[davidamarquis]

Where did you get nobility from. This isn't the author's point at all. Obviously knowledge about different areas of knowledge can be of more practical benefit at different times. The point is that in the next few years knowledge of math will become relatively more valuable and programming relatively less valuable.

Regarding the quote, it is a best a great oversimplification. Mathematicians have been interested in computation for a long time. See the Euclidean algorithm for example. Interestingly its computational complexity was worked out a hundred years before computer science was even considered a subject. Many great mathematicians like Gauss also had a keen interest in computation. A description of the fast Fourier transform was found in his notes after he died.

It is true that mathematical theorems have historically not been written from a computational point of view. But many many theorems can easily be turned into an algorithm (anything based on induction for example). Mathematics has many different subfields and the number of such constructive theorems varies based on the area. However, constructive arguments in mathematics are so pervasive that I think it is silly to even try and separate computation and mathematics as separate ways of thinking.

[parasubvert]

"The point is that in the next few years knowledge of math will become relatively more valuable and programming relatively less valuable."

Sorry, that's at best an opinion, and at worst, bullshit. There little evidence of this. This article makes an assertion, provides a few anecdotes.

[davidamarquis]

I agree there is almost no content in this post. Reasonable cases could be made both for and against the point I think.

[parasubvert]

Yeah, I accept that.