I Like Tedtalks. They All Talk So Pretty and Dang 'Telligent.

This video is about freedom of information. Pretty much what you would expect from a Tedtalk on the subject. He is a librarian who believes in free information, how novel. (see: "A Tale of Two Film Buffs" in this here blog.) At the end he talked about a project he is involved in that takes a "snapshot" of the log cabin every so often. That shot is then saved and stored in three locations: LA, Amsterdam and Egypt.

There, people can do research about what the log cabin was like. Log Cabin history. To most, the Log Cabin is the future wave, or the ultimate present. However, when you think about what you could learn about people by studying what was in the Log Cabin. It is like any other primary source in its expansiveness. Sociology should particularly benefit.

The study of history itself will probably change drastically. You can actually view how perception of current events, then recent events and then history changes over time more realistically than ever. The population test size, or number of replicates, is increased dramatically when compared to a few diaries and newspaper articles. Shit, someone will probably quantify something and then there can be more graphs in history.


So, not only does the Log Cabin (which we are all stuck in) mean we have to all get over our hang ups. You know, because we all now know everything about each other. It also means we have to get over how we all used to be.