We're fluent in the uses of technology but not fluent in its creation, how the stuff actually gets on to the screen.
At the time, his arrival was hailed as a forward-thinking move, since Mr. Lynch, a Texas native, was only 39 years old and fluent in e-commerce and technology.
The majority of people fortunate enough to live in higher-income demographics are on par in every way with their peers in the west: highly educated, using the newest technology, fluent in English and often educated in foreign universities.
They are natives in this modern world -- born into it -- while the rest of us are more like immigrants struggling to become fluent in the language of technology.
"The U.S. couldn't believe someone could be ahead of them in technology," Dr. Khrushchev said in fluent English tinged with a Russian accent.
"The scores clearly show that when students have opportunities to engage with technology and engineering, they become fluent in the skills that prepare them for living and working in the modern world.
While perhaps not quite a digital native, he has become fluent in the language and tools that technology offers to artists.
He graduated in 2009 in information technology and is also fluent in Arabic.
Emwazi graduated in 2009 in information technology and is also fluent in Arabic.
He belongs to a new generation of Tibetans fluent in Chinese as well as their own language and familiar with digital technology.
