Here's my coverage of Al Gore 's appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit . After a brief lecture he sat down with Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle and did some Q&A. It was a lot of what we've come to expect from Al but he touched on how our information ecosystem is not only changing but starting have real effects on things like how we organize to do work. The new human network is reaching a scale where real work, change and progress is within reach.
The transcript is in reverse chrono becasue I'm too lazy to rearrange it but I think it has an interesting effect both in how Al warmed up and how I perceived him.
garykoelling : #web2summit @al_gore : he gets to go now. bye al
garykoelling: #web2summit @al_gore : nat'l unified smart-grid = $400B. sounds like a good investment - roi in 3 years
garykoelling: #web2summit @al_gore : al feels he's not getting it through our thick skulls that we're facing an existential threat
garykoelling: #web2summit @al_gore : al's people want him to go. oreilly denies. al sez ok
Alheri : @jowyang , @garykoelling, @MaryHodder , @olivermarks If any1 of u cn ask a q'n of @al_gore please inquire WHAT IS HE DOING & WHAT SHOULD WE DO
garykoelling: #web2summit @al_gore : we are emerging from the era of tv (soma) into a new info ecosystem
garykoelling: #web2summit @al_gore : new information ecosystems (open) enable great leaps forward in human (cultural) innovations
garykoelling: #web2summit @al_gore : spiders and snakes scare us more than global warming
garykoelling: #web2summit @al_gore : al says such scary things i too now get chills
garykoelling: #web2summit @al_gore : oreilly is getting chills on his back from al
garykoelling: #web2summit @al_gore : oreilly says are we moving fst enough? al says no. we need 100% of energy from renwable in 10 yrs - he sez we canz
garykoelling: #web2summit @al_gore : batelle says need sequel to inconveniet truth - al says ok. will do
garykoelling: #web2summit @al_gore : nxt 40 yrs we'll build as much urban structure as we built in last 9000
garykoelling: #web2summit @al_gore : we need smart grid for renewable energy delivery and also insulate buildings. ya.
He came out looking, sounding kinda scattered and just red in the fast sweating like a ... really sweaty person
garykoelling: #web2summit @al_gore : he dripping sweat. maybe he nervous. feels bad for al. hmmm.
garykoelling: #web2summit @al_gore : hmmm ... why he so sweaty?
Al tired of old media. Aren't we all.garykoelling: #web2summit @al_gore : internets + tv = mass democracy = solving global warming. i think.
garykoelling: #web2summit @al_gore : puppies must have purpose... web. two. zero must. have a purpose too...
garykoelling: #web2summit @al_gore : tv + internet is mass democracy. @current_tv
TV and old big media is kinda part of the problem. I thinks that's right. Are we up for that?garykoelling: #web2summit @al_gore : tv is feudal. internets is democracy. ahhh.
garykoelling: #web2summit @al_gore : internets is... not soma
garykoelling: #web2summit @al_gore : tv is soma
garykoelling: #web2summit @al_gore : new tools are most effective used in new structures
garykoelling: #web2summit @al_gore : time for big bets, time to move fast
garykoelling: #web2summit @al_gore : no internet, no obamadency
garykoelling: #web2summit @al_gore : internet = equalizer
garykoelling: #web2summit al gore on stage
