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Quote of the day: Even MIT grad needs network help

An engineer from MIT says he had to hire someone to hook up his home network.
Published: December 7, 2005, 10:35 AM PST

In a story about why American consumers have been slow to buy into the notion of the "digital home," a conference speaker said it has to do with the complexity involved in setting up a home network. The average person has to be an IT expert, said Don Norman, a co-founder of design consulting firm Nielsen Norman Group.

"I have a degree from MIT. I'm an engineer and was an executive at Apple," said Norman, speaking about his own home network on a panel at the Digital Living Room conference in San Francisco on Monday. "And I hired someone to hook it up." Click here for the full story.

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Intelligence is not Computer knowledge

donnaknight 
Dec 7, 2005, 12:04 PM PST

Too True

lonewolf367 
Dec 7, 2005, 11:30 AM PST

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