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Gel speaker update: Erin McKean, David Bodanis
Erin McKean '06 quoted in a Dec. 12 AdWeek piece:
"Podcast" has been chosen word of the year by the editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary. "Podcast was considered for inclusion last year, but we found that not enough people were using it, or were even familiar with the concept," said Erin McKean, dictionary editor in chief. "This year it's a completely different story. The word has caught up with the rest of the iPod phenomenon..."
And David Bodanis '04 answers this year's Edge question, "what is your dangerous idea?" with this provocative statement:
I wonder sometimes if the hyper-Islamicist critique of the West as a decadent force that is already on a downhill course might be true... What has transformed is the possibility of quick change. It's a lot, lot harder than it was before. Patents for vague, general ideas are much easier to get than they were before, which slows down the introduction of new technology...
