Computer Scientists Are Not Immune to Disruption
signulll · x · 2026-07-15
The author argues that if current trajectories hold, today's computer scientists—who currently sit on the "throne" in a sense—will eventually lose that status.
The core takeaway is that historically, every generation of elites is ultimately displaced by external forces, but computer scientists are the first to explicitly write "self-disruption" into their own roadmaps.
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