This week we have David Eastman on as our special guest, and Ian joins in again sans Internet. We discuss all sorts of douchebaggery including Chris Anderson’s barmy thesis that the web is dead, Nick Carr’s contention that the Internet is making us stupid and Amy Hoy’s idea that the best way to become an entrepreneur is to spend all one’s time reading business books. In addition to the traditional “Hacker News with more swearing” we discuss the TED conference, Whyday, how much more humble we are than you, the idiotic obsession that Silicon Valley types have with declaring technologies to be “dead”, the Google-Verizon net neutrality nonsense and other topics that induce rage, anger and disappointment at the utter crapness of all technology.
