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This is Gen Alpha we are talking about. They have displayed less IT/programming/computer literacy awareness than even Gen Z. There will have to be a new computer Renaissance era to pop up, otherwise they are going to have to ask their Gen Y/X family to do it.
Have they? I see plenty of them out and about doing all the same shit Millennials and GenXers were doing 30 years ago - building computers from parts to save money, fucking around with electronics and sticking leds on everything, experimenting with python and downloading shit off torrents, and occasionally bricking a phone because they did something to the firmware.
I also see folks insisting 10 year olds should have the same experience as a college grad, which is a bit weird. But I'm hard pressed to find these bad-at-computers Gen Zs/As.
It's just different now, sure some may have taken an interest. My optimal experience/computer fitness would have been as a high school senior, not as a college grad. In high school I was fluent in a few different older programming languages, web development of HTML/CSS from scratch, just received an A+ Certification, and could solder out components with the dexterity of someone who does it professionally.
I have retained some of that, and could research myself if needed. But I couldn't code my way out of a cardboard box at this point. Coworkers are amazed, aghast even that I can and will use VBA in excel.
And all of that was a hobby really, I had no interest working with tech. I wanted to go into finance, or so I thought. And this would have described every other one of my peers back then as well.
I remember when the genX generation said that about me.
Sure may have been right about 90% of folks, but the 10% that were wrong... I absolutely did figure out a lot of script kiddie shit that got me in trouble and now as a "lazy millennial" doing cool shit.