"The programming part is nothing more than a hammer to a builder or a scalpel to a surgeon. Yes, you need to know how to use it, but the skill involves knowing what to do with it."
Oh but that is soooo wrong. By now it is an undisputed fact that robots are better at surgery than surgeons. Sure, surgeons are still in the loop, as of now... But by now software is already: controlling the machines extracting the material, controlling the milling machines, controlling the entire logistics infrastructure, controlling the robotic arm which shall hold the scalpel, add precision to the surgeon's movements, provide robotic arms with levels of freedom which no human hand shall ever made, etc.
In addition to that software is also about data transmission for when surgeons need to perform remote surgery, about finding correlation between blood samples results and actual illness, finding tumors in scans, X-rays, etc.
That ultra-reductive scalpel/surgeon is totally off. Soon the computer software shall be precisely the skilled expert.
And of course one could go to great length explaining how software revolutionized farming too.
But to me the less people understand anything about software, the more of a technopriests I'm going to be in tomorrow's world so I'm all for it ; )
Oh but that is soooo wrong. By now it is an undisputed fact that robots are better at surgery than surgeons. Sure, surgeons are still in the loop, as of now... But by now software is already: controlling the machines extracting the material, controlling the milling machines, controlling the entire logistics infrastructure, controlling the robotic arm which shall hold the scalpel, add precision to the surgeon's movements, provide robotic arms with levels of freedom which no human hand shall ever made, etc.
In addition to that software is also about data transmission for when surgeons need to perform remote surgery, about finding correlation between blood samples results and actual illness, finding tumors in scans, X-rays, etc.
That ultra-reductive scalpel/surgeon is totally off. Soon the computer software shall be precisely the skilled expert.
And of course one could go to great length explaining how software revolutionized farming too.
But to me the less people understand anything about software, the more of a technopriests I'm going to be in tomorrow's world so I'm all for it ; )