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Yup, post 2012, bunch of people saw ‘ the social network’ and decided tech is cool and makes money. Before that, most engineers were in the nerdy side. As the
by ardit33 6y ago
Yup, post 2012, bunch of people saw ‘ the social network’ and decided tech is cool and makes money. Before that, most engineers were in the nerdy side. As the pool has increased, the talent has diluted as well
- JesseMReeves 6y agoI see.. I do remember literally thinking „that guy can‘t have grown up as a nerd“ when a documentary described one guy who introduced many of the exploitative and clearly dystopian „hooking“ patterns in social media. I’m still working in academia and am wondering how I can find the still-nerdy circles when I have to move to industry.
- jonfromsf 6y agoDo you happen to remember what documentary/ what person was this?
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoI think the change set in before 2012 as well; it probably took off during the tech boom around the 2000's when the world got connected to the internet. Anyway, The Social Network is a pretty bad example because everyone in there already started from a privileged position, e.g. rich parents; Zuck's parents were a psychiatrist and a dentist, both at least 150K / year jobs. Harvard costs $50K a year for tuition, plus nearly $20K / year for housing.