My videographer, who also happens to be my son, Thomas (or Tom, to everyone but his parents), is on his old university stomping ground in Aberystwyth right now, which makes video production a little more complicated.
This morning's is audio only for that reason. It was recorded and sound edited by me, with a thumbnail I created, before Thomas assembled it in Wales.
He also added the drone footage background that he has obviously been taking whilst there. I rather wish we had not added the wavy audio line, they look so good.
He has also been taking still photographs:
And:
Thomas is way ahead of me in editing skills.
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It’s a little known fact that kids born after 1990 have an extra IT gene to do all those computer things. Scientists are hushing it up!
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@Ian Stevenson,
Further to your acute comment, I well remember when I was a Councillor on the L.B. Barnet (1994-98) attending some lunch in “The Mill’ in Mill Hill Broadway with members of the business community, and sitting opposite a young solicitor, who regaled me with the following.
Apparently, she had been trying to achieve something on her computer – probably a PC, as this is over 30 years ago – and she had been interrupted by her not quite/just over 3-year-old (I think s/he was just 3, and I forget whether it was a boy or a girl) who critically appraised what the solicitor mother was trying to do.
The solicitor mother challenged her offspring on this, whereupon offspring did a Tommy Cooper on her “Just like that”, achieving with little more than the flick of a button what the solicitor mother had been trying, and successively failing, to do, despite several attempts
Cue one gobsmacked adult faced with an apparently cyborg offspring! This has been growing a long time, so that there’s now a whole generation of tech-savvy people aged between 3 and 33 (note Richard’s comments on Thomas’s/Tom’s editing skills) before whom old crocks suh as my 80-year-old self can only bow down in wonder.
Andrew
I’m not bad, and have been doing this since 1983…..
Dear Richard,
Of COURSE you’re not bad, and in fact you’re highly skilled at just about whatever you turn your hand to, so no criticism implied. Quite the opposite.
My point was the same as Ian’s, that the younger generation have grown up with such familiarity with IT that it seems quite literally now to be part of their DNA.
However, AI will surely present Generation Alpha with equivalent challenges to those IT and Office Automation presented my generation, potentially calling into question the whole basis, and glue, of society.
IT and OA threatened to make work redundant, but didn’t. AI is undoubtedly a greater threat to the survival of work, and so to the continuity of society as we know it, and we, the human race, will have to work hard to preserve the concept and reality of human worth, something apparently being jettisoned in Trump’s USA.
Agreed. AI creases quite different reactions.
But what intrigued me today was how many late teens I saw working in cafes, clearly revising, handwriting in their tablets.
Thank Tom for his excellent work; and his beautiful photos which take my mind briefly away from the very unquiet world we wake to daily.
I will….