a man's got to do what a man's got to do. talk up his book. cheerlead the workforce towards the next big thing etc. the fact is an idiotic strand of rna has de

a man's got to do what a man's got to do. talk up his book. cheerlead the workforce towards the next big thing etc. the fact is an idiotic strand of rna has defeated us all. our collective intelligence crumbled. toilet papers and flour disappeared from shelves and that was just the start. the billions of "supercomputers in our pockets": defanged, untrusted, unusable as a tool in the fight against the most simplistic of spreading algorithms the billions of "platform" users: amplifiers of deep and justified distrust, preventing even the miracle of quick vaccines (which was by no means a given) to reach the masses to be sure the systemic failure we witnessed is by far not just a "tech" or even V/C failure. you can try put lipstick on a pig. but "tech" was measured and came up short. for any thinking techie out there (and there are many) a time to reflect, then act