The Study of Software is Useful

It is useful because it gets you a high-paying job But it is useful in more important ways as well.

It gave us a different way of  looking at things - because Software is abstract (nothing but numbers) and concrete also (it produces products that are changing the world).

No technology before it, was anything like it. It opened a new world, as important as the discovery of the Americas. And North America is where it was discovered and developed.

"But," you will say, "It has eliminated a lot of jobs!" True enough. The Industrial Revolution, once it got rolling, created a lot of jobs in Manufacturing - and created an affluent Middle Class. These jobs are gone forever, and people have freaked out over this.

The Computer was only partly responsible for this - but in people's minds, it has become one of the forces, that have brought them down.