Victor Rozek
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As I See It: Women
April 10, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreThere were rumors that Margaret Thatcher was actually a woman, but they were never proven to my satisfaction. She wasn’t called “The Iron Lady” for nothing. She often seemed hard and unsympathetic, and stubbornly belligerent as only people who are convinced of their own superiority can be–sort of like Ronald Reagan without the aw-shucks charm. I recall being disappointed, but this was the 1980s and I was naive and actually thought that having women in positions of political power might soften the world.
I felt the same disappointment in the workplace. The ascendancy of women to positions of corporate power
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As I See It: The Last Day
March 27, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreHe drove into the familiar lot, nosed his car toward the oleander bushes, and parked just as he had for the past 17 years. He liked the oleander. It held its bloom for a long time, much like he had. As was his habit, he parked away from the building and walked toward the entrance, in no hurry, enjoying the morning air. Living life indoors was, in an evolutionary sense, a very recent development, and some days it felt unnatural to him. As often happened, several people passed him in a rush, intent on getting to their desks and making
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As I See It: The Last Day
March 27, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreHe drove into the familiar lot, nosed his car toward the oleander bushes, and parked just as he had for the past 17 years. He liked the oleander. It held its bloom for a long time, much like he had. As was his habit, he parked away from the building and walked toward the entrance, in no hurry, enjoying the morning air. Living life indoors was, in an evolutionary sense, a very recent development, and some days it felt unnatural to him. As often happened, several people passed him in a rush, intent on getting to their desks and making
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As I See It: The Last Day
March 27, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreHe drove into the familiar lot, nosed his car toward the oleander bushes, and parked just as he had for the past 17 years. He liked the oleander. It held its bloom for a long time, much like he had. As was his habit, he parked away from the building and walked toward the entrance, in no hurry, enjoying the morning air. Living life indoors was, in an evolutionary sense, a very recent development, and some days it felt unnatural to him. As often happened, several people passed him in a rush, intent on getting to their desks and making
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As I See It: The ‘M’ Word
March 13, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreShe was a tall, solid woman, with burnt copper skin and tribal features. “Write your name on a piece of paper,” she told us. “Go ahead, do it several times. Notice how simple, effortless, and familiar it is. Now put the pen in your other hand and sign your name again. How does that feel?” It felt awkward, frustrating, unfamiliar, and harder than it should have been. “That,” she said, “is how people from foreign cultures feel when navigating the dominant white culture.”
She had come to teach 10 white people what it was like not being white; an impossible
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As I See It: The ‘M’ Word
March 13, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreShe was a tall, solid woman, with burnt copper skin and tribal features. “Write your name on a piece of paper,” she told us. “Go ahead, do it several times. Notice how simple, effortless, and familiar it is. Now put the pen in your other hand and sign your name again. How does that feel?” It felt awkward, frustrating, unfamiliar, and harder than it should have been. “That,” she said, “is how people from foreign cultures feel when navigating the dominant white culture.”
She had come to teach 10 white people what it was like not being white; an impossible
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As I See It: The ‘M’ Word
March 13, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreShe was a tall, solid woman, with burnt copper skin and tribal features. “Write your name on a piece of paper,” she told us. “Go ahead, do it several times. Notice how simple, effortless, and familiar it is. Now put the pen in your other hand and sign your name again. How does that feel?” It felt awkward, frustrating, unfamiliar, and harder than it should have been. “That,” she said, “is how people from foreign cultures feel when navigating the dominant white culture.”
She had come to teach 10 white people what it was like not being white; an impossible
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As I See It: Future Schlock
February 27, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreRaymond Kurzweil and Bill Joy are the Yin and Yang of technological consequence prediction. Kurzweil, the optimist, is part inventor, part futurist, and part philosopher. He is a best-selling author, recipient of the 1999 National Medal of Technology, and member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, so he knows whereof he speaks. Joy, the pessimist, is the quintessential nerd, turned computer architect, turned dark futurist. He is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems and until 2003, he served as its chief scientist. He was also co-chair of the presidential commission on the future of IT research. So he, too, knows
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As I See It: Future Schlock
February 27, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreRaymond Kurzweil and Bill Joy are the Yin and Yang of technological consequence prediction. Kurzweil, the optimist, is part inventor, part futurist, and part philosopher. He is a best-selling author, recipient of the 1999 National Medal of Technology, and member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, so he knows whereof he speaks. Joy, the pessimist, is the quintessential nerd, turned computer architect, turned dark futurist. He is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems and until 2003, he served as its chief scientist. He was also co-chair of the presidential commission on the future of IT research. So he, too, knows
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As I See It: Future Schlock
February 27, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreRaymond Kurzweil and Bill Joy are the Yin and Yang of technological consequence prediction. Kurzweil, the optimist, is part inventor, part futurist, and part philosopher. He is a best-selling author, recipient of the 1999 National Medal of Technology, and member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, so he knows whereof he speaks. Joy, the pessimist, is the quintessential nerd, turned computer architect, turned dark futurist. He is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems and until 2003, he served as its chief scientist. He was also co-chair of the presidential commission on the future of IT research. So he, too, knows