This week's prize for
most worthless sentence goes to:
The number of new computer science majors today has fallen by half since 2000, according to the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA
I cannot speak for the report's author, Nick Schulz at TCSDaily, but I was alive in 2000 and recall it being the very peak of the tech bubble when the best way to get rich was to start an Internet company. This makes 2000 a useless year for comparisons. Today we can read such a thing and laugh, but in 60 years will anyone automatically know that 2000 was the technology bubble year?
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