Dude, who even knows.
Post with 133 notes
In retrospect a big part of the wonder of the ‘90s was that even trivial vidya entertainments would be, like, part of a competition between Peter Molyneux and Will Wright and Richard Garriott and Sid Meier to create the most accurate simulation of the entire world according to their own personal theories of the underlying metaphysics
Post reblogged from argumate with 93 notes
Some Musk discourse crossed my dash, and I always think the thing about Musk is that he (like Steve Jobs before him) leans into the lone genius mythology that we’ve built up around science and technology. Movies, TV, fictional science/tech portrayals have created a Tony Stark/Q from James Bond/Doc Brown from Back to the Future shaped hole in people’s world and Musk is willing to step in to it so he can raise money.
Which isn’t all bad, Telsa makes some cool cars, Space X has some cool rockets. But there is an aspect of his persona that feels to me like it crosses the line into grift territory a bit too often.
Oh, also, I think Tesla’s autopilot tech is a bit unethical and reckless.
no single individual ever achieves much of consequence.
You know what, I see this sentiment more and more and no, I’m gonna push back in favor of Great Man significance. I remember Apple under Steve Jobs, and then under Gil Amelio, and then again under Jobs, and now Tim Cook, with the chief role changing hands while the rest of the organization stood pat (or rather drifted at the same rate as within administrations)
And the Jobs eras really were periods of visionary “get out in front of the future” moves and exceedingly high standards that accounts convincingly arrribute to Steve, and the others really have been uninspired corporate conventional wisdom and running down the stock of goodwill and reputation Jobs built up