[Gllug] Light the blue touchpaper...

[Bernard Peek]

In message <200403171712.i2HHCltV008651 at isengard.accucard.com>, Tethys 
<tet at createservices.com> writes
>
>Bernard Peek writes:
>
>>>And as you build the dependancies upon smaller and smaller numbers of
>>>properly qualified people does anyone really think that this will lead to
>>>improvements?
>>
>>Not quite. We will be dependent on larger and larger numbers of properly
>>qualified people. We have left the era of the generalist behind, the
>>last renaissance man probably lived during the renaissance.
>
>I can't see how you can possibly come to this conslusion. With more and
>more people relying on the computer to correct their spelling and grammar,
>we'll be dependent on the few people that write the checking software to
>get it right. That's hardly "larger numbers of properly qualified people."

There are the specialists who build the hardware, the specialist who 
integrate the hardware into a usable PC, the specialists who write the 
OS, the specialists who write the WP application, the specialists who 
write a spell-check plugin.

Then you have the people who connect it to the Internet. Add to those 
the people who provide the electricity to power the PC, starting with 
the people who knock on your door to persuade you to change electricity 
providers, through the people who dig up the roads to lay power cables, 
the people who build the power-stations and the people who decide what 
energy source the power stations of 2014 will use.

And that's just to write a letter.


-- 
Bernard Peek
London, UK. DBA, Manager, Trainer & Author. Will work for money.

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