Not to mention the spelling errors and indescent language...
Still, as the US foreign policy still is and always has been quite prone to wage war, a guy like Bush and the likes are excellent US representatives.
"In principle, you can only throw products onto the market and then learn from your mistakes," Mr Gates said in that interview. Probably never heard of uuhh, testing?
Interesting article, especially the comparison between the acid-free paper vs digital media: as most if not all things made nowadays, it is made to last just a couple of years so one can sell much more of it I guess, in contrast to stuff made in the 17,18,19th centuries which we can still perceive nowadays and often enjoy for its beauty and sincere design.
Where I would like to comment on is this phrase: 'I do think that society has a craving, hardwired in somehow, to have a few people, no more than a couple of dozen maybe, who are universally famous, people like J. Lo or Britney Spears.'
To my view this is a bit overstated. The mentioned artists have been marketed so intensely worldwide that most if not all of the people listening to the commercial radiostations that play a very limited set of songs (plugging) know these fashion-model/singers.
In short, it is not the craving (pull) of the people but rather the push from the record companies that make these people globally famous. Surely some people (especially when in early puberty) still have the need to idolize persons, but this is in my view a remnant of primitive religious reflexes, similar to worshipping impressive/tasty animals or collectively dance around the fire like these animals, things we did a couple of thousand years ago, apparantly still some people still have these needs...
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Not to mention the spelling errors and indescent language... Still, as the US foreign policy still is and always has been quite prone to wage war, a guy like Bush and the likes are excellent US representatives.
"In principle, you can only throw products onto the market and then learn from your mistakes," Mr Gates said in that interview. Probably never heard of uuhh, testing?
Interesting article, especially the comparison between the acid-free paper vs digital media: as most if not all things made nowadays, it is made to last just a couple of years so one can sell much more of it I guess, in contrast to stuff made in the 17,18,19th centuries which we can still perceive nowadays and often enjoy for its beauty and sincere design.
Where I would like to comment on is this phrase: 'I do think that society has a craving, hardwired in somehow, to have a few people, no more than a couple of dozen maybe, who are universally famous, people like J. Lo or Britney Spears.'
To my view this is a bit overstated. The mentioned artists have been marketed so intensely worldwide that most if not all of the people listening to the commercial radiostations that play a very limited set of songs (plugging) know these fashion-model/singers.
In short, it is not the craving (pull) of the people but rather the push from the record companies that make these people globally famous.
Surely some people (especially when in early puberty) still have the need to idolize persons, but this is in my view a remnant of primitive religious reflexes, similar to worshipping impressive/tasty animals or collectively dance around the fire like these animals, things we did a couple of thousand years ago, apparantly still some people still have these needs...