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Douglas Adams via Donald Clark. This stuff is "alright really".

Donald Clark ends his recent talk at TEDxGlasgow with a nice quote from Douglas Adams's 1999 How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet:

  1. Everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal.
  2. Anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it.
  3. Anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.

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The talk is a nicely condensed and developed version of Donald's "Don't Lecture Me" from the 2010 ALT conference, here presented alongside its associated Twitter-stream:

Disclosure. I (still, but not for much longer) work part time for ALT.

Posted on 15/04/2012 in Lightweight learning, Resources |

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