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the beauty of teaching even the youngest kids algorithms and algorithmic or procedural thinking is that it gives them the same tool of agency and production that writing and even reading gave to industrial age learners who, for the first time in history, had access to cheap books and other forms of print.

Interestingly, unlike math, which can often be difficult to teach in all of its abstraction, algorithms do stuff.   Algorithms are operational.  You show kids how to use a program like Scratch or Hackasaurus and, very soon, they can actually manipulate, create, and do, in their very own and special way.   

Computational thinking is a fundamental skill for everyone, not just for computer scientists

Enterprises are using data analysis not just to improve their everyday business processes, but also to build predictive models of consumer behaviour.

Trained loyalty scientists build systems that trawl through a company's customer behaviour data to predict certain events, such as what might prompt them to leave

Companies approaching customers need to be ''utterly transparent'' about how they know what they know about a customer.

"Instead of children bored out of their minds being taught how to use Word or Excel by bored teachers, we could have 11-year-olds able to write simple 2D computer animations," he said.

"Children are being forced to learn how to use applications, rather than to make them. They are becoming slaves to the user interface and are totally bored by it,"