This is also a topic that comes to my mind every once in a while. I agree with you young generations depend completely on tech, but it is also true, their world is a tech world, much more than it was when we were young with no internet, no cellphones, and no personal computers for many of us.
I believe it is a matter of balance but nowadays parents need to put a lot more time from their side compared to the education system because the "tech" relationship is everywhere and at any time of the day, while back then, most of their "social" interaction was only in school and at home.
I believe, sooner or later, social boot camps will appear all over the world to educate those who have been having such an intense relationship with tech, that they have forgotten to live and interact in "real life", we can already see this started in Japan a couple of decades ago, but now is spreading all over, especially after the pandemics.
On the other side of the spectrum, we will see more and more ppl being left out of the system because they are far away from "user tech" knowledge, and cannot manage to get integrated into a group where high "tech user" skills are needed.
Honestly, I have the feeling the world new generations are facing is much harder than the one we had to face back then.
Yes, but the skills required to create that tech don't get learned from using the tech, they get learned in traditional environments that we have been "using" for years. What happens when those skills are only held by the 0.1% ?
"Social bootcamps" - doesn't that sound dystopian?
I suspect that if the people have the fundamental skills, picking up user skills won't be too much of a challenge and as the only people who are able to create new tech, they will get all the support they need. Imagine an Instagram influencer writing their own app.