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he found that groups created a sense of community, purpose and audience, but that the truly important work ended up happening in pairs

Two people can make their own society

The pair is also inherently fluid and flexible

Three legs make a table stand in place. Two legs are made for moving

But nobody can hide in a pair.

The pair is the primary creative unit — not just because pairs produce such a staggering amount of work but also because they help us to grasp the concept of dialectical exchange.

And when we listen to creative people describe breakthrough moments that occur when they are alone, they often mention the sensation of having a conversation in their own minds

One recent institutional adaptation is the creation of so-called CS+X initiatives at schools like Stanford, Northwestern and the University of Illinois. These programs are hybrid majors that combine computing with other disciplines, including anthropology, comparative literature and history — a nod to the reality that software skills can advance research in nearly every field.

Today, at many universities, at least half of the student population takes the intro courses.

coding as a window to “computational thinking,” which involves abstract reasoning, modeling and breaking down problems into the recipelike steps of an algorithm

In particular, “computational thinking” is captivating educators, from kindergarten teachers to college professors, offering a new language and orientation to tackle problems in other areas of life.

Computer Science Principles, focused not on learning to code but on using code to solve problems.

computational thinking — its broad usefulness as well as what fits in the circle. Skills typically include recognizing patterns and sequences, creating algorithms, devising tests for finding and fixing errors, reducing the general to the precise and expanding the precise to the general.

worked in Detroit for 10 years, you don’t have the skills to go into health care,” he said. “The market economy is not going to create the jobs by itself

Steve Mnuchin, who said at an Axios event last week that artificial intelligence’s displacement of human jobs was “not even on our radar screen,” and “50 to 100 more years” away

and that number will rise because industrial robots are expected to quadruple.

but the effect on male employment was up to twice as big.

In an isolated area, each robot per thousand workers decreased employment by 6.2 workers and wages by 0.7 percent. But nationally, the effects were smaller, because jobs were created in other places.

If automakers can charge less for cars because they employ fewer people, employment might increase elsewhere in the country,

cannot replicate human traits like common sense and empathy

new jobs created by technology are not in the places that are losing jobs, like the Rust Belt

From 1993 to 2007, the United States added one new industrial robot for every thousand workers — mostly in the Midwest, South and East — and Western Europe added 1.6.

like machine learning, drones and driverless cars — will have similar effects, but on many more people