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"Kids Can't Use Computers" is now ten years old, and it's only gotten worse

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I read the (original?) article on the Verge covering this and my understanding is that it's not an issue. The files/folders way of thinking is already a metaphor for 0s and 1s scattered around on silicon. Using a "laundry basket with a search robot" isn't inherently a worse way to store data than a "file system with hierarchy".

We are just used to one way and the other baffles us because it goes against our way of thinking about 0s and 1s scattered on silicon.