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Can Computer Science Skills Save Democracy?
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In response to venture capitalist Marc Andressen's Wall Street Journal piece, "Why Software Is Eating the World," Sarah Lacy at TechCrunch issued a big "never mind" to the late '90s writing warning that the white collar engineering jobs were all leaving Silicon Valley and being outsourced to emerging countries.
It's true that some of them are, but just as Andressen writes that software is changing every industry, Lacy writes that these days, programming is where it's at.
I've talked to IT recruiters all across the country who all report difficulty finding the talent that their client companies need. In an interesting piece at CCC Blog, Henry Kautz, chairman of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Rochester, argues why computer science is vital for democracy.
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