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by jeffasinger 1702 days ago
Interestingly, I think we're seeing less people grow up with general purpose computers, and instead just have an iPad or an android tablet, or a chromebook.

I wonder what things will look in 20 years.

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Probably more and more like what this The Verge report finds on how students don't really know what files and folders are:

https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-direc...

As things get more and more offloaded to the cloud, local computing is something only developers, engineers, and geeks will properly understand.

Something like Asimov's "Profession" story, I imagine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession_(novella)

At least chromebooks have the capacity to become general purpose computers by installing Linux. But yeah, anyone who doesn't grow up with a Raspberry Pi or the like is gonna have a hard time.