>>9883011To be honest, while popsci makes your average asshole even more insufferable, in mediated amounts it’s actually not bad. The hard part is letting it spread without spreading misconception.
It’s fine that people know that quantum mechanics exist. It’s bad that they want to study it without an understanding of math problems or its place among other physical theories. It’s fine that people know that computers do computations on bits. It’s not good that people hate the math of signals and the math of algorithms.
Do you see the trend? The fact that math isn’t pushed hard enough in popsci is negative when you look at the disappointed faces in a non meme CS program when they realize that it’s not a coding major.