Michael Baier wrote:

>Wish GWB had said on Wednesday what the 21st century jobs are.
>Seems it aint programmer. Maybe manager at McD or Wendys?
>
>Endangered species: US programmers
>By David R. Francis, The Christian Science Monitor
>
>
Agreed, but over the years, as processors become faster, memory larger,
disk plentiful, there is often little or no attention paid to quality or
performance.  Essentially your McD/Wendys reference is quite
appropriate, we are now victims of "fast-food programming"... drive
through pre-packaged software with questionable if not objectionable
nutritional value (if I may extend the analogy).  Technology has become
incredibly "dumbed down".  When was the last time you placed a support
call that was redirected overseas?  or even local for that matter?  SETI
has traditionally been devoted to the search for extraterrestrial
*Intelligence* -- often times (placing a support call in particular) I
think SETI should focus on finding some *terrestrial* intelligence.

Jeff

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