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Australian Politics on G’day World 299.
By Nick Hodge | October 28, 2007
Debating with Cameron Reilly is like fighting an intellectual tornado. Thankfully I was being grilled after a bottle of merlot.
In the instance of this podcast, I am speaking for myself not my employer (which I make clear in the podcast)
In retrospect, the discussion could go on for another 30 minutes: the concept of Geeks for Good is a concept that is rattling around in my head.
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Topics: gdayworld, podcast, politics | 1 Comment »
October 29th, 2007 at 12:06 am
[...] Nick summed up my rant from our recent podcast as “Geeks For Good” (I love how we describes debating with me as “like fighting a intellectual tornado”), and I think that sums it up pretty well - shouldn’t we be using our geek powers for good? Is it just me? Does anyone else out there feel like us geeks have a responsibility to use our understanding of computing and new communication technologies to make the world a better place? Or is it all just about making ourselves richer and buying newer toys? [...]