Why Pushing People to Code Will Widen the Gap Between Rich and Poor | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
Instead of making people adapt to technologies — in the process leaving behind large swaths of society — technologies should adapt to our needs and values.
Teaching people to code in school may be a fine idea, but no more fine than teaching people to write, say, or read. Or type, for that matter. Or play a clarinet. And some kids will learn it and some probably won't, and some teachers will be good at teaching it and some won't, and the Earth will spin.
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