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 Young people in Brazil no longer possess basic computer skills. They struggle with tasks such as copying and pasting or finding a file in a folder because they no longer use computers, only phones. 
 Same in Italy 
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what 
 Yes. A friend of mine, who has been a teacher for 20 years, told me how over the years he has seen students becoming less and less used to PCs.
The example he gives is that they don't know the potential, even of things that might interest them, for example they don't know how to search for and download an MP3.
With COVID, schools have accelerated the 'digital conversion' and now the children (< 14 years old) are better off, but they are still trapped in the cloud world, Google above all.