Stephen Wolfram

And I think that this question of whether there is a centralization of the teaching of sort of CX is an interesting question.

And I think the way it evolved with math...

People understood that math was sort of a separately teachable thing and was kind of an independent element as opposed to just being absorbed into it.

So if you take the example of writing English or something like this,

The first point is that at the college level, at least at fancy colleges, there's a certain amount of English writing that people do, but mostly it's kind of assumed that they pretty much know how to write.

That's something they learned at an earlier stage in education.

Mm-hmm.

Maybe rightly or wrongly believing that, but that's a different issue.

Well, I think it reminds me of my kind of, as I've tried to help people do technical writing and things, I'm always reminded of my zeroth law of technical writing, which is if you don't understand what you're writing about, your readers do not stand a chance.

And so it's, I think the...

When it comes to writing, for example, people in different fields are expected to write English essays, and they're not mostly the history department.

or the engineering department, they don't have their own, you know, it's not like there's a, I mean, it's a thing which sort of people are assumed to have a knowledge of how to write that they can use in all these different fields.

And the question is, you know, some level of knowledge of math is kind of assumed by the time you get to the college level

But plenty is not, and that's sort of still centrally taught.

The question is sort of how tall is the tower of kind of CX that you need before you can just go use it in all these different fields?

And there will be experts who want to learn the full elaborate tower, and that will be kind of the CS, CX, whatever department.

But there'll also be everybody else who just needs to know a certain amount of that to be able to go and do their art history classes and so on.

Yeah, is it just a single class that everybody's required to take?

I don't know.

I don't know how big it is yet.