Star Trek and the risk business of IT
Summary: Where are the Kirks and Star Treks of this generation? Maybe this speech provides inspiration
As the conference season swings into action once again, I wonder how many of the enterprise vendors out there will be reminded of Captain James T Kirk's stirring speech?
I can think of a few that have morphed from once being genuine pioneers bringing fundamental change to that of addict, sucking relentlessly on the teat of maintenance revenue; hoping against hope that their giant size keeps them immune from landscape change.
But to continue with stellar metaphors, astro physicists tell us that red giants eventually burn out.
For me, that conference season starts Monday with SAP TechEd...just sayin'
Inspiration courtesy of Derya Unutmaz - an academic at NYU School of Medicine and found on Google Plus. As he says:
...where are the Kirks and Star Treks of this generation?
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RE: Star Trek and the risk business of IT
RE: Star Trek and the risk business of IT
RE: Star Trek and the risk business of IT
Kirk was trained in an academy, as were all the crew and passed numerous tests to get to that post. He also had the backing of the Federation behind him.
Contrast this to "entrepreneurs" using other people's money with other people's work and ideas to feather their own nest. Or looking to advertising and packaging companies to make a great leap forward.
Thanks heaven we have MS. because there's bugger all intelligent life outside it ;-)
RE: Star Trek and the risk business of IT
The whole "there's no money, everything's either available from government stores or via replicator technology" didn't show up until ST:TNG & later episodes. ST:TOS, on the other hand, had episodes that showed financial transactions, most likely involving money. Specifically, check out: #6 (Mudd's Women) & #76 (The Cloud Minders), for examples of Kirk negotiating to obtain materials, as opposed to simply appropriating them via his authority as a Federation agent; #42 (The Trouble With Tribbles), where a free trader & a bartender discuss repayment of a bar tab; & #49 (A Piece of the Action), where Kirk specifically sets up a situation where the Federation will collect a percentage of cash annually, invest the money in a trust fund, & use it to help educate the planet's population to move it away from its "gangster" template.
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:-)