Why Absolutely Everyone Needs To Be Software Literate

Reality check:

    The average American teenager spends six hours a day
    texting, 90 minutes a day on Facebook, and more than
    three hours a day watching TV on the computer

That's 10.5 hours. Assume they sleep for 8 and go to school for 6, that's 24.5 hours a day.

Probably they spend some of their school time on Facebook, or texting, but even so, do they do nothing else?

really?

This was my view on why people should know how to code, not because I love it and you should love it too, but because, my god man, you use a computer for like at least 6 hours a day if you're in any modern country.

Not knowing how hardware works in one thing, but software is becoming even more proliferate. Not understanding something that will encompass so much of the economy, your leisure, and not to mention something so powerful, is ridiculous and infantile.

Maybe it's just me, but I always wanted to know how things worked, and it still baffles me how people don't want to know how software works. It's quite easy for the most part after a few years of torturous study:

Databases, Queries, Logic Conditionals, Data Structures, Inheritance/Polymorphism, Graphics, and your done. You basically understand software, and can marvel over it with another perspective...

NOTE: I obviously missed your favourite specialization and I'm sorry, but only a basic understanding is necessary, and is achievable with understanding a few of each of the concepts I've listed.