Cool Job
Hmm how do I get a job that pays me to live all over the world? On anthropologists working for Intel:
Simply put, their job is to hang out in foreign countries (read non-American) and find out what makes people tick.
To be more precise, they visit people who may be future Intel consumers to find out how they use, or would use, technology.
For the past two years, Bell said she has lived in a hundred households in 19 cities across seven countries – Australia, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, South Korea and Singapore.
While still analysing her haul of data, Bell said the most obvious finding was that people are not the same the world over.
For instance, Americans are trained to think that the individual is important but that’s not the case in other cultures where the smallest unit of social importance might be a village.
Asians also live in less space than their American counterparts so a wireless network box for an American household could cover three families, if the same box is used in, say, Singapore.
Posted: March 9th, 2004 under Computers & Tech.
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