Pull quote: "The private sector, sensing the widening chasm between technology use versus real skill, is stepping in to fill this gap. Udacity offers free online courses in computer science, physics and artificial intelligence. Treehouse offers low-cost access to courses on Web programming and design, as well as iOS development. Codecademy runs free classes on Web fundamentals and Javascript, among other topics." - Peter Murray

The Millennials backlash makes me sad more than anything, these days. Seems like headlines are rapidly/dangerously approaching "Millennials: Stupider or Stupidest Generation Ever Amirite". - Meg V. Meg

What I've seen so far hasn't been backlash against the people absurdly generalized as "Millennials" at all--it's been backlash against the dumb generalizations. Just as the so-called "Silent Generation" couldn't all fix our own cars, so "Millennials" aren't all tech experts. - Walt Crawford

We weren't all born with smartphones attached to our heads. (Or, for those of us ancient Millennials, substitute TRS-80 for smartphone.) - Julian