Somehow I get the impression you're doing pretty well if you even know of the existence of this paper. It's far easier to go through all of CS and even EE undergrad, never even knowing the foundation of the whole field.
If true, that's pretty disappointing. We had to read parts of this paper in a philosophy class. I remember having to calculate entropies for one of the exams.
It's sad, I have to agree. I feel like we (yes, all of us) are missing great opportunities by concentrating too much on directly monetizable ("work-related") knowledge in our educational systems. It's just shortsighted and works against intrinsic motivations to learn.
That being said I learned about cybernetics in a sociology class. Getting to know Shannon, Wiener, Von Foerster, George Spencer Brown ("Laws of Form" highly recommended reading) and Luhmann was the most interesting stuff I ever got to learn.
