For my line of work, that has become an indispensable factor. It means you can work faster and push things a little later, which is something you are always trying to do. But I didn't have any background in math or computer technology or anything. The truth is I don't know the first thing about the intricacies of writing code or anything of that kind. I basically learned how to understand the logical elements of a computer system and what they are doing.
Computers are certainly useful tools of education.
CD-ROM technology has introduced all sorts of ways that learning of a certain kind can be made more fun and perhaps more accessible. But that does not add up to the same thing as computer literacy equating to real literacy. And I think there are a great many young people around the country who have mastered their computer system but who have nowhere near mastered the basics of the English language and who are nowhere near educated. Learning to use a computer and being good at it are no substitutes for the educational disciplines that have always been considered primary and that remain so. Well, I note that Speaker Gingrich has talked about putting laptop computers in the hands of poor kids, which I think is a dubious proposition.