Apr 17 2009
Go ahead and follow me if you dare…see sidebar. If you are still in the dark—Oprah explains all…plus Ashton Kutcher who is the first person in Twitter history to reach 1 million followers. Craziness.
Note: Took video down because link was broken—apparantly Oprah doesn’t like parts of her show copied and pasted on YouTube and other websites.
Apr 17 2009
I’m sure you’ve heard of Thomas Friedman and his book The World is Flat (currently selling in version 3.0). Here is a lecture he gave at MIT not too long ago about the his groundbreaking work. The entire lecture is quite long—so if you haven’t got the patience to listen to that much talking over vacation week you might just want to skip past the introduction (where Friedman discusses his background and what led him to this topic) and go straight to 5:15 in when he gives a history lesson on how we got to this point. In hindsight it all makes perfect sense…but at the time no one could have predicted that the decisions that were made when you were all babies would have produced this crazy world where we are all connected through the technology that gave us Facebook and YouTube….but also gave the world the ability to not just socialize across continents, but to actually work across continents.
Also, see 33:10 when Friedman discusses China and 36:56 when he examines the concept of the “Green Revolution” which he says is more of a “party” than a “revolution.” What do you think?
