"Programming, he reassured the students, was a cut-and-dried technical activity whose rules were crystal clear." That is the line that stood out the most for me in the article "Who Am We?". As someone who works with software on a daily basis, I know that nothing is crystal clear about programming.
I took a class at UML called Intro to Programming with C. The professor wanted to see your code and assured us at the beginning of the class that he would know if you got a programmer to help you.
Over the years, software is sold to the finance industry with a selling point of "no IT needed". More and more application have a user interface or an add on to a software that allow the user to perform tasks that were previously completed by programmers.
As I continue through the article I think of all the movies where the computers have come to live or try to take over the world. Most recently, the kids movie G-Force showed kitchen appliances coming to life through a computer chip. These appliances were in every kitchen and were being used to take over the world. It made me wonder….
Shall we play a game?
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.01/turkle.html
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