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Spelling is clearly not an obsolete skill. The result of a correctly spelled text may be achieved differently, as with spellcheck, but the text for this entry contains a misspelling for "too" which is precisely the kind of word that spellchecking doesn't catch. So spelling remains necessary. Not to mention all the places that aren't hooked up for spellcheck, all the words that spellcheck doesn't cover, and all the languages it doesn't touch. I'm always amused by the fact that with each new version of spellcheck I get it is almost immediately wrong on evolving technical terms in computing itself, like "Facebook", "wiki", and for years "spellcheck" Actually this computer only recognized "spellchecker".
One thing about skills is that it is often the skills that are totally beneath one that actually end up being vital. Say you finally make it to VP of Marketing, and you approve a huge expenditure on leaflets, and they all need to be scraped because they contain spelling errors. What, I'm a VP and I'm still getting criticized for spelling errors, just like grade3!! But that's real life.
Also spelling is one of those cultural things, People try to pretend they are better than you because they can spell, but they mostly can't carry it off in the US. I'm not so sure about Germany or France. Particularly cultures like France where they are feeling linguistically threatened.
Also, in Canada we are theoretically supposed to use Canadian English which is English spellings for words like colour. I've never had a computer that would really select for that in spellcheck, you can select it but then when writing on a US blog you need to dumb it down, or it isn't supposeted somewhere else in your programs, etc...
The majority of people have never really been able to spell, let alone read or write, historically. This is just normal, something has changed in the field, but the need to spell, such as it is, remains.
Assembly programing is not an obsolete skill at all. Supposedly, the high level languages have made assembly programming obsolete, but the people who write the compilers for high level languages have to know assembly programming. Assembly is all computers understand, so it can never be made obsolete.
Assembler is an essential aspect of understanding computers. It is extensively used in understanding, creating and resolving software exploits in computer security. It is required to properly understand what's going in writing device drivers and other low level software. Disassembling existing software. To say assembly programming is an obsolete skill is simply ridiculous.
"Anti-war protesting" is only obsolete for the warmakers.