Saturday, June 5, 2010

Imagine Being Blindsided By Tar Balls In The 1940s.


Imagine sitting on the beach in the 1940s, not knowing if tar balls from an oil spill are 50 or 5,000 miles away.

Imagine no YouTube page where you can log on for status updates.

No website tapping your mind for crowdsourcing solutions.

No text messages urging you to read grim, what-if computer models.

Imagine being blindsided by a seagull floating toward you, mired in oil - lungs filled with it, eyes shut by it.

No different than today.

Even with our worshipped social media tools of 2010, we are still blindsided, and with a lot less reasons to explain why.


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