Ne-var! You know what I mean in the comment, kind of a joke. The Secondcast podcast about all this this is up on secondcast.com.

Max Headroom > ah..jeffry!

It’s Jerry . As Method Man would say, “Say what you like/ Just spell my name right.”

The children are the future and Wu Tang is for the babies.

out of the mouths of babes….

“A few more of these and we’ll have ground ourselves to a hault!”

It seems the prime requirement for being a futurist [or Technology Evangelist] is to act like a 10 year old at Toys’R'us, running around the aisles all jazzed up on red cordial pointing out the latest toys to mom. Except if this case it’s the Toy’r'underDevelopment store round the back, little fella. Any monkey can do that.

AS IF a little reality check will stop anything. I’d say you are completely cluesless, except for the fact you definately have the fine art of networking and self-promotion down!

Most of the hype is about pumping up aging rust-belt industries, has-been 80s stars, failed presidential candidates, dinosaur old media companies, and is taking place in mainstream media that itself is panicked about its loss of advertising sales. Seems like in fact like a lot of old thinking about keeping alive a lot of old thinking. Where’s the new stuff? Seriously. I’ve responded to his article in the way I think you need to — acknowledge his puncturing of the hype, affirm SL as a revolution cool thing but don’t have illusions. It’s going to take longer and not go as you planned. That’s a good thing.

Yay! Brakes! A few more of these and we’ll have ground ourselves to a hault! Pretty bad article, man. I know what you mean about hype, but hype that breaks people out of set ideas when things are changing can be healthy. Mark just proudly frames SL as an imaginary game and puts people back to bed. Zap the fluff off the boosters and the haters and he’s the one missing the big picture.