Lost my smart phone the other day and for three days I had severe withdrawal symptoms particularly because I've been playing Online Internet chess with it non stop for hours.
In fact when I went ahead and got a new one, I was upset that my old model wasn't available and threw a hissy fit.
I did get a close enough match and then spent the next hour or two trying to get my smart phone to mirror the one I lost.
All I can say at this point is that I think I've jumped the bandwagon. I think I can never get back to normality again.
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Yes there's a large element of chance and serendipity. It's amazing how such big life decisions, i.e. career path, are made without much careful thought or just via drift / the path of least resistance. That's why kids are likely to "choose" (perhaps unintentionally) to study/work in fields based on the role models and key social influences of today, rather than a logical assessment of their passion, strengths, etc. And nowadays more than ever before it boils down to money and/or fame, of which Science seems to struggle on both counts compared to most other competing vocations. Maybe if Einstein was born in this era, he would have become a computer hacker (ala Assange) or earn the big bucks as a smart phone app designerJR8 wrote:Maybe the 'youth of today' do aspire to be the next Jobs, Gates, Buffet or Branson. But sadly I suspect such people are all doomed to fail. I don't think it is a thing you plan to be. Rather I think it is a thing for which you have a required natural aptitude (of which 99.999% don't), and of the ones that do I wonder how many realise it before the moment 'Preparation meets opportunity', and it starts to happen. When Branson was selling records and fanzines over the payphone from school, I can't imagine he had any inkling or dream of owning an airline. It was probably an innate ability and chance, rather than something more planned that got him there...

Forget all his breakthrough theories, purely based on hairdo alone, how could Einstein not be a cult celebrity ?JR8 wrote:--- Interesting thought. The modern cult of celebrity. And the moulding of historical 'dry as a stick' scientists into cultural celebrities...
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