Rayne does TED

[marsden_online]

Last week the Least I Could Do webcomic (N always SFW) ran a series of strips which had one of their main characters (Rayne) doing a TED talk. (TED.com - Ideas worth sharing)

It starts with a premise that "the world we live in is driven by a sense of fear and a sense of entitlement"

5 strips, starting here
Follow-up blog post by the author of the strip

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As a tangent, last week in the NZHerald Anthony* Doesburg asked Faster, wider bandwidth - but what will we do with it? He didn't answer the question directly, but I'd like to suggest that even getting the majority of the country on the same sort of speed I'm accustomed to (4Mb/s) would open up access to things like the TED talks. (OK, also need much cheaper data rates because y'know, streaming video glug glug glug).

*the fact that no-one at the herald has bothered correcting the blatant typo in his name in the headline irritates me.

Gosh, do I have a sense of entitlement about fast, cheap broadband? Probably, but I believe the benefits are so great that it need to be designated a public good* like electricity and in earlier years the telephone.

*I know I'm not using the proper economic definition here, but I can't recall the correct term. Nationalised good?

Comments

Re: Slightly tangental

[adrexia.livejournal.com]

The world changes, and not all of it is for the best. Generally though, new jobs appear to take the place of the old.

I like self check-outs. Grocery shopping isn't really something I do for social interaction, so what little it provides isn't missed. Saying that though, I do start conversations with checkout workers and know the manager of my corner store by his first name.

Re: Slightly tangental

[jomas-45.livejournal.com]

However, the new jobs don't always get taken by those who have lost their jobs. If you put a machine in to do a job, you have one person to monitor it and a few others and one person to fix them. The monitor may be the same person, but it's likely that the fixer isn't!

Re: Slightly tangental

[adrexia.livejournal.com]

No. Sometimes the people that lose their jobs are never gainfully employed again.