Spike, the Genius: Who He Is

So what we have is a genius: Spike.

Spike has come up with 50% of everything we are going to be doing in the future - and advised us on another 25% of that future. He knows about those things and we don't.

It scare the hell out of us, of course. (Well, maybe not The Cube, since I don't know beans about most technical things, so I long ago gave up being threatened by others' knowledge.) It scares the hell out of the Royal "Us" because:

(a) All of the techno-bosses like to think that they are godlike in their omniscience, and

(b) Spike is a consultant. He don't work for The Man directly. He no be bullied, ordered about, told what to do.

Spike, he just think and invent and lay foundation for patents and products that look to the future.

He also scares the hell out of the Royal Us because there is no PROFIT in the future just yet. We is bottom-lining it today, but paying for tomorrow with no end in sight.

Oh, and Spike is crazy. Think artist in garret drinking absinthe and dreaming surreal dreams that he accurately depicts in his paintings: these are Spike's inventions. This is Spike. (Minus the absinthe: his surrealism is entirely inner-born).

In the techno-world of plodding engineers and verbally-dexterous/talent-challenged management, Spike doesn't fit in to the daily grind. Hence his consultancy.