Re: [nukkad] Answer please

[Harshal Chhaya <>]

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Ragini wrote:
> If some of you recall, last year I had felt strongly about the 
> sorry answers by grown up and sensible looking people .... on the 
> nationally telecast Quiz program in Unites States..."The Weakest Link".

For those interested in following this discussion from last year,
Ragini's message is at:
http://www.mumbai-central.com/nukkad/apr2001/msg00110.html

You can read the subsequent discussion by following the 'Next by
thread' link towards the bottom of that message and all subsquent
messages.

Now on to this one...

> Mostly I see young smart participants, looking affluent and doing well in
> careers and studies. But for their faux pas....I begin to wonder what is
> going wrong with our young people, who so well have all rounded education in
> India.


Ragini,

I think you are assuming that all young, smart, career-minded people
are computer savvy and know a lot about the web and the internet.
I can't see how you can make this conclusion.

Some of us spend a lot of time online and keep up with the 
net-related companies while others don't. Not knowing who
founded Hotmail.com is perfectly normal for someone who 
is not a tech-head or one who started using Hotmail.com after
Microsoft acquired it in 1997 (5 years back when net access in
India was still very new). 


> My main objection being the questions were addressed to the young
> generation, not put to the older generation who we can say perhaps are not
> expected to be as savvy in the computer world as the youngsters are supposed
> to be.

Why are youngsters 'supposed' to be computer savvy? They
may be more comfortable with computers and the internet but
I don't think you can reach the conclusion that they should
know net-related trivia. 

I bet you can't find many people in the US who know the founders
of Yahoo! or Google even though they use it every single day. 
Everyone knows Bill Gates primarily because he has been the richest
man on earth for a few years now. But there are thousands of other
founders and successful entrepreneurs who are relatively unknown.
They may be well-known among people who know of them and their
companies but there are nobodies in the larger world. 

I wouldn't worry about the state of the educational system
or the youth in India just because they don't know that
Sam Pitroda ... oops... Sabeer Bhatia founded Hotmail.com.

- 'shal


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