I think there should be more software engineering in academia for different reasons too.
In the past academia and government agencies developed the internet and its communication protocols; this was (imho) a much better internet than the corporation-dominated internet we have today.
I'd like to see a resurge of this type of internet. Let us use well-researched open protocols again; and let us use applications which are really built for people, not advertisers. Let corporations build the hardware, but let us keep our data far away from them.
And besides the computer science / software engineering branches, I'd like to see other fields (like industrial design, and for instance even sociology) to join the development of a better digital future. The kind of future where everybody profits, not just shareholders of big companies.
In the past academia and government agencies developed the internet and its communication protocols; this was (imho) a much better internet than the corporation-dominated internet we have today.
I'd like to see a resurge of this type of internet. Let us use well-researched open protocols again; and let us use applications which are really built for people, not advertisers. Let corporations build the hardware, but let us keep our data far away from them.
And besides the computer science / software engineering branches, I'd like to see other fields (like industrial design, and for instance even sociology) to join the development of a better digital future. The kind of future where everybody profits, not just shareholders of big companies.