I wouldn't call the people whose tools are words "dumb" ... but certainly "impractical", and perhaps "ignorant" and "unskilled"...
It reminds me of all the special effects "computer displays" in Hollywood films, where the "hacker" types furiously away in a terminal window while meaningless 3D widgets spin around elsewhere on the screen, and the performance - whether it's "break into a security system" or "locate the president" or whatever - plays out like a particularly aggressive game of Halo.
I think people watch that, and they assume that software development is just like video gaming, only more intense. So when they see computers playing games, they assume computers developing software is right around the corner.
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Date: 2016-02-02 08:07 pm (UTC)I wouldn't call the people whose tools are words "dumb" ... but certainly "impractical", and perhaps "ignorant" and "unskilled"...
It reminds me of all the special effects "computer displays" in Hollywood films, where the "hacker" types furiously away in a terminal window while meaningless 3D widgets spin around elsewhere on the screen, and the performance - whether it's "break into a security system" or "locate the president" or whatever - plays out like a particularly aggressive game of Halo.
I think people watch that, and they assume that software development is just like video gaming, only more intense. So when they see computers playing games, they assume computers developing software is right around the corner.