One of my favorite podcasts is IT Conversations. I subscribe to the ‘everything’ feed, and man is it diverse! If you want to hear about things you never knew you never knew, check them out. I can’t believe it’s free. Actually, they need donations, so if you’re wealthier than me, consider chipping in. And give to Wikipedia while you’re at it. Anyway, I heard a fantastic podcast unlike any other episode today.
Normally, all the tech people who get interviewed on ITC are pretty liberal. I haven’t really come across any political shows, but there is the general, underlying assumption that you too hate the President and are embarassed to be an America. But today, I heard George Gilder’s politically charged interview on the ‘Larrys World’ section of ITC. He talked about China not being communist any more and about energy infrastructure in America. I could tell the interviewer was rubbed a little the wrong way with so much conservativism. The part that really gave me pause, however, was when they spoke of the media and entertainment.
Two things must happen to reform our videocracy, accord to George Gilder. First, true broadband connectivity must become highly distributed so as to facilitate easy downloading of video. Such access is commonplace in Japan and Korea. Second, the purveyors and peddlers of television and video must wake up to what consumers really want. Mr. Gilder quotes Chris Anderson’s statistic: 60 percent of Amazon’s book sales are from items outside the top 150,000. People buy the book they want, not what the publisher is pushing. When TV and video get to this point, the fear-mongering, liberal media elite will find themselves out of the street!
My summary is highly colored by my own opinion, so be sure to download the original show yourself. Enjoy!
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