The Great Digital Divide: How Programming Became the New Latin

In the Middle Ages, knowing Latin meant you held the keys to knowledge, power, and societal influence. Today, that key isn't a dead language - it's JavaScript, Python, and C++. And we're recreating the same feudal system, just with better WiFi. Just half a century ago, computer programming existed as an arcane discipline confined largely to university laboratories and research institutions. It was…