Power generation from humidity seems like something that will complement solar power in dry, hot areas, assuming it can be scaled up sufficiently.

I do like that the myth of men going out and women staying at home is getting examined and discarded through studies.

As for the change in programmers, I think the part in there about having come of age in the sweet spot between computers being large and inscrutable and computers being small and inscrutable has had significant effects. I think a large amount of my comfort and tolerance and working with machines and reading their errors and trying to make them work properly is from that same experience of having had to learn about computers so as to achieve tasks with them, like playing games. I also think that, even in the era of abundant computing, there's a significant lack of machines that are hackable, borkable, and fixable, and inexpensive enough that they can be used as the spare and learning machines, instead of as the work machine that has to remain controlled and pristine.