Hey, this really hits home! As someone who spends a lot of time watching how people deal with tech changes, I love your take on protocols vs. "special leaders." When ChatGPT dropped, it wasn't the self-proclaimed AI experts who figured it out first - it was regular folks who just rolled up their sleeves and started experimenting systematically. Really shows how shared knowledge beats lone geniuses every time!
This is great! I'll read the ePub and perhaps submit a proposal. As someone who deals with distressed real estate, there are a lot of interesting ideas about how new protocols could lead to new modes of behavior.
It is interesting to compare this to how history is written. Waterloo was about Napoleon and Wellington, screw the 235,000 or so who merely did the fighting. You will struggle to find how the everyday people lived. You can read that Henry VIII ate greasy meat by hand, but who developed key aspects of the windmill is lost, appearing uninteresting even to literate contemporaries (who were probably mostly in monasteries illuminating theology).
Even today, gossip and journalism paints leaders as if they did everything and yet glosses over exactly how or why we should care. And Disney born in a republic teaches everyone to respect princes and especially princesses.
So we can hardly be surprised if fiction also has to use heroes. Be they aristocrat or bureaucrat. Or haughty architect or metal chemist. Or even a Grendel. The slog of a myriad real people who built the modern world dragging us out of misery and oppression simply is too boring, it seems. we are given nothing to connect us to our peers.
Hey, this really hits home! As someone who spends a lot of time watching how people deal with tech changes, I love your take on protocols vs. "special leaders." When ChatGPT dropped, it wasn't the self-proclaimed AI experts who figured it out first - it was regular folks who just rolled up their sleeves and started experimenting systematically. Really shows how shared knowledge beats lone geniuses every time!
This is great! I'll read the ePub and perhaps submit a proposal. As someone who deals with distressed real estate, there are a lot of interesting ideas about how new protocols could lead to new modes of behavior.
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
It is interesting to compare this to how history is written. Waterloo was about Napoleon and Wellington, screw the 235,000 or so who merely did the fighting. You will struggle to find how the everyday people lived. You can read that Henry VIII ate greasy meat by hand, but who developed key aspects of the windmill is lost, appearing uninteresting even to literate contemporaries (who were probably mostly in monasteries illuminating theology).
Even today, gossip and journalism paints leaders as if they did everything and yet glosses over exactly how or why we should care. And Disney born in a republic teaches everyone to respect princes and especially princesses.
So we can hardly be surprised if fiction also has to use heroes. Be they aristocrat or bureaucrat. Or haughty architect or metal chemist. Or even a Grendel. The slog of a myriad real people who built the modern world dragging us out of misery and oppression simply is too boring, it seems. we are given nothing to connect us to our peers.
Why repress women? Foxes and bureaucrats are obviously feminine..
Great Men and Great ... Women, regardless of actual gender representative