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Re:Please don’t learn to code by pavel_lishin on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @10:33AM (#11675629)
1103: "Please don't learn to read."

1527: "Please don't learn to write."

1965: "Please don't learn to type."

2012: "Please don't learn to code."

Re:Please don’t learn to code by insulanian on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @10:44AM (#11675749)
Actually when I see that stream of events, it makes me really wonder what's the next step...
Re:Please don’t learn to code by Null-Set on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @10:54AM (#11675850)
Please don't learn to train AIs
Re:Please don’t learn to code by Terr_ on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @10:58AM (#11675903)
"Please don't feed the humans."
Re:Please don’t learn to code by pavel_lishin on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @01:19PM (#11677205)
"Please don't learn."
Re:Please don’t learn to code by izzydata on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @10:57AM (#11675887)
Please don't learn to think critically.
Re:Please don’t learn to code by xgdellis on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @12:04PM (#11676530)
Please don't leave the earth.
Re:Please don’t learn to code by pavel_lishin on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @01:19PM (#11677202)
2024: "Please don't learn to bioreact."

I'm assuming that there will be some short-hand verb for messing about with genetic organisms, and/or for home-synthesis of biological compounds. "Please don't learn to modify genomes" or "Please don't learn to synthesize chemical compounds" didn't feel pithy enough.

Re:Please don’t learn to code by timroy on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @04:34PM (#11679010)
"Biohack" is pretty common - although that term also means, e.g, implanting magnets in your fingers.
Re:Please don’t learn to code by chippy on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @11:51AM (#11676402)
with VR and 3D printing, it will something like

"please don't learn to manufacture"

Re:Please don’t learn to code by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @11:57AM (#11676465)
Please don't learn to procreate.

Edit: Actually no. "Please buy a smart phone" is the next step after "please don't learn to code".

Re:Please don’t learn to code by zatkin on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @11:26AM (#11676155)
I'm curious how you came up with these years.
Re:Please don’t learn to code by pavel_lishin on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @01:17PM (#11677185)
A very brief google/wiki-dive for "literacy in Europe" and "personal computer", and then mostly guesswork.

It's a pretty Eurocentric approach, and probably rather inaccurate, but I suspect that you could find a dozen examples of bans on learning to read and write on any given continent in the past thousand years alone. (I was really more torn about what year to choose for typing; a case could be made for anywhere from the late 1800's after the invention of the typewriter, all the way to the 1990s, when I first had to deal with a mandatory typing class in high school.)

Re:Please don’t learn to code by coldcode on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @11:11AM (#11676039)
Please don't learn to think.
Re:Please don’t learn to code by maxerickson on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @01:22PM (#11677223)
2035: "Please don't wake up."

(not the sheeple, the burgeoning AI that is then arguably the primary intelligence on the planet. I feel bad explaining but think it is probably necessary. I'm also not super serious.)

Re:Please don’t learn to code by gmarx on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @12:00PM (#11676488)
2210: Please don't learn pyrokinesis
Re:Please don’t learn to code by geoffreyy on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @02:43PM (#11678028)
2020: "Please don't learn to drive"