I dunno, out of boredom I was curious who invented the term "Connect the dots" in our culture.
I googles "Who first said Connect the dots" and the google gemini came up with Steve Jobs?
I thought huh? So I put the question in ChatGpt and same....the phrase "connect the dots" and sure enough the answer was Steve Jobs in 2005, the founder of Apple, first said "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards" in his historically famous 2005 commencement address at Stanford University.
So I was like...no way! he couldn't have coined the term. So after one hour of searching (which at first I thought was futile) I came across this weird reference where an entrepreneur named Dr George Clyde Fraser used the term at an expo in 1993 which was uploaded to youtube. Fraser said “There is no power in disconnection. When we connect, we prevent interlopers from coming into our communities and taking and destroying at will. We must connect the dots, that must be our movement in the 21st century.
And there's a video of him connecting dots to illustrate his point
https://ohioblackexpo.com/blog/did-you- ... t-the-dots
So what does this mean?
a. Is ChatGPt and google not accurate
b. Is Steve Jobs taking credit for something catchy that he watched (coincidentally Youtube started on 14 Feb 2005 and the video of George Fraser was recorded in 1993 and could have been uploaded after Feb 14 in 2005 and then Steve Jobs could have accessed it before her gave his now historically famous commencement address at Sanford University on June 12 2005)
c. all of the above or
d. am I spending too much of my time on the internet doing frivolous things?
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