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Re:Ask HN: What other careers will you move into when the te... by jpindar on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @09:47PM (#10550976)
Like what, global thermonuclear war?

Oh, you mean the website that doesn't actually sell anything sector. I keep forgetting that cars, radios, medical equipment, airplanes, rockets, robots etc. (all of which contain software, and are sold on websites) are no longer considered "technology".

Re:Ask HN: What other careers will you move into when the te... by FiatLuxDave on Thursday November 12, 2015 @10:36AM (#10553736)
Hear, hear!

I hope this next bubble bursting will finally kill the misnomer "tech sector" or "tech industry". Call it the website industry or telecomputer sector or something. I mean seriously, I get to work with particle accelerators and software that does Monte Carlo calculations of the way radiation moves through the human body, but that's not "tech". Those guys building hypersonic aircraft, they aren't in "tech". Doctors crafting artificial organs, that's not "high tech" at all. No, some website/app that shows ads alongside cat pictures, that's what high tech is all about.

Sadly, I think the name will probably stick until the Next Big Thing comes along, and then telecomp will stop being "high tech" just like all the other high tech industries that don't have every wannabe on the planet trying to squeeze money out of them while the getting is good.

/rant