OK, then, what is instant access to all of wikipedia, and to Google's entire search index, inside your pocket at all times? It is what computers have wrought.

OK, then, what is instant access to all of wikipedia, and to Google's entire search index, inside your pocket at all times? It is what computers have wrought. If you don't think "computing" means "using a computer," then fine. But at a higher level, my point is this: if I were master of the universe, I'd pick millions of people with iPhones over millions of people writing their own programs. For those who love programming, coding is an ends to itself. But in the real world it's not -- people don't care about the code, they just want to see pictures of their grandkids. The pictures of their grandkids are really making their life better in a way that shouldn't be dismissed as frivolous and "not real computing." If we don't make software for people to use in the real world, why do it at all?