@onepict Absolutely incredible series. It was a great insight into what being at the center of the desktop revolution and the explosion of the World Wide Web was like. It’s also a great musing on failure, due to how we sometimes prioritize the wrong things.
@onepict I’d also go as far to say that the bean-counting tendencies of business makes it difficult for them to take risks or do things that are new and visionary.
We see that with The Giant, which was an engineering achievement, but also removed all traces of personality to instead focus on specs and releasing on time. What Cameron was originally doing with it was special, and different, and the unveiling of the Macintosh was a big realization for Joe that he fucked up.
@onepict I was writing out my thoughts the other day on why I’m so fixated on “apocalypse computing” in my emergency preparation and came to a similar conclusion. Having access to wide reference material, reliable automation, etc is what’s critical
It's a great series, there's definitely character inconsistencies series to series, but that's what happens when you're combining several stories of innovation together.
It was also eye opening after having encountered people like Joe.
@onepict I "binge listen" to it every year or so, I can't get enough of it. Ryan's arc gets me every single time, especially what he wrote.
I mean, sure, it's easy to write for a fictionnal character when you're from the future that is now, but it still rings so true. Writers of that show know what's so beautiful about IT, its massive connectivity, and what's so destructive in the same time. I feel the more years go by, the better it ages.
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