I glanced at the Clive Thompson article. I disagree. I feel movements like "software carpentry" (
https://software-carpentry.org) are a good indicator of what mass computer literacy will look like in the workplace and society as a whole. Essentially more folks will know how to develop small scripts to support their main work (or customise their home automation systems). In turn, I also suspect, in the long run, programmers that act as the equivalent of a scrivener (the 'blue' collar workers of those articles) are going to dramatically decline as a percentage of folks engaged in software development.