No, his point is that it already is and we can declare anybody who doesn't know to be worse than a "trained monkey". I say the evidence clearly shows that it is not widespread knowledge (IMHO "trained monkey" makes it sound like you could ask a normal college sophomore about this and get the correct response, which is just false, a lot of programmers don't even know what the term "serialization" means), and while it is a great goal we can not act as if it is already true.