Chapter 30: A Congregation of Geeks - Part 2
"You know what, let’s just agree to disagree, right?" Rob said in exasperation.
He and Brent had been arguing the merits and demerits of IndiSoft’s approach to commercialized research and trying to get the computer more user-friendly for two hours straight.
By now, Rob had realized a few things. One, Brent may look like an awkward kid who is too shy to talk, but when he gets going on the topics he is interested in, he can argue for a really long time.
Two, Brent was very passionate about computers. He strongly feels that they are the future and has a lot of opinions on how things need to be done. Unfortunately, they were not something Rob sees working out from his experience in his previous world.
Three, Brent is a bright man with several ideas running in his head. He has ideas that could potentially become the next big break in technology if he could make them into reality.
Four, Brent is a college graduate who wants to start his own business in the computer industry. He and several of his friends, who were of the same mind, have been working on some stuff that they didn’t have a clear goal for yet. But, these people were like scientists who hop from one idea to another and try to make it work.
This has them running around like headless chickens trying to do way too many things at the same time and ending up doing nothing for a long time.
And last but not least, the concept of the internet was also beginning to emerge in the computer circle currently. While it may take a few years to develop it, the seed is already planted and a lot of computer experts were gravitating toward the free movement that his previous world went through.
From what Rob heard Brent say, the internet is where his research was being based around on and he was really interested in trying to create a program or software that could help him know stuff easily.
To Rob, it sounded vaguely like something Yahoo and Google were based on. Browser or search somethings, they were called in his previous world. He knew that there was immense potential in those ideas, but he wasn’t sure Brent would be able to do it.
During his interaction with Brent, Rob also realized something. Brent was a dreamer. He dreamt of accomplishing impossible things without any thought as to whether it was realistically possible for them to be accomplished.
Rob knew that guys like Brent were the ones who truly changed the world. However, they really needed someone who could be a realist amongst them and reign in their excessive mind wandering. Unless Brent could find someone like that, it would be hard for him to accomplish something.