By teaching the current school aged kid's to program.
I seriously think the world would be better off if programming were seriously taught in schools, on a level equivalent to language, math, science, etc.
If we start with Scratch in early grade school and work up to C in high school, so many more people would be comfortable and efficient using computers, and would have the understanding necessary to understand the legislation of tech.
This would take a decade+ to pay off/have the bank tellers know to program, but it seems like the best long term plan.
I agree. Programming shouldn't be (just) thought of as engineering, but also as simply giving the computer complex instructions. There is also the story about RMS teaching secretaries to program Emacs by not telling them Lisp is a programming language.
> Programming shouldn't be (just) thought of as engineering, but also as simply giving the computer complex instructions.
I really like this phrasing. I'm not really an engineer. My code is mostly rough, but it is functional and does what I need it to. I don't program to build a skyscraper, I program so my computer can do a thing I need it to do.
