Template:Did you know nominations/Your Computer is On Fire
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The result was: promoted by Tarlby talk 18:00, 18 March 2025 (UTC)
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Your Computer is On Fire
- ... that "The Cloud is a Factory", "Your AI is Human", and Your Computer is On Fire ? Source: chapter titles & book title
~ L 🌸 (talk) 22:12, 9 March 2025 (UTC).
This article, created on 5 March, is new enough, long enough, well-sourced, and presentable. No copyvio problems. QPQ provided. @LEvalyn: I'm not sure about the hook as it doesn't interest me much, or state a fact. Did you have any other in mind? Tenpop421 (talk) 17:50, 12 March 2025 (UTC)
- Alas, I thought it was a really fun hook! What about this?
- ALT1: ... that The Register said the book Your Computer is On Fire would inspire an "existential crisis" in tech workers?
- I also tried to put together something about opposing technological utopianism / technophilia, but couldn't come up with anything that actually felt 'hooky'. Open to suggestions if you don't like ALT1 either. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 06:39, 15 March 2025 (UTC)
@LEvalyn: ALT1 doesn't quite work for me, as The Register says "the reader is faced with an existential crisis", rather than tech workers. But on second thoughts, ALT0 does have a nice rhythm to it (and is cited, in the article, and citations check out). Good to go with ALT0. Tenpop421 (talk) 14:36, 15 March 2025 (UTC)
- I felt like the next bit highlighted the tech workers in the audience: “By the conclusion, the reader is faced with an existential crisis, apparently, a "call to face and embrace one's own death." … It's at this point that the imagined STEM student of the intro might be justified in putting the 400-page tome back in the library and wondering about their first professional pay check and Bay Area condo.” But if you’re OK with the first one, I like that one much better. Thanks for the review! ~ L 🌸 (talk) 18:05, 15 March 2025 (UTC)
