Works Cited: Generation Cooked

If you bought my book Generation Cooked: How We Lost Tech Literacy in a Simplified World, you might notice the lack of a Works Cited page. Due to formatting constraints in self-publishing, long URLs are difficult to print reliably. To save you the headache of typing these manually, I have organized them neatly here.

I hope the book provided some enlightening perspectives. As of March 2026, I’m already working on my next project! Stay connected via my YouTube, Instagram, and website (where you can find my resume and blog).

— Omar

Part I: Digital Foundations & Literacy

  1. Digital native | Research Starters - EBSCO https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/social-sciences-and-humanities/digital-native
  2. Digital Natives | Center for the Future of Libraries https://www.ala.org/future/trends/digitalnatives
  3. Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants - The Technology Source Archives http://www.technologysource.org/article/digital_natives_digital_immigrants/
  4. The Digital Native Debate in Higher Education https://cjlt.ca/index.php/cjlt/article/download/26327/19509/67371
  5. Theoretical Perspectives of How Digital Natives Learn - ERIC https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1067467.pdf
  6. Challenging the Myth of the Digital Native: A Narrative Review - PMC https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10123718/
  7. Productive Friction and the Future of Learning https://genio.co/blog/productive-friction-future-learning-ai-driven-approach
  8. International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) 2023 https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/icils/icils2023/
  9. Gen Z faces ‘job-pocalypse’ as global firms prioritise AI - The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/oct/09/gen-z-face-job-pocalypse...

Part II: Design, Cognitive Load & AI

  1. The importance of cognitive load theory - SET https://set.et-foundation.co.uk/resources/the-importance-of-cognitive-load-theory
  2. Don Norman's JND.org https://jnd.org/
  3. AI and cognitive offloading - UX Collective https://uxdesign.cc/ai-and-cognitive-offloading...
  4. The End of Coding as We Know It: Rise of Vibe Coding https://levelup.gitconnected.com/the-end-of-coding-as-we-know-it...
  5. Right to Repair vs Obsolescence Management https://www.forcetechnologies.co.uk/right-to-repair...