Linked by Emmanuel Marty on Mon 5th Aug 2002 05:58 UTC
I've always been curious about how things work. When I was little, I annoyed my parents with millions of
questions. Why is the sky blue? How does water come out of the tap when you open it? Maybe I was born without the
mental switch that lets you be happy with using something, without trying to figure out how it works.
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Very interesting. One can conclude from two of the previous posts that the field of computing is absorbing the creative talents of those whose natural ego-drives would otherwise be contributing great works to humanity in other fields. I started out wanting to read the article for inspiration about writing your own toy OS, but now I just feel stupid for sitting in front of a monitor when there is a whole real world waiting to be experienced and interracted with just outside my door...