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"Twy Edge Pwetty Pwease" (lemmy.world)

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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

My opinion: yes but also no.

The proportion of the population that is has genuine, full command of any computer at their disposal probably isn't all that much bigger than it was a few decades ago. Meanwhile, commodification of computing technology has put a gobsmacking amount of firepower in the hands of millions of people that have no earthly idea how it actually works, or how crippled their experience is. So by raw headcount, the experts and tech literate are proportionally a smaller group amongst all computer users. But as a percentage of the general population, probably not.

If I could provide one crucial takeaway from all this, it's to not conflate technology use with literacy.