From: Jon Winters <winters@obscurasite.com>
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Eric Armstrong wrote:
> From: Eric Armstrong <eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com>
>
> Jon Winters wrote:
>
> > Over the last ten weeks I have been very excited about the things we
> > have been talking about and I have attempted to share this excitement
> > with my family and co-workers.
> >
> > They all think I'm a bit of a wierdo now. My wife throws up her hands
> >
> > and shouts "BUNK" because it sounds like a bunch of science fiction.
>
> That's odd. I've never had that reaction. When people ask me what the
> colloquium is about I say, "designing the technoglogy mankind needs to
> solve complex problems".
> Everyone gets very impressed, and that's as far as the conversation
> usually goes.
For me the conversation falls apart when they ask "what kind of problems"
and I attempt to describe a few examples. The effects of scale are
particularly difficult to explain to a 'normal'.
I'll try the simple approach next time!
Thanks!
-- Jon Winters http://www.obscurasite.com/"Everybody loves the GIMP!" http://www.gimp.org/
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