| > Hackers/smart people "locked in the basement' or talking only with their friends in their bubble is not ideal. Sounds quite ideal to me. > hope some smart people will put some effort to make the "average person" in the world wiser I'd rather hope for a future made by us and for us instead. "Average" people just don't care about this stuff like we do. They don't care. I tried to get them to care, they refuse to care about all this stuff that we care about. That's fine, people like what they like and that's that but why should we care about their concerns then? We should not. And I do not. Truth is I couldn't care less about such an "average" human being. Why is everything always about the "average" person? Why must all technology serve this mythical average human? Where is the technology that serves me? My programmer's computer system and network? Isn't that why we all come to Hacker News? People chase these "averages" because there's money in it. The money mostly comes from advertising consumer products to them. That's why advertising destroys everything. |
Put it all in perspective