On the other hand, it seems like technical proficiency might be going down with newer generations. Many were raised on smartphones and tablets where you just tap something and it does the thing. Devices nowadays abstract a lot of the underlying system away from the users, even to the point where apparently the newer generation struggles with the concept of files and directories.
Using a computer as a consumer is an entirely different skill set from making them. Just as most car owners barely know how their machine works besides stepping on an accelerator pedal and occasionally inserting a fuel nozzle.
Even before the smartphone revolution brought computing to global masses of all income levels, most users were not makers.
