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"Hello? Is this Google? Hello Mr Yahoo : I would like a pizza recipe for my grandkids, please. Thank you."?
by Frenchgeek 10y ago
"Hello? Is this Google? Hello Mr Yahoo : I would like a pizza recipe for my grandkids, please. Thank you."?
- manmal 10y agoIs that ageism or do you reference something worthwhile or funny?
- Frenchgeek 10y agoI'm only making fun of "thinking like a 94 year old": There is no such thing in my opinion. ( And to be a genius you only have to work on something to the point of obsession but some may disagree )
- fahadkhan 10y agoThere are many more people who are considered obsessed with something and are not considered geniuses than there are people who are considered geniuses. An easy example is music. The world is full of professional and amateur musicians, many of who are considered obsessed and yet people considered geniuses rare, perhaps only a handful every century.
- manmal 10y agoWell, how do you know? How many 94y old non-retired professors have you interacted with yet?
- Frenchgeek 10y agoLook like the title has changed since my comment : the original one being "To be a genius, think like a 94 years old". I still think it did deserve to be made fun of.
- redwood 10y ago"Hello? What is this physical analog electronic component? Replace or mend? WHAT? Throw away; don't fix!" "Hello? Automobile engine self repairable? Impossible!" "Hello? Programming with cards? Impossible!"
- redwood 10y agoIn all honesty we've become a throw away generation without the ability to get in there and see how the machine work. Inevitable perhaps but the former generation are much more handy than we and frankly have probably in many cases got a better bottom up view of how things work under the covers
- aswanson 10y agoYeah, I think globalization has made products so commoditized, its more economical to throw them away than fix them. 4k 55' TVs for less than a grand; in the 80s that purchase would have been a projection TV for several thousand dollars (in 80s dollars!) and would have been kept for a decade or more. Now, it's toss it and upgrade. Same with PCs, etc.
- pbhjpbhj 10y agoIsn't that in large part due to income disparity. The place where it needs to be fixed has wages far higher than the place where it's made. Also that companies design stuff to break, and design things to be hard to fix. Legally mandating long warranties and long term parts availability would probably help?
- rimliu 10y agoI doubt that knowledge of a carburettor transfers well into understanding of sophisticated injection systems.
- erikpukinskis 10y ago> we've become a throw away generation without the ability to get in there and see how the machine work. You should check out YouTube. Your perception seems to be skewed, maybe by your social circle? We're living in a golden age of "ability to get in there and see how the machines work".
- cmdrfred 10y ago"I have to hire someone to change my tire,patch my roof,paint my house,cook me dinner,fix my plumbing,drive me to work,coach me through life,teach me how to talk to women,provide me with a safe space.." I'm 28 and nothing infuriates me more than late 20's or early 30's year old man-children making fun of a generation who won WW2, put a man on the moon, improved civil rights tremendously, and ushered in an era of human prosperity and progress never seen before. Such arrogance from a group of people who have accomplished little of note in comparison. I don't feel superior teaching a man to use Google if that man when he was a decade younger than the age I am now was flying a chopper over Vietnam to support his wife and two children. Listen and learn from them while they are still around.