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As Vishal Sikka, the former chief executive of Infosys, wrote in the Financial Times: “Curriculums should be modernized to encourage creative problem finding and solving, and learning through doing, with mandatory computer science learning as the bedrock for enabling digital literacy.

“Organizations also need to make life-long learning resources available for employees to enhance skills development. Indeed, they should be required to dedicate a percentage of their annual revenue to reskilling staff.”

Some of my favorite music from my childhood is actually music that by all accounts I shouldn’t like. But because of the context in which it was presented to me (whether it be by a person, or because of the place in which it happened), I love it. An algorithm could not know this — which I realize is an extremely dangerous thing to say in our world of machine learning — but it’s not that it’s random, it’s that it’s not random. It’s life.²