I don’t see a strong correlation between older/legacy tech know-how and a broader notion of technical literacy.
I think it might be more helpful to look at this as information literacy, or at least roughly speaking a higher degree of “Internet smarts”.
Scanners and copiers are in that weird phase of product life where they’ve been mostly eliminated as core computing needs at home, but still see widespread business use since business will always be the long tail on fully digitizing.
I think it’d be prudent to be specific, because for whatever degree of literacy or smarts or whatever you call it is true about teens in the information environment, the technology through which they experience that environment inches closer and closer to pure magic from a layman’s perspective.
I think it might be more helpful to look at this as information literacy, or at least roughly speaking a higher degree of “Internet smarts”.
Scanners and copiers are in that weird phase of product life where they’ve been mostly eliminated as core computing needs at home, but still see widespread business use since business will always be the long tail on fully digitizing.
I think it’d be prudent to be specific, because for whatever degree of literacy or smarts or whatever you call it is true about teens in the information environment, the technology through which they experience that environment inches closer and closer to pure magic from a layman’s perspective.