Have you got a coupla minutes?
My kid is 12 and he loves his technology. I don’t mean that he just likes it a lot … he loves it. I like technology too. I’m using it now. But I also love books. I am auto didactic. No not that. I have always read a lot. As a kid I just tore up history books (those illustrated ones) and began reading classics via the Classic Comics Illustrated range which introduced me to Turgenev and Victor Hugo. I knew about myths and legends from Norse to Roman and later on I discovered my mother’s books. It took me a week to get over the first time I opened The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir and Henry Miller … well he was amazing for a kid who watched the Beverly Hillbillies.
I am not anti technology because I think it’s the greatest tool of creativity and self expression since that hungarian Bic invented the biro but I’m afraid that it’s got some limitations too.
My kid showed me this video and I think it sums things up quite well and has repercussions for us all business-wise or not:
Doh! I watched it! The problem with that vid is that the people who need to watch it will never watch it, and the people who watch it already know all that stuff. It’s a conundrum, or a paradox, or an enigma, perplexity….maybe irony? Yeah irony!
Hi Steve, that was one of Max’s first words > paradox along with Jalapeno and rennaissance. somehow they all fit.