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Ha, I was going to make this exact argument. The flip side of this is that it cost Zuck almost nothing to get Facebook up and running with users using it. To build any type of nuclear weapon I assume that would cost millions to billions, thereby making the barrier to entry rather high.

That is not an endorsement of the authors proposal however. I would like to see it go the other way: treat it more like an engineering discipline and as part of that students would be required to attend the engineer ethics course that (almost) all engineering curriculums have.

But even admittedly that's not seeing the forest for the trees. The questionable systems that are built that are the result of many people working willingly together across a variety of disciplines (to the author's suggestion even). I'm not so sure making computing more multi-disciplinary is the right answer because in fact and in practice it's already that way.