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About the whole science thing. So why the science education in schools? Oh, we are told from IEEE Spectrum that scientists are a much more political bunch than engineers. No wonder why they got “science” into the school curriculum. And no wonder why they lobby on the streets in Washington D.C. but engineers don’t.
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inven-sysOn the spatial inventory system and navigation. Why constrain the user to a physical metaphor? They should be able to open up different rooms in different windows and drag and drop to move objects around, not have to move around. Like a so-called “spatial file manager.” -
Oh my goodness. The problem with mass media. Yeah, it’s like you said, it’s all in the marketing. But also like you were thinking previously but did not yet write down. The reality of the media appeal and cultural relation among people? What causes people to take some reactions as complements and others as insults? Why do they just want to “enjoy” a story? Why don’t they want to understand the technical reality of language translation? Why do they just want to hear the story in their own language? It’s like people looking at themself in the mirror. What they see is that echoes their own self and psychology is “good.” “But it’s not real!” you say. Yeah, but that is the reality entertainment. It’s not about looking at things objectively as they actually occur in the real world whether they like them or not. It’s about seeing what they want to see, it’s the “pick and choose” culture of looking at what interests you.
* Wow, so that's where those mal-guided career guidance counselors
got that idea from. No wonder why they promoted a software that
said "Find careers that interest you" in it.
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About the medical profession thing. When it feels like all technology is doing is tracking the limitations of human psychology but not going further. Yeah, that’s why 3D video really hasn’t taken off. I mean, binocular vision, technically.
In a post-industrialized society, 3D printing doesn’t have much economic activity in manufacturing, so where to go next? Well, it has medical applications, so why not capitalize there? Yep, so that’s why you hear so much emphasis there. Because the medical profession’s employment generally scales with the human population, barring any dramatic super-automation going on at work.
Yeah, but … Again, I reiterate, because this is important! The one thing that I don’t like about the medical professions is not only is its growth controlled by the human population, but so it the case in the limitation of the different medical segments and specialties. The fact that it does so closely track human population demographics can also result in some unusual changes, like pharmacy employment booming then busting when the baby boomers come and go from the elderly population. But with technology, the tides and forces of change are different, not tracking the human population but instead tracking the state of the art of technology.
- The industry pulled out of the sector so quickly that nobody had time to write high-quality libre software CAD. Let’s put it that way as to why development of libre software tends to fall behind that of proprietary software when it comes to CAD. Whereas, for more mainstream software, there is no shortage of libre software, precisely because there is a bigger economy behind it, thus there is more sponsored development in that sector in general.
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Again, I reiterate, because this is important! American math education is behind the international standard. That is perhaps one of the most significant differences between American education and education elsewhere in the world.
- Why does this matter in this context? Well, it matters because all of this is mathematically intensive, which is likely to cause troubles for Americans.
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Again, I reiterate, because this is important! Hobbyist mathematicians have made considerably useful contributions to the state-of-the-art. Like Oliver Heaviside who simplified Maxwell’s equations or Delanalay Triangulations.
20170506/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside
Renote. Again, I reiterate, because this is important!
20170506/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amateur_mathematicians