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 This is exactly what I've been saying! My college students don't understand what "uploading" and "downloading" actually are, can't touch-type, etc. (Anecdotally, I heard similar tales from Japanese friends about the 90s there--they said everyone expected young people in high-tech Japan to be computer savvy, but they really only knew how to use their phones. Then they graduated, got jobs, and had to learn to use PCs.)
@wintersweet @mogwai_poet Chatting in IRC is what got me away from looking at my hands in a way that writing papers or those typing tutors never did.