Sign of tech illiteracy: hollywood "nerd" characters who can apparently do everything from crack passwords to sequence DNA to reprogram AIs
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I've known people to make such errors, thinking a "farmer" can be sub for a "wedding planner" on team
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: I've seen people ask an Immunologist for advice on sick pets - "hey, it's all medicine"
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I used to think they just wanted to bundle necessary tech-context plot points of stories in one cover-all character, but this is not true
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Most non-techies literally have NO idea of how various tech specialities/skills/roles fit together to make complex things happen
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. I'd say so. Because we are all more intuitively competent at humanities by virtue of a) being human b) anthropocentric
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the disconnect between what the world thinks SW can do well and what it can actually do well is one of the big problems of our age...
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