Someone decided that the audience of standup comedy overlaps with tech meetup one 100%.
Jokes aside though, it's much broader than that, it's just that the zeitgeist dictates that everyone shifts from work to meta-work: musicians must impress not with their music but the way they make music, researchers must entertain, developers must manage agents, children watch someone else play games instead of playing themselves.
That's yet another increment to the already dizzying level of simulation per Jean Baudrillard.
Jokes aside though, it's much broader than that, it's just that the zeitgeist dictates that everyone shifts from work to meta-work: musicians must impress not with their music but the way they make music, researchers must entertain, developers must manage agents, children watch someone else play games instead of playing themselves.
That's yet another increment to the already dizzying level of simulation per Jean Baudrillard.