Only 5% of the US population is capable enough to "schedule a meeting room in a scheduling application, using information contained in several email messages."

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/

Remember in the 90s, when teens were more tech savvy than adults, and everyone assumed that the savviest would just keep getting younger? Now it's 2017, and the people who were teens in the 90s are the most tech savvy generation and probably will be until they die.

Kids don't grow up with computers any more, they grow up with iPhones. If it's possible to learn to code on an iPhone, it's despite Apple's best efforts.

@mogwai_poet there are still many younger folk trying to learn to code (and better initiatives to teach them such as the Raspberry PI foundation in UK and BBC Micro Bit) but not only do proprietary systems and cultura; barriers raise the barrier or entry for younger hackers to start; there's a another wider issue that in nations with traditionally high tech skill levels, the populations are declining..

http://brilliantmaps.com/fertility-rates/