[prezjordan]

You left out the most important part - "why" - which merits representation in this tl;dr.

The author claims tomorrow's problems cannot be self-taught (listing the physics of hard drives, wearable computing). I'm honestly not sure if I agree with this. What about Coursera, Udacity, edX? The courses on these platforms are maturing at an alarming rate.

Disclosure: I'm a full-time student.

[michaelochurch]

Yeah, he's wrong about "cannot be self-taught".

He's right about the prestige-whoring of large corporations. You won't get a fair shake at most of them without a PhD. However, he's also wrong about where The Future is coming from. Most likely, it'll be small elite consultancies that work for larger companies. Right now, these are the guys (and gals) supporting the top open source projects.