Obama iPad Diss
Obama iPad Diss
A Threat To Our Democracy
Kevin A. Sensenig | July 13, 2014
Here Obama talks about the iPod and the iPad. Where information becomes a distraction.
YouTube - The White House
Video — President Obama Speaks At Hampton University, in May, 2010
Start at 7m05s...
[The Civil War. The close of WWII. The Cold War.]
“So education is what has always allowed us to meet the challenges of a changing world, and Hampton that has never been more true than it is today.” — President Obama.
[Economy still rebounding from the worst crisis since the Great Depression. Two wars.]
“Meanwhile you’re coming of an age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don’t always rank that high on the truth meter.” — President Obama.
“With iPods and iPads and xBoxes and Playstations — none of which I know how to work — information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation. So all of this is not only putting pressure on you [the student audience], it’s putting new pressure on our country, and on our democracy.” — President Obama.
“Class of 2010 this is a period of breathtaking change, like few others in our history. We can’t stop these changes. But we can channel them. We can shape them. We can adapt to them. And education is what can allow us to do so.” — President Obama.
End task. 9m01s.
Of course, President Obama says some other things in the rest of the speech, I guess one could study, maybe, with diligence and the arc of grace and gratitude itself.