It's not a direct transcription -- speech (especially public speech) is highly redundant. Good speakers drive their point home several times in a given spiel. I just distilled out each little bit into one graf and typed it, using key phrases. But I do type 60wpm+.

Somewhere, there's a video-file of the talk I gave tonight, just before the awards-ceremony. It was a nice capstone to Howard's, and if I can dig out the link, I'll post it.

Rheingold's larynx has a serial port connector (19,200 N81) that provides a near simultaneous speech-to-text stream.

This is great. How were you able to transcribe it so fast? Are you one of those speed typists?

Here's the permalink: http://boingboing.net/2002_06_01_archive.html#85140879

He wore a nice fire-engine-red sportscoat

Great talk. The kind of radical correction of "common knowledge" that needs much wider distribution.

Cory, will this be a sort of permanent link? I'd like to spread it around.

Nice review of his talk, but you didn't say what he wore. If Howard didn't wear one of his fabulously wild jackets, I'll be very disappointed.

I stumbled on this a couple of months ago, via another boingboing discussion:
http://faculty.washington.edu/wcalvin/LEM/

Its all about the early evolution of language - but relevant here is the discussion of altruism in human evolution. Mathematically, altruism doesn't work, long term, because cheaters eventually swamp the honest participants. BUT, during doughts or other hardship, hominids may have temporarily broken up into smaller groups, and those groups practicing altruism would have faired better. Language itself, according to these guys, could have been a necessary tool to police cheaters. Check it out.

"The computer industry did not create the personal computer; it was created by people in their 20s who wanted a tool of their own. The Internet was created for the most part by people in their 20s, not the phone company. They didn't know what the tool was for, but they knew that other people would invent uses -- they built the Internet without a central control, to enable innovation."

This is not a new development.

Every single one of the big US industries, from fast food to oil and every single quintessal US artforms, from rock to comics to jazz to science fiction was started by young outsiders. In fact, I think it's possible to generalise this to every industry and every artform.