Re:The Ghost of Invention: A Visit to Bell Labs
by thomasjudge on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @02:44PM
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Prose like this feels to me like the outcome of a peculiar disease which seems to affect particularly tech-oriented writers who have achieved a certain level of notoriety; the task of communicating ideas becomes subordinate to the florid expression of the author's own wonderfulness.
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Re:The Ghost of Invention: A Visit to Bell Labs
by potbelly83 on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @03:01PM
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Agreed. I like this particular gem:
"...except in this case, the intelligence factor has escalated logarithmically".
Re:The Ghost of Invention: A Visit to Bell Labs
by myself248 on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @04:30PM
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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.
Re:The Ghost of Invention: A Visit to Bell Labs
by delluminatus on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @03:45PM
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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.