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>>flocia+(OP)
As people flock to become programmers, as a population we will become increasingly technologically literate. Sooner or later we will enter an age where programming is as second nature as writing. Communication at the end of the day is a way to get people to understand what we want. Programming is very similar only directed at machines, and as machines continue to replace people in trivial (and not so trivial) tasks, that will be the lingua franca. And yes, it will be javascript.

>>reksha+Ss
We thought this 20 years ago sure, but I think we have enough evidence at this point that people are going to drool on their iPad playing Candy Crush instead of hacking emacs.

I believe Marvin Minskey was quoted in "The Dream Machine":

> Computers may be a bicycle for the mind, but most peoples mental output is zero. 0 * x is still zero!