Two personal anecdotes: When I graduated in 1995, some of my friends were disappointed when they went into computer science for lack of a better option. By 199

Two personal anecdotes: When I graduated in 1995, some of my friends were disappointed when they went into computer science for lack of a better option. By 1999, they were getting frantic calls from recruiters trying to outbid each other. In the mid-80s, I went to a job fair, and two jaded programmers told me that there was no future in computer science, everything was already done and invented, and the job was mostly boring maintenance. I sense a cycle...