Hardware people, software people....a third category??

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Is a third category necessary to augment software people, and hardware people? Would data people be a good third category? Any LINKS to news-stories discussing overlooked third categories of TECH. people?

I ask this from the perspectives of a data analyst; that is I'm not a solid TECH. orientated person. Yet I'm very interested in how Artificial Intelligence (AI) TECH will augment the work of (human) data analysts (data analysts are sometimes confused with data scientists - they are two different entities).

ADDENDUM: From a data analyst's perspective, I seldom need to do solid software TECH. tasks, and even more rarely hardware TECH. related tasks. Yet, I'm assessing Google's proposed (as of this writing) 'Data Analyst' certification program with much interest.

Anybody considering (or are experienced) with Google's TECH. education programs?

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Coursera www.coursera.org lists TECH. professional certification programs with detailed descriptions.

Referring to original post, TECH. is evolving in such ways that descriptions such as hardware, and software people can become increasingly limiting in context.

Data analysis is just another use computers can be put to. Unlike hardware and software, it is not something that is fundamental to the operation of computers.

People who use computers for data creation, storage, analysis, etc. are therefore just computer users, just like people who use computers for photo editing, music editing, machine translation, etc. Data analysts are not in the same category as "hardware people" and "software people."

Data people makes sense, as `data` itself is not software nor hardware but is only accessible / processable through those means. Data science, AI, and machine learning are subdisciplines within the cross-disciplinary field of robotics. There's also "wetware" which includes biohacking, cybernetics, neurotechnology and the like.

Honestly though, the "hardware, software people" categories are overly generalized today; the mention of specific categories of tech people is necessary for discussing a field-specific problem or idea, or to signify expertise. I would consider myself a 'software person', in that my interests and focus are entirely on software technologies, but there are so many software technologies that "software person" doesn't really say anything meaningful other than to show that I'm not the person to ask about hardware issues. Someone might ask how to troubleshoot a problem they have using the Windows operating system, but I have more experience with troubleshooting Linux systems, so I would say I'm a Linux person, not a Windows person.

What about meatware people? You know, the people you need to communicate and liaison with people who aren't in those two or three categories of people?

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Networking and security? Remote desktop administration? Not sure if those count.

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Are you talking about firmware, perhaps?

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