> people who really understand the technology that the world runs on, are a slowly dying breed
Not completely. Curious people will always pop up, it's just that they will take as much time as you did to learn everything.
I like to think of myself as one of the curious people. Ever since I was a kid, I had a huge desire to understand how the hell does this magic box called a computer work. Decades later, as a software engineer, no matter how much I learn, no matter how deep I go, there's always this voice in my head going "but WHY? WHY are things the way they are?".
I did start top-down instead of bottom-up, starting from the high-level languages running on modern operating systems, going more and more into the (professionally unnecessary) low-level through pure curiosity, but I still believe I will get to the bottom one day.
Not completely. Curious people will always pop up, it's just that they will take as much time as you did to learn everything.
I like to think of myself as one of the curious people. Ever since I was a kid, I had a huge desire to understand how the hell does this magic box called a computer work. Decades later, as a software engineer, no matter how much I learn, no matter how deep I go, there's always this voice in my head going "but WHY? WHY are things the way they are?".
I did start top-down instead of bottom-up, starting from the high-level languages running on modern operating systems, going more and more into the (professionally unnecessary) low-level through pure curiosity, but I still believe I will get to the bottom one day.