I think CS and robotics will become in greater demand in the future but I think the demand for traditional university CS education will decrease. It is still mostly a "results-only" field, and the Internet has made it even easier to self-educate, quickly and cheaply.
Does anyone have a transcript? It's a compelling title, but I'd rather not wait for the man in the jester hat to finish speaking before I get access to his point.
It was very nice of them to put this online.<p>But the audio quality is poor. It seems like when someone high profile (like MIT TechTV) goes to the effort of recording and posting video, they could spend a few more bucks and put a microphone on the speaker (or hook in to whatever audio system that handheld mic was hooked up to).<p>As a general rule, using the build in mic of a video camera at the back of a room will yield tolerable audio only in very rare conditions (a room that's "dead" acoustically, and a very quiet or nonexistent audience).
As someone who was in this audience two months ago, I am incredibly excited to be starting school at MIT this September and studying computer science. Formal study of CS gets a lot of heat around these parts, but I do think it's one of the best subjects to study for the reasons discussed in the video. Computers are the fastest-changing technology that people have ever witnessed, and there's vast potential for the future of computers and their impact on society.
Great to hear some positive stuff on CompSci.<p>Seems like recently theres been a lot of news on why its not relevant or unnecessary - which isn't optimistic news for me since thats what I'm going to be studying at University later this year!
Here's a Slideshare, for those who don't want to download the Powerpoint<p><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/llimllib/the-future-of-computer-science-and-why-every-other-major-sucks-by-comparison-3705322" rel="nofollow">http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/llimllib/the-future-of-comp...</a>
Finally some good stuff about CS, that also from a highly respected person. Much better than some fizzbuzz programmer thinking how CS and Masters degree suck.