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Agreed. I like this particular gem: "...except in this case, the intelligence factor has escalated logarithmically".

Or quizzically anti-intellectual bent. Le sigh.

If the author had spent as much time actually telling us what these people do and what's interesting about it, as he spent flopping on the floor weeping "I'm not worthy!" about their intelligence, it might've been an interesting read.

Sadly, it wasn't.

While I have no idea how you've drawn a link between florid prose and tech authors -- try reading articles in major media outlets about any topic and you will probably see a similar style -- the writing in this article is cringeworthy, and smacks of intellectual laziness.

... said about a Douglas Coupland article in Wired ...