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During Monday’s White House meeting with President Donald Trump, Tim Cook pushed for the U.S. government to make coding a required class for kids.
This is something Cook has publicly discussed before. When Apple debuted its kid-focused Swift Playgrounds app, he said that, “We believe coding should be a required language in all schools”.
In the meeting on Monday, President Trump called for a “sweeping transformation of the federal government’s technology” program.
Following the meeting, as well, Trump said that the government had to “catch up” with the private sector in everything from better services for citizens to stronger defense from cyber attacks.
“Government needs to catch up with the technology revolution,” Trump said, adding: “We’re going to change that with the help of great American businesses like the people assembled.”
This was the first meeting of the White House’s American Technology Council, which will see the Trump administration work alongside tech companies to bring federal bureaucracy up to date with the latest technology.
Cook, and much of the rest of Silicon Valley, has so far enjoyed a turbulent relationship with Trump.
Earlier this year, Cook criticized Trump’s executive order limiting immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries. More recently, he spoke out about Trump’s decision to take the United States out of the Paris climate agreement.
From the sound of things, though, all parties involved are happy to overlook political differences if it means that shared progress can be made.