It's a nice thought but we aren't heading in that direction. The young are almost exclusively brought up on swipe interfaces. The future is likely to be a dystopia of idiot proof GUIs or even worse voice control.
True, but those interfaces are built by adults still stuck in the old paradigm. Kids have astonishing familiarity with tables and phones. The notion that interfaces need to be dumbed down because users are 'stupid' might be true today, but that won't be the case for those raised with smartphones.
2007 was 11 years ago, in 10 years those iPhone reared people will enter the workplace. They will have instincts you and I do not. I suspect it will push general computing interface design to the 'power user' side.
A lot has been written on the “digital native” (people growing up with technology being good with technology). I encourage you to look it up.
As computer savvy people, I think we imagine how much better we could have been with more opportunity. It seems like the prevailing opinion is that the digital native is a myth and that just having technology doesn’t make the next generations experts in it.
Kids have strong familiarity with swipe UIs and iPhone games. This won't make them switch to programming-based UIs any more than growing up with a TV turned one into an electrician. In fact, the opposite is likely to be true - the more "magical" and abstracted away the UI is from the underlying technology - the less likely it is that its users will develop any intuitive understanding of what lies beneath.
