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 Kids today use computer-based tools as something being part of the environments as people in earlier times used light switches, cars, candles, books, clocks, scores…
Most people don't understand how a car engine works, but drive, and that's ok. Problem with computers/phones is there is a power structure below: you get yourself dependent on a network you do not understand.
People need to deal with this, and it may not be necessary to learn programming for this.
