Richard
Coffee/keyboard

It's worse than that
Late Boomers to Gen X were taught "typing", and created most of the foundations and did a lot of the UI/UX research.

Millenials were "taught computing", by which the schools meant "using Microsoft Word".

Gen Z were assumed to already know, so were taught nothing whatsoever.

Gen Alpha are sometimes being taught online safety. Their millennial parents are helping with that by making Facebook uncool. //

fromxyzzy

Re: It's worse than that
We've abandoned a lot of the UI/UX lessons learned through experience, and ironically it was Apple who both did a huge amount of impressive work (building on IBM's internal work I believe) on strictly codifying their UI elements in order to ensure a consistently usable system across applications, and then with iOS, totally destroying any sense of consistency in interaction and hiding every aspect of the real system from the user. I run an old iBook with MacOS 9 for legacy software and tinkering and the only things that don't adhere to the Apple UI guidelines are video games which were virtually always originally for Windows/DOS. I have an iPad in the loo and I can perform the exact same swipe motion on it 5 times and get 5 completely different results for no discernible reason.

Kids that are growing up on iPad and other touch-screen devices are being taught that tech devices are magic boxes that act in ways that you can never understand because they don't respond consistently and they hide every aspect of the underlying system. Honestly, it's primed them for the advent of AI as well, where they simply trust what the magic box tells them is true and are flummoxed when told that the magic box is wrong, unreliable, and they've failed because they just expect systems to work without understanding how.