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What is code? Why is everyone talking about it these days? We know that when we enter code into a computer we get software.  And we know that software is part of the fabric of our lives - from the computers in our cars to the ATMs that spit out our money, and to the switching channels on our cable boxes, our lives are run by software. But how does all that actually happen? Not everyone knows how code actually works and why it’s so important. This video takes the confusing subject of coding and makes understandable, while offering fun exercises throughout to demonstrate each point. Whether or not you are interested in coding yourself, it’s worth learning how software and technology work, since they’re eating the world . This might be the most entertaining, thorough, and easiest way to do so. #softwareeatingtheworld   #softwaredriven   #coding    #yearnandlearn https://youtu.be/P86w6CHhmQ4

Over the next 10 years, the battles between incumbents and software-powered insurgents will be epic. More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners are technology companies that are invading and overturning established industry structures. Over the next 10 years, many more industries will be disrupted by software , with new world-beating companies doing the disruption in more cases than not. With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired. There are many dramatic examples of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business like, Books :  The suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon. Today, the world's largest bookseller, Amazon.com, is a software company—its core capability is its amazing software engine for selling virtually e...

Will Automation make human work obsolete? Robots now build cars and power mechanical diggers and other "dumb" jobs. What will surprise you is how quickly "mechanical minds" are making human brain labor less in demand. Still think robots can’t do your job? Automation and robotics will eventually take over most of the tasks, especially the labor expensive ones, as computing gets smarter. Talk of robots making humans obsolete is generally a topic that is still laughed off as science fiction by most, but this video could get you to rethink the future human work. It lays out a compelling case for why almost half of those currently in the work force could struggle to find work once automation takes over in the near future. Unlike "the singularity," in which artificial intelligence takes over the planet in rapid and dramatic fashion, this paints a picture, backed up by statistics and current developments, indicating that the true singularity will occur gradually,...