Carl Honore: Slowing down in a world built for speed

http://www.ted.com MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld talks about his Fab Lab -- a low-cost lab that lets people build things they need using digital and analog tools. It's a simple idea with powerful results.

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[FartheadOgre]

marijuana

[Fatimus]

Ironically enough, he speaks really fast.

[duckstance90]

funny, i'm watching this for my uni exams and reflect on myself having been studying 12 hours a day for the past almost 2 months and doing nothing else apart from that. really smart guy that one.

[NextStarfish]

Great TED talk - I used it in a recent blog post on Slowing Down, on Nextstarfish

[crudhousefull]

He preaches it...but it sure doesn't look like he adheres to it...

[kayuhgerek]

Proverb of arabic origin....the soul travels at the pace of a throtting camel..thats the nature of human soul..to go faster than that is un-natural

[fatstupidwhatever]

TED speakers are limited to 20 minutes. They all talk fast so that they can convey their message within the time limit. That's why he said something like, "Except right now when I can see my time ticking down."

[ProtandimDistributor]

@Fatimus I'd bet he's a visual learner.

[QuantumProphet]

@Fatimus yep, you need to speak fast so you can finish and go on with your slow ways ha

[nouralharirii]

This man has a real message..

[vivaaa1309]

Why do people automatically judge everything and find the faults in something before even thinking things through? Instead of considering the meaning of the speech, you pick on anything that might make you seem superior to those ideas. Most likely because you know it concerns you and don't want others to find anything wrong with your ways, which is what he explicitly pointed out.