No one's trying to say Tom came up with this idea ex nihilo. In fact, the rejoinder Tom often gives when asked how much influence he has is 'Is it true?'. As a grand strategist, as a futurist, is he seeing the trends right? First it's impossible, then more people start to come to the same conclusions (plenty independently), then it's de rigeur.

All of that to say, MountainRunner also makes the connection between the Civilian Reserve Corps and the SysAdmin.

And, maybe best of all, he's got this great .png imge that looks like it's from the DVD! ;-)