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Barely. And that's unfortunate.

The future (maybe even present) looks like a return to time sharing. My students don't even know what Microsoft Word is. I'm told to avoid local computing when possible , whether it's where to save files or even how to log into the laptop.

Google classroom, Google classroom, Google classroom. Not allowed to unlock Linux on Chromebooks. Can't install extensions. Can't change your wallpaper. An obsession. I'm negative towards the whole thing. Don't even know why I'm teaching anymore.

> The future (maybe even present) looks like a return to time sharing.

It is that. However, everything comes in cycles, and people will eventually (I argue that's already started to happen) rediscover the downsides of it. Personal computers became a huge deal precisely because they freed people from time-sharing.