I can imagine this being the future, but it's quite a long way off. I was thinking about this as I was doing some work in Python earlier today - back when I was working in C, variable-length lists and hash maps were so inconvenient that I often just convinced myself that fixed-length lists and sequential searches were "good enough" for the case at hand (and, often, I was right). With Python, of course, I don't even think twice about using relatively higher-level concepts (in fact, I don't have a choice), so even as a professional programmer, I've popped one meta-level up in the abstraction stack. That said - there are a LOT more meta-levels that tools need to pop up before somebody who doesn't even understand what a linked list is is going to be able to produce software that serves a useful purpose. Even in that future world, there will be a need for "low-level" folks who can at least think in assembler when necessary - but I imagine that role will be more like that of a surgeon in meatspace.