The TechBro Blueprint: Crafting a Flawless Flatland in Silicon Valley

Well, I have good news from the factory here at Herojig Cartooning and Ballooning of Timi Nepal | LLC | LLM | LLPP; all is going to plan, and today I want to discuss why I think the land of content creation and the internet in general, is essentially a Flatland created by the techBros of today, and how they are not serving anyone but themselves, in some very vicious and evil ways.

Let me explain: Flatland is a novella written by Edwin A. Abbot during the late 1800s & early 1900s Victorian era. This was required reading in my high school’s math curriculum. The work is one of mathematics and social commentary of the times… a reflection in which one can examine Victorian culture and learn some basic geometry, the geometry of space, and of the author's time. Brilliant.

My goal for this project is to examine the culture of our time and explain some basic geometry about the tech landscape in which we live. The geometric principles are the same in Flatland as they are in techBroWorld; there are one, two, three, and even four dimensions to this world where one class of people live lower than others, and because of the physics involved, the lower-dimensional classes never know what the upper-level ones are doing. In math, we call that dimensionality reduction.

This reduction occurs when you’re in a one or two-dimensional space (say on a straight line), and you can’t easily perceive or visualize higher-dimensional spaces. This limitation is fundamental in mathematics, especially in linear algebra and geometry. In techBroWorld, the reduction is of knowledge of what is happening in the other “higher” dimensions. See the following video for a helpful explainer:

Consider yourself 1. Line and you meet 1. Sphere, using Abbot’s terminology from Flatland. As your one- or two-dimensional self meets a three-dimensional being, your ability to see the bigger picture is reduced; hence, dimensional reduction occurs. The more that 1. Sphere moves around you, the more twisted your 1.Line…