Saturday, September 23, 2017

Saturday night disruption fever - energy and transport changes - does the mannie in this video nail it?

We go off topic a bit here but there are big changes on the way, bulk-data and technology will see that and a lot of certainties around employment and in fact entire professions may change beyond recognition or vanish and new ones emerge. So what could it all mean for Nairn, will the opportunities and dangers from change be greater here in Nairn? And if change is coming are there ways we in Nairn can adapt without having to go through the gatekeepers of the likes of the centralist high heid yins in Inverness? Will we remain virutally powerless in determining our community's future or will Scottish Government "community empowerment" legislation ever filter down into mechanisms that will allow this caring community's creativity and compassion to flower (providing we can all sing off the same hymn sheet of course once we know what we want beyond freedom from Highland Council - Saor Inbhir Narrann!) :-)

This video was recommended to us by one of our regular readers a few days ago. There can be no doubt that technology is bring many changes to the way we live. The guy in this video makes his case around economics - if it is cheaper to do things a different way then there will be change - big changes, in fact a "disruption" on the scale of moving from horses to the internal combustion engine.

Get a cuppa or a dram and give this vid a go... One of our regular readers said he thought it mind-blowing...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wow! I finally got round to watching that and I'm glad I did. I wish I had some money to invest - there are (potentially) fortunes to be made by getting in quick! However, in terms of self-driving cars, I wonder if the pleasure of driving was not really taken into account. Some of us genuinely enjoy it, and may not consider it purely from an economic sense point of view. A fascinating talk though. Thanks for the link.