All Gen Z "digital natives" that I met they never seen a real floppy disk, except as en emoji.
> Things like copying files from a thumbdrive to a computer, filling out a spreadsheet, adding a header or footer to a document - sometimes it is quite shocking
When there is a clear pattern of how the majority of consumers/users behave with a product, then the issue is with the product, not the consumer.
One day my Gen Z relatives complained to me about their iPhone battery draining so fast, I checked their iPhone Settings and was shocked at how iPhone default settings were set to suck up their personal data all the time. And quite shocked that they didn't know how to turn it off..
Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services > Significant Locations & Product Improvement (turned off)
I'm a millennial, who used PC at times when the ONLY notification was the Error message. Even for OS updates you had to buy PC magazine to know that there was a new OS release...
There was no internet, and the PC was so quiet...As a child of the 90s I had to navigate through every file because I had nothing else to do.
Being curious about every function of the software doesn't seem to be a thing of the new generation...surprisingly, this generation, Gen Z, knows more about Social Media Settings than their device Settings.
It's like our generation, the millennials, drove the manual car before we started driving the automatic car....Gen Z, digital natives, started driving Tesla as their first car..
I always remember this quote by Andreessen:
"The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories, people who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do."
I’m not sure a lack of curiosity is so much a generational thing. Some people just don’t really care, they learn what they need to get done what they want and don’t poke it any further.
That’s not really even a bad thing exactly. I’m reminded of the difference in how my dad and I treat cars: I just want to get where I’m going, but he is so into all the little details of driving and the mechanics of it all. He changes his own oil, tweaks his car’s computer system for performance, etc. He is always trying to get me to care about it all, but I frankly don’t care if my oil is a bit old or if I could change it myself or whatever. I’d rather never have to drive at all if I was rich enough to have a private driver do it for me. Anyway whenever I get frustrated that my family or friends don’t seem to take something computer-related seriously or actually try to figure out how to do it right, I stop and think about how frustrated my dad gets about my attitude towards cars.
> I’m not sure a lack of curiosity is so much a generational thing. Some people just don’t really care, they learn what they need to get done what they want and don’t poke it any further.
Basically true, but on the other side there is today so much to poke on, so much you can't understand and control..I would say to some point even the curious ones stop to poke deeper very fast. And over time this creates bad habits.
> All Gen Z "digital natives" that I met they never seen a real floppy disk, except as en emoji.
The concept is still around, just the technology changed. Today it's thumbdrives or some other external drive. Someone not knowing how to operate them today, would they be considere as a digital illiterated?
All Gen Z "digital natives" that I met they never seen a real floppy disk, except as en emoji.
> Things like copying files from a thumbdrive to a computer, filling out a spreadsheet, adding a header or footer to a document - sometimes it is quite shocking
When there is a clear pattern of how the majority of consumers/users behave with a product, then the issue is with the product, not the consumer.
One day my Gen Z relatives complained to me about their iPhone battery draining so fast, I checked their iPhone Settings and was shocked at how iPhone default settings were set to suck up their personal data all the time. And quite shocked that they didn't know how to turn it off.. Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services > Significant Locations & Product Improvement (turned off)
I'm a millennial, who used PC at times when the ONLY notification was the Error message. Even for OS updates you had to buy PC magazine to know that there was a new OS release... There was no internet, and the PC was so quiet...As a child of the 90s I had to navigate through every file because I had nothing else to do.
Being curious about every function of the software doesn't seem to be a thing of the new generation...surprisingly, this generation, Gen Z, knows more about Social Media Settings than their device Settings.
It's like our generation, the millennials, drove the manual car before we started driving the automatic car....Gen Z, digital natives, started driving Tesla as their first car..
I always remember this quote by Andreessen:
"The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories, people who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do."
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/business/story/2012/09/...