Matthew's Weblog

Yes.

However, there’s an interesting rumination on a man who has made it his goal to research how to make it happen (as well as the subject’s response) that makes me somewhat uncomfortable about the people who will get us there. It will take a lot of research and much soul-searching before society is ready to deal with this question. Unfortunately, I’m quite clear that people can’t handle it right now.

Both articles are talking around each other, using unsupported, dismissive language, when what we really need is a clear discussion to begin. If in 40 years we do make enough progress to noticeably inflect the aging curve, we will need a lot more thought than shouting going on. And (at least in the US these days) I’m not sure that’s going to happen…

An article about combining IT studies with business courses or other types of learning… not just the heads-down code monkey approach, and not the theory of compilers either. Both are very appropriate options but I wish these alternatives had been available while I was in school so I didn’t have to make my own major. I probably learned as much, though.

This USATODAY article focuses on a trend that I’m really torn about, and that personally affects me in more ways than one. I want to have tech jobs created locally so I can be gainfully employed. However, I’m looking into using offshore programmers to bootstrap my own personal startup and the price is (more) right.

Cornered by my own logic…