“They” have been largely successful. They didn’t 1984 the general purpose computer, they brave-new-world’ed it. The vast, vast majority of people online were convinced to use “mobile devices” for everything, and they seem to fall under different expectations than a computer (even though they technically are). Like how Cory points out that “sideloading” is even a word. And then when they actually do use a computer, it’s a work computer locked down by IT.
People are extremely lazy. They’ll trade away everything if it lets them avoid learning anything. Mobile devices aren’t the end of the story here. With LLMs they are trading away their public education, their entire future, just to avoid doing homework.
“They” have been largely successful. They didn’t 1984 the general purpose computer, they brave-new-world’ed it. The vast, vast majority of people online were convinced to use “mobile devices” for everything, and they seem to fall under different expectations than a computer (even though they technically are). Like how Cory points out that “sideloading” is even a word. And then when they actually do use a computer, it’s a work computer locked down by IT.
People are extremely lazy. They’ll trade away everything if it lets them avoid learning anything. Mobile devices aren’t the end of the story here. With LLMs they are trading away their public education, their entire future, just to avoid doing homework.