Typing is still an important skill (Score 1)

If you are a programmer, I can see how you would pick up typing through your classes and interests. But many of us working in tech-related fields are not programmers, and for me, learning typing in high school is the best thing my mother ever made me do. I'm a program manager, and 60% of my job is answering email. I type at around 80WPM. My colleague never took a typing class -- I answer probably four times as much email as she does in the same period. I also can take notes on a computer, transcribing whatever is being said at a meeting, for the most part. I have no idea how the innards of my computer work -- and it's never mattered for the kind of jobs I'm in.