Apple profiles Keynote use in 'An Inconvenient Truth'

To the point! ( Im 12) and even I know that in the last 50 years cars have reached numbers great enogh to cause a change and add to that industry that could care less about gloabal death and you have the start of a change for the planet and not a natural one!! I know we have had an ice age in the past but is that really an issue now? what we have is the start of the end of US! AS a people on this little planet. You talk about chicken little but another bird comes to mind and this bird sticks its head in the sand!! Ive found that people are in whole kinda stupid and just dont want to here bad news and thats why everyone in slaming AL Gore ! So what if he works for or with Apple ? And so what if they payed for the movie? Watch the news and really open your eyes and think about how stupid we are as a people !! we are all screwed and that is the bad news I have for you. What we would have to give up and do without overrides the fact that the things that make our lives easy and better in the here and now will kill our tiny planet and all that live on it. If you really think that all the sins we have commited against our mother earth will just go away or we wont have to pay a price for them your truely a fool and it may take longer then 10 years but less then 50 but one thing is very clear to this 12 year old and that is life will change for us all and it will not be very comfortable in the future. So enjoy your cars and factorys ( that pay someone to get away with what they crap out in our air) and while your at it cut all the remaining trees down and pump your waste into our drinking water and oceans and put your head in the sand and say there has always been hot summers for 6 months at one time or another. your a fool!!!!!!!!!!

Whether you choose to acknowledge or not, virtually everyone in the world views any kind of computer-assisted presentation as a "powerpoint" presentation. The same way that coke refers to virtually any softdrink or xerox refers to duplicating, or kleenex...well you get the idea. Apples are a tiny amount of the computing environment. That is reality...

Deja Vu...
Anyone remember "Knowledge Navigator"? It was a short mocked up video demo of where Macs were heading commissioned by John Scully (circa late '80's?) The example used to demo the very whizzy talking-laptop-of-the-future was that of projecting the deforestation of the Amazon jungle into the future. I'd love to know how that projection matched reality.

I just now saw "Truth" - it's a natural extension of "Knowledge Navigator" - with the product promotion and the 'eco-example' having done a gestalt figure/ground shift in the intervening years.
Anyone have a copy of "KN" they could digitize and send me? Been looking for it for years...
Oh, and if you haven't already, stop reading about "Inconvenient Truth and just go see it. Personally, I found it fascinating and, given the topic, surprisingly upbeat.

Totie, get some perspective. Nixon was cheated out of the 1960 election due to the thousands of fake votes cast thanks to the voting machines in Chicago. Did he challenge the election process? No, because he did not want to give the Soviets an excuse to badmouth American democracy and score a cheap PR victory in the world press. Can you say the same thing about Gore in 2000? Who was the bigger man patriotically? Here, I'll put it into a mathematical concept for you:

Nixon > Gore

Nixon opened up China. Gore hunted Manbearpig. Nixon ordered the Watergate break-in over national security issues. Gore accepted campaign contributions while on government property.

Nixon was legitimately cheated out of the 1960 election thanks to illegal ballots cast and chose not to force a vote in the House of Representatives over it.

Gore lost the 2000 election because a moron - who was of the Democratic Party and not a Republican as some claimed - designed the stupid "Butterfly" ballot which led to thousands of retirees in Florida mistakenly voting for Pat Buchanan (Nixon's former speechwriter) instead of Gore. Gore also lost the election because despite 50 years of controlling both branches of Congress, the Democratic Party did not try to abolish the Electoral College by amending the Constitution. It only paid lipservice to such a move in 1976 but later forgot about it and then The Hillary made issue about it again in 2000 for personal gain but quickly dropped the subject once inside the Senate. Funny how that works.

And if Gore deserves a place on Apple's board of directors, should not Rush Limbaugh also have a seat? He's a big Mac maniac, after all. And I'm no Rush fan...that goes for the Canadian band too.

Quick, let's ask Manbearpig what computer platform he uses! I bet its a TRS-80 or a Mattel Aquarius.

I hadn't realized that keynote worked so well. Other than that, the most amazing thing that you'll walk away from this movie with is the fact that even after all of that data (evidence), people still walk away skeptical. Seems like the sky is really going to have to fall hard before people take this seriously.

Ahhh, what a great time to be alive. We're seeing it all. From Vietnam and Watergate to Iraq and Abu Girab. We've seen a president steal the white house with help from the Supreme Court, lie to everyone to invade Iraq, neglect the US citizens in the worst natural disaster in US history, take away as much freedom as possible...
We've seen Mark Macguire break the single season home run record and Barry Bonds break Babe Ruths record. Speaking of Ruth, we've also seen the Red Sox break the curse of the bambino. If only Lance Armstrong were to go for one more...
And yes, now we can even run windows on a Mac for cryin out loud...
....What was the question? Is Steve Jobs really running for president in 08?

Re: Keynote

I was the video tech at one of Gore's Climate Change presentations some months ago, and encountered a bug which made for a bumpy start to the speech.

Gore had me pull his machine from the lectern for some last minute tweaks after the house was open, and when I went to reconnect it, I was unable to test that the connection was re-established to the external video projectors.

When Gore went to his first slide and nothing showed up on the screens, I had to come out and poke at the machine. I hit escape to drop out of presentation mode, but nothing would cause the machine to recognize the external VGA connection until a different slide was clicked on. Weird! It took a minute to discover this problem, during which Gore had to punt, including responding to comments from the house. Not having had a lot of experience working with Keynote (although having taught classes in PowerPoint to execs at Discovery Channel), I had no forewarning of this particular issue.

The presentation was great, and Gore was very dynamic and effective as a speaker. But technology that should have behaved smoothly became an unnecessary and unappreciated distraction.

CRH - Have you thought that maybe having people cry sky is falling has helped in solving/slowing down environmental problems? If some one yells for you to move out of the way of a car speeding through a red light, after having you life saved, would you then turn around call that person chicken little?

Inconvenient Truth is not propaganda...ManBearPig really does exist!

Hmm, it looks as though Al is pondering the fate of his still missing White House emails, that is indeed an inconvenient truth.