Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Friday, March 7th. I'm Charlotte Gartenberg for the Wall Street Journal.

For at least a generation, steering kids into STEM fields has felt like guiding them towards certain prosperity.

But as bots replace entry-level software writers and even take on certain surgical tasks, some science

and tech professionals are doing the once unthinkable.

WSJ columnist, Kalamborshers, tells us about the surprising career advice they're giving

their kids.

Then, geothermal energy, the heat from the earth that can be used to generate electricity, could provide clean and renewable power.

But accessing that energy deep underground can be challenging.

Now a startup called Quay's energy is banking on President Trump's support for geothermal.

WSJ reporter Benoit Moren tells us about Quayze's futuristic tech and how it's aiming to drill

the deepest hole ever. But first, it's the age of artificial intelligence, but some parents

who work on tech's cutting edge are encouraging their kids to pursue a different career path. Their

advice, go into the arts. Our columnist,

Callum Borshers, tells us about this change in parental guidance. Calam, in order for us to get a sense

of how much of a shift this might be, I want to start with, to what extent do people seem to

view tech as the career ticket generally?

The biggest indicator I see is just how many more degrees we see conferred in computer science

from when I was in college, not that long ago, Charlotte. I mean, 2009, we had 37 or so

thousand computer science degrees coming out from bachelor's programs, that number has

almost tripled since then. And so it's not just that kids all of a sudden develop this

newfound interest in computer science. A big part of it is thinking, well, that's where the jobs are.

And it would be hard to say that those people or their parents have been wrong in recent years,

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