Considering that the foundation of our realities is information, it seems foolish not to educate the masses on how to manipulate it efficiently. Here we have a

Considering that the foundation of our realities is information, it seems foolish not to educate the masses on how to manipulate it efficiently. Here we have a cheap, general purpose information transforming machine and yet we have dimwits arguing that it's not so important to learn how to use them. The only other things which have transformed society as much as these useless machines are writing and the printing press. But we don't ask anyone to learn how to write, now do we? To put it another way, knowledge is power. Having the ability to use a machine which provides access to, for all intents and purposes, unlimited knowledge is of paramount importance to society in the long term. It's just as important as literacy.