This sounds interesting, but I think in reality what would happen is:
A major crisis hits, say a virus or a nuclear war that wipe out say 25% of the population. Governments would shake for a while but eventually I expect every major government to stand up and begin sending troops to collect population.
We as ordinary people would probably be sent to work on whatever we are best at or some labor jobs to build new cities. Programming in that world would be mostly very pragmatic. No.1 issue is to keep whatever code that runs the utility companies running so there should be a lot of PLC programming, low level stuffs to make sure that the machines work as expected. No.2 issue is national defense because we would expect other countries to move troops to grab a better share, now that we all exhaust our nuclear arsenals (hopefully).
I'd expect most people to be living in underground or barracks for a while and slowly spread out to new sites once everything calms down. To prepare for that, I guess learning plumbing and civil engineering electricity are a lot more useful than javascript programming.
A major crisis hits, say a virus or a nuclear war that wipe out say 25% of the population. Governments would shake for a while but eventually I expect every major government to stand up and begin sending troops to collect population.
We as ordinary people would probably be sent to work on whatever we are best at or some labor jobs to build new cities. Programming in that world would be mostly very pragmatic. No.1 issue is to keep whatever code that runs the utility companies running so there should be a lot of PLC programming, low level stuffs to make sure that the machines work as expected. No.2 issue is national defense because we would expect other countries to move troops to grab a better share, now that we all exhaust our nuclear arsenals (hopefully).
I'd expect most people to be living in underground or barracks for a while and slowly spread out to new sites once everything calms down. To prepare for that, I guess learning plumbing and civil engineering electricity are a lot more useful than javascript programming.