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Can't recall too many pieces of writing that fail this hard at what they're intended to do? I mean, if you've never read any other technology-related writing ever, there's some stuff in here I suppose.

I think though, it best highlights what's missing from a lot of visible technological aspirations -- which is a sense of fun?

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I think this will come to be seen as a turning point in the history of Silicon Valley when people woke up from a collective slumber and realized most people hailed as great "visionaries" and "technologists" actually had nothing whatsoever to offer in that department. It will be seen as hilariously ironic that those very people in fact had no idea what technology even is — a means to an end, not an end in itself, and that they had literally nothing to offer for what to do with all the technology they built. It's a conceptual dead end, sprinkled with badly digested sophomoric references. Truly embarrassing emperor has no clothes moment.

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