> Competitive edge for computer programmers going forward: knowing how computers work. Only if they're young or famous. Otherwise, they're automatically kicke

> Competitive edge for computer programmers going forward: knowing how computers work. Only if they're young or famous. Otherwise, they're automatically kicked to the curb because the common thinking these days is that anyone with even a single gray hair is "out of touch with technology" even if they've wasted their entire lives staying on the "bleeding edge". Apparently only the young understand technology, and the people who built and maintained it all their lives are just "clueless old farts" like the morons we've got in Congress passing laws about technology.