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<blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 7679677" data-attributes="member: 8835">That's probably a growing trend.&nbsp; I'm from the whizkid on a home computer generation.&nbsp; Folks like me got started young and built our skills through the evolution of computers.&nbsp; From a job standpoint, my experience has shown that guys like me do &quot;better&quot; at the job because our understanding is deeper of how the tech got the way it is and thus how you have to solve the problem.But our industry is increasingly filling with folks who got to college and decided to be a computer science major or something.&nbsp; With no background on command line interfaces, GUI design history, or make files etc.&nbsp; They hit the job and they have no clue how to do anything but write code in the language they went to school for.The tech industry, was initially dominated by folks who got deep into the subject matter as both fans and as jobs.&nbsp; These new jobbers just want to punch code until it's time to go home and be a jock.Just a&nbsp; thought, but is it possible that scifi and superheroes ARE our westerns?&nbsp; Our tech level moved up, as did the tech level/setting of our media content.Nobody cares about cowboys and indians anymore because when that was cool, the old west was just a few years ago (I exaggerate).Now its rockets and capes because that is set sort of near our grasp of tech/interest.&nbsp; Wolverine is the new John Wayne.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Janx, post: 7679677, member: 8835"] That's probably a growing trend. I'm from the whizkid on a home computer generation. Folks like me got started young and built our skills through the evolution of computers. From a job standpoint, my experience has shown that guys like me do "better" at the job because our understanding is deeper of how the tech got the way it is and thus how you have to solve the problem. But our industry is increasingly filling with folks who got to college and decided to be a computer science major or something. With no background on command line interfaces, GUI design history, or make files etc. They hit the job and they have no clue how to do anything but write code in the language they went to school for. The tech industry, was initially dominated by folks who got deep into the subject matter as both fans and as jobs. These new jobbers just want to punch code until it's time to go home and be a jock. Just a thought, but is it possible that scifi and superheroes ARE our westerns? Our tech level moved up, as did the tech level/setting of our media content. Nobody cares about cowboys and indians anymore because when that was cool, the old west was just a few years ago (I exaggerate). Now its rockets and capes because that is set sort of near our grasp of tech/interest. Wolverine is the new John Wayne. [/QUOTE]

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