This ESRI guy on News!??

muracan

Top story on RTE 6 and 9 o clock news ....Ex ESRI prophet of doom packing his bags and jumping ship!

Criticises his employer of the last 5.5 years and tells us all were up **** creek for the next 10 years.

Meanwhile he feics off ,to preach and leech elsewhere, where was he with these nuggets of wisdom over the last few years?

Hindsight is 20/20 vision,close the door on the way out.....

Where are RTE dredging these stories up?It's a wonder they didn't have a shot of weeping neighbours seeing him off like a dead North Korean!

lastlaugh

They must have been short on News today to have that Hillbilly leaving as the main story.

Kevin Duffy

It's difficult to make out what your actual problem is, what with all the tabloidesque indignation.

mackg

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=227

biko

I didn't watch the news.

galwayrush

Dammit, i missed it....:rolleyes:

later12

I notice Tol did not leave the ESRI to join the dole, but the University of Sussex.

Prof Tol said the financial position of the institute affected the independence of the work it produced. He said people who worked there were discouraged from expressing personal opinions to journalists or on social media sites such as Twitter.

Bloody right too.

The amount of rubbish that gets spouted by Irish academics on twitter, social media and online blogs is staggering. I don't think some of these 'professionals' are doing themselves or the public any great service in clamoring to be the next big prophet of economics.

Many of them are far more restrained in their academic work, where they are obliged to calmly and rationally investigate and offer logical conclusions as opposed to the rabble rousing that goes on when they appear on talk shows or let their emotions loose on blogging sites.

A little ego is a dangerous thing. When fame - or notoriety - can bring unprecedented acknowledgement of a economist's work, or to an economist as a professional, there may be a danger of 'sexing up' one's public comments, to borrow a phrase, in order to make one's opinions more appealing.

Social media present enormous scope for good in terms of spreading ideas and new information, but when they're used by influential professionals to enhance their own ego, they can also work to discredit that individual, or even the faculty or body with whom he is associated.

bleg

He's wrong though. Technology is going to save us.

http://www.ted.com/talks/juan_enriquez_shares_mindboggling_new_science.html


The good times didn't last forever, neither will the bad times.

gk5000

muracan wrote: »

Top story on RTE 6 and 9 o clock news ....Ex ESRI prophet of doom packing his bags and jumping ship!

Criticises his employer of the last 5.5 years and tells us all were up **** creek for the next 10 years.

Meanwhile he feics off ,to preach and leech elsewhere, where was he with these nuggets of wisdom over the last few years?

Hindsight is 20/20 vision,close the door on the way out.....

Where are RTE dredging these stories up?It's a wonder they didn't have a shot of weeping neighbours seeing him off like a dead North Korean!

to preach and leech elsewhere:D

Quiet you

bleg wrote: »

He's wrong though. Technology is going to save us.

http://www.ted.com/talks/juan_enriquez_shares_mindboggling_new_science.html


The good times didn't last forever, neither will the bad times.

Ooooo. Thank you.

I was looking for something good to feed the old brain and had forgotten about red talks.


On topic. The comments he made about funding and oversight restricting what the ESRI can investigate and talk about caught my interest.

Phill Ewinn

Lad who worked for the ESRI is pissed off with them and people are having a go ta him??? WTF!


Is it some surprise that all this crap is optics for the sheeple?

bleg

Quiet you wrote: »

Ooooo. Thank you.

I was looking for something good to feed the old brain and had forgotten about red talks.


On topic. The comments he made about funding and oversight restricting what the ESRI can investigate and talk about caught my interest.

If you like that you'll love "The Singularity is Near"

Quiet you

bleg wrote: »

If you like that you'll love "The Singularity is Near"

Can't wait for laser eyes and a hard drive in my brain.

TheZohanS

LOUD NOISES.

bleg

Quiet you wrote: »

Can't wait for laser eyes and a hard drive in my brain.

Well, you'll just have the probes in your brain that will make you think you have laser eyes.

Quiet you

bleg wrote: »

Well, you'll just have the probes in your brain that will make you think you have laser eyes.

Call me old fashioned if you will but I'd prefer to actually have them. Pop out the existing ones and replace with the bionic variety. I'll be able to see the entire spectrum at will and smite my enemies with the lasers.

Freddie59

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

It's difficult to make out what your actual problem is, what with all the tabloidesque indignation.

Wouldn't call it indignation. A hippy telling us how fcuked up the place is - resigning from an organisation which couldn't even see the bust coming......

doulikeit

Looked like a hippy being ****ed out of a squat