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Tim Cook’s Message to 2019 Graduates: ‘My Generation Has Failed You’

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Watching talks like this is what helps me keep my sanity in the face of climate change and have hope we will do something about it. My take-away phrase of the speech is gonna be "do something". I know my doing something will not even register in the global scheme of things but I'm gonna do it anyway.

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When was the last time Apple release a new product? By new I mean not an iteration of previous ones?

The whole consumer electronics industry is stuck. Everyone has a phone. PC sales are flat and mostly to business. (Desktop PCs are now like commercial trucks. Every business uses them, but nobody gets excited about them. They're expected to last a long time and have low operating cost.) Tablets were a niche. 3D TV was a total flop. VR headsets are a niche. IoT turned out to be mostly voice terminals for services. No…

Getting the interface out of your hands along with some portable system of trust would shake things up a bit.

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I guess I'm considered a millennial, but messages like this sound like misconceived pandering. Firstly, I don't think any generation necessarily "owes" anything to future generations. But, even if we accept the premise, I am the beneficiary of absolutely mind-boggling amounts of technological advancement, culture, progress, infrastructure, science, and on and on and on even just over the course of my own lifetime (ap…

Things are getting better. But many of the new things don't need people so much.

What we're getting is a big underclass that isn't in the game at all. They're just dead weight. This is hitting the Arab world hard.[1]

[1] https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/youth-unemployment-mi...

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I guess I'm considered a millennial, but messages like this sound like misconceived pandering. Firstly, I don't think any generation necessarily "owes" anything to future generations. But, even if we accept the premise, I am the beneficiary of absolutely mind-boggling amounts of technological advancement, culture, progress, infrastructure, science, and on and on and on even just over the course of my own lifetime (ap…

Your culture was completely robbed from you before you were born. What stories do you love? What music fills your head? What great deeds of the past inspire you? Are you allowed to share ANY of that freely?

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I guess I'm considered a millennial, but messages like this sound like misconceived pandering. Firstly, I don't think any generation necessarily "owes" anything to future generations. But, even if we accept the premise, I am the beneficiary of absolutely mind-boggling amounts of technological advancement, culture, progress, infrastructure, science, and on and on and on even just over the course of my own lifetime (ap…

Things are getting better. But many of the new things don't need people so much. What we're getting is a big underclass that isn't in the game at all. They're just dead weight. This is hitting the Arab world hard.[1] [1] https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/youth-unemployment-mi...

Cool that you're out here deciding who is and isn't "dead weight."

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Things are getting better. But many of the new things don't need people so much. What we're getting is a big underclass that isn't in the game at all. They're just dead weight. This is hitting the Arab world hard.[1] [1] https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/youth-unemployment-mi...

Cool that you're out here deciding who is and isn't "dead weight."

The free market does that. People who can't generate more revenue than they cost are dead weight in a capitalistic system. It's not common to say that, but the US certainly works that way.
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