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My take on this: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/12/26/was-2013-a-terrible-year-for-technology/ http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/12/26/was-2013

• Dirlewanger 13y ago
  I completely get your attacking the superfluity of the Atlantic article. It's expected from outlets like them. It's the end of the year. But you don't exactly give any reasons why this year was special, or whose work right now is going to come to fruition in 2030, or any other concrete reasons as to why 2013 wasn't, on the whole, an embarrassing year.
  • michaelochurch 13y ago
    2013 was an incredibly embarrassing year for the technology industry. And no, I don't think the positive accomplishments of this year were, on the whole, special in comparison to those in other years. At least, we won't know if any were until a long time from now. My point is that it wasn't a lost year. Done right, technology is about hard work, year after year, and getting rich slowly. The fact that a few jackasses made public embarrassments of themselves is mostly irrelevant to the people doing that work. Moreover, the embarrassingness of the Valley's 2013 is a great thing for humanity in the long run, because it might move the technical focus outside of the Valley and the VC-funded world, and back into places that are more hospitable to Real Technology.