I’ve definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is “smart” nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn’t require any of that before.
What’s some things currently making you ramble like an old man?
I’m barely older than you and received typing classes in elementary school. Moving forward from about 8th grade and up most of my schoolwork was performed via computer. The only things I wrote out by hand in high school were math/science worksheets.
It’s fascinating which practical skills schools fail to teach, differing by district.
Part of it depends on where you grew up. born 1998 in a rural English village, We had computer labs or a crate of laptops but they weren’t a focus for actual lessons and more of a treat between real classes.
Wasn’t until I got to college that lessons actually started requiring you to use a computer.
We did formal typing classes in school starting from primary school up to middle school but that was not what made me a proficient typist. I got comfortable with a keyboard and more proper typing by actually doing it.
Some of that is on me for being a little shit in school, some of it is because the classes were shit. My point was that typing is a skill and there is more than one way to learn it and that a generation shouldn’t be judged from a snapshot at a relatively young age.
That said, a relatively large number of the younger engineers I work with ARE missing critical basic tech/mechanical/problem solving skills so I do recognize that there seems to be a generational difference in some areas. I didn’t get to work with a young engineer from a previous generation when they were a young engineer though so I can’t say that for sure.