A Real Innovator in Pomposity
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“Got a puppy to paper-train? Have I got a Thursday Business section for you!”
If there is a Pulitzer Prize awarded for Most Pompous Insignificant Columnist, no one is more deserving than Michael Schrage.
A column titled “Innovation” in a respected national newspaper should provide something more legitimate than vain intellecto-babble on the wizardry of modern potato chip production, the industrial complexities of turning trash into tennis shoes or the global repercussions of the demise of karaoke music.
It is especially riveting when your prophet of egocentric technocracy finds a way to rescue Microsoft Corp. from the jaws of impending doom or gives key figures in the entertainment industry his enlightened perspectives on precisely how incompetent they are. Strange, I don’t see “entrepreneur” or “executive” among his published credentials.
Mr. Schrage has no interest in communicating with me, the reader, and is out of touch with my concerns. He seems to want to flex his “superior” mental prowess for his own satisfaction. Can you go blind from that?
LORAINE CHAPMAN
Los Angeles
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