I thought long and hard about a apt analogy and decided on "literacy" because I'm hoping that using computers as a medium for formulating and exchanging ideas would have a similar effect as reading and writing had.
I can very well imagine that a couple of hundred years ago people thought that writing was some niche knowledge and it's perfectly fine to leave that to the monks.
My goal is not to make everybody a professional software engineer just like everybody should not be a professional author. But people should be able to use the medium to discover and understand powerful ideas.
I can very well imagine that a couple of hundred years ago people thought that writing was some niche knowledge and it's perfectly fine to leave that to the monks.
My goal is not to make everybody a professional software engineer just like everybody should not be a professional author. But people should be able to use the medium to discover and understand powerful ideas.