Note: This post is based on a talk that I was supposed to give at a local FOSS United meetup but couldn't due to health issues. Prologue "... This puts the future squarely in the hands of those who know computers not for what they are, but for everything they have the potential to be." "Computers aren't the thing, they are the thing that gets us to the thing" -- Halt and Catch Fire, S01E01, 2014. This conversation between two protagonists in HCF describes two types of people in computing: Those ...