Wednesday 15 October 2014


Yes. Please do suggest any topic and I can give you a reasonable level post with a reasonable level of authority.

Even 20 years back perhaps this was the best compliment ever paid to me. "Pick any subject and Casper Abraham can engage with you about this with reasonable authority."

This was a time before the internet, even TV. How did you get knowledge 20+ years back? As an Aristotle Onasis saying I recall at the time the ONLY thing that is different about you and another person when you meet 5 years later is the books you have read and the people you have met.

Today the internet has changed everything. Why do you need to learn anything by rote. Why do you need to know the metric system versus the imperial system? You can google it? Data, education, Information, knowledge is already out there.

The argument for the digital divide is correct. The whole population of the world needs access to the above in their own language that is fundamental human right that should be written into the UN charter of rights.

But then what is education? What vocational skills are needed? Who will pay for what? What is an employer paying any employee for what today? What about tomorrow? What should people be re-skilled about?

Take any topic not only do I (and many, many others) have a reasonable level of authority about it but today you can google it. You can pictures, add sound-bites, case-studies from Youtube, make an animated story. It does not take much.

Like the mafia don who says "Every man has his price" and the classical "Make me an offer I can't refuse" .... my BOTTOM-LINE is "Suggest a topic I can't refuse."

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