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Originally Posted by bbusybookworm
And Nate while I have to agree that people tend to try to relate it to somthing that they know, I would think that people in the Tech industry would at least think of the possibilities before dismissing them out of hand.
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I wasn't
defending the practice -- quite the contrary, that's why I chose a loaded term like "laziness." No I was just explaining what I thought the motivator for the action was.
I find that Tech Industry folks are often
worse about such things, you have the mental laziness added to a nice dose of "not our idea" and you get even less imagination bubbling out.
At the same time, I also agree that it shouldn't be this way, "tech" folks and "journalists" really ought to be amongst the more critical thinkers on such matters, it's just that they usually aren't