I give up.
I have been utterly dependent on the Internet for my professional duties since, oh, 1991 or so. This perspective on the Science Advisory Board just makes me wilt. Though it’s not the first time I have contemplated the demise of society as we know it. It’s what I like so much about some of Octavia Butler ’s novels (the Parable ones in particular), and Kim Stanley Robinson , too, for that matter.
I would lose all my newfangled online laboratory notes (that I’m still trying to whip into some semblance of shape). But then, I’ve been through a lab fire, and started over again, and seen more advanced career stage scientists do the same.
All we can hope is that we are sufficiently adaptable and have the right skill sets to survive whatever cataclysmic changes may lie ahead. I have few prejudices about what those may be, although no scenarios currently make me lose sleep at night.
Ms. Butler once said about herself that she was “an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.”
I’ll co-opt that.
Someone should hack that guy’s post. Or tell him to invest in a
pacmanmac, man.Come on Heather. Doom and gloom sells papers. And SAB perspectives…
Do they get sold? Or do you get those no-longer-good-for Amazon points?
“Ms. Butler once said about herself that she was “an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.”
Oh I like that. very much
The SAB must make money somehow, Heather.
I honestly cannot remember how I ever looked things up before teh intarwebs. Possibly in “books”, found in “libraries”, but I’m really not sure. I guess I must have been content not to have every trivial question answered lickety-split, or something.
*goes off mumbling about MIM on CD-ROM