Came across a thought-provoking question at BelowTheLine - is HTML the new typing?

Reminds me of the old Dilbert cartoon (which doesn't seem to be online anywhere I can find) in which Ratbert complains that he never bothered to learn how to type because there were secretaries to do that, and then suddenly computers were everywhere and he was helpless because he had no idea how to use them.

There are already enough web applications that assume, or massively benefit from, a basic knowledge of HTML on the part of the user. In a handful of years the "don't we have programmers to do the HTML?" defence will look as plausible as "don't we have secretaries to do the typing?" does now.