The digital natives are not who you think they are
There&#x27;s something to be said about growing up using devices that are made for creation and not just consumption - the barrier to go from &quot;this is a cool web page! How can I make one?&quot; is a hell of a lot higher on a phone than a computer, or now vs. the mid-90&#x27;s (if only because the standards are so much higher).<p>But this guy is just being a jerk: &quot;Digital natives my ass, all they do is stream videos on YouTube and Twitch.&quot;<p>Which is a shame, because it crowds out what I was hoping would be a more thoughtful discussion about devices created purely for consumption, or perhaps walled gardens, and how they don&#x27;t afford people the same opportunity to learn as general purpose computers.<p>I wonder if early car enthusiasts felt the same about people who learned to drive when you no longer needed to know how to fix your car all the time.