Thanks for the pointer to the Gladwell piece on coolhunting. Fixed my understanding of the pre-Pattern Recognition timeline of the lore.

What if he's still right?

Denke, Patels Punkt bezieht sich auf die Zukunft von Microsoft und auf dieses Zitat: „Our end user tools business will become essentially an infrastructure business in support of agents doing work.“

I'm just surprised that we seem to have gone through them all and are starting again at the beginning. And in the beginning, there was the word, and the word was God, etc. pp.

I certainly didn't anticipate that a perverted version of Christian eschatology would become the next rationalization tool for the broligarchy, following effective altruism and longtermism.

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This is all to convince you to read it—if for no other reason than to understand the red thread running through our work, podcast conversations, and projects.

I think that's why the book still holds up so well. It contains these vibrations of a near future that, 20 years later, we better understand as Gibson's remarkable empathy for what was coming.

In the episode we explore:
→ Why pattern recognition is both "gift and trap"
→ How to distinguish between meaningful signals and noise
→ The difference between following trends and reading underlying cultural currents

Even back in 2003, he understood something we're still learning: how to navigate volatility while maintaining the ability to act.

Gibson painted a picture of a world where you can ride along but also find your own points of agency—where you deliberately take a different turn and go against the flow.