To My Groovy Clients at Intel,
I just drew this wee picture for you. Feel free to pass it around, download the high-rez version, print it out and hang it on your wall etc etc.
Yes, it’s a social object. Designed to continue a conversation that I already started online. [Yes, if you know somebody at Intel, please send this link along to them, thanks].
Whether you manufacture microprocessors, or draw cartoons like me, the question, “What is human potential?” never gets old.
Of course, you’ll never find the definitive answer. But you still have to ask the question.
And keep on asking it. Again and again.
Or else life dries up. And microprocessors and cartoons don’t get made.
Think about it.
Kindest Regards,
Hugh MacLeod
Hugh–
More like an imitation microprocessor–
that little man-made invention that facilitates world-wide interfacing.
Then there’s the real thing–DNA, you know that microscopic bit of flotsum that remembers that you got a virus 4,276 generations ago (you were a monkey in a tree), the exact formula for the medicine it took to cure it, and the precise dosage, and having administered it, you lived. Now there’s human potential. Talk about a social object.
The point is, just where does this observation of yours lay on the sex and cash scale? I smell cash. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I’m thinking of Groucho who said, “I smoke cigars too, but I put em away once in a while.”
Faithful reader, NotIntel.
Wm
ps. Hey I’m an artist–I don’t have to make sense, and let me know if you find any of those Intel boys.