The Hearth Display Family Management System
Say what you want about moms, but they keep the trains running on time
We all know generalization is the fast food of considered thought. But just as fast food can be rather satisfying—and nourishing enough— generalizations are often largely accurate.
So here goes: When it comes to technology and how it works in traditionally structured families, women’s priorities are different from men’s. That is, they are a lot more practical. For instance, after 30-plus years in technology, your columnist—while acknowledging he may have led a sheltered life—has yet to meet a single, straight woman who obsesses, as legions of men tend to, about the quality of hi-fi speaker cables. Women think (correctly so) that wire is wire, and if there’s a difference between stuff that’s a dollar a foot and $1,000 a foot, it most certainly isn’t audible.
