S3guy

S3guy t1_j2549ta wrote

NDT was up there, but now it seems he is a creeper, which shouldnt shade my opinion of his science but it just does. So probably Bill Nye followed by Sagan. Oh, and I know The Amazing Randi wasnt a scientist, but I do feel he helped shut down a lot of scammers who tried to take advantage of peoples lack of scientific knowledge.

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S3guy t1_j2535wz wrote

Well my point was, they made it accessible. Yeah, you can call it dumbing it down, but that is often what is required to bring new tech to the masses. Jobs (or at least his engineering team) were pretty good at figuring that out at the time. Sometimes that dumbing down feels unnecessary to tech people, but you gotta get the masses moving to push things forward. There is no big money in catering to the tech savvy. Its just like Facebooks Metaverse, they havent figured out how to make it palatable to the masses no matter how good the tech really is. Until they can do that, its going no where.

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