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OSCon 2008 Video: An Illustrated History of Failure

Posted August 25th, 2008 by sheeri

Paul Fenwick delivers a side-splitting Wednesday night keynote at OSCon 2008 entitled, "An Illustrated History of Failure". He goes through a history of failures, comparing them to the approximate values of human lives that the failures cost. Learn which technological failure costs the equivalent of 1 lifetime per minute.

Resources used in the talk.

Stream directly online at http://technocation.org/node/606/play or download the 310 Mb .wmv file at http://technocation.org/node/606/download.

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