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I'm afraid your comment needs some editing before I can fully understand your intention. But I can posit this: What if that cab driver, as a result of knowing
by tbeseda 14y ago
I'm afraid your comment needs some editing before I can fully understand your intention. But I can posit this:
What if that cab driver, as a result of knowing a small amount of coding, could optimize his time, his routes, his fuel efficiency, his tire wear, or Hell even eliminate the need for a cab service altogether?
Luckily, you're right, someone else will figure it out for him.
- dinkumthinkum 14y agoWell, I edited it but I think it's pretty clear anyway. You're posit does really answer the issue. So you're solution is there is that the cab driver should be an Einstein or something, great but that's just silly. You're basically saying as I said before, that the best case scenario is if everyone was some great intellectual. No one disputes that, it's not controversial. But it's not interesting as something that could be made to happen in reality. As well, why is programming so special in this sense? For this cab driver, knowing a little bit of Javascript to be able make SPA blog engine is not enough to do route optimization, fuel efficiency and all this other stuff. You're talking about a renaissance cabbie that knows operations research, physics, and queuing theory and so on. It's not really serious how programming is the special snowflake in this sense. If the cab driver had taken the time to learn physics, and operations research in high school or whatever is being posited for programming, then he would be able to make this super efficient cab system or probably not have to be a cab driver. Adding "programming" into the mix of education does not fundamentally change anything about society.