And it's much too intrusive to ask that. Because they shored up the public infrastructure at that time with museums, and universities, and parks, and all the rest.
We're sitting in Chelsea and Mayfair in London. We sit in Shoreditch and Notting Hill, and everything looks fantastic. I said, you want to travel 50 miles north out of London and ask the question again?
like an unlikely motorcycle rider you know not that the typical person you would expect she's kind of you know a little old lady initially gray hair and she kind of shored and just seemed like not the kind of big burly motorcycle rider and I went up to her and I said ma'am can I ask you a question she said sure and I said do you ride a
dinner and even little kids get a small glass of wine. years. They've really shored up quite a bit over just in the last three or four years starting with the distillers.
actually has spoken at one of our Personal Democracy Forum conferences. Um, so we have video. Um, and you know we actually have done a series of WikiLeaks-related events over the last few months, so we actually have shored video of people like Jeff Jarvis and so on, you know, saying really smart things, that if you're like really into the subject, having that video right there might make it a richer reading experience for you or a teaching experience.
A startup CEO in London or New York makes about $50,000. So if you're used to living in your cool flat in Shoreditch and you launch your startup, you may have to move-- I don't know, to Manchester or something, very far away to be able to afford your rent.
And I remember her walking me through how the sun came up to the sky. I'm in this Nomadic Garden, the Nomadic Garden in Shoreditch in London.
Ohio, who grew up while Youngstown, this great old steel city, lost its mills, lost its jobs, lost itself really. And, yet, she somehow raised three kids on their own because you had one of the last good blue collar jobs until it was off-shored in a bankruptcy that managed to gut the company while making a few people very wealthy.
Scared the heck out of me. Because as many of you know, Friedman describes a world where increasingly any knowledge, I'm sorry, any work that can be routinized is very rapidly be off shored or automated. And I talked with him recently.
Well, if he can do it, so can I. And it would have given me a lot of confidence. So you could argue that it's relatively easy for us, working at Google, living in San Francisco or Shoreditch.
Because you've got Sherlock Holmes, who's whatever he's doing, smoking his pipe, he's looking out the window of Baker Street, and he sees this guy walking towards his door. And he says to Watson, ah, Watson, clearly this is a baker from Shoreditch whose been out of work for exactly nine months.
Because you've got Sherlock Holmes, who's whatever he's doing, smoking his pipe, he's looking out the window of Baker Street, and he sees this guy walking towards his door. And sure enough, the guy shows up in the living room, and he says he's a baker from Shoreditch whose been out of