Compost-Fueled Cars: Wouldn't That Be Great? - Onion Talks - Ep. 1

Young media professional Cameron Hughes delivers a compelling argument for his vision of the future--one filled with cars powered by compost. He outlines the idea he came up with in detail, leaving the formalities for other visionaries in other fields. One thing is for certain: he already came up with the idea.

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[dashrirprock]

This guy reminds me of Steve Jobs. Gets all the credit for being a visionary while anonymous engineers actually make all the shit.

[Andy Bass]

This is another case of Truth being more ironic than Fiction.

Rudolf Diesel originally built his "diesel" engine to run off used cooking and household waste oils. Trouble was, the average consumer could not afford to process the used oil. But "Big Oil" saw that the "waste by-products" of gas manufacture could be a suitable and profitable substitute...but they had to control the patent and alter it just enough to make used cooking oil unusable, to create a market, rather than a solution. Thanks!

[signupstuff]

It's hilarious how they took ideas from the "Republican Convention and Rally School of Event Coverage" and deliberately focused on the few black people in the audience to create the illusion of diversity.

[blah369]

OMG. We should, like, totally create this!!

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[ryanonism]

haha 7 months later, i know this is late. but im not quite sure what you mean. what i was trying to say is that they are making fun of the fact that many ted talks talk as if they are introducing a brand new idea that they came up with, when in fact they are old ideas wrapped up differently.

[perfunctoryview]

and you missed the fakeness of his response

[TheSuperappelflap]

Yes, but having an overlord who watches your every move does tend to kind of guarantee the end product works. I'm not saying I like Apple, but Jobs did get that one thing right. Most Android manufacturers could use some tighter quality control.

[ADeviatedSeptum]

So he was an asshole?

[linagee]

What most of the audience doesn't know: 3/4 of the audience were paid to clap during his speech. Its all part of his vision for creating interesting presentations.

[79jdoggydog79]

TED's a scam!

[ARTZY64]

You really need to dig deeper, so as to see why Jobs is seen as a visionary. Jobs looked at existing technology, found it wanting, and said we can do this, but better. He pushed his engineers to go way beyond what they thought they were capable of. He was ruthless... he'd call most designs his engineers came up with 'pieces of shit' until they finally produced what he wanted. He was involved in every last detail of design, even packaging an fonts.

[iuliua]

It's still true.