Re: OT DID YOU KNOW? A fascinating and eye opening video aboutchanges in the digital media age

[Richard Atkinson <thetoyroom@charter.net>]

Good thoughts, Jeff.

One of our local radio talk show idiots, Adam Corolla, talks off and on
about how our school paradigm has let us down, in that we teach Algebra and
Trigonometry and such, which few of us will ever use in the future, and we
make kids run laps and do biology dissections and such.  But we fail to
teach things like "How to splint a broken leg in an emergency" or "how to
stop someone from bleeding to death" and other basic life preserving 
skills.

I agree.  If we drilled some emergency basics into humanity at that age, as
much as we got the Reading/Writing/Arithmetic, we'd all have a few more
tricks in our pocket that would come in handy in a pinch.

Now we just need a major sunflare to take out all of our 
magnetic/electronic
driven wonders, and the Tower of Babel all comes down.

I'm gonna go kiss my wife and snuggle my cats.  Fortunately, I don't need
any additional education or a software upgrade to make that happen.

Just my 2 cents.
Rich




On 1/27/09 6:01 AM, "Jeff Duke" <jeff_d@embarqmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting morning! I woke up and noticed that it was dark. I mean no
> light. I rolled over and there was no digital clock glowing at me. Then I
> noticed no leds from various devices around the room. funny how since 
>leds
> came in everything has a light for on and a light for off. I thought "no
> power!" I got up and sure enough it was quiet and dark. I found my
> flashlight and made my way to the fridge to get a bottle of water. 
>Grabbed
> my watch: 6:45 AM. I opened the door and walked to the street, no lights 
>and
> quiet everywhere..A neighbor stuck her head out and said it had been out 
>for
> 4 hours. I reasoned that everyone else had already called the power co. 
>so I
> got out my acoustic and ebow to play for awhile on the porch. I 
>reflected on
> just how tenuous our hold on civilization could be. How long with out 
>power
> before it got serious. No technology except batteries while they lasted.
> After 30 min. I heard sounds. I heard my fridge compressor. Some happy
> exclamations from the neighbors.
> I went in and cranked up the computer. Checked my email and read Ricks
> posting. Talk about paradigm shifts! I have decided to brush up on some
> basics like how to light a fire by rubbing two sticks together. You never
> know!
> 
> peace, Jeff
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick Walker" <looppool@cruzio.com>
> To: "LOOPERS DELIGHT (posting)" <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 5:25 AM
> Subject: OT DID YOU KNOW? A fascinating and eye opening video about 
>changes
> in the digital media age
> 
> 
>> We've been talking a lot about new paradigms of selling ourselves as
>> artists.
>> 
>> This is a video that Sony presented at their executive conference this
>> year
>> that I thought everyone should see.     The digital world and our place
>> in it  is changing much faster
>> than we know.
>> *
>> 
>> *
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY
>> 
> 
> 
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