COMPUTER’S ERA
After a hard day you come back home just thinking of relaxing. You sit down on your chair, stretch your legs and look at your computer that has been waiting for you all day long. “What would I do without you”, you think then. But the truth is that this indispensable machine in your life didn’t exist some years ago.
Computers are young machines that have become indispensable for a lot of people. They are used for working and for fun, and we spend a lot of time in their company. But, how were these wonderful machines created? We find the answer in this documentary, “Triumph of the Nerds“, that not only lets us find out how hard the process of creating this machine was, but also it shows us the persons who were involved in its birth (who are called “nerds” because of their appearance and their habits, I guess).
After watching this documentary a question was floating in my mind: After the moment “the nerds” started earning that amount of money, what were they thinking of when they worked on their computers? Had they got the same enthusiasm… or did the pure process of creating become the money search?
I like your introduction! And your way of describing the episodes.
Thank you very much!
I belive firmly that while it was a work of pure love at the beginning but later on it was only about the money. even though they themself say diffrent.
Yeah, money makes people change…
Hey,
That’s a good question you point out at the end of your blog. I’m not sure they would have the same type of enthusiasm as they did when they were just regular people. I mean, I know if I was them, I’d still have similar interests but, I wouldn’t take it so seriously.
I’m sure it all began as a dream to work on, but, now, I’m sure they’re not the ones who actually spend hundreds of hours developing new softwares, cause they’re bosses. They’ve got programmers, and I bet they’re the best ones. Maybe they still love computers and their work, but now their work is not the same it use to be. So, it”s true that maybe their instinct to make money is more important in their work than their nformatics skills.