"For Menuez, so much of the current tech scene is preoccupied with profit, whereas the digital word he documented, at least at the beginning, was less interested in making tons of money and more interested in fundamentally changing the world."
I haven't spent a lot of time in SV or around the people in that tech scene, but this seems like accurate portrayal of the current situation.
Sure, the engineers here are interested in building cool stuff, sometimes it becomes wildly profitable stuff, then a bunch of profit seeking types swarm in and try to figure out how to get that wealth, the snap and fight, much like piranhas stuck in an evaporating side pool, becoming increasingly unethical until it blows up on them. Then they die off and the folks working on stuff get to do so again with fewer interruptions.
Sadly they re-use the office buildings and so we lose the fossil record. It would be a fabulous art installation to do something along the ruins of Pompei but with places like Webvan, Pets.com, and Flooz.com.
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"For Menuez, so much of the current tech scene is preoccupied with profit, whereas the digital word he documented, at least at the beginning, was less interested in making tons of money and more interested in fundamentally changing the world."
I haven't spent a lot of time in SV or around the people in that tech scene, but this seems like accurate portrayal of the current situation.
Can anybody elaborate on his comment?
Sure, the engineers here are interested in building cool stuff, sometimes it becomes wildly profitable stuff, then a bunch of profit seeking types swarm in and try to figure out how to get that wealth, the snap and fight, much like piranhas stuck in an evaporating side pool, becoming increasingly unethical until it blows up on them. Then they die off and the folks working on stuff get to do so again with fewer interruptions.
Sadly they re-use the office buildings and so we lose the fossil record. It would be a fabulous art installation to do something along the ruins of Pompei but with places like Webvan, Pets.com, and Flooz.com.