Re: We live in a society
I fail to see how a society dependent on technology with relatively few people having technological expertise could work in the long term.
Well, that's they way we're heading. I agree, it won't work. Universities used to teach subjects like silicon chip design. Now they don't. There's really only a few people in the world who really know what they're doing in silicon engineering, and they're either from Taiwan, Japan or (less so these days) the USA, but increasingly from China.
How many people are taught C/C++ these days? Not many. So who's going to write the operating systems?
The scary thing is that nations like China believes in the value of proper engineering educations in all fields. Increasingly it'll be countries like that which will innovate, whilst the rest of the world stagnates.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
