> I suppose the picture of computing is of a topsy-turvy growth obeying laws of a commercial "natural" selection. This could be entirely accurate considering how fast it has grown. Things started out in a scholarly vein, but the rush of commerce hasn't allowed much time to think where we're going. — JET
That statement is 60 years old and its truth continues to outlive its utterer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._Thornton
I suspect that once the day comes when the hardware folk are no longer regularly giving us software folk a free lunch, there will be a rediscovery of the importance of "knowing what one is doing". But I fear, not before.