Cabel Sasserthis graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive.
when you’re inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn’t.
myrmepropagandistI can't imagine "the internet" getting boo'd like that in 2001 Grads would have cheered along for "internet"
Or even like bitcoin in say 2010, lots of people were skeptical but would not have just boo'd
This is remarkably unpopular.
Landa 
@futurebird
Proponents are always comparing it to the industrial revolution, but maybe it's better compared to the likes of leaded gasoline, CFC aerosol cans, or asbestos anything.
Maybe some of us have learned to spot a pattern.
@cabel
Chris GodwinI've often thought of it like the 1950's fascination with radiation.
Radioactive substances and nuclear engineering can do some amazing things.
In the 50s however businesses insisted on marketing nuclear science into everything including things like the "Gilbert U-238" science kit made for children and the countless 'amazing glow in the dark' products.
Not to mention all the government projects where people were accidentally exposed to contamination
Some of the government exposure was totally "witting" no "un" about it. People were used like test animals to find out what would happen "for national security" ... which really makes one question if you want to help keep a nation that would do such things secure at all.
And of course, you can guess which people were deemed disposable enough for this research.
@futurebird
yeah… I've read about several of these projects :(
yeah… I've read about several of these projects :(
@Chrisgodwin
Radium toothpaste! Radithor! Complimentary Foot X-Ray every time you shop for shoes! Radium-paint wristwatches!
There's definitely some kind of pattern visible if one wants to look.
@futurebird @cabel