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Sure. You win Scoble. You just go ahead and book that flight or grab that table. I'll be here in my log cabin in the mountains, looking at the stars, and losing
by hughw 14y ago
Sure. You win Scoble. You just go ahead and book that flight or grab that table. I'll be here in my log cabin in the mountains, looking at the stars, and losing.
- infoman 14y agolooking at the stars and taking pictures while holding your girlfriend with both hands and not fiddling with your camera
- EliRivers 14y agoCertainly a winner at the "hyper competitive dickhead" experience.
- jasonlotito 14y agoNot sure how that does anything except reinforce his point. It's not about flights or tables. It's about taking advantages and using them. That you are sitting in a log cabin in the mountains, looking at the stars, posting to HN firmly demonstrates his point.
- pfortuny 14y agoTaking advantages for... happiness? Does not look like.
- jasonlotito 14y agoHappiness? > I'll be here in my log cabin in the mountains, looking at the stars He needed a physical thing in a physical location doing a specific action to acquire this happiness, and you presume to suggest that others can't have happiness on other criteria? That enjoyment can't be found in other ways? More importantly, it's how the OP defined success. It's arrogance masked under a guise of zen attitude.
- pfortuny 14y agoOh, I was just being a bit oversarcastic. Never intended to say that technology could not help on the path to happinness. But the very title of the post looked like someone trying to sell me the pill for the definitive way to enlightenment. I am very much pro discussing things but with so much pushing forward and "this is THE WAY" I (as many others) are getting a bit tired, which might be as good because in the end, what do we want from life? Glass? Technology? iOS? iTunes? The roomba? What?
- jasonlotito 14y ago> I am very much pro discussing things but with so much pushing forward and "this is THE WAY" I (as many others) are getting a bit tired, which might be as good because in the end, what do we want from life? Glass? Technology? iOS? iTunes? The roomba? What? What's wrong with any of these things? The technology required to make the Roomba effective meant so much more has been created. The Roomba isn't the end. It's a sign of how far we've come. And do we really want to waste time doing what the roomba can do for us? As for iOS, what's wrong with that? It's done tremendous good. Both my children have Autism, and what iOS has done for them is amazing. No one could have predicted that before, but now it's a standard part of treatment. And Glass. Who can tell you what Glass will lead to. It's still too early to tell. That's not what Scoble was directly referring to, but in each of these cases, we are taking advantage of technology. It's so easy to talk about a log cabin in the middle of the woods, far from the city so you can gaze up into the sky and watch the stars. However, that's far too selfish and egotistical for me.
- daenz 14y agoYeah, that rat-race competition bit really rubbed me the wrong way. As if we aren't already competing for enough things, now I'm supposed to worry that John Doe is stealing all my potential good experiences because of his Glass? Maybe this appeals to and motivates others to buy, but definitely not me.