Changing how we live by deep convergence of telephony, video, messaging, collaborative services, geospatial awareness, accessibility, smart agents, and facility automation.
Indeed, how we got to where we are now is hard to fathom. The trippiest yippies of that time I do not think would find it normal to prevent children from developing because they didn't get to "chose" their gender yet. Of course Scooby Do was the show from that culture, just as it is clear He Man was the gayest thing ever put on television from a later cultural movement. But that was fine, and also fails to explain this present moment.
Instead, I often think of a more recent movie. Idiocracy. It was simply meant as a comedy, not a warning. But who knew it would come true, and so soon, too!
1984 was also a warning, and not a recipe. Just sayin' ..
The thing is, you put crazy people together, isolate them in some ivory tower, then cognitive resonance will strengthen their madness, until it's so loud the glass breaks, similarly to how sound breaks a wine glass if loud enough - At which point their bubble bursts, and they're forced to confront the real world, outside of their own mass psychotic bubble. In a weird way, there's comfort in that knowledge ...
Changing how we live by deep convergence of telephony, video, messaging, collaborative services, geospatial awareness, accessibility, smart agents, and facility automation.
Okay, that does bring us back to Google, too... FB is perhaps even more so given they have employee dorms and a completely isolated "village" campus in the middle of Mountainview, too.
The goal of HR in these large companies is mostly to find people that will "fit in". Hence, if you already have crazies running loose in the asylum, your HR is destined to hire even more crazies.
Yes but in the end, money rules these companies, which in a weird way becomes comforting at this point. Since inevitably, at some point, their owners are gonna go; "WTF" and start putting down demands for changes.
This is the point where "the glass breaks" - That point is now I suspect ...
Changing how we live by deep convergence of telephony, video, messaging, collaborative services, geospatial awareness, accessibility, smart agents, and facility automation.
Indeed, how we got to where we are now is hard to fathom. The trippiest yippies of that time I do not think would find it normal to prevent children from developing because they didn't get to "chose" their gender yet. Of course Scooby Do was the show from that culture, just as it is clear He Man was the gayest thing ever put on television from a later cultural movement. But that was fine, and also fails to explain this present moment.
Instead, I often think of a more recent movie. Idiocracy. It was simply meant as a comedy, not a warning. But who knew it would come true, and so soon, too!
1984 was also a warning, and not a recipe. Just sayin' ..
The thing is, you put crazy people together, isolate them in some ivory tower, then cognitive resonance will strengthen their madness, until it's so loud the glass breaks, similarly to how sound breaks a wine glass if loud enough - At which point their bubble bursts, and they're forced to confront the real world, outside of their own mass psychotic bubble. In a weird way, there's comfort in that knowledge ...
Okay, that does bring us back to Google, too... FB is perhaps even more so given they have employee dorms and a completely isolated "village" campus in the middle of Mountainview, too.
The goal of HR in these large companies is mostly to find people that will "fit in". Hence, if you already have crazies running loose in the asylum, your HR is destined to hire even more crazies.
Yes but in the end, money rules these companies, which in a weird way becomes comforting at this point. Since inevitably, at some point, their owners are gonna go; "WTF" and start putting down demands for changes.
This is the point where "the glass breaks" - That point is now I suspect ...
Indeed, by comparison, in academia there is no outer constraint at all, and the bizarre can fully metastasize.
There was a time that for many people the glass broke when you left home at 18 ;).