Kevin Kelly:
If you are in school today the technologies you will use as an adult tomorrow have not been invented yet. Therefore, the life skill you need most is not the mastery of specific technologies, but mastery of the technium as a whole — how technology in general works. I like to think of this ability to deal with any type of new technology as techno-literacy.
He goes on to list the key skills needed to be minimally techno-literate as well as the ones needed to thrive in a technologically evolving society.