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There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don’t. This pun has made a career as a status message in IMs, emails, forum signature notes, and on a T-Shirt in a ThinkGeek.com online store. It has been indexed by Google half a million times. Still, it is only one of millions of similar jokes that deprecate those who are not adept at technology and mathematics.
‘When you look into the abyss, the abyss looks back into you.’ (Nietzsche, 1966, p. 89)
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Jemielniak, D. (2008). Little Johnny and the Wizard of OS: The PC User as a Fool Hero. In: Kostera, M. (eds) Organizational Olympians. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583580_9
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