This is something I’ve noticed a lot of lately: people are more interested in taking photos of something they’re witnessing than actually, you know, witnessing it. These people are all looking at LCD screens instead of the new Presidential couple standing in front of them. Sure, they’ll be able to post the photo to their Facebook accounts, but they’ll (obviously) be able to find 100 identical or better photos of the same thing on Flickr when they get home. Is it more important to take a unique photo to prove you were there or to exist in that moment fully as to remember it better?
(via gizmodo)
I used to be really worked up about this issue…when I was a computer science student. Sadly, not only is there a problem with attracting women to computer science, but there’s also the problem of keeping us in the field. I was so surprised with how many female computer science grads there are doing HCI here at Michigan. But personally, I don’t miss computer science and doing coding. Partly I think because of not being fully engaged in my early computer science classes which was hard to recover from, and partly because of being more left-brained and creative, I’m happy with where I’ve ended up. But I still feel partly responsible for the poor statistics cited in this article - that if only I’d stuck with it the equality would be a little higher.
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