It already is, in terms of students studying fields like computer science or computer engineering. In the past, students entering these fields had some basic background knowledge–like how to use a computer, figure things out, etc. Now, that is less the case. And they don’t already know binary or hexadecimal anymore either. So it definitely slows down the educational process.

Plus, there’s this story: a colleague told students to enter a particular command at the command line to run the application they needed for the class. One student had trouble – they said they got a 404 error. They’d never heard of a command line, and the only place they knew to type was the address bar in their browser! This was a 3rd year *computer engineering* student.

– A professor of computer engineering.