this 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.

@cabel

I 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.

@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

@Landa @futurebird @cabel

Those all sound appropriate, also maybe a touch of the radium craze from the early 20th century (such as radium chocolate bars).