Worlds apart

摘要

A friend I see on a semi-regular basis is a digital engineer in Silicon Valley. His specialty is circuit board design for high frequency signal processing, the kind of work that requires microscopes and wide-bandwidth (20GHz) storage oscilloscopes. Marvin, as I will call him, is far from a narrow-focus engineering nerd. He's pretty familiar with pop music, is a good amateur athlete, and is also a decent carpenter, mechanic, and designer. But he has no interest in analogue electronics, high-performance audio, or hi-res video. He and his wife don't own a TV or a hi-fi system of any kind. Their phones and computers deliver all the entertainment they can possibly want.