[tom_pinckney]

Unfortunately, academic computer scientists still seem to model their field after the “hard sciences” instead of what they should modeling it after — social sciences like economics or sociology. As a result, computer scientists spend a lot of time dreaming up new programming languages, operating system architectures, and encryption schemes that, for the most part, sadly, nobody will every use.

I think this is a really interesting observation. Many of the interesting things in computers such as advertising bidding systems, social engineering security attacks, social networks, collective knowledge systems, games etc are at the intersection of technology and people.