H.G. Wells spoiler (was: Re: [Gllug] Whinge)

[Stig Brautaset]

* Chris Ball <chris at void.printf.net> spake thus:
> On 30 Aug 2001 21:17:34 +0100, gllug at codex.net wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, David Damerell wrote
> > > I know you all know this, but I just wanted to complain. Really. How
> > > did they conquer the world with this shit?
> > 
> > to be somewhat less serious, IMHO it's a classic case of heard mentality,
> > people jump on the MS bandwagon because 'so many other people have' -
> > 'therefore it must be good'.
> 
> Neal Stephenson describes it as 'mindshare' in 'In The Beginning..';
> Windows leading not due to technological superiority - and certainly not
> superiority cost-wise - but to people writing the drivers, applications
> (and games!) for Windows due to its popularity. It's a really great
> book. The other memorable description he used was taken from H. G. Wells
> 'The Time Machine', which involved two castes of people, the Eloi and
> the Morlocks. The Morlocks were small in number but powered the Eloi's
> living. It's an interesting, if ego-flatering analogy to geekdom.:-)

If you read the book, you might perhaps be suprised to find out that the
Morlocks actually *ate* the Elois... It turned out the Morlocks where
masters after all.

Regards, 
Stig

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