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I get the sense with Vivek Wadhwa articles that he takes a few anecdotes and generalizes them into a larger trend. He's an imaginative guy, but many of his theo
by nhebb 14y ago
I get the sense with Vivek Wadhwa articles that he takes a few anecdotes and generalizes them into a larger trend. He's an imaginative guy, but many of his theories are wildly speculative and lack data.
- ballooney 14y agoWell done for commenting though (I mean it, no snark coming). A lot of the current crop of singularity-ey, TED-ey, 'digital revolutionary'-ey mouths seem to get away with all sorts of logical crimes and unimpeachabley general proclamations. A lot of them are basically posers and pseuds. As the excitement and breathlessness and novelty start to wear off, we should be applying a little more intellectual rigour to the output of these people. There was an amusing frontpage HN story a couple of weeks ago which was a refreshing voice to see in a forum like this: http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/105703/the-naked-and-the-ted-khanna http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/105703/th... Note: I'm not saying it's all guff, just saying we should apply the same critical process to this material as with anything else.
- hkmurakami 14y agoNow that you mention it, Malcolm Gladwell comes to mind as well.