Jefferson's Wheel

I’m quoted in this USA Today article: The power of computing, USA Today, 4 June 2012.

“To understand the world, you need to understand computing and programming,” Evans, who is also a computer science professor at University of Virginia, said in an email. “Without understanding computers and how they are programmed, much of the world will increasingly seem like magic.”

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While Steve Jobs famously talked about computers as bicycles for the mind 20 years ago, computers today are far more powerful and connected worldwide as “super-tanker-sized, hypersonic spaceships of the mind,” said Evans.

“Without learning to program, you can still ride them if you are willing to remove your shoes at the security checkpoint and go where the pilot wants to go,” said Evans, “but if you want to be the one flying, you need to learn about computing.”