Cultural dominance ??? As an old fart who didn't have spots when he
was young but likely had/has Asberger's to at least some degree my
view on things is rather suspect. However probably 80% maybe even 90%
of the people I've worked with for the last 7 years are immigrants.
Outside of Hollyweird, US culture is a soup that is constantly
changing. Isn't any US "dominance" pretty much limited to the 60 years
since the end of world war 2? (Yes I'm downplaying plenty of heavy
handed romping around in the western hemisphere)
Yeah ... My first reaction to XP was why the cartoon motif? It can be
pretty ugly but it can do a lot.
Finally ... yes I've missed a lot of Sociology and Anthropology. My
"obsessive routines and my preoccupations centered around my perceived
needs to be independent and self supporting. I probably couldn't
convince someone to pick up a $10 bill laying on the sidewalk, but I
can build things that earn a living. I never could read in an airport
or coffee shop. Too much external input.
(http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/aswhatisit.html)
Recent discussions, Wikinomics, and American History X have provided
plenty this week to think about while trying to continue updating a
web to have more business significance. Thanks Andrew, Moose, Chuck
and others ...
-jeff
On 3/10/07, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Economic dominance will fail first. Military dominance will follow
> much later after a very long period of nasty attempts to retain it
> (which may already have started). Cultural dominance will fall last,
> unfortunately. :-)
> 2000 and XP seem impossibly
> clunky to me and everything seems so crude. And if you can't do
> something, you really need a sysop. to work it out and tell you what
> to do in a condescending manner so I guess they generate much more
> employment for spotty, obnoxious young males with high-function
> Asberger's syndrome.
> Even I have
> been able to upgrade the memory in a Mac laptop, an idea unthinkable
> ten years ago.
> Oh, and what you are missing has nothing to do with computers - try
> Sociology. Or even Anthropology!
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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