What happens when software starts designing software and computers code themselves?
Aren’t other subjects, e.g. social sciences and liberal arts, more important?
Don’t misunderstand the nature of my questions, I don’t doubt the value of understanding the digital world, the bias’ and motivations of data and computer programming to mediate our existence. I just doubt industry sponsored statements that suggest coding is “the language of the 21st century” unless they’re being applied to the existential challenges that we all face.
One might be curious about the motivations to promote coding as a solution to today’s societal challenges whether technological unemployment or the downward pressure on income security and social agency that has given rise to the precariat. This is before we consider global challenges such as climate change, population growth, mass migration and how we get along with each other.
Perhaps we need to think more broadly about the things we need to learn and why. Computing is clearly one of them.
I found this article by Ben Williamson, Stirling University, of some value in provoking thought around this
