[chjj]

This scares the hell out of me. The idea that an organization/government will require programmers to get licenses. I would have never gotten into coding if I hadn't had the freedom to play around with code when I was younger. Reminds me of RMS's, "The Right to Read": debuggers are illegal to use unless you're a licensed programmer. Say what you want about RMS, but you have to admit he's pretty prophetic at times. He predicted the implications of DRM in the mid '90s.

Philip K. Dick was also pretty oracle-like in this regard: "There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'." He damn near predicted the advent of smartphones+CIQ in the '70s. I imagine he came up with that notion after writing A Scanner Darkly.