[sophiebits]

You used to need a certain amount of technical competence to be literate. Now we teach everyone to read and write! What is the world coming to?

[mlyle]

That's hardly what I said.

It's good that computers are more accessible. But by making it easy, we're providing less opportunity for people who are curious about innards at an early age.

Of course, now we're teaching computational thinking in schools, but IMO it's a really big open question whether our attempts to teach that work, especially in elementary school.

[userbinator]

It's more like "now we don't have to teach everyone to read and write, we do the (filtered/censored/etc.) communication for them."