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I can’t be the only old fogey amused by the recent report that Gen Z are so lacking in basic skills that they would pay someone to change a lightbulb, says Carol Midgley in The Times. How gratifying that the “AI generation” don’t know how to put air in a tyre, use a stepladder or identify the car battery under the bonnet. “See, we’re not obsolete yet!” I said, waving the newspaper under the nose of the nearest youngster, who was “staring at TicTac, or whatever it’s called”.
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