Sitting on the stage was a gentleman from a watch manufacturer.
Question from the audience...."What about the new generation that uses their mobile phones as their timepiece? Doesn't that foretell the end of watches as a stand-alone object?".
Response..."Oh, watches are more than timepieces, they are jewelry! There will always be watches."
Christian starts to feel smug and self-righteous that he saw this one coming. 'He actually said always. Here is a textbook example of someone stuck in their own paradigm and unwilling to see the rest of the world around them!'
Moderator points out that this extends to the MIT One-Laptop-Per-Child (aka $100 laptop) program as well. There are more mobile phones in the rest of the world, per person, than there are computers per person. Only in the US and Canada are there such high rates of computers-per-person. The rest of the world uses powerful and smart cell-phone services instead of bulky laptops. What folly that the US thinks they can export their bourgeois computer-laptop-centric-paradigm to poverty-stricken Africa and India. The sheer hubris.
Christian promptly deflates.
(By the way, it is always an early sign of delusion and self importance when people refer to themselves in the third person. Think of Caesar and the torture that his Gallic War memoirs, written entirely in the third person, has inflicted upon generations of Latin teachers. Likewise when elected officials refer to their office instead of just saying "I", as in "The President need not be held to the same standard of review." Danger. Danger.)
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