…and what have you done

CV or Eulogy version?

Who and what are you? …so, this is Christmas…and what have you done? Giving or taking, contributing or exploiting?

In “This is for Everyone”, Tim Bernes-Lee recounts his discovery (HTML) that places platform in everyone’s hand, “solidly” and “intentionally” (not just grab everyone’s attention to monetize by delivering it to those highest target-ad bidders).

What a romantic and a necessary notion. I love his snippet when Vint Cerf elbowed him: “You are holding up lunch” (Tim’s Turing-Award acceptance speech went a bit overtime).

People do good and do well both at the same time. It doesn’t have to be an either/or zero-sum society. Christmas celebration in Gaza? Yes. The homeless got a meal, the lonely got invited and the orphan found a home (for that matter, a Messiah got a manger).

Abraham obeyed. As a result, we got succession, continuity and lineage down onto David the King, then the Messiah. Sure, the world needs news, messengers and mouth pieces. It needs thinking soldiers, thinking AI’s and thinking taxpayers. Hey, you spent our public dollars for your own gain (Bag Man).

Three cheers for Mac-Kenzie Scott who gave billions. Our new “civic” trickle-down economy propels the engine of commerce, for continuity and progress of the many.

Medicine sans frontiers enable longevity and reduce infant mortality. When they grew up, needing food, education and yes, guidance, we turned away from them, failed to instruct as to what and what not to take (not a knife to kill your parents, a gun to shoot on campus) and how to learn long to eventually draw up somewhat of a CV version on LinkedIn. Be all you can be i.e. honor, decency and loyalty.

From potato chips to graphic design chips, the physical layer (Born to be wired in Softbank’s data center investment) allows us to thrive by reaping the fruits of bots’ labor, finding solution to the right question, at times preventive more than corrective. Rodin portrays the thinker, solidly. Hopper shows the back of our “Night Hawk”. Aristocrat’s spare time: sitting, sipping and pondering about life, liberty and love. Billions now can afford the fear of missing out thanks to the app layer (private) which built on top of (public) military-industrial-complex funding and university researching.

Will there be light? Abraham, it’s me.

Let sons, and daughters too (those who got early-childhood vaccines) go to college, gain some knowledge and thrive in the Age of AI. I am old enough to remember the Tylenol scare, the Oil Embargo and the Iranian Hostage crisis. Dr Fauci on Nightline, talking about the AID scare. Old enough to remember (eye-witness) the burning monk and the pissing marine (his excuse to disappear behind the embassy stairs for absolute last exfiltration).

Crises constitute life with all the singing and shooting. Recording and replaying, MP’s and MP3, “so this is Christmas….and what have you done”.

Do your part, advancing the race, our human race in view of Big Data. Shame it not and certainly not the One who made you among wildflowers. Our world needs a Messiah, more than a messenger. Few, Tim Berners-Lee among them, are lucky to be a byline …and what have you done? CV or Eulogy version of yourself?