"When I want to learn something and no software exists, the vacuum bugs me—why isn’t someone on this?
This is what Silicon Valley must be thinking, too, as it optimizes the hell out of every industry it can, making software (and the keepers of that software) the middleman. The Valley has the world in its sights. Government, industry, social services, human sexuality, agriculture..."
The excerpt above, taken from the end of one and the beginning of the following paragraph, stood out to me. While the overall dry and rather matter-of-fact tone of the narrator intrigued and sometimes even bothered me, these lines toward the end brought home his ever-nuanced attitude toward programming, and moreover, programmers. As a programming newbie, I can definitely sympathize with the narrator's point-of-view: there seems to be an ever-present rat race and, at times, clash of egos to disrupt, optimize, and revolutionize Industry X or Government Y or according to the author Human Sexuality XX/XY, too.