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I agreed with this up until this sentence. > They also often lack the imagination on how to solve things in a new technological paradigm. I think that they ab
by vkjv 11y ago
I agreed with this up until this sentence.
> They also often lack the imagination on how to solve things in a new technological paradigm.
I think that they absolutely have the imagination, as well as the skill and experience, to solve these problems. What they lack is tolerance for risk.
- ThomPete 11y agoYeah I could have worded that better. The point I was just trying to make is that older generation might be caught up in certain ways of solving things, where as younger generations might come into it with a different paradigm in mind. I was trying to make a very specific point but I did that I guess poorly.
- wavefunction 11y agoThe young will often times "reinvent the wheel" not knowing that not only does the concept of a wheel exist, but many wheels before them have been manufactured. I know I have done this and as I have gotten to middle age I have seen younger developers do this as well.
- seanmcdirmid 11y agoWheel reinvention is often futile but sometimes leads to brilliant new inventions. Also, their is an old adage about young scientists sometimes making major discoveries because they don't yet know what is impossible.