If you said "CLI" I would believe it... But they would have had to download/upload a file to apply to the university, create a resume, post a meme to reddit, mo

If you said "CLI" I would believe it... But they would have had to download/upload a file to apply to the university, create a resume, post a meme to reddit, move pictures from their phone to their computer, etc. I would have thought so, too. Until just yesterday. Someone from a department in my company e-mailed me a Word document with a picture of a PDF icon in it. She thought that would send the PDF document to me. At first I thought it was the 1990's again when secretaries were first getting computers, and would do things like hold a piece of paper up to the computer screen in order to "scan" it in. So I looked up her profile in the company intranet. She's 30. Then I remembered what I'd read so often here on HN: That young people grew up with phones and tablets and the whole "desktop" paradigm is foreign to them. Well, those people are growing up and landing real jobs now. And so now I guess the burden of teaching basic computer literacy falls on the companies again, just like it did in the 1990's.