Subj : Re: 3d printing
To   : Jamestyree
From : Nitewaves
Date : Wed Oct 02 2019 05:18:00

  Re: Re: 3d printing
  By: Jamestyree to Nightfox on Wed Sep 25 2019 05:25 pm

 > It's sad, a whole new generation of lemmings are being raised with a level o
 > abstraction that insulates them from what/how things communicate in the digi
 > world.  My daughter doesn't understand how some apps on her phone(if not all
 > could use data.  She doesn't understand IP address and why they're needed.
 > It's like we're evolving into the people in the movie, "Wall-E".  All they k
 > is that layer of abstraction and no comprehension of what lies below it.  Ju
 > sad.
 > 
 > James


James, I'm sorry, but it's always been that way and it's absolutely ridiculous
to expect otherwise. We geeks live in a bubble that's tinier than we'd like
to admit, made full with our obsessive drive to understand minutae. We are
fools to expect that from other people, especially end users that just want
the damn technology to work. And I wouldn't have it any other way -- call it
job security.

And these same people we could easily criticize for not knowing tcp/ip and
802.11 will surprise you with skills, talents, insights, and hobbies most
geeks wouldn't imagine. 

Lighten up. ;)



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