Thinking about changing the world?
A week in which: Dan Pink, Al Gore’s former chief speechwriter, told Tim Ferriss…
“Ultimately speeches are about actions. The only reason to give a speech is to change the world. That’s a high bar. But that’s what we should aspire to when audiences give us this privilege.”
…TED uploaded a video of Dan’s old boss putting that philosophy into practice…
…and Tom Lehrer, turning 80, reminded us how quickly time can pass while you are thinking about change:
I not robot…
Thanks to Mathew Ingram and David Weinberger, I have just marvelled at these two videos in quick succession, and found myself feeling singuarly unsettled:
Big Dog walking:
Lego robot solves Rubik’s cube:
UPDATE: One month on, and thanks to Marc Andreessen, the feeling isn’t going away:
Robot reassembles itself after being kicked apart:
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