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I am legitimately worried about tech literacy for gen-α. And that is of course not their fault, it is the fault of Big Tech and us adults who also keel over when we're confronted by the predatory practices of Big Tech. When even governments are stuck in vendor lock-in, imagine how absolutely devastating it must be for some kid, whose parents have outsourced parenting to a fucking iPad, who doesn't know what a file let alone a directory is, who would rather ask an LLM instead of doing their own research. And corporations want people to be both technology-dependent as well as technology-illiterate, because that's people who you can exploit. And it goes much deeper than tech literacy, this tech ecosystem in which children are currently growing up messes with their development of critical thinking and emotional regulation. I implore every parent: don't give your toddler an iPad, don't show them CoComelon bullshit that is specifically engineered to be addictive, you wouldn't let your kid do a line of coke either. If you want to introduce them to technology, let them use a PC with supervision, preferably with a non-big tech operating system. Question the technology used at schools.