Your knee jerk response takes what could be a well crafted criticism and makes it subject to the same commentary (naivety). Programmers have intense power in a

Your knee jerk response takes what could be a well crafted criticism and makes it subject to the same commentary (naivety). Programmers have intense power in a world that is increasingly technologically oriented. I would argue that inventions like the internet (at the risk of citing the "easy one") have created as much of a paradigm shift in the world as a whole as any of the great social or scientific figures. (Not to diminish their accomplishments). All fields in which one can create great value can be used to create great change, and likewise, can be used to create great angry birds games, I think it's really just the person doing the creating who matters, not necessarily the field.