Magic beyond comprehension rule

All these stories about zoomers not knowing how to do computer stuff is making me want to write a fantasy world where magic is prevalent but most people do not bother to know how it works or question it beyond its surface applications, despite it being the basis for all military and economic might.

Well I wanted to write that, but then I realized I was talking about FMA: Brotherhood.

It's like that 'What's a computer?' ad

Everything is so abstracted nowadays that even the specialists are disconnected from understanding the underlying systems

It was inevitable. Long ago you had to know a lot about cars and engines to own a car. Now only enthusiasts know that kind of stuff.

they don't understand what is an emulator?

What do you mean? He just prays to the machine spirit.

The concept of an emulator isn't even that old. Like, literally all throughout the 2000s and 2010s. How did this generation grow up so oblivious to everything? "What's an emulator?" "How do you use a computer?"

Bro, are we talking about 80 year olds or 20 year olds

It's affecting the older generations too. My grandma loved playing solitaire on her laptop. I asked her "did that come with the OS?" And she responded with "What's an OS". Crazy times.

So like, how did she get an emulator working on iOS without knowing how?

If the oldest zoomers are almost 30 and the youngest are just barely teens, I guess we've reached the point where "younger" zoomers could be 18 or 20.

What's the cutoff year for this mindset? Granted, I'm an electrical engineer, but I was born in the early 2000s, and my friends had a solid grasp of computer software and hardware fundamentals.

It just means someone set it up for her, I suppose