{"id":256,"date":"2016-03-26T10:10:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T18:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/?p=256"},"modified":"2016-03-26T10:10:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T18:10:27","slug":"why-learning-to-code-wont-save-your-job-fast-company-business-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/26\/why-learning-to-code-wont-save-your-job-fast-company-business-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Learning To Code Won&#8217;t Save Your Job | Fast Company | Business + Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3058251\/the-future-of-work\/why-learning-to-code-wont-save-your-job\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/abloglikethis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/3058251-poster-p-1-why-learning-to-code-wont-save-your-job.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Although I certainly believe that any member of our highly digital society should be familiar with how these platforms work, universal code literacy won\u2019t solve our employment crisis any more than the universal ability to read and write would result in a full-employment economy of book publishing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s actually worse. A single computer program written by perhaps a dozen developers can wipe out hundreds of jobs. As the author and entrepreneur Andrew Keen has pointed out, digital companies employ 10 times fe<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3058251\/the-future-of-work\/why-learning-to-code-wont-save-your-job\">Why Learning To Code Won&#8217;t Save Your Job | Fast Company | Business + Innovation<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I certainly believe that any member of our highly digital society should be familiar with how these platforms work, universal code literacy won\u2019t solve our employment crisis any more than the universal ability to read and write would result in a full-employment economy of book publishing. It\u2019s actually worse. A single computer program written [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-careers","category-computers","category-finance","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}