Software is eating the world
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During the Renaissance you would've encouraged your kids to learn to read and write. 500 years later you can do the same with coding.
Did you know that only 5% of European males were literate at the beginning of the Renaissance?
Some people could listen and learn in group settings like religious gatherings or public speeches. But actual reading and writing was reserved for the religious elite.
Think about that for a moment, then get ready to have your mind blown... Today LESS than 1% of the world can code.
For a while now people have been talking about how “software is eating the world”. But as Brianne Kimmel from Work Life Ventures said on Twitter the other day:
It's just the beginning.
Two years ago Naval Ravikant famously convinced his Uber driver to head to the Apple Store, buy an iMac and teach himself and his kids to code.
My own daughters started coding at school at the ages of 9 and 11. They love it. My oldest just turned 12 and next year she’ll probably get into Python.
If you taught primary school kids to code in 2009 you would’ve been considered progressive. Things have moved so fast that NOT teaching kids how to code today would border on negligence.
What a time to be alive.