The inventor of the programming language C++ talks about an education beyond just technology:
So you can’t just do code. You have to do something about culture and how to express ideas. I mean, I never regretted the time I spent on history and on math. Math sharpens your mind, history gives you some idea of your limitations and what’s going on in the world. And so don’t be too sure. Take time to have a balanced life.
There are many lenses one can choose from to look at life. Having a good set of them and knowing when to use which one is a skill acquired through a broad education.
I read this in the context of the Open AI creator Sam Altman’s comments on the movie Oppenheimer:
i was hoping that the oppenheimer movie would inspire a generation of kids to be physicists but it really missed the mark on that. let’s get that movie made!
It wasn’t meant to be a movie about science – but Altman doesn’t seem to realise that. This is a problem of lenses.