Technology for Morons
I have read two articles over the last day that were so obvious they didn't need to be written. To whit:
Cameras, Not Phones, Seen as Photography Mainstay. Wow. Regular digital cameras, with a far higher pixel count, are preferred for taking important pictures than crappy phone cams. Even Nostradamus couldn't have predicted that!
Disk Drives Move Beyond PCs, Servers. Now that might actually have been an interesting article. Two years ago. iPods and TiVos are not really new devices anymore. The end part of the article, where they discuss the future of disk drive technology, is interesting. It's cool that Toshiba has now made a hard drive that could fit into a cell phone. They could have just centered the article around the future, with only a nod to the past as a set-up. But to spend so much time on something that is old news?
Either there are a lot of morons in the media, or they think that we're morons.
Comments
I guess I must be something of a moron. I didn't know about the disk drive thing. I'm afraid I'm not the techie my husband is, so a lot of this really is news to me.
Posted by: Elayne Riggs | January 20, 2004 07:18 AM
But that indicates even more that the problem is with the media (and they were entire point of this post). If their target audience doesn't know something, why do they wait two years after it is technology news to inform them? Even if they wanted to see if it would catch on, iPods (and other large capacity portable mp3 players) and TiVos have been popular household items for over a year now. This would be like the media reporting in 2000 on how DVDs were this hot new thing.
So I get back to my point. Either they have no clue in the media what is going on in the world of technology (which would be pretty bad given that these are reporters who are paid to write about it and inform the rest of us, and so should have a higher level of knowledge than most), or they think that we're so uninformed that it's ok patronize us and treat us like we're morons.
Posted by: Lesley | January 20, 2004 07:48 AM
Why do you frame it as an either/or? Can't they be morons who think we are morons?
I've signed up for your VCWC, by the way. I've always wanted to be part of a conspiracy. The VRWC was willing to have me, but, well, you know...
And the VLWC won't return my calls.
Posted by: Pixy Misa | February 2, 2004 07:42 AM
You have a point about the "either/or" thing.
And welcome to the VCWC. Remember, our tent isn't just big. It's really, really big.
Posted by: Lesley | February 2, 2004 08:14 AM