Code and Society
summary
Argues for urgent teaching of programming as a second language, citing concrete technological wins like a 1997 student-built dorm network delivering 100 Mbit to 4,000 rooms, early web platforms (weg.de, pkw.de, blog.de) and a 2005 XMPP-based mobile messenger prototype. Describes related policy progress (a proposed voluntary digital year in the coalition agreement and a 300-member digital advocacy group) while noting gaps and failures such as low basic internet skills (~38% in Germany), underused open-data portals, and a projection of about 50 billion connected devices by 2020.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 5:29Digital change speed impacts
- 16:28Digital transformation affects all
- 18:40Programming as second language
- 21:34Digital education initiatives
- 33:20Critique of German digital agenda
- 38:39Q&A
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