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It is still surprising to me all these stories that sound like science fiction and create heroes and villains that drive so many people motivations. I wonder h

It is still surprising to me all these stories that sound like science fiction and create heroes and villains that drive so many people motivations. I wonder how this small bubble will be seen in 500 years

tartoran 6y ago
It will most likely be forgotten 500 years from now or at most mentioned somewhere in a footnote. This culture will not exist for too long because it is not self sustaining. For each success story there are way too many abused, overworked, misled and lied to. What makes it sustain itself at the moment is exactly this type of holiwoodisation, selling the dream. But this eventually turns stale.
dx034 6y ago
I think Silicon Valley (the TV series) is a good snapshot of that culture for the future. Sure, it's all fiction, but a lot of it is closer to reality than you can get with real stories without violating NDAs.
karatestomp 6y ago
> I wonder how this small bubble will be seen in 500 years How much do you know about the movers & shakers in steel production in AD 1520 Toledo? Same, but spice trade merchant-empires in Italy? How many people know more than like 5 names and a couple events or anecdotes (which may or may not even have actually happened) from all of US industry 1880-1930? There you go. No one but specialists will remember it at all. A couple names might survive but almost nothing about them, and little of it true.
- melenaboija 6y ago
  That is actually my point. Knowing what greediness brought to human history seems a good reason to try to change things to better. And I am not talking about this specific case but the whole Silicon Valley phenomenon and the fact of concentrating this amount of wealth in such small community. BTW I am the OP and what caught my attention, besides its veracity, is precisely how this kind of stories have interest in the tech scene that sometimes seem to be totally disconnected from a much broader reality

tartoran 6y ago

It will most likely be forgotten 500 years from now or at most mentioned somewhere in a footnote. This culture will not exist for too long because it is not self sustaining. For each success story there are way too many abused, overworked, misled and lied to. What makes it sustain itself at the moment is exactly this type of holiwoodisation, selling the dream. But this eventually turns stale.

dx034 6y ago

I think Silicon Valley (the TV series) is a good snapshot of that culture for the future. Sure, it's all fiction, but a lot of it is closer to reality than you can get with real stories without violating NDAs.

karatestomp 6y ago

> I wonder how this small bubble will be seen in 500 years How much do you know about the movers & shakers in steel production in AD 1520 Toledo? Same, but spice trade merchant-empires in Italy? How many people know more than like 5 names and a couple events or anecdotes (which may or may not even have actually happened) from all of US industry 1880-1930? There you go. No one but specialists will remember it at all. A couple names might survive but almost nothing about them, and little of it true.

melenaboija 6y ago
That is actually my point. Knowing what greediness brought to human history seems a good reason to try to change things to better. And I am not talking about this specific case but the whole Silicon Valley phenomenon and the fact of concentrating this amount of wealth in such small community. BTW I am the OP and what caught my attention, besides its veracity, is precisely how this kind of stories have interest in the tech scene that sometimes seem to be totally disconnected from a much broader reality