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So-called advanced manufacturing, which is highly specialized and requires a facility with computers...
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Blah, blah. "The computer will become more and more important, and someday we can't do without it. Everybody has to know how to use them."
Newsflash. 'Someday' was here 15 years ago (in The Netherlands). Still, many people seemed to not have realized it. Even now I see lots and lots of people who have *no* clue about anything but a smartphone (and even their understanding of that is tenuous).
As long as hordes of 20-30 year olds need help to connect their smartphone to a wifi router, it either has to become even simpler than it is now ("Tap the router name, fill out your password"), or they need to study harder. Those people can't use a computer sufficiently to use it for their daily jobs, short of some 'tricks' maybe.
There are still loads of people who simply say "I can't do that" as soon as they see something they don't understand. They don't even make an effort to try and understand it. This is particularly true when it comes down to technology, such as computers, phones, tablets, TV's, and the like.