I’ve also caught myself yearning for Cmd-F when hunting for something in large chunks of printed text.
I don’t think it’s an indication of anything troubling. Sometimes you just get lost in what you’re reading and momentarily forget what device you’re using. If anything, I’m glad teens are so absorbed by reading. It was a struggle to get the teens of my generation to read anything!
I remember how when I was a teen and coding a lot inside the Turbo C IDE, it became second nature to press F2 frequently (to save).
Around that time, while working on math homework (on paper), I'd occasionally experience brain farts, where I would think of pressing (not reach for) the F2 key.
FWIW, I have decent handwriting today, and even exchange correspondence with some friends using pen-and-paper.
I do agree that touchscreen usage should be restricted for toddlers.
So the on-screen text says "touch here" or similar. Took me a while to realise it meant "press inside the screen-printed rectangle in the panel below the screen" ...
We have some older machines for getting train tickets and some newer ones. They probably didn't want to scare anybody off, so the interface still looks almost the same. It used to be buttons next to the screen, now it's a touch screen.
Of course you see people trying to touch the old ones. There's no signifier on the new ones (except the lack of buttons) that shows that they're different, so without a bit of thinking you don't know which affordances there are.
You are making quite an assumption here. People of many centuries ago would also say that we raise our kids in a wrong way, because we don't teach them how to survive in the wild or how to work a potato field.
A funny thing to say, given that today a lot of content requires computers to produce, even abstract art.
> Many people will die having used computers for 10 hours a day but not being able to really act with computers and create with computers
How is that different from people who voraciously read countless books, or watch countless movies, yet never produce anything at all, in whatever domain.
Not everybody wants to be a producer. Some people are perfectly happy just consuming, or partying all day.
Never heard the term "bookworm", it's a mild pejorative leveled at people who read books a lot.
But you can use a computer without knowing how to create for it _at all_.
Coding is significantly harder than writing or pressing two buttons on a video camera, which is also visible in salaries - basic journalist vs. basic camera operator vs. basic coder
Journalists your right - there is a lot of young people who have the dream of being the next woodwood and Bernstein - and so news paper publishers take advantage.
> "You have to be very sure you want to do it because it involves years of long hours, challenging conditions and low pay."
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/mar/12/how-become-tv-...
I doubt there are minimum wage software developers.
And most computer usage is creating tons of valuable information to feed into the googlebrain.
Actual ability to create is in the brain of the creator. Anything else is just media ant tools.
But that is all just my own personal opinion, not something we need to argue about. However, the idea that toddlers should not have that much screen time is an official recommendation: https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/21/health/screen-time-media-rule...
How I do this without a trackpad and without moving, I don't know. I only notice when it doesn't work.