Some may argue that we are beyond hardware and that the real building blocks are knowing how to code and how to program, but I believe that the next wave of true innovation will come from the intersection of new hardware and new software.

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So we have a fundamental problem amid rising affluence, one that software code largely cannot solve, especially if politics blocks better allocation.

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Yesterday I visited Code Academy and General Assembly, two well-funded startups just blocks away from each other in New York City that are on the front lines of making these skills attainable for a wide variety of people.

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The special board has Bletchley Park, the wartime centre of the Allied code-cracking effort, taking the place of Mayfair, swaps houses and hotels for huts and blocks and has Turing's face on all the banknotes.

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