The one thing SME IT can do that the big guys can’t: Change the world The smaller the org, the better the jobs. Not universally true, but a good rule of thumb. Small organizations have fewer layers of management, and each individual has much more influence. One voice in 50 is 100 times louder than one in 5,000. You get to say what you want to do and get to do it. Happiness. This also gives SME …
And how comfortable and cognisant and NEUKlearer HyperRadioProACTive effectively proactive with those facts, Rupert, is The Register likely to be in the vanguard of that able to be a momentously positively disruptive suite of pioneering projects and programs?
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That could have come from me.
And then I talked and wrote to my children, only to notice that they didn't understand, mostly because they got tired after the opening salvo.
It had me realize that things are much worse, or perhaps even more different, than I realized.
Yet, for most things, my kids are not only functioning adults these days, they are even cultured, charming, smart and very much philosophers, like me.
Even if they don't read or write.
What's a bit jarring is that they know many of the ancient concepts by different names (English instad of Greek or Latin) and associate some Youtuber instead of the ancient philosophers, which first formulated those concepts by writing Greek or Latin.
We are essentially speaking a different language, even if the concepts are largely shared.
Text works for you and me, but that's because we are of that text generation.
What's wrong is to assume that it's best.
Yes, I'd agree it great for abstraction, because most can't write as fast as I can type, so they'd rather spend a bit extra time on abstracting while massaging their fingers, resharpening their pens and cleaning up the ink blots.
But humanity has enjoyed abstraction and text only for a very short period of its existance and most of social code or culture was actually transmitted in tales or actually dance and music.
Robin Dunbar is quite convincing when he argues that actually music and dance came from laughter and actually precede language by eons.
So videos may be far more brain compatible than text ever was.
And once AI has grown smart enough, every video can be reduced to or reproduced via a prompt, a rather good compression and small representation after all.
Anyhow, I generally like your posts a lot, this one was so much of a rant I felt tempted to throw something at you.
P.S. My kids can do videos, really cool stuff and as if it was nothing!
I would agree with you apart from one small problem - I can write, I can type but I have problems videoing.
I'd also like to see concepts like the measurements to make something expressed as a video (and yes I know you can have text as part of a video)
And simple plain text is easily copied and translated into any foreign language to give universal accurately targeted context and crystal clear understanding to even the most complex and contrived of matters visualised ...... and/or situations published and ready made for visualisation.
It’s certainly magical and more than just simply an AWEsome Indestructible MAJICal Utility with Intangible Facilities in IT’s Complexes of Almighty Practical Virtual Deeds too.
So take great extreme care with specific regard to what you might wish ..... or be forced .... to share ....... for there always be worthy consequences or rewards to suffer or enjoy.
All i want it the damn manual in text of if necessary a pdf. today if you look for manuals you get a bunch of videos. takes them forever to get to the point, and with text or a pdf you can scan until you find what you need to know instead of listening to someone taking forever to tell you what you need to know.
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