Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]With all due respect, Jayanand, you are flat wrong on this. See my previous post. I would say that they are equally important. My own long experience in the tech industry is that the liberal arts people with a good working knowledge of software and hardware architecture often have an eerily accurate prescience about technology trends. What's most important and when. Whether or not a particular technology is successful depends to a large extent on human behavior - how and why people use it and the effect is has on their behavior patterns. It takes both perspectives to create successful products. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 13, 2014, at 23:05, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> > wrote: > > I agree, but who is more critical, the guys who design and build these > gizmos in the first place, or those who write a manual for it? I would much > rather have the gizmo without a manual, rather than no gizmo at all! We > need to think holistically about this. Students would study the Liberal > Arts in college, if it puts food in their stomach after passing out. As of > now it just leaves them with a $100k debt that in all probability can never > be repaid... > Cheers > Jayanand > > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Chris Crawford < > chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote: > >> You still need people who can write. It used to be that businesses in the >> United States hired people with English degrees to write instruction >> manuals, ad copy, etc. Now, universities have introduced bullshit >> corporate vocational degrees with names like "Professional Communications" >> and businesses hire the graduates of such programs instead of liberal arts >> grads. What's the difference? Liberal arts people think too much; >> "Communications" graduates do what they're told, regardless of how >> dishonest, immoral, or illegal the job they're handed. >> >> -- >> Chris Crawford >> Fine Art Photography >> Fort Wayne, Indiana >> 260-437-8990260-437-8990 >> >> http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio >> >> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 >> Become a fan on Facebook >> >> >> >>> On 4/13/14 10:35 PM, "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Jim, But Liberal Arts majors are incapable of designing TVs or >>> manufacturing them in the first place! (-: So what is your point? >>> Cheers >>> Jayanand > > Call > Send SMS > Add to Skype > You'll need Skype CreditFree via Skype > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information