Google's Birthday Marks 11 Years of Change

You are the best, I'm listening to it now. One of the initial points he makes about the fact of creating things to create real sustainable growth, versus shuffling things to skim a fast buck in passing it on. It was very heartening to hear him say we'd crossed the divide where news sourcing is predominately peer to peer. Data verification? This is fabulous, thank you..be beck when its over. :~)

What a brilliant mind, too bad he's not in charge of Congressional transparency!

He mourns what's happened to them, but then goes on to say their children will find employment in the future. That does nothing for those who are struggling right now. I'd hoped there was some idea of what to do about that.

With all his insight, he's still a wealthy, older white male with an executive vantage point. I think that tech types in general and corporate sorts in particular don't grasp a certain type of community element that will never be virtually obvious. I see a lot of the lost jobs resolving in a barn raising spirit that allows the underemployed areas to find specialties or crafts and local services to replace the corporate manufacturing that won't come back.

They will need to look for ways to capture more of the income that goes to hospital and school programs run by agribusiness and recreate the network that sustained the pioneers with the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker all working to have a sustainable place among the neighborhood where the empty WalMart and factories are today and a Yooper Brewery might give a better option on the weekend than Budweiser.

Thanks for the reminder about the Way Back Machine. It's a fantastic resource even for those of us who entered the 1990's more familiar with card readers than networks!

No one carding the aging to obsolescence machine isn't so bad, but hanging chads are the pits!! :~)