Hacking Education (follow-up)

"It seems to me that Fred and others are nuts and totally out of touch with reality. This is a great example of what happens when you live in an isolated bubble of the rich and crazy. Luckily I don't see much chance of these ideas surviving for long if/when they escape this echo chamber."

I think that's a bit harsh but I have to agree with the sentiment. I used to go to a lot of conferences that had discussions like this and then I realized the whole point of brainstorming is to solve a problem. So if you don't start out with the problem at hand and address it specifically you don't get anyhwere.

These folks started out with a vague "hacking education" and came up with a bunch of ideas that are either (a) impractical or (b) impossible to implement without blowing up the whole education system as we know it.

Bottom line (for me anyway) is that ideas don't mean anything if the person put no realistic thought into how they'll be implemented and that's exactly the category these ideas fit in to.

"I know lots of smart people. We are awesome. We talk all the time and have awesome, awesome conversations. You're not a part of them. We nail it. We're important, thoughtful, disruptive, and fantastic."

I'm not saying this is intentional. And for the record, I agree with many of his conclusions, but the buzzwords are so distracting.

Dilbert made Buzzword Bingo famous: http://dilbert.com/fast/1994-02-22/

It would not be difficult to update this for VCs or even Web 2.0 in general.