[jmix]

I have mixed feelings about this announcement. On the one hand, I really enjoyed Triumph of the Nerds. On the other, Cringely came off as a self-oriented, egotistical guy (I remember the scene where he threatened the TV crew with a piece of bat when his plane build project wasn't going well) with few unique insights and little depth.

Now that I think about it, these two facts are in line with his announcement. What he brought to the scene was to act as a tech interpreter for the baby boomers. The novelty has worn off and he's tapped out. This seems very similar to what happened to Dvorak, and what happens to a lot of bloggers: he exhausted his material and the world passed him by.

[rhizome]

For me, Cringely was the documenter and Dvorak mistook his own place in history for credibility in analyzing the future. The tech industry is exhaustively self-documenting now, and so I hold out hope that Cringely can find his place in the modern world since I've looked to him as something like "Uncle Computers" ever since the before-times.