Paging DR Moron: Maybe some people use both sides of their brain?
I didn't need to get far into this article before I was annoyed enough to toss up a little blog spitball. The idea that programming is not a creative art and can be tossed at any person is far from reality, at least it is were I work.
The implied insult to Asia re being good for that kind of work further ruffled my fur.So much for the advancement of the human race it appears you have to be in the USA to really be the kind of wacky right brained story teller to get the big picture.
Then again this article from the same woman that gave a platform to anti-science nit wits like Jenny McCarthy which is about as far right brained as it gets. An appeal to get away from engineering and rational thought is probably not the best message to be spreading around but hey she's Oprah why let reality get in the way of a good story.
Why right-brainers will rule this century - CNN.com
The implied insult to Asia re being good for that kind of work further ruffled my fur.So much for the advancement of the human race it appears you have to be in the USA to really be the kind of wacky right brained story teller to get the big picture.
Then again this article from the same woman that gave a platform to anti-science nit wits like Jenny McCarthy which is about as far right brained as it gets. An appeal to get away from engineering and rational thought is probably not the best message to be spreading around but hey she's Oprah why let reality get in the way of a good story.
Why right-brainers will rule this century - CNN.com
during which right-brained skills such as design and storytelling will become far more crucial than traditionally left-brained skills such as accounting and computer programming.
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Amen. I looked all around for somewhere to put a comment on that article. I guess they don't want any rebuttal. Programming not conceptual? How can anyone be so stupid? The whole thing is a design in itself. Idiot.
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wow my exact thoughts while reading the story. so glad to see this blog
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It was an amazingly shallow and offensive article by a couple of amazingly shallow people who are trying to convince each other that they're really smart in spite of not being able to balance their own checkbooks.
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I cannot agree more with you! I wonder how the stanford engineering or science students felt while listening to her speech.
I am an Asian person who got a ph.d in this country and is now teaching in an American University. I cannot emphasize more on how frustrating I am when some of my American students cannot understand the most basic logic or perform the easiest algebra. Sure, art and design and story-telling are important, but if a whole country is told that left brain is useless while it is already losing it, i can only foresee that there will be no scientist, no engineering, no accountant, no lawyer in the future in this country, and the only job left will be tv host and hollywood star.
Americans are able to outsource those jobs to Asia now because it is rich now, but it is losing this advantage gradually, as we can see after 911 and the economic crisis. America is no longer the only superpower in the world. I probably should go back home someday when I have kids, just because I am afraid that my kids will learn no logical thinking in this country.
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Thanks for taking the time to comment.
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