Professional Idiots

[Nymeria]

Qwark said:

Nymeria said:
It goes to show a species does not uniformly advance. Why I bought District 9's premise of the worker drones having no clue how their own ships work. If you stripped away the structures of society about 97% of us would die within a few years. People love the comfort modernity and science has given them, but most still have no clue how much or any of it works.

I game for the larger part of my live. Yet I know what CPU, GPU and what the Motherboard do. I don't have a single clue hoe it works other than and I quote captain america for this one "It seems to run some sort of electricity" and sends positive and negative signals to a transistor which counts it and a code with 0's and 1's made which somehow makes me able to play games. I have no idea how to build computerparts or what the structural difference is between a CPU and a GPU.

Exactly, I'm much the same way.  

When labor and society became so specialized we don't need to be aware.  This can filter across though when people think their ignorance is equal to another's knowledge.  If you have a question about vaccines, talk to people in medical fields, don't discuss it with Janice at work who heard on the internet it causes autism.  This becomes a problem when other's ignorance then can adversely affect us, especially if they can infludence others.