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I work in tech and it's honestly exhausting trying to keep up. I already feel this way tbh, it's a non stop procession into the future.
I'm a developer as well, but I think we're comparing professional literacy to general user literacy. I think we should be fine save some new form factor (idk, fucking AR, I guess?) or paradigm that upends UI design in our 60s
I think the biggest risk to me falling behind on that shit is just general disinterest or cost barriers, like with VR
Oh, yeah, that stuff makes me mad dizzy.
Same, they keep on adding new features and I don't have the time / interest / small enough world to get me to keep up with every little change. When I was a kid at home, I basically just had school and then a desktop to mess with. Now, my partner shows me new stuff on my iPhone all the time (shortcuts and whatnot) and it's great... but I just need something that works and isn't leaking data I wouldn't expect.
I used my work account to make an account for Postman the other day and they added like, public profiles to Postman. Like what? Who asked for that?
Yep, I'm totally with you there. I always think that if young me had the resources I have now, I'd be doing amazing shit, but then I realise I'd probably just be scrolling social media like I do now. Growing up without Internet I feel was better, you had to actively keep yourself busy. I got into IT because I was lonely and had a lot of time on my hands.
I work in tech and I don't seem to have an issue with keeping up. Not trying to toot my own horn or anything. I think I prefer some of the older way of doing things simply based on how those old ways gave us more ownership of the things we paid for. Like streaming vs being able to buy bluray of our favorite TV shows.
I think it very much depends on what industry you're in.
I don't think it's exhausting at all. Consumer technology doesn't change that fast to not keep up even if you are not that tech savvy.
The stuff that runs that consumer tech changes all the time though. I see most of this from a system engineers point of view.
People don't care what stuff runs their tech tho yet they are still able to use it with ease.