Not everyone needs to learn to code

When all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. For Silicon Valley, that hammer is coding. Certain members of the technorati are hailing coding as the new literacy, or the way to lift disenfranchised people out of poverty. But just because we live in a tech-driven world doesn't mean we all need to be able to literally make that tech ourselves.

When faced with a problem, we need to first determine exactly what the problem is, and then come up with an approach suited to solving it. We don't decide on the approach first, and then figure out a way to apply it to the problem. But that's exactly what 'everyone should learn to code' does.