My take: software is a form of literacy. In a world of literacy, you are a fool to hire an illiterate person as a CEO. So we start to see the shakeout. Look,

My take: software is a form of literacy. In a world of literacy, you are a fool to hire an illiterate person as a CEO. So we start to see the shakeout. Look, in early Medieval Europe, Charlemagne could only write his name, and was functionlly illiterate for much of his life. But every Holy Roman Emperor afterwards was a as literate as you or I. We are at that hand over stage now - every CEO in the previous generation could get away with being Charlegmane. Not any more