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He's not placing the blame on the tools any more than you or I would bemoan the hours 'lost' to Hacker News. It's a longer view, step back. We do need to come
by silentOpen 16y ago
He's not placing the blame on the tools any more than you or I would bemoan the hours 'lost' to Hacker News. It's a longer view, step back.
We do need to come to grips with the social changes that are occurring and the implications of our present and future digital lives. Our man-made environment isn't the problem, it's our evolutionary memory combined with the phenomenal acceleration of information technology.
- hammerdr 16y agoI disagree because of this one line in his speech: "none of which I know how to work" which reads like the classic politician's way of distancing him- or herself from the technology (and have heard from technophobic politicians--http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/11/mccain-admits-he-doesnt-k_n_106478.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/11/mccain-admits-he-do...). Whether its true or not isn't really the point (do we seriously believe Obama wouldn't know what to do with a iPad, iPhone or iPod?), the point is that it was in his speech. I could be completely off base here (and I surely hope that I am!), but this is a decidedly late 20th century speech in my interpretation.
- brown9-2 16y agoThe President knows how to use an iPod and regularly uses a Blackberry. He is certainly not a technophobe, you are misreading everything he says if you believe this. I think he is just being innocently self-deprecating.
- tokipin 16y agoyes, it is what we would refer to as "humor"
- ErrantX 16y agoThe article deliberately highlights that as an aside - and none of the transcripts have it in them (that I can find). I can't find a video that covers the portion of the speech but it could well be a joke - or a bit of irony. It reads that way.