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That's what people thought about software 20 years ago.

• daveguy 10y ago
  *40 years ago. I was getting my CS degree 20 years ago (1997). At that point there was no doubt that software was going to be a long, sustained and growing field. 40 years ago ~1977 you would have had to be a very forward thinker to imagine the state of personal computing and software needs.
  • ghaff 10y ago
    By way of context, I got an engineering degree (not in CS) in the late 70s and I barely touched a computer during my four years. I didn't even use a word processor until graduate school, and that was a mainframe-based line editor. I did have classmates who majored in CS but computer use was certainly not widespread.