Let’s rewind further, biggest ideas by presidential administration going back to ww2 Ford: Globalization and automation Nixon: Culture war Johnson: Modern civil rights Kennedy: Apollo Eisenhower: military-industrial complex Truman: Modern computing
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Interesting that these were all emergent big ideas that represent complex systems going through autopoietic evolutions. Specific humans contributed pieces, and language to talk about them, but overall, the history of ideas kinda took on a life of its own after ww2
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Weirding is not an idea so much as the stack of accumulating ideas going through a spookiness refactor. Like “hey, let’s rewrite everything we know in the form of COBOL code as quantum computing code”
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What's "new" about "communism doesn't work"? Its enemies were saying that for decades.
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Everyone was forced to accept it, even NYT editorial page editors

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Trump 1? 1? Wtf
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There will likely be a Trump 2, I’m afraid
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No iPhone? No App Store? Sorry, but I lived thru this whole period. The iPhone … and its ilk … are as big a tech idea as electricity in its day. There was no new idea behind Amazon or Google. Tons of search sites and store sites preceded what are simply advert firms.
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Yeah. Obama 1 should be Mobile, not Bitcoin.
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