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Friday, Aug. 28, 1998
Internet tarot deck spoofs corporate high-tech ways
Associated Press
SAN JOSE -- Should you take your company public? Upgrade to Windows 98? Strangle the maddening loudmouth in the next cubicle?
Find your answers in the Silicon Valley Tarot Deck, just a simple click away.
You may not get the right answers, but the Internet fortune-telling site that spoofs the high-tech way of work is a lot more fun than hiring a consultant.
That's the point, says creator Thomas Scoville, a programmer who began the techie tarot with his doodle of a stereotypically unkempt hacker.
``This is ground zero for hubris on the planet,'' Scoville said. ``I'm trying to say, `Hey, guys, lighten up. This isn't going to last forever, and as a matter of fact, you guys are quite funny.'''
Instead of the traditional cards showing cups, wands, pentacles and swords, the high-tech tarot has networks, disks, cubicles and hosts, the key computers in networks.
Visitors can submit questions, which the site will answer -- in a fashion. One hypothetical query about a career change evoked this reply: ``People who believe that truly random numbers can be generated algorithmically are, of course, in a state of sin.''
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