neoluddite

Nothing in this article pertains specifically to a CS degree -- time management, communication, and networking are all skills that would be picked up by any college degree, and would arguably be stressed even more heavily in a, say, liberal arts degree.

Perhaps the author would be even more in favor of a history degree and teaching yourself how to code than a CS degree.

would love to hear input from people with both lab and software dev experience to compare and contrast the two notetaking experiences

There's something to be said about reading focus, with Twitter and online articles giving us content faster than ever, and finding time and energy to read takes more effort, but why do we have to discuss it through the lens a horribly outdated article with no clear thesis?

This is just another generic, pretentious piece warning of the dangers of technology (is this about video games? the internet? who cares, it's all technology) that gets even the basic facts wrong.

Some highlights:

- Physical book sales are up (https://qz.com/1510303/book-sales/), not down, as the author claims.

-"World of Warcraft beats Wikipedia hands down." -- what does this even mean? Wikipedia get billions of page views and has hundreds of millions of unique users every month, while WoW subscribers have been hovering around 10 million for the past few years.

-"Now that sight and sound are covered, new internet appliances promise to offer touch, smell." What website promises to have a smell-o-vision feature?

Overall, lots of fear mongering and little facts, with a click-bait title.