If computers are the future, why are computer users expected to be permanently illiterate?

I was introduced to computers by my father, though not intentionally. Now retired, my father worked in sales and was assigned a local territory within which he traveled by car to meet with customers. It made more sense for him to keep an office in our home and travel from there instead of first commuting to an office building and then traveling. For his home office, my father purchased an Apple…