After wasting a fair amount of time in both Medium and Reddit, I’ve gradually non-noticed the complete absence of courseware from both tech and economic subjects. I had already non-noticed the lack in a more practical form when trying to get useful info in programmer hangouts like Stackoverflow.
Medium is especially full of IPO-type announcements for all sorts of techy projects, so the mix of subjects is easy to detect after a while.
In economic terms, courseware is much bigger and more permanent than bitcoin or “the metaverse”. Mechanical teaching machines have been part of the tech biz since 1920, and digital courseware has been around (but sparse) since 1960. When I started writing in 1996, there were only a few examples, so I had to invent most of what I produced. By 2000 there was plenty of competition.
The NAZI TORTURE of 2020 forced courseware into a required position, which it wasn’t quite ready to assume. Courseware had previously been treated as a sales gimmick, with low priority on development.
Bitcoin is not required in any situation, and VR is only required in a few military realms.
Despite this difference in size and duration and necessity, the representation in Medium is exactly reversed. Medium did establish a topic for Courseware, but it only has 7 entries at the moment, and the handful of subtopics have zero entries.
The main Bitcoin topic has 346K entries, and the dozens of related topics are also in six digits.
You’d think the 2020 NAZI requirement (plus the infinite fountain of free money) would have spawned lots of venture capital activity in courseware. 2020 spawned massive VR and Bitcoin activity, which was not required.
Easy conclusion: Venture capitalists NEVER support anything useful or helpful. They ALWAYS go for maximum triviality and evil.
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