As we are contemplating the future of computer science (education and curricula), this paper might provide some interesting insights into our changing world… the players are different, but the patterns remain. Change is inevitable.
Disruptive technologies are not something new or different. To the buggy whip manufacturers of the 1890s, the automobile was hugely disruptive. The same could be said for telegraph operators coping with the invention of the telephone. If there is a difference today it is only in terms of greater speed of propagation of the disruption and in the widespread publicity about the existence of the technology itself.
Harold L. Vogel (2005), “Disrpuptive Technologies and Disruptive Thinking“, Michigan Law Review – Vol 2005, No. 1.
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