Mum...What's a computer?
“A surprising number of high school students graduate without learning how to use a personal computer."
Which country do you think Tim Clark, of the University of Southern California, was talking about when he made that statement?
Somewhere in Africa? Rural China? Eastern Europe perhaps?
Believe it or not he was talking about Japan. Yes Japan!
The problem has arisen because internet access over the mobile phone is now so commonplace that many Japanese youngsters are no longer using computers.
As such their knowledge and skill with computers is really no better than that of their parents.
This has given rise to a new generation of frustrated young job seekers who are unable to enter the white collar workforce because of their lack of rudimentary computer skills.
posted by Stan Lee at 10:20 pm
7 Comments:
So why would they need them if technology has moved along?
That's like old fart ad people in the nineties shocked that art directors had no finished art skills.
I think the Japanese have produced a generation of kids who are adept with their thumbs, but not with a real keyboard, which is what you would find on every desk in every workplace.
I suspect not for much longer, Stan. Technology is fragmenting at a furious rate and static computer stations will be on the rubbish heap before we know it.
Wow, I'm really surprised by this. I agree though that technology is moving fast, but think we'll still be using computers for a long time yet.
Time to introduce extra computing classes over there I think.
The thing that is being forgotten is that mobile technology in Japan is so far advanced to other markets, that their mobile phones ARE computers - which is why the youth are more adept at using that format of computer than the traditional system most Westerners have on their desks.
It's not a case of computer illiteracy, it's a case of format illiteracy.
Format illiteracy. Great expression Rob.
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