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The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents (fortune.com)
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[-] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

They kinda do, but I dont think its due to exposure to it, theyre just amazingly easy to use these days. They're very very intuitive.

I have no idea how my phone works, because I've never needed to learn. Its always just done exactly what I need it to do. I used to know pretty much everything about windows XP though.

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