John Oren Marketing and Analytics Person
The Age of Beige
Speaking with a trusted technical comrade, a very good friend of mine and all of 19 years old.. He thought his little brother’s “generation” (2 years younger..) was not getting to explore the fundamentals of technology, quite as much. That the hardware and software tours of a beige desktop just didn’t translate to appliance computing.
The days of regedits and configsys hacks, and frankenstein computing seemed to have been lost to the button pushing of devices and laptops.
I agree. There is something to be said about the age of dirty beige, and the breaking down of the different components, both software and hardware.
We likened it to the whole story of the American automobile, maybe 50 years ago.
In the 60s and 70s cars were labored over in a very similar way. The were hobbied out of necessity, and ultimately developed into more. As did the people working on them.
And when the 80s rolled around, cars were bulletproof. Automobiles really only required gas, oil, and tires. Cars were worked on by the owner much less. People became less knowledgeable about how cars really worked, and just took their performance for granted. And they really could..
Question being, will the masses understand less about computing as their computers learn more?
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