Education, Education, Education we hear and as ever in life there are forces pulling the world in several directions.
The world is more educated, more literate and we all know it is critical to progress in life but on the other side we are also seeing the degrading of degrees, the idea that one can buy a masters, the rise of wanting instant fame, people who make vast sums of money with little talent and simply from being seen with the right people.
The general respect for education and culture is dropping in society, if we go back to the middle ages people with education and culture were admired partly as there weren't many people with education, whereas now people often seem to enjoy saying they know nothing.
Perhaps like many things in life, that when literacy and education is at its peak its decline has begun especially when coupled with the environmental and social problems which will afflict society over the next few decades.
Friday, June 20, 2008
Dear Gates, Ellison, Jobs
Dear GEJ,
We all know the names.
One of them a super geek, one a truly creative mind, one the supreme marketing being.
Two of them have been accused of stealing other's ideas. I have heard a table rumour that one of them left a library with material he perhaps shouldn't have. One they say was helped by his Aunt or a relative to negotiate a critical deal.
I wonder whether they have ever sat down together and if they were to have dinner what would they say?
The helped relaunch America's economic mights, they powered their companies forward for decades.
Now Bill is stepping down, whilst Larry and and Steve march on.
Who would you rather spend time with?
They are a remarkable triumvirate, they weren't the only key people to launch America's techno might many others played roles and ran or launched smaller companies, however, they were without doubt the must successful and prominent.
So what of America now these titans begin to step down? We look at google, however, i don't think it will be quite the revenue and job creating organization that the three former ones have been. I could be wrong and Google is certainly innovative, however the only tool from Google most people regularly use is the search engine, everything else is a small spin off.
America's skill has been its sheer chutzpa its ability to go for it, its entrepreneurial spirit, but however large a country however attractive it is to immigrants there are golden ages and remarkable people that arise in those ages. Sometimes it is simply in a period of time there are the opportunities and the right set of circumstances to allow creativity and dynamism to blossom, the 70s & 80s was that time in the US and we won't see it again to the same extent for a long time.
America will see more remarkable people in business, in science perhaps more remarkable than the three mentioned, however, they won't see the sheer number of creative entrepreneurs blossoming and powering forward the country to the same extent for a very long time.
So good-bye Bill, I dare say you were often annoying, perhaps not as much fun to have a beer with as Jobs, I could be wrong who knows, but damn you were from a remarkable time and you were a remarkable individual.
To you Larry, let's see you smile a bit more, i bet you're great to get drunk with unless you say the wrong thing I imagine you are a little moody, loyal but never to be crossed. You are an awesome businessman, truly awesome...
Jobs.. you're the creative one, perhaps a little arrogant sometimes but i imagine full of wisdom, but probably need knocking down occasionally too many people think you are too awesome. My guess is you are probably loyal and trusting but a little burnt.
Anyway guys as I sit here using your technology, giving you some money, you are a remarkable triumvirate and do yourselves a favor go out for a meal sometime as America won't see your like again for a very long time, if ever.
We all know the names.
One of them a super geek, one a truly creative mind, one the supreme marketing being.
Two of them have been accused of stealing other's ideas. I have heard a table rumour that one of them left a library with material he perhaps shouldn't have. One they say was helped by his Aunt or a relative to negotiate a critical deal.
I wonder whether they have ever sat down together and if they were to have dinner what would they say?
The helped relaunch America's economic mights, they powered their companies forward for decades.
Now Bill is stepping down, whilst Larry and and Steve march on.
Who would you rather spend time with?
They are a remarkable triumvirate, they weren't the only key people to launch America's techno might many others played roles and ran or launched smaller companies, however, they were without doubt the must successful and prominent.
So what of America now these titans begin to step down? We look at google, however, i don't think it will be quite the revenue and job creating organization that the three former ones have been. I could be wrong and Google is certainly innovative, however the only tool from Google most people regularly use is the search engine, everything else is a small spin off.
America's skill has been its sheer chutzpa its ability to go for it, its entrepreneurial spirit, but however large a country however attractive it is to immigrants there are golden ages and remarkable people that arise in those ages. Sometimes it is simply in a period of time there are the opportunities and the right set of circumstances to allow creativity and dynamism to blossom, the 70s & 80s was that time in the US and we won't see it again to the same extent for a long time.
America will see more remarkable people in business, in science perhaps more remarkable than the three mentioned, however, they won't see the sheer number of creative entrepreneurs blossoming and powering forward the country to the same extent for a very long time.
So good-bye Bill, I dare say you were often annoying, perhaps not as much fun to have a beer with as Jobs, I could be wrong who knows, but damn you were from a remarkable time and you were a remarkable individual.
To you Larry, let's see you smile a bit more, i bet you're great to get drunk with unless you say the wrong thing I imagine you are a little moody, loyal but never to be crossed. You are an awesome businessman, truly awesome...
Jobs.. you're the creative one, perhaps a little arrogant sometimes but i imagine full of wisdom, but probably need knocking down occasionally too many people think you are too awesome. My guess is you are probably loyal and trusting but a little burnt.
Anyway guys as I sit here using your technology, giving you some money, you are a remarkable triumvirate and do yourselves a favor go out for a meal sometime as America won't see your like again for a very long time, if ever.
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