“everyone else is doing it also, so it doesn't even occur to us that it's not okay”
Yeah, everyone smoked in previous generations. My grandpa and grandma smoked. Hmmm, I wonder why they told me not to do it?
Let's get Michael Bloomberg to follow up on his soda ban with an indoor sitting ban. You BETTER stand at restaurants, theaters and your 6 hour cross-country flights.
Also, the car wrecks and deaths don't even matter.
You know how people sheepnessly upgrade their iPhones x to iPhones x+1 right?
So as soon as car companies take this speaker's advice of “adding more and more robots into the mix”, the sooner they can get consumers on the conveyor belt of planned obsolescence releasing incremental upgrades and updates.
“Car accidents are the leading cause of death in people ages 16 to 19 in the United States”
Try to think ahead. These people who didn't die would have kids and there would be even more cars, more carbon footprint, more self interests, more road congestion.
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This talk is so similar to Ed Cooke's TEDxObserver Talk from 2 years ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwun31AglyY
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“everyone else is doing it also, so it doesn't even occur to us that it's not okay”
Yeah, everyone smoked in previous generations. My grandpa and grandma smoked. Hmmm, I wonder why they told me not to do it?
Let's get Michael Bloomberg to follow up on his soda ban with an indoor sitting ban. You BETTER stand at restaurants, theaters and your 6 hour cross-country flights.
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“sitting has become the smoking of our generation”
OMG! Second-hand sitting is killing our children!!
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Also, the car wrecks and deaths don't even matter.
You know how people sheepnessly upgrade their iPhones x to iPhones x+1 right?
So as soon as car companies take this speaker's advice of “adding more and more robots into the mix”, the sooner they can get consumers on the conveyor belt of planned obsolescence releasing incremental upgrades and updates.
Profit! Profit! Profit!
A reply on Talk: Jennifer Healey: If cars could talk, accidents might be avoidable
Nope.
“Car accidents are the leading cause of death in people ages 16 to 19 in the United States”
Try to think ahead. These people who didn't die would have kids and there would be even more cars, more carbon footprint, more self interests, more road congestion.
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How can car companies and oil companies not LOVE this talk?!
Safer drivers == MOAR CUSTOMERS !!
(enjoy your road congestion)