#743: Infrastructures

2003:

[[A man approaches a bearded fellow.]]

Man: Did you get my essay?

Bearded Fellow: Yeah, it was good! But it was a .doc; You should really use a more open–

Man: Give it a

rest

already. Maybe we just want to live our lives and use software that

works

, not get wrapped up in your stupid nerd turf wars.

Bearded Fellow: I just want people to care about the infrastructures we’re building and who–

Man: No, you just want to feel smugly superior. You have no sense of perspective and are probably autistic.

2010:

Man: Oh my God! We handed control of our social world to Facebook and they’re

DOING EVIL STUFF!

Bearded Fellow: Do you see this?

[[Inset, the bearded fellow rubs his index and middle fingers against his thumb.]]

Bearded Fellow:

It’s the world’s tiniest open-source violin.