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Quote: 'One way he [Al Hoagland] tries to illustrate the importance of modern storage systems to school children for whom technology is ubiquitous is to ask th

Quote: 'One way he [Al Hoagland] tries to illustrate the importance of modern storage systems to school children for whom technology is ubiquitous is to ask them a random question, such as "What's the height of the Hoover Dam?" When the kids all jump on a nearby computer to search for the answer, he then asks them where the information came from... 'They just stare. It's a total blank," he said. "That's the frustration when you worked on something to make that possible, but you're not even recognized. Most people just want to see a 3D movie, they don't much want to know what made it possible.' Says a lot about today's society.

jswinghammer 16y ago
I was with him until the 3D movie part. Who actually wants that?
- xiaoma 16y ago
  Lots of people do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(2009_film)#Box_office http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(2009_film)#Box_office
ErrantX 16y ago
Sure, but you can understand some level of apathy for those details in most people. We're all "tech" people and so such details are going to interest us. But do you wonder in any depth how, for example, that bottle of milk made it to your fridge (the answer is not necessarily all that simple). Even some of the more technically minded programmers I know have zero interest in how a CPU works on a physical level and how they were developed :) But one of those kids he describes might have a deep interest in how to get eggs from chickens, or how to cut hair, or.... you can never really predict what it is that will arrest them. (case in point; I was trying to teach my scouts about how GPS worked the other day and they kept getting distracted with how the GPS enclosure was moulded [because of the odd shape]. No interest in the technology :)) I've never had much concern about people's disinterest in how tech works, so long as there are enough of is who do care :)

jswinghammer 16y ago

I was with him until the 3D movie part. Who actually wants that?

xiaoma 16y ago
Lots of people do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(2009_film)#Box_office http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(2009_film)#Box_office

ErrantX 16y ago

Sure, but you can understand some level of apathy for those details in most people. We're all "tech" people and so such details are going to interest us. But do you wonder in any depth how, for example, that bottle of milk made it to your fridge (the answer is not necessarily all that simple). Even some of the more technically minded programmers I know have zero interest in how a CPU works on a physical level and how they were developed :) But one of those kids he describes might have a deep interest in how to get eggs from chickens, or how to cut hair, or.... you can never really predict what it is that will arrest them. (case in point; I was trying to teach my scouts about how GPS worked the other day and they kept getting distracted with how the GPS enclosure was moulded [because of the odd shape]. No interest in the technology :)) I've never had much concern about people's disinterest in how tech works, so long as there are enough of is who do care :)