Back to basics on computers

FEWER young people being interested in computers and technology for their careers. Some believe it was the dot-com bubble bursting that stopped them making the choice.

Back to basics on computers

I believe the problem is that computers are too easy to use and that in school we are teaching students to be users of the technology, and not to take control of it.

In the mid-’80s, when I started using computers, they were quite basic and so what could be done with them by default was limited.

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