7 Feb
2013
7 Feb
'13
10:41 a.m.
On Thu, 7 Feb 2013, Dave Land wrote:
On 2/7/13 10:16 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
An effective counter would be enforcing a law that said anyone with an MBA
couldn't be in any position above the janitor.
g.
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On Wed, 6 Feb 2013, Murray McCullough wrote:
LOL! Ain't that the truth! :-D
I was reading ?The Fire in the Valley? ? the
story of how the computer
became a mass-consumer product - and the wrestling of control by
experimenters & hobbyists of computing technology from elites - the
computer cognoscenti. This beginning age(1970s-80s) saw the rise of
the technocrat, the nerd, the geek who revolutionized technology but
who today are the computing elite and control our technocratic society
for good or ill.
no
No
NO
NO!
30 years ago, the suits came in and EXTERMINATED the technocrats,
nerds and geeks.
"Consumer electronics is too important to let them
[technocrats, nerds, and geeks] have a say in it."