Boing Boing linked a flickr set (meta)today about a man who teaches electrical engineering for free. For some reason, it's just so captivating to go through this set. First there is the imposition of the contrasts between worlds going on. Here's this young guy, packing a Treo and walking about lost when this old man walks up to him and drags him to his world, in a basement three stories below.

And in this lair, the old man shows the young one how he teaches people to do electrical engineering. And it's just so.... different from the young man's world. And the photo set shows it so clearly.

And for some reason this inspires me to write a short sci-fi story of some sort. I mean, its so easy to imagine that the world will advance enough that the high tech engineering of today would only be taught in schools like those. Technology would become so transparent to everyday people that the only way people can coexist with the technology is to simply not see it. And the only people who really know how the world works would be people like Mr. Anthony Abela.

It's not that good of a deconstruction of an inspiration for what might become a story but hopefully this post reminds me to write the story.

In an interesting yet stupid sidenote, I am living proof that writing late at night makes you do stupid things with words. Wonder who will be the poor chap who gets the e-mail...