As a retired college prof who taught both undergrad and grad courses in digital communications and comm theory, it’s always fun to query some young-un who claims to be an “expert” on all things digital.
First question: “How does that phone know where you are touching on the screen?”
Second one: “Why are they called ‘cell’ phones?”
And those two questions are below Obama level that fifth grade science types have a good chance of knowing.
One could go on and on, but the sound of crickets after those first two questions requires earplugs, so why bother?
You are correct but I do blame pre-college education system.
I took every science, electronics and chemistry class I could in Jr High and High School.
I finally ran out to classes to take.
When you are raising up a generation who don’t even know when sex they are, you are raising a generation of village idiots.
There was a 1930s Betty Boop cartoon where Betty used a pay phone. Then she hung up and left the scene. A few seconds later, she rushed back in and checked the coin return slot.
This was funny if you grew up in that era, but would be baffling today.