If your in London Gresham College do a wide range of interesting lectures I can recommend having a look at their program.
They go back over 400 years
Summary: Capitalism corrupted software engineering, because you get rewarded for getting to market quickly and selling maintenance contracts, not for making quality software, free of defects and security vulnerabilities.
I wish they would just host the video on YouTube so it would stream quickly. I'm getting pause after pause here.