Computers have evolved into commoditized entertainment appliances. Nobody who spends their time watching TV is expected to know how to fix their TV or even how

Computers have evolved into commoditized entertainment appliances. Nobody who spends their time watching TV is expected to know how to fix their TV or even how it works: it just does, and everyone's happy. It's not even a new thing. Granted, when computers were less common, it was of course more likely that someone who owned one also had an interest in it beyond the bare basics. Still, I had friends who didn't know anything more than how to plonk a disk into the drive of their Amiga 500 to start a game, or otherwise learned the bare minimum required to for example load a C64 game from tape. And let's not even talk about the Nintendo crowd. What a bunch of ignoramuses! Those who are interested in how computers work will learn about it. The rest will treat it as the appliance it's intended to be and go about their lives, spending their time getting proficient in other areas and skills instead.