Sure, most people just want to watch tv, but is there another platform to be productive on? Maybe it's possible, but I don't really see me doing a lot of cad work, or spreadsheet or programming on a phone or a tablet.
“We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Most people don't know the difference even on a supposed tech site. If they don't get it here, what hope is there for the rest of the people? I know people wth engineering degrees that don't even get this/
I'm from AZ and know a couple dozen people from MI. I've been there a few times, it seems very nice and occasionally think about buying land there, but everyone convinces me not to. I have yet to meet a single person who thinks it would be a god move. A neighbor recently moved from Traverse City and keeps saying how much better it is n AZ.
The main complaints are the snow and cooling a house is generally less energy intensive than heating an can be done all electric (and we have Palo Verde here).
I did IC design for about five years and never had to solder. I've been soldering since the third grade (thank you Heathkit), but probably wouldn't have been allowed to as they had certified technicians for that (prototype and test boads). All my 'soldering' was done by pvd ad masks.
90% of the technical knowledge I have is self-taught.
I went to a state university and that's about the same for me. I'd put the percentage a lot higher for self-taught things that I actually used for work.
I miss BYTE!. Everyday after class in high school I would go to the public library where they had the complete collection starting in 1975. I read every single word in every issue until they went to crap in the early 90's.
No. That is what I spent seven years taking math classes instead of anthropology classes. I'm not saying it's not an interesting question, rather it's one that I'm not interested in.
That's why it's important to talk about this stuff.
I specifically went into science (then engineering) so that I wouldn't have to talk about this crap and so that I could play in the lab all day with science and computers.
In my more professional industry, rocket science, these decisions occur at a higher marketing level and the engineers just implement whatever specs they are told. Why isn't management being blamed?
Historically, civilization always fall not because of environmental disaster or wars, but due to demographics. Civilizations die because they lose the will to continue living.
In mathematics (not science I know), a proof is one that is agreed upon by consensus. Science doesn't have proofs (it has supporting data for a hypothesis). Maybe this is a problem.
Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing in Palo Alto, California, Robert Freitas Jr. wrote an excellent paper on this subject.
The essential premise of the book, which Postman extends to the rest of his argument(s), is that "form excludes the content," that is, a particular medium can only sustain a particular level of ideas.
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Didn't GNOME and KDE use to be GUIs? That's the way I remember it back in the late 90's. Linux was called an OS then also.
desktop will stop being relevant anyways.
Sure, most people just want to watch tv, but is there another platform to be productive on? Maybe it's possible, but I don't really see me doing a lot of cad work, or spreadsheet or programming on a phone or a tablet.
But that is what tv is for.
Much like how Jupiter doesn't suck in asteroids?
Sorry, this was meant to be a reply to Wheels17.
“We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Most people don't know the difference even on a supposed tech site. If they don't get it here, what hope is there for the rest of the people? I know people wth engineering degrees that don't even get this/
how this ended last time.
With a Paul Simon video?
are you equipped to deal with living in the tropics?
Well, since we're all getting fatter, the next time you go up a pant size, buy shorts instead of long pants. It'll rake a few decades.
The main complaints are the snow and cooling a house is generally less energy intensive than heating an can be done all electric (and we have Palo Verde here).
I did IC design for about five years and never had to solder. I've been soldering since the third grade (thank you Heathkit), but probably wouldn't have been allowed to as they had certified technicians for that (prototype and test boads). All my 'soldering' was done by pvd ad masks.
90% of the technical knowledge I have is self-taught.
I went to a state university and that's about the same for me. I'd put the percentage a lot higher for self-taught things that I actually used for work.
Which came first, ITT or the grant?
I miss BYTE!. Everyday after class in high school I would go to the public library where they had the complete collection starting in 1975. I read every single word in every issue until they went to crap in the early 90's.
Actually, that sounds like fun.
No. That is what I spent seven years taking math classes instead of anthropology classes. I'm not saying it's not an interesting question, rather it's one that I'm not interested in.
That's why it's important to talk about this stuff.
I specifically went into science (then engineering) so that I wouldn't have to talk about this crap and so that I could play in the lab all day with science and computers.
In my more professional industry, rocket science, these decisions occur at a higher marketing level and the engineers just implement whatever specs they are told. Why isn't management being blamed?
Everything from 1991 Radio Shack ad I now do with my phone Ray Kurzweil also wrote about this happening in one of his books (mid ninety's).
Why the Future Doesn't Need Us by Bill Joy (on the unabomber's list)
If you really want to bake your noodle, read Gödel. :)
Great. Seven years of mathematical physics education wasted. Thanks.
Historically, civilization always fall not because of environmental disaster or wars, but due to demographics. Civilizations die because they lose the will to continue living.
In mathematics (not science I know), a proof is one that is agreed upon by consensus. Science doesn't have proofs (it has supporting data for a hypothesis). Maybe this is a problem.
Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing in Palo Alto, California, Robert Freitas Jr. wrote an excellent paper on this subject.
The essential premise of the book, which Postman extends to the rest of his argument(s), is that "form excludes the content," that is, a particular medium can only sustain a particular level of ideas.
The origins of computer related religious wars