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Google fucked a whole generation with Chromebooks, and now they're fucking the next generation with AI
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Enshittification
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What is enshittification?
The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
The lifecycle of Big Internet
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
Embrace, extend and extinguish
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
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I was simply stating why the kids only know Chromebooks. Many poor communities, mine and myself included, have households that don't have computers at home.
The schools give each kid a Chromebook at the beginning of the year. So it's the only computer access these kids get.
There isn't instruction on how PCs work on a base level in my kids middle school, and no computer lab to experiment with. So they only know how to navigate Chromebooks, because that's their access level
And I mean, They got rid of home economics for the computer lab back when I was a kid. I don't understand why you brought up the 70s or whatever, I'm aware times and education instruction changes sure, you don't need to be rude.
Plenty of kids have access to desktops and laptops through their parents. Libraries also have computer labs with traditional PCs.
I've never heard of a school that provided middle school computer education outside of small elective classes, and even those only in wealthier districts.