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Narcissismthe Philip Greenspun way |
A journalist from Il Mondo called me up. This is the
Italian equivalent of Business Week, published by Rizzoli.
Very authoritative. They were doing a New Year's story on the future
and interviewing 7 experts. Would I agree to be the expert on
computers and Internet?
"I guess so," I replied, "but wouldn't you really rather have Nicholas Negroponte? After all, he invented the Internet, CD-ROMs, multimedia, and, when you get right down to it, the computer."
"We tried to get Negroponte, but he refused to do it on such short notice."
Being a second (or fourth?) choice to Nicholas Negroponte swelled my head to such a fantastic degree that I created a new topic in my rdbms-backed discussion software: Ask Philip. This is where I'll keep prognostications and other bon mots that I draft from time to time.
Note: one good thing about the Il Mondo interview was that they hired Rob Silvers to take some pictures of me (they ran the two that you see on this page).
See Marcus Aurelius for more on this subject.