IgnoranceI once was in a programming class where the task was "build a calculator". A student did one with buttons 1, 2, 3 all the way up to about 25 and then ran out of space on the screen. We've asked this before but liked it so much we're asking again: What's the best example of ignorance you've encountered?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 12:30)
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Not so smug nowWhen I were a lad, I was one of them Home Computer nerds, back in the days of ZX-80s, PETs and TRS-80s. One day I was bashing away at the thump-sensitive keyboard, hooked up to the family TV in the front room of course. My aunt happened to be staying for a visit, and naturally was not up to speed with the latest in microprocessor technology.
After watching me pounding away for a while (arf) she put down her knitting and asked "So, can you ask it anything, then?"
Oh, how I laughed, how I rolled around in mirth at her charming naivete. How quaint, I thought, how breathtakingly ignorant.
Now I realise that she was actually being blisteringly prescient, and was predicting the existence of the internet about 15 years before it was invented.
If I'd have taken her seriously, I could have been Bill Gates or Steve Jobs (without the dying part) by now.
(, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 12:01, Reply)
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