I think in this blog post, "computational thinking" means "procedural thinking" in the sense of automated data processing, which fits pretty well with the "big

I think in this blog post, "computational thinking" means "procedural thinking" in the sense of automated data processing, which fits pretty well with the "big data" agenda of Google (and IBM in the pre-internet days). There is another kind of "computational" in the sense of simulation, data modelling and interactive computing. It follows the line of augmenting human intellect and man-computer symbiosis in the sense of Doug Engelbart and J.C.R. Licklider. What kind of future do we want our kids to be in?