(You) Tube and Toast

The English had their toasts (toasters) thanks to electricity. I’ve got my music thanks to Youtube. Each generation tries to outdo the previous one. My daughters would read about Mars, not Moon (I blogged about the excitement of waiting in line for hours to see that rock brought back from the Moon).

Thanks YouTube. The three founders I believe who invented this medium.

It brought together a platform made possible by broadband and algorithm (perhaps you might like to listen to this…..).

Don’t give up on us baby, then If you leave me now, or Adieu Sois Heureuse.

“Lord knows we’ve come this far”

“We went too far to leave it all behind”.

Innovators, don’t give up. Lord knows we have gone this far. We can’t change the way we are.

Push forward.

Science at the forefront of change.

Let’s tweet again.

Politician and musician will follow suit.

As long as scientists and technologists don’t give up.

I know you are more intimate with your sleeping bags than your spouses.

But for generations to come, you have us forever grateful to your “prototypes”.

A VoIP call, a clip we share, a link we paste.

How can this be?

I started out my Telecom career throwing a tin can with string attached across the alley to my neighbor’s house.

Despite the heavy rain, we communicated without shouting.

But it was “wire line” then. It’s wireless now. And not just voice. It’s the apps era.

Here or To Go?

When we grew up in Vietnam, at the height of the war, we stuck our noses into our neighbor’s window to catch a glimpse of Vic Morrow‘s Combat, or Wild Wild West. Large crowd, small screen.

Now I see small kids, watching large screens.

The time, they are a’changin, as Dylan would say.

To close this blog, I want to draw our attention to a very controversial character: Insull, who died in a Paris metro with a ticket in his hand.

Insull would make the Ebbers of the world look like they are from Junior League.

Insull left behind the electricity meters and business model we see today.

It made possible the electrifying of the English toasters and todays’ Youtube.

Insull rode the ups and downs of an entrepreneur life. And he died riding the subway in Paris a homeless and wretched man. But Don’t give up on us Baby.

We have come thus far, can’t we stay the way we are.

We have come too far to leave all this behind.

I enjoyed my toast and tube this morning. Feel like a million-dollars.

Thanks to those guys that went before me. On shoulders of giants we stand, we sing and we soar.

(You)tube and toast. Let’s toast to the spirit of innovation and creativity.

Think of something new and bigger than yourself today. Even the moonlight.

Before the ground claims us all to itself. Vic Morrow has died, in accident, and not in Combat. The  point is, fight for every inch against complacency. Read Ron Paul‘s parting message. Appreciate the liberty we are given to pursue dreams and discovery. I have blogged about the payload. All into it, except for those outliers. Then the world will join you .. the way they are hunting for an I-phone 5. VoIP, data and video, on the go. Beautiful apps, wonderful world we are living in.