1) The man appears to be much less the buffoon the media has painted him to be over the years. I wonder then why he hasn't jumped on the blogwagon to craft his own image for the public. The BlogOn conference in NYC covered a lot of ground in terms of PR strategies for products in the new world. I'm sure most of those concepts would also hold true for really really famous people...well, even not-so-famous people, I suppose.
2) The answer to #1 became obvious toward the end of the interview. "If you make everything over-efficient, you suck out, it seems to me, every last drop of what, up to now, has been known as culture. We are not the technology. It should be our - you know, our slave, the technology. But it's rapidly becoming our master in many areas." I think he envisions a Kubrick-like world where we willingly give up control of our environment to technologies and systems that ultimately fail us. That's a very gray line that different people draw at different points on a spectrum. I'm guessing that he draws the line somewhere before he's able to let his words get published directly from his keyboard to a public blog. For a man whose entire life has been encased in layer upon layer of deeply rooted systematic control, it's understandable that he would worry about what happens when those walls come down. But it might make problem #1 a lot easier to manage.
Who knew you might have interesting things to say? Where's your blog, Charlie?
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While I agree that the interview was enlightening, I think Charles getting a blog would be against his own philosophy. He's the type to get his hands dirty on newsprint.