Today's wisdom from my brilliant kid, Sean: Today, children are •not• being taught to use computers.

[ghostinthenet@hachyderm.io]

Today's wisdom from my brilliant kid, Sean: Today, children are •not• being taught to use computers. They're being taught to be used •by• computers. #WeNeedToProcessThis

[gustodon@mas.to]

@ghostinthenet 🤯

[d1@autistics.life]

@ghostinthenet Great insight. Arguably, it was with the advent of #Windows 95 (the quality of which sucked so bad, yet it had been hyped through the stratosphere) where #Microsoft solidified their market dominance of desktop computing, and the "using" the OP speaks of - by a crappy **dead-end** ecosytem - really got underway. That's my take on the point of "enshittification" (back then, called "proprietary lock-in") really taking off in computing history.

It was a departure from the "Openness" that the existing Unix ecosystem afforded - as imperfect as it was.

[ghostinthenet@hachyderm.io]

@d1 In this case the context was that the various platforms are leveraging our use of our computers to harvest our data and manipulate us from a young age, but the enshittification take is no less valid for all that.

[d1@autistics.life]

@ghostinthenet first comes the "proprietary lock-in", then comes the problematic "harvesting of the data". IMHO, this is the disconnect between the ears of "all those kids" in the OP - that the first thing very, very possibly can and will cause the second thing.

[ghostinthenet@hachyderm.io]

@d1 Sadly, the harvesting of the data doesn't even require the proprietary lock-in. We can be the ultimate open-source advocates with our Debian workstations and stripped-down browsers, but if we're living our lives on Instagram…

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@ghostinthenet suggested reading: Seymour Papert