Wifi: Tales of a Lonely Repairman
Skip ahead to the present day and the computer tech is naught more than a digital plumber, on call 24 hours a day, subject to the whims of capricious management and ever-ignorant marketing departments.
Given the uncanny ability to perceive wireless networks with the naked eye, even to determine traffic flow and security measures in place, how long would it take a highly evolved network technician to sink back to the lowly ranks of the maintainence class?
To the right, a couple of examples of this type of wifi-vision and a visit from the friendly neighborhood repairman.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."Twenty years ago the computer / network technician, whether bearded or clean-shaven, academic or corporate, occupied a position of prestige. He was a deity to be revered, sacrifices made in order to ensure the proper order of the mystical bits in his purview.
- Arthur C. Clarke, 1961 (Clarke's Third Law)
Skip ahead to the present day and the computer tech is naught more than a digital plumber, on call 24 hours a day, subject to the whims of capricious management and ever-ignorant marketing departments.
Given the uncanny ability to perceive wireless networks with the naked eye, even to determine traffic flow and security measures in place, how long would it take a highly evolved network technician to sink back to the lowly ranks of the maintainence class?
To the right, a couple of examples of this type of wifi-vision and a visit from the friendly neighborhood repairman.