COBOL, an old coding language that not many people know about, controls the world’s financial systems.
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Genius, Interrupted
“As the pathological process advanced, it was carving a different person out of Lee’s raw substance.”
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Has India’s Booming IT Industry Finally Plateaued?
India’s once lucrative IT sector now fears it’s glory years are ending as one of its biggest companie starts downsizing.
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The History of Literacy, and the Future of 'Code Literacy'
In the latest Mother Jones, Tasneem Raja argues that “code literacy” is becoming just as critical as reading and writing in education. To understand how we as a society might begin to take it seriously, it also helps to understand the history of literacy itself: Reading and writing have become what researchers have called “interiorized” […]