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Love the connection to pop culture, although Jefferson Airplane is hardly current. Still a nice comparison

First in a series on understanding podcasts.

Be sure you read this...perhaps even blog about it.

Here you will find the best talks and performances from the TED conference available to the public, for free. More than 200 talks from our archive are now available, with more added each week.

TED Talks Forget about the hybrid auto -- Shai Agassi says it's electric cars or bust if we want to impact emissions. His company, Better Place, has a radical plan to take entire countries oil-free by 2020.

This doomsaying strikes me as silly for two reasons. First, conservative social critics have been blowing the apocalyptic bugle at every large-scale tech-driven social change since Socrates' famous complaint about the memory-destroying properties of that newfangled technology called "writing." (A complaint we remember, not incidentally, because it was written down.) And, more practically, the virtual horse has already left the digital barn. It's too late to just retreat to a quieter time

Another example of disruptions and shifts challenging assessment