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Indeed it does, Gordon, and he hits an existential target with great
precision. If I had to suggest an amendment, it would not be in his
depicting technology as an escape mechanism from coming to terms with the
reality of death. That’s good. But there’s another issue with technology:
our failure to push our imaginations to invent the genuinely new that’s
now possible. For example, now that we’re all connected, how can we get
genuine participation into the governing of our corporate life? Since
we’re in a time of technology, there are positive and negative ways to
deal with it. It’s the positive that I missed in his talk – but I agree
that you can’t do it all in 15 minutes! It took RS-1 44 hours! It's a
great talk, and thanks for sending it.<br><br>
John<br><br>
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At 02:04 AM 8/24/2013, Gordon Harper wrote:<br>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size=4>Well --<br><br>
In this case, the poor soul here in Seattle who tried it (no, twas not I)
got roundly booed and some people in his sizable audience tried hard to
shut him down before he was through it.<br><br>
I'd heard about David Guterson's experience delivering the commencement
address this year at his former Seattle high school. Only
recently, however, did a friend send me a copy of it to read
myself. (You may recognize Guterson's name as the author of the
novel, <i>Snow Falling on Cedars</i>.) I found his talk so
deliciously outrageous as a graduation speech that I have to share it.
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Those who were most outraged and expressed it so vocally were in the
parents and family members section; it seems the graduates were at least
polite and attentive during it. Its ending is weak (IMHO), and of
course there was no following Christ lecture the next morning.
Still, if one ever wanted a current rendering of our Friday night event,
this might come close --<br><br>
Gordon<br>
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