This is an interesting misunderstanding: "One of the biggest thriving industries within the US is computer engineering, programming, and general computer related fields".
What is happening is just that information technology is entering almost any field of industry, so you need that skills almost everywhere. But is not that this is the new industry: this is just being part of the common skills required in almost all jobs.
In the very near future, to say "I don't speak computers" could be like saying "I don't know how to power the light in my room".