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lsb on Nov 10, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Carmack says Apple is not proud of the iPhone bein...

Imagine all the satellite engineers, dismayed that people use GPS to geocache junk in tupperware around the world.

Imagine all the thousands of man-millenia of research in CCDs and computer networking and systems engineering and UI design just so that some people can upload cat videos from their phone onto Youtube.

There's no reason not to celebrate when something gives others joy, even when it's not Serious Business.

stcredzero on Nov 10, 2009 [–]

In the words of William Gibson: "The Street always finds its own uses for technology."

Only in his vision, those uses were mostly dark and gritty. In real 21st century, we find a lot of those uses cutesy and banal.

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