Wednesday, September 11, 2013

9/11

Here is a video that Gerry recommended a few weeks ago. I promised to post it today. The video commemorates the Manhattan Boat Lift, a little known event on 9/11. The video was made two years ago on the tenth anniversary.  I did not see it then and I thank Gerry for sharing it.

BOATLIFT, An Untold Tale of 9/11 Resilience

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Robo-sourcing

The news of the day was Syria and we did get to it, but only after a surprisingly long discussion the loss of jobs to automation. Tim brought up the topic and referenced a 60 minutes story aired yesterday. We have discussed this topic before; here is an earlier blog featuring a TED talk given by Andre McAfee, who is also in the 60 Minutes story.

It is to the credit of the group that we paid attention to a story that will have a longer impact than yet another war in the Middle East. And we were talking about before the 60 Minutes.