We're not all 100% rational robots. We work in this field. It's fun to discuss possibilities; wonder about the future. And, to be honest, the hive mind is _gen

We're not all 100% rational robots. We work in this field. It's fun to discuss possibilities; wonder about the future. And, to be honest, the hive mind is _generally_ right about these things. Remember Color and how everyone was so sure it was going to fail spectacularly? And remember how it did? Or how skeptical everyone was about Diaspora? Or OpenID? Or how early most people realized that Facebook was going to destroy MySpace? It's not just noise. Well, Buzz may have been noise... and so may be Google+... but it's fun to talk about it.