of people who take an actual interest in the magic boxes enough to want to learn compsci.
I for one am terrified of what the next 10 years of the business IT landscape is going to look like as we need to start absorbing kids who grew up on iPads.
this is some fucking boomer thought if I've ever seen one, the only people I see glues to their phones are the +30 age group, sure kids love their Ipads but they dont carry them around. And guess what genius, a lot of kids from generations past were glued to their gameboy/Nintendo Super system/N64/Sega shitenisis/Playstation whatsamjig or whatever, and yet a lot of em still ended up in IT and are doing just fine. I'm so utterly fucking of this stupid inter-generational shitiness, not only that, but you're doing this in the dorkiest possible way! You sound like fucking Plato moaning about the youth back in 3000BC or whatever but swap out a few words with modern tech terms, grats.