I've always picked up voices, for the most part as long as they are speaking English, I'll understand it. So the technical and accent issues were non existant for me. I liked the reading; but I like accent.
So the story. It was good. Showing how that buisness is gonig to screw itself over for new and interesting ideas and innovation is always good to go into; as with a lot of the world today if often feels like that is happening now.
Good ideas and interesting thinks take a back seat to what is seen as easy to mass produce.
Take this case
http://steampunkworkshop.com/lcd.shtmlBrilliant idea. Steampunk style computer. its fairly in style right now.
Tis cool.
Ok. Irrelevent.... anyway.
>_>
Paperwork weighs everyone down, endless paper trails of stupidity and people covering their own ass. Companies asking for the profit and not caring about the route it takes to get there. Companies joining together to make things with stupid names; and it gets hard to identify what are trying to do.
Take MSNBC
what the hell does that mean?
Microsoft Corperation National Broadcasting Company.
so what are boths goals... what is their aim? what would they consider a 'win'? Seperatly... its clearer, make good programs for one and make an operating system etc for the other. However joined up its more confused and it would appear that one goal would have to overtake the other. but it doesn't; instead of having a clear direction to get programming to make money, its make money. Thus the overall quality personality and uniqueness is lost, and a new creature arrives.
So in the end this story is about being dissilusioned about corperations. Its losing touch with people; and becoming a face. Its replacing people with computers. It's taking over a company and stripping it for parts and ideas. It feels like its what wrong with capitalism (in the world right now at least, though its always been like this really...)
Maybe I got the wrong end of the stick form this story. But I took from it what I wanted to. And i've listened to it twice already; and its rare I do that.