Re: News roundup: child tech illiteracy, cars-as-homes-and-snitches, ChatGPT-derived academic manuscripts, and more!

On 3/17/2024 11:43 PM, rek2 hispagatos wrote:
> On 2024-03-16, worm food <[email protected]> wrote:
>> "Today’s kids might be digital natives — but a new study shows they
>> aren’t close to being computer literate"
>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/11/16/todays-kids-may-be-digital-natives-new-study-shows-they-arent-close-being-computer-literate/
> 
> I agree, is not a 1 and a 0 or black and white but yes younger
> people are not used to put any efford to learn things, and
> most people never had to use MSDOR/Solaris/Sun/AIX  code in
> C/Cobol/Pascal etc.. for the python and using pre-made frameworks and
> pre-made social networks is the only thing they can focus on.
> 
Let's see if I can follow up properly this time... I think the concern 
is that if you do not have any idea how something works, then you are at 
the mercy of those that do. Tech companies know this and are flooding 
the market with black-box-babysitters which primarily act as spyware. 
For example Windows 11: 
https://www.techspot.com/news/97535-windows-11-spyware-machine-out-users-control.html

Coupled with a global decline in "literacy" more generally 
(https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/5/unprecedented-decline-in-global-literacy-scores-osce-report-says)...

> Happy Hacking
> ReK2
>