Computer science enrollments soared 30% last year

Re:Computer science enrollments soared 30% last year by invalidOrTaken on Friday March 08, 2013 @11:52PM (#5347382)

Here's a question: Imagine this new bubble has just popped, 5 or 50 years from now. What do people looking to both learn something of substance and be highly compensated for it study? Biotech? Engineering? Materials science?

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Re:Computer science enrollments soared 30% last year by RougeFemme on Saturday March 09, 2013 @12:09AM (#5347429)

Possibly something that most of us haven't thought of/aren't aware of currently.

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Re:Computer science enrollments soared 30% last year by jacques_chester on Saturday March 09, 2013 @12:09AM (#5347433)

I don't feel qualified to predict what professions will be well compensated in 50 years. Some of them don't exist yet.

5 years? Still no idea.

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Re:Computer science enrollments soared 30% last year by wissler on Saturday March 09, 2013 @12:18AM (#5347456)

Ideally look at the kinds of problems that are difficult and important and that we have a long way to go in, such as nanotech, biotech, and materials science. Compensation ought to be more or less irrelevant, you just want to do something worthwhile and get paid enough that you can keep doing it.

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Re:Computer science enrollments soared 30% last year by barry-cotter on Saturday March 09, 2013 @01:25AM (#5347627)

Bzzt. Idealism and an accompanying implicit ideology detected. Naked apes strive after status, prestige, respect, all of which are similar enough and all of which make money easier to get.

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Re:Computer science enrollments soared 30% last year by wissler on Monday March 11, 2013 @09:49PM (#5359499)

Speak for yourself, cynic.

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