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Post by billisonboard on Feb 2, 2012 18:37:38 GMT -5
You can learn that the American public are idiots and collectively will pay more for the pipe dream that is Facebook than to keep a hospital open or fund police or fire services in their own towns. "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." -- Henry Mencken
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2012 11:41:43 GMT -5
Gustave Le Bon is probably not familiar with the recent research on crowdsourcing. Generally, the crowd is more intelligent than an individual.
Edited because I am becoming a horrible typist.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2012 11:43:13 GMT -5
That's what I'm saying. You might want to take a couple minutes to learn a little something about him before you run with that ball. He was programming computers and took an advanced college course while still in high school. During Zuckerberg's high school years, under the company name Intelligent Media Group, he built a music player called the Synapse Media Player that used artificial intelligence to learn the user's listening habits, which was posted to Slashdot[27] and received a rating of 3 out of 5 from PC Magazine.[28] Microsoft and AOL tried to purchase Synapse and recruit Zuckerberg, but he chose instead to enroll at Harvard University in September 2002. I don't believe both Microsoft and AOL are spending a whole lot of time trying to recruit very many high schoolers of 'average intelligence'. You are showing your age. For a guy of his generation he is a dime a dozen. Maybe not here, but India is producing tens of thousands of engineers and more tech savvy guys than Zuckerberg ever was or will be. He has hired some good people...the guy who started Napster, for one. Too many kids in this country are interested in $500 sneakers, an easy road to fame and fortune and they are basically functionally illiterate. Every time I talk to a 14 year old, and I'm 43, in midstream and plugged in, I just cringe. And no one reads any more. On the way to becoming a country of morons, with the exception of a few. Read what? I think the plugged-in 14 year old probably reads more and consumes more written content in a day than you do. S/he made read fewer books, but what do you think people do on Facebook all day? They read.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2012 13:38:09 GMT -5
Unnecessary Hitler reference. Five yard penalty. Repeat first down.
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Post by floridayankee on Feb 3, 2012 15:32:03 GMT -5
You are showing your age. For a guy of his generation he is a dime a dozen. Sure they were. I heard every other kid was dubbed a prodigy in their early teens.
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Post by thyme4change on Feb 3, 2012 15:50:52 GMT -5
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