"If we don't change the way ICT is thought about and taught, we're shutting the door on our children's futures." John Naughton on why people shouldn't just be learning programming, but learning why software is so important.

via @emmaquinn and @Glinner: :Wonderful piece on the #occupy movement/s by @andrewrawnsley - Last paragraph says it all".

"Friday's launch was far from being a routine affair – for on this occasion Soyuz was taking off, not from its usual launch pad in Kazakhstan, but from one that has been built in the Amazonian jungle of French Guiana." On Ariane and Soyuz.

"A pedestrian route across the site will be closed, forcing people to squeeze round the edges of the new building's bulk. A covered arcade through the block might have been possible, but this is banned for security reasons, as are shops or cafes at the building's base. The ban is a deal-breaker, apparently: if the City's planners insisted on these humanising touches, UBS would up and go – to Canary Wharf or, worse, Frankfurt." Rowan Moore's worth-reading dissection of Make Architect's plans for 5 Broadgate. (Only 20 years old, yet still down for demolition and rebuilding.)

"Among Facebook's 15bn photographs there are, no doubt, some memorable and beautiful images, but to date I haven't seen any. That's not true of Flickr, which continues to be one of the wonders of the world and hosts hundreds of thousands of terrific pictures."

Coverage of the Flickr Commons in the Observer. "The image is from a collection of photographs, Nasa Commons, that have been put together by Nasa, Flickr and Internet Archive to commemorate 50 years of photographing the space agency's spectacular ventures." (Minor peeve: NASA don't seem to have set the date taken metadata properly. Otherwise, c'est bon.)

'"Almost every teen we've talked to feels that they know everything about issues like online privacy, identity and security," explains Adrian Hon, co-founder and chief creative officer at the British company that created Smokescreen, Six to Start, "and the fact that most adults they've heard from insist on scaremongering about paedophiles means they're no longer interested in what adults have to say."'

"'It's right that there's rigour applied to all the reports about climate change, but I think it would be wrong that when a mistake is made it's somehow used to undermine the overwhelming picture that's there,' [Miliband] said."

Iain Sinclair tries to be funny, Zaha Hadid tries to clam she's seen it already, but Tony Travers' understated summary seems closest to the mark. (It's odd how 2030 doesn't have the ring of the future that 2010 did in 1990; I blame the millennium.)

Will Wiles scanned a magazine supplement late last year, and now the Observer has gone back to the original authors to follow up their predictions with what actually happened.

"The Observer devoted its colour supplement to speculation about what London might be like in 20 years - in 2010" and Will Wiles has preserved it so you can compare it with what came to pass. For example: "The second vision... mostly consists of the removal of things that they don't like [such as] 'high-rise housing' in general." Well, not entirely wrong. "Mostly, these are replaced with open space." Um.

"We love to hate the suburbs but for Paul Barker they are places of humanity where individuality flourishes, says Rachel Cooke."

Warren Ellis: "Buried in the OMM's web presence, once a month, is a multimedia presentation by Morley. Not just a music column, but video of the interviews he conducted in support of the month's subject or theme, music files, filmed performances, and, most unsettlingly, a Flash file that places an immense screen-filling Morley as rambling disco ringmaster."

The book's subtitle is "How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science". From the review: "200 years ago, poets, writers and scientists shared a common vision of Nature. There is no reason why they should not do so again."

Stephen Bayley on Robin Hood Gardens, Margaret Hodge and concrete buildings. "Margaret Hodge's remarks about concrete are ignorant prejudice." ... "the campaign against is uninformed and unfair".

"Film critic Mark Kermode [...] was a cinematic snob, convinced that the small screen had no redeeming qualities. So what happened when we asked him to watch some of the most acclaimed TV in recent years?" He liked some of it.

Observer Music Monthly on new classical music. Given I've just started listening to Nyman and Glass a lot, there's probably stuff here for me to check out.

The Observer's review of the harbour crane you can stay at in the Netherlands.

Deeply depressing piece about housing in Hackney (and hence London, and also Britain), but which does at least give some political answers. Not that anyone will take them. Why care about the minority who can't buy when the majority are happy?

Scrabble, Thailand and Mattel- together at last! Wonderfully amusing article about the game and the World Championships