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AI and Internet Hygiene - by kate wagner - the late review

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I’m from a very specific generation, the first one in which learning how to use the open Internet was a skill taught in childhood. There’s not much that’s good about being from this generation (I will never own a house, be out of student loan debt, and the idea of having children takes on an air of fantasy) but at least I learned how to be proficient at the computer. This proficiency was out of necessity. You see, back in the days before total market saturation, the big tech companies had an incentive to educate. They couldn’t sell a technology people were so intimidated by. Classes were taught in schools, libraries, and community centers, and a cottage industry of computer instruction sprung up everywhere. A wealth of educational materials flooded the market targeted towards new computer and Internet users, which, in the early 1990s, was pretty much anyone not working in a previously computerized industry. Some of these were even for children: The Internet of the 1990s and 2000s and t

I’m from a very specific generation, the first one in which learning how to use the open Internet was a skill taught in childhood. There’s not much that’s good about being from this generation (I will never own a house, be out of student loan debt, and the idea of having children takes on an air of fantasy) but at least I learned how to be proficient at the computer. This proficiency was out of necessity. You see, back in the days before total market saturation, the big tech companies had an incentive to educate. They couldn’t sell a technology people were so intimidated by. Classes were…

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