Computer Science: The Wave of the Future
About twenty years ago whenever you’d go into any kind of classroom or workplace, most people would be only using paper or a notebook or using some sort of way to write manually. They really knew no other way. If we told them how society is today with the computer, laptop and iPhone dominating nearly every phase of life these days, they probably would have told us we’re crazy. Technology is quickly becoming central to the lives of everybody you can think of.
All of this technology that we depend on is obviously fairly new. Computers have only been around for about thirty years while laptops only recently became affordable. The internet even didn’t reach wide usage until about fifteen years ago. But because of the boom in these industries, more and more people have been trying to get in, thinking it’s the cashcow to an easy job and life.
Well, many of the people who got in for this reason weren’t actually good with computers and eventually moved on to other fields they were more suited for. So now pretty much all the people involved in the computer science field are invested somehow in it. They’re either really good at it or have been around computers their whole lives and really want to make things better for everyone who has to use these technologies.
This is the first generation getting into computer science that has really grown up with it. Previous people in the field just warmed up to it in adolescence at the earliest but now people have been around it for as long as they can remember. People who love the field and the technology who also have the drive to really improve things could really take this field to heights only dreamed of in 1960s Sci-Fi movies.
We all think that things like the iPad and Amazon Kindle are works of technological art that really can’t be improved on in any significant way. People thought that in the past about things like the Apple II, so really we really don’t know what to expect. Let’s just hope people who love computer science will take it to the next level.
