I see no reason to chase the mystery trend any more now than I did when I started working with computers in 1962. It is not "technology," nor is it being a "luddite;" it is just being sensible about your life.
If you have recently looked at Terrestial Television, you will see that the level of broadcasting material is simply infantile. Those kids who grew up with Saturday morning television are still watching dumb shows. Hopefully, the next generation will force better standards later.
(I have been doing interesting work in computers since the sixties. Right now I also have a job with an employer that appreciates my skill set.) The problem you mention is always just around the corner. My impression is that there are others on "slashdot" that share the following opinion: The "web" came out of the area of high energy physics; and they are now working on something that is called the "grid." In the near term, many "double e's" are talking about "spintronics" and there is a lot of money being spent in academia for "quantum computing" and "quantum encryption." The quotation marks are deliberate, because they represent a certain amount of marketing. Like it or not, that is where the future is being revealed, even though many of the topics discussed by marketeers will never make it to the real world.
Since about 1650 (Montaigne)it has been generally accepted that academics are afraid of anything new. In fact, their job is to preserve our past. The ones mentioned by wduffee are no different. Computers were not advanced by academics, only used by them after they were proven to be useful. The same goes for the academic art departments. Although I personally am not a great fan of movies, there have been some good computer graphics in them (certainly the movie buffs in those art departments will like that form of computer graphics, if not today, then tomorrow).
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I see no reason to chase the mystery trend any more now than I did when I started working with computers in 1962.
It is not "technology," nor is it being a "luddite;" it is just being sensible about your life.
If you have recently looked at Terrestial Television, you will see that the level of broadcasting material is simply infantile. Those kids who grew up with Saturday morning television are still watching dumb shows. Hopefully, the next generation will force better standards later.
(I have been doing interesting work in computers since the sixties. Right now I also have a job with an employer that appreciates my skill set.) The problem you mention is always just around the corner. My impression is that there are others on "slashdot" that share the following opinion: The "web" came out of the area of high energy physics; and they are now working on something that is called the "grid." In the near term, many "double e's" are talking about "spintronics" and there is a lot of money being spent in academia for "quantum computing" and "quantum encryption." The quotation marks are deliberate, because they represent a certain amount of marketing. Like it or not, that is where the future is being revealed, even though many of the topics discussed by marketeers will never make it to the real world.
Since about 1650 (Montaigne)it has been generally accepted that academics are afraid of anything new. In fact, their job is to preserve our past. The ones mentioned by wduffee are no different. Computers were not advanced by academics, only used by them after they were proven to be useful. The same goes for the academic art departments. Although I personally am not a great fan of movies, there have been some good computer graphics in them (certainly the movie buffs in those art departments will like that form of computer graphics, if not today, then tomorrow).