This was a quote from the Aspen Ideas Festival, transcribed from the
magazine: The Atlantic.
Bill Joy is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems. He had this to say about
"online communities" and blog systems like LiveJournal:
This all ... sounds like a gigantic waste of time. If I was competing
with the United States, I would love to have the students I was competing
with spending their time on this kind of crap ... [P]eople are fooling
themselves that they’re being creative in these spaces ... [T]he standard
of creativity in the world, to be competitive and be a great designer, is
very hard: you have to go to school; you have to apprentice; you have to do
hard things. It’s not about, "your friends like something you
did." So I think this is setting a false expectation: you can create
your own island and people come to it in a video game ... and I don’t see
any correlation between that and what it’s gonna take to be a designer and
have a skill set to succeed in the world. So I go back to what I said
before: we’re amusing ourselves to death; there are good uses of this
technology, and I don’t see this as a good use of the technology ...
[T]he real problem is, by democratizing speech and the ability to post,
we’ve lost the gradation for quality. The gradation of quality was always
based on the fact that words had weight—it cost money to move them around.
So there was back pressure against ... junk ...
[U]ltimately, not everyone can have a million readers,
because all the readers have run out of time. So it’s a false promise to
people, that they can get the big audience. Because in the end—once
[you’ve] gotten to the years when you’ve got a job, you’ve gotta raise your
kids—you’re not gonna have time for this.
posted by Bionic-Badger on Sunday 29th October 2006, 02:10:12
that reminds me!
i saw a man with a FTW tattoo on his hand and i was like, FOR THE WIN!
and he shot me this evil look and said, no, fuck the world
i felt like a child that had dropped my last scoop of icecream in the
dirt, plus i was terrified of the man
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