Guys at techie website see no role for humanities! Film at
11. (Uh, you guys have heard of film, right? And TV news? Oh,
never mind.)
Anyway, I just thought for two seconds about what I think people
with humanities backgrounds have a better grounding in than
techies, and my first thought was that they know a little more
about how complicated it is, and have a better grasp on what
doesn't quite work.
It's really easy for someone who hasn't thought it through to
think that things are a lot simpler than they are... you know,
kind of like Nate Silver figuring he can do arithmetic better than a
Republican, and hence is probably just at good at climate science
as a climate scientist.
Techies often seem to think they know all the answers ("Let the
market decide!") when they're just barely getting started on the
problems.