[geeks] "Monte Walsh", could that be *US* in the near future?

[Chris Byrne]

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> From: geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org 
> [mailto:geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org] On Behalf Of David L Kindred (Dave)
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> 
> Does anyone see these parallels, or am I alone is this particular
> insanity?
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> David L. Kindred <mailto:d.kindred at telesciences.com>


Interesting thought I must say. I don't think I had crystalized that as
such, but I have had thoughts in that line. Whenever my mom say "But
you're the future" I tell her that no actually I the present, and
eventually I'll be the past. 

Heres my principle

The pace of technology  is so great that there is quite literally no way
for a human, no matter how intelligent, to keep up enough to remain an
expert at the cutting edge of their field forever, unless they become so
hyperspecialized as to exclude all other knowledge assimilation. The
only way to ever be at the top, is to be waiting there for it to catch
up with you, and then immediately start to pass you buy while you run
alongside trying to keep up. 

I for one never intend to become so hyper specialized. Eventually I will
simply start to fall further and further behind. And the period "at the
top" will be smaller and smaller for people, and it will getbe
goingfaster and faster thus making it harder and harder... Well you get
the point and I've abused adjective doubling too too much. 

Honestly It's already happening to me. I started off in this field as a
young teenager with the goal of getting to that peak. Of doing it and
winning it and making it. I was at the very top of it for the past few
years. Just below the level where one gets famous (which I think is a
good place to be personally). I did it, I won it, I made it, and I lost
it, and honestly don't want it back. I'm already falling back on the
curve, because it's easier and I just don't have that incredible...
Perhaps insane.. drive to be at the top, having essentially satisfied
that urge. 

Bill Gates hasn't satisfied that urge (and maybe never will. Im sure
Steve Ballmer wont), but he cannot recognize that he's falling behind.
Or rather he can, but he thinks that he can catch up again. 

Honestly at this point making a couple of mil more (and maybe keeping it
this time ;-) working in computers doesn't interest me, at least not for
the conventional reasons. Being the absolute greatest in what I've been
doing doesnt interest me. I've been there, or close enough to it for me
anyway. Now I want to do something else. Im only still working in the
business because I can earn more money here easier than any other
business I can conveniently think of that I might want to go into, and
what I REALLY WANT to do is gonna require a hell of a lot of cash. 

Heres a hint. Large mountains, excavation equipment, large scale modular
production eequipment, lots and lots of people who I love and/or trust
with really big brains.  

Chris Byrne