Here’s a question for a wet Friday morning – well, it’s tipping it down here!
Just rediscovered ‘Soul of a New Machine’ – excellent book, and one of the things that got me messing with computers in the first place – and it left me wondering if anyone gets that kind of overwhelming ‘buzz’ anymore?
Alright, they were designing/building and going into new territory, but I’m sure I used to get a sense of challenge out of dealing with PCs or mainframe links or whatever else. Do people still get that sort of feeling, or has it all become routine – as IT has moved onwards and outwards, have “they” engineered all the initiative and endeavour out of it?
How to avoid falling into a rut, or the dreaded ‘white goods’ syndrome (where the computers are nothing more interesting than the average washing machine)?