Aston Martin Rust Oration

The Aston Martin is a wonderful machine, made up of lots and lots and lots of little pieces - all of which have to go back together in a particular order. Get one piece wrong - and the whole thing could fall apart.

A bit like language - one wrong word, one wrong intonation, one wrong hand gesture or facial expression, one wrong cultural assumption, and the whole meaning can be misconstrued.

For the past few days I have been analysing how people communicate in the electonic medium. Emails are the worst - written in haste and sent without rereading or checking the recipients. (I have been just as guilty as anyone else on this score)

Blogs too can be a powerful tool for communication, or mis-communication. I came across this fascinating piece of video on the Guido Faulkes blogsite. Although it is a bit of marketing it is both entertaining and thought provoking.

 http://guynewstv.blogspot.com/2007/02/web-20-in-5-minutes.html

Just how do we define personal identity, privacy, intellectual ownership, indeed thought itself.

Thank God for the simplicity of machines, and Aston Martins in particular!

 

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