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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Yup, I include pro medicine in tech of course, because it is...
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: well you get the same "must know everything about ..." in engineering, in law, in architecture etc.
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They think it's like a little island off the main continent of pre-modern human knowledge...
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If tech is a continent, humanities is navigational/traveling strategy
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I'd say both are continents with their own navigation strategies; no category error here
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