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Default Automation Makes Us Dumb

On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 16:48:29 -0500, legg wrote:

On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 10:26:47 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:

I really believe this is happening...

http://tinyurl.com/lssbgwu

New College Graduates (aka NCG's) seem to have no imagination
whatsoever, with boring personalities to match.

...Jim Thompson


Lack of experience with short-term human interface is common with
software and automation designers. Never mind longer term effects.


Mathy/sciency types are often not people-people, and often have poor
language skills. That's how our brains are wired.

I had a terrible time trying to learn French, and a lot of the social
science/English lit/art concepts were, and still are, meaningless to
me.

Most (good) engineers are somewhere along the autism spectrum. It's
sort of a job requirement.


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