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>The call unsettles him. “I will do anything to ensure that I never have to hear that woman crying ever again,” he tells me later. I get the feeling that, in Mi
by dollaaron 12y ago
>The call unsettles him. “I will do anything to ensure that I never have to hear that woman crying ever again,” he tells me later. I get the feeling that, in Mike’s mind, other people’s emotions show up as noise: data that has no apparent purpose, and that his internal software cannot process.
I found this a very unfair judgement made by the author. Giving Mike the benefit of the doubt, I get the sense that he cares about her, and wants to stop the root cause of her suffering, not that her crying made him uncomfortable because he "cannot process" it. The author seems to be trying to play up the rational side of Mike and his engineer's mind at the expense of his emotions.
- swdunlop 12y agoYeah. Anyone who knows Mike knows that he isn't some fictional automaton. The journalist is playing the 90's hollywood hacker card here. All we need now is Mike roller blading and some bad CGI to make it complete.
- sarreph 12y agoAnd bottles of Club-Mate strewn across the otherwise empty apartment floors.
- politician 12y agoHear hear, this piece is awful.
- Intermernet 12y agoBut wait... The FBI "has cyber capability in every one of its 56 offices"... It's like terminator!
- smsm42 12y agoI get the feeling that the reporter could not be bothered to understand people can be complex, and that is may not be easy to understand people in a couple of days, so he is just jumping from one stereotype to another, assembling the quick-and-dirty caricature of Mike from an ample set of templates of "hacker types" provided to us by movies and previous reporting of the same quality. I just ignore such writing now, there is very little they tell us anything about real Mike.