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> This is the list of pre-eminent African Americans they could come up with to lead a Technology initiative. 1) They're the LPs, they're not leading the initia
by Alex3917 8y ago
> This is the list of pre-eminent African Americans they could come up with to lead a Technology initiative.
1) They're the LPs, they're not leading the initiative.
2) They're explicitly working with cultural leaders. Maybe you could count someone like Neil deGrasse Tyson, but the list is pretty short. We haven't really had scientists as legitimate cultural leaders since the days of Timothy Leary.
- FLUX-YOU 8y ago>Maybe you could count someone like Neil deGrasse Tyson No you can't because NDT doesn't represent business opportunity and consumer behav-- er, I mean "in other words, culture".
- Alex3917 8y agoThe issue is more just that it's hard to really call him a cultural leader because, at least so far as I can tell, there's nothing especially novel about what he's doing. E.g. NDT is pretty similar to Bill Nye, but neither are on the level of Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, Richard Feynman, etc. And both are largely derivative of Mr. Wizard and others who had done similar programs before. Nas on the other hand created one of the most groundbreaking albums of all time. And it provided a completely different look at NYC as compared with Sex and the City, which was released only four year later.