Fast Future CEO Rohit Talwar discussing a joint U.K. government/Fast Future study on the top 20 most popular future jobs of 2030
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford
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They’d rather watch web video than anything broadcast. There is nothing Hollywood makes that can hold a candle to Fail Blog for them. Was it the control that the DVR gave them that made them so drawn the ultimate control of the Web? I’m not sure, but what seems clear is that they’re not going back.
Chris Anderson, Editor of Wired Magazine, describes the impact of DVR on his kids in The Decade of DVR
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Jason Lytle — “Rollin’ Home Alone”
A newly discovered artist that I’m really enjoying, found along with many other free downloads at Insound.
Things startups do and don't need
Both a check list for what to do and not do, as well as an early warning signal for when a venture has gone corporate.
What we want from writing is cognitive automaticity, the ability to think as fast as possible, freed as much as can be from the strictures of whichever technology we must use to record our thoughts. This is what typing does for millions. It allows us to go faster, not because we want everything faster in our hyped-up age, but for the opposite reason: We want more time to think.
Ann Trubek, “Handwriting is History”
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Though I cling to the nostalgia of handwriting and still get great satisfaction from seeing elegant, cursive writing, I confess that mine has devolved over the years to the point of embarrassment. I simply don’t write enough to maintain the skill, save the occasional notes scribbled in my Moleskin during meetings or the annual batch of Christmas cards — less legible every year.
But to Trubek’s main point, I’m not sure I agree. Does it truly allow us more time to think, or do we merely rush on to the next thought or task with the time saved by typing?
