Have you been to a concert? A family reunion? A movie? People waiting in line? People are looking at their phones constantly, even to the point, where they're ignoring everything else around them.
Yes, people live in their phones. It's so obvious.
But that knowledge comes from how my wife and I use our pocket computers (because "phone" at this point is ridiculous, "mobile" is at least a bit more generic). I'm say, half way through my life. I can worry to death and stand against and whatever, or I can get on with life, and appreciate the convenience provided in the short amount of time I have left. It's just admitting it to myself. Once that's done (and it is) I can get beyond grandstanding and just cheer for encryption and join the EFF (I am a member) and so on, hoping to have some impact on pushing the privacy needle to one side vs the other, because we're going to use these things daily, likely no matter what.
What origin of the universe theory does the HN zeitgeist advocate?
I probably should have been more explicit but the very fact that this was misunderstood, probably proves my point about HN News and pop culture..
Or maybe you're just trolling... :)
BBT as example - low level comedy with canned laughter that relies on silly stereotypes for literally everything. Faux-geeks love it - the people who 'know everything about tech and gadgets' but can't read a line of code, the populist sciencey crowd rather than the science people themselves.
I'm not american so maybe just cultural difference but everything about is always seemed too try-hard and populist.
If HN spurns those hangeronners then I'm happy. Happy-ish anyway.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-big-bang-theory-has-hidden-j...
>A lot of the humor is over the heads of the general audience.
>But there are jokes inside of jokes, and for those who
>recognize the science, they’re hilarious. The show takes this
>stuff so seriously that it employs a UCLA physics professor
>to make sure it gets it right.
>Case in point: In a 2009 episode, “The Jiminy Conjecture,”
>Sheldon and Howard heard a chirp and then argued over which
>variety of cricket made the sound.
>On the whiteboard in the background is Dolbear’s law, which
>states the relationship between the air temperature and the
>rate at which crickets chirp.
>“I went to a Dolbear presentation at Tufts, and they talked
>about this, in like 1989,” says one high-profile fan of the
>show, Seamus Blackley, one of the creators of Microsoft’s
>original Xbox game console. “I remembered it!”
>“Once I realized what was going on, it was awesome,” added
>Mr. Blackley, who is also trained in physics. “It’s the No. 1
>show, and it has actual physics in it.”
I'm just not sure there's ever been a show that's attempted to deliver comedy around Schrodinger's Cat or Quantum Uncertainty. They do a phenomenal job with comedy surrounding such technical subjects, but just by acknowledging my fondness for the show, puts me in a minority here.