ONE interesting aspect of technology usage and understanding in this millennium is that it has outgrown the late 1990s' stereotype of something that only smart but nerdy folks, wearing big black glasses and perhaps having questionable personal hygiene, were immersed in. The typical popular culture (via Hollywood) typecast of the IT expert was invariably male, a bit of a social outcast and very geeky in both language and mannerisms.
Fast forward today and tech has become mainstream and all manner of interesting (but still brainy) people of both genders are practitioners and leaders in the field. A good example is Teresa Carlson, the Worldwide Public Sector vice- president of Amazon Web Services...