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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 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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They don't get (for eg) that gap btwn mastery of aircraft stability and jet engine thermodynamics is wider than btwn poetry and anthropology
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