I was concerned too, but even with general purpose computing devices readily available, for the last decade most people have been using them like oversized tablets, barely knowing anything about how they work or how to fix them when they break. The curious among us will always have the avenue of creation open to us (after all, who otherwise would create the newest apps and websites?) and it's not like all the literature is being burned and destroyed.

Perhaps its our duty to make even better tools and resources available to those who want create and produce in the age of tablets, and to create alternate platforms that don't include walled gardens and locked-down app stores.