I'm not sure i understand this but I thought people 20 years ago learnt how to program because they had no choice not because they wanted to. 20 years ago even installing something simple required typing some sort of code but today it's all plug and play. Do you really think if the programmers from the C64 era came into the future today would be so keen to learn code? Especially the PI? I think not.
You had a choice, loading games didn't require any programming ability. Knowing to type LOAD is like knowing to say bonjour to a french person.
We really need a computer that turns up ready to plug in to a keyboard, TV and internet and you can just start programming without having to worry about breaking it. The PI is close, but it's not quite indestructable enough. It might be enough, we'll see.
So far I only know adults that have bought them because they are a cheap way of buying a reasonably powerful microcontroller for projects that they could buy a solution off the shelf but they don't want to spend the money. They'll almost certainly develop the software on a PC first. If that is all it's destined for then they have missed their target by a mile.
