Ivan Zhao <[email protected]> writes: > 45 years after Engelbart's demo, we have a read-only web and Microsoft > Word 2011, a gulf between "users" and "programmers" that can't be > wider, and the scariest part is that most people have been > indoctrinated long enough to realize there could be alternatives. > > Naturally, this is just history repeating itself (a la pre-Gutenberg > scribes, Victorian plumbers). But my question is, what can we learn > from these historical precedences, in order to to consciously to > design our escape path. A revolution? An evolution? An education?
Education would be essential. In France, some classes in high school will get a CS course, including programming. https://wiki.inria.fr/wikis/sciencinfolycee/images/7/73/Informatique_et_Sciences_du_Num%C3%A9rique_-_Sp%C3%A9cialit%C3%A9_ISN_en_Terminale_S.pdf Unfortunately, it's not generalized yet, like mathematics of history. Hopefully, in ten or twenty years, every pupil will be taught some programming. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}. _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
