Reply to post: Geek? really?

You geeks have inherited the Earth, but what are you going to do with it?

Boris the Cockroach Silver badge
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Geek? really?

We're not the problem here.... blah blah blah the IT world keeps the information spinning around and around.

I tend to think of us geeks as 15th century printers.... someone gives us 15 shillings and 4 pence and we print out 20000 copies of 'death to the king!" (of course we'd work on the words a bit)

In the 21st century , we're the people who come up with the tools to let someone else post "death to the king!" and have 14 000 followers all like the message.

In both cases the king turns up at our front door and has us all executed. then executes as many people as he can catch. (which is why most printers in the 15th century based themselves in another country then printed "death to the english king"

As for inheriting the earth, I rather enjoy my job as dark lord of the robots, partly for the power, but mostly because I'm lazy and would rather not have to do any actual work.

Still in 100 yrs time we'll be back to the old ways due to over population and a carrington class solar flare

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