Baba Ramdev: The Google Chrome connection
Sidin Vadukut -
Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:55 AM
Have you guys noticed how despite the "global credit meltdown", the Iceland economy falling to pieces and such maladies, geeks continue to spend with gay abandon? In complete deviation from perhaps every other sector on the face of the planet, geekery has been particularly productive of late. New browsers, new mobile phones and smartphones, television sets and laptops are being released into the market, and subsequently into welcoming, miles-long-line-forming, cash paying consumers at the rate of knots.
And lets not even get started about all those online Web 2.0 startups.
Perhaps what Bernanke, Paulson and Kashkari probably should have done is bundle a free iPhone with every 10,000 dollars worth of toxic sub prime mortgages. Geeks would have happily picked up the financial detritus, and then blogged about it on their phones. And of course helped the world at large.
What Gordon Gekko should have really said is this:
The point is, ladies and gentleman, that geek -- for lack of a better word -- is good.
Geek is right.
Geek works.
Geek clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit in full HD video.
Geek, in all of its forms -- geek for iPhones, for Google, for portable sub-notebooks with SSD hard drives, for Wikipedia -- has marked the upward surge of mankind.
And geek -- you bookmark my blog -- will not only save the Global Economy, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. And because decoupling is a stupendously dimwit idea... also the rest of the world.
Thank you very much for listening to this podcast.
But of course all of you know that Wall Street largesse brought us this mess. So perhaps even too much of geek is a bad idea too. And don't just take out word for it... Baba Ramdev thinks so too. Check this image we received from an intrepid reader fresh from the streets of Gurgaon:
Ok, now leave us alone while we do some deep breathing.