Only 5% of the US population is capable enough to "schedule a meeting room in a scheduling application, using information contained in several email messages."
Remember in the 90s, when teens were more tech savvy than adults, and everyone assumed that the savviest would just keep getting younger? Now it's 2017, and the people who were teens in the 90s are the most tech savvy generation and probably will be until they die.
Kids don't grow up with computers any more, they grow up with iPhones. If it's possible to learn to code on an iPhone, it's despite Apple's best efforts.
@mogwai_poet Having started to work with kids about half a year ago, i was shocked at how little they know, even those that have their own desktop computer.
The tendencies of GUIs to abstract away internals of the machine is part of the problem. iPhones are just another step in that trend.
The real Problem IMHO is lack of education. It isn't enough to have information available online, it needs to be taught.
