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by badrequest 2495 days ago
> Maybe by the time users who grew up with smart phones are 65+ then we don't have to worry as much about the technological illiterate, there will always be a difference is skill/knowledge but I feel the gap will shrink over time.

In my experience (which I fully admit is anecdotal and therefore likely wrong), the kids who've grown up using iPads and iPhones know less about how computers work than the kids I grew up around who had PC Towers in their homes. Not suggesting this is anything particularly alarming, but does make me curious if the form factor of computing a user is exposed to has any bearing on the user's desire to understand more fundamental aspects of computers.