Our society is hell-bent on abandoning anything non-digital (peak oil be damned). Books, pencils, paper—if it doesn't have an "i" in front of it and if you're not using the most up to date, patched version then it must be no good.
There are, however, consequences to this point of view, Society.
If you're going to abandon tools that have had 100% uptime for the last several hundred years in favor of the tools of computer technology—then these tools are now the most basic implements of modern literacy. No more do you get to wave your hands and shoo away the details of "those machines". I'm not talking about abstract theory or intricate programming. I'm talking about operating the machine. Given the path we've chosen, if you can't unzip an archive to a target directory, understand the difference between a shortcut to a file and the file itself, or—heaven help me before I choke someone—understand that Internet Explorer is not "The Internet", then you are illiterate. Not "computer illiterate"; that's precisely my point. Illiterate. No one seems to be satisfied with books and paper. If it's not electronic, we don't want it. If there's no app for it, it must not be important.
Is that really the way you want it, Society? You're sure?
OK, fine. But why, then, do so many people find it acceptable, excusable, or even reasonable that, even though their job may exist solely inside a computer, they don't even feel a sense of expectation that they should know how to operate "those machines"? If you can't operate the most basic tools of modern literacy...well...you're illiterate.