{"id":55,"date":"2013-04-08T03:27:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T03:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.williamtipper.com\/?p=55"},"modified":"2013-04-08T03:27:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T03:27:51","slug":"news-from-the-econo-genetic-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.williamtipper.com\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"News from the Econo-Genetic Divide"},"content":{"rendered":"

In which it’s revealed<\/a> that TED, SXSW and suchlike are really all breeding experiments designed to generate a race of Master Hipsters to benevolently rule us all.<\/p>\n

“Dan Gould, 35, who has attended Renaissance Weekends, TED, EG (Entertainment Gathering) and a number of other conferences said they are self-selecting for people who have big ideas and want to change the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re not going to easily find someone like that on OkCupid or in a bar,\u201d he said. \u201cYou have people who have similar values and who care about the same sorts of things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Gould, a founder of the video sharing site Chill.com, had heard of couples who met at one conference or another, but he never gave it much thought \u2014 until he met a woman at TED. They happened to be seated near each other during a talk and, as is common at TED, they continued to bump into each other throughout the four-day conference.”<\/p>\n

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“As Kathryn Irwin, who first attended SXSW in 1994 and hasn\u2019t missed a year since 2000, put it: \u201cThere\u2019s been some babies, there\u2019s been a lot of dating, and a lot of hooking up.\u201d Not necessarily in that order. After splitting with her husband in 2009, she too jumped into the SXSW dating pool. \u201cI was like \u2018Oh my gosh, there\u2019s so many beautiful men,\u2019 \u201d she said.”<\/p>\n

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