brennenyoung me: i wonder if this new technical thing is cool
middle-aged me: i wonder if i can avoid knowing about this new technical thing until it goes away
don't make eye contact, no sudden movements, try to look large, don't bend down or run away
if attacked, fight back
Jeff GriggDarn Near Everyone Around Me:
"This is a Revolutionary New Technology! This Changes EVERYTHING!!! ALL Jobs Will Be Obsolete!!! Everything Changes!!!"
And I'm like,
"Chill dude.
"We've been working on these technologies, as an industry, for 67 years now.
"You Do Not Understand it's Limitations and Problems.
"Sure; there are, honestly, Really Great uses for these things.
"In fact, many are a regular part of your life now, as you probably have not noticed.
...
>>> BUT <<<
"You're setting yourselves up for some Severe Letdowns when you find, from experience, what many others have found from experience, since before you were born (and even before I was born!!!) what Limitations and Problems are *Inherent* in these techniques, technologies, and approaches.
"So I'm going to 'sit this one out' (mostly) for a while, and expect to watch you *really burn yourselves*.
...
(And maybe, just maybe, ...
Maybe some good things, here and there, will come out of all this Panic, Thrashing, and Mad Chasing After Phantoms that's going on.)
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Dr Sorcha O’Brien@JeffGrigg @brennen But they will end up being something that nobody, particularly the hype merchants, ever expected.
Ailbhe@_sorcha @JeffGrigg @brennen but later you'll realise that use case is in a sci fi short story from 1932.
