One of those moments the rest of the old continent would stop, look at the USA, & exclaim in unison: “Idiots”.

Much of the old world has gone that have existed for centuries and people live in them today.

What horrified you is basically part for the course for them.

Arcologies or greenhouse super domes for food production of any kind wherever it’s desired

Or carbon nanotube mass production so we can build mile-high connected super structures

In Georgia? 75% chance it works

In Florida? 0% chance of yes

I got myself an old itouch and wanted to run emulators to play mario64. I had no real understanding on how computers worked or anything, but the process of jailbreaking and everything else i had to learn and getting a PC to do it & then installing Linux because Windows would be $60 basically made sure from that age i’d be working IT & computing for the next dacade plus