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[bluestboijay]

I was thinking about something and decided this was so important that I needed to get it out before I forgot, and so I decided to give in and get Tumblr at least for the sake of this one post.

Touch screens have been around since 1965, and we're popularized in America by the IPhone in 2007. There are people working in the kitchen of my job who are younger (only by a year) than the technology people are saying is too complicated to order food off of in the front of the store.

I've seen something which I'm pretty sure is from here, which points out how dumbing things down for the tech illiterate makes things like debugging, troubleshooting, and modding harder for the people who actually do know how to use a computer, and I think I realized something.

The reason so many people still can't use technology, even the technology that's been increasingly oversimplified over the past decade, is the same reason most Americans don't know things like sign language, braille, sewing, any foreign languages, how to fix a vehicle, or even CPR/first aid. We've been trained as a society to only bother knowing the things we're paid to know. I give it 10 years before cooking is an odd skill to have, 15 before kitchens stop being built into permanent residencies.

I will admit, I am not without fault in this either. I'm not nearly as tech literate as I should be, and of the list I gave, I only know sewing and CPR.