Comments on: Web 2.0 Summit videos: Huffington, Musk, Gore

The Web 2.0 Summit wraps up with conversations about the Internet, politics, renewable energy, and space. Here are videos of onstage talks, courtesy of TechWeb.

[Dalmatian28]

Whao...if you ever wonder how smart guy looks like, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is perfect example! He is not where he is because his parents were reach, he made his fortune and he will probable make a lot more!
Now if we could just find the way to copy him!

[sigzero]

I never knew Web 2.0 was so "liberal". The Huffington Post? Goodness what a terrible rag.

[Harrison912]

I couldn't agree more! As a web site owner for a safety and security web site, I am excited about using Web 2.0 to help market my web site and raise awareness for it's products so I've been following this Summit with some interest. I am, however, a bit disturbed with the policical agenda that's being pushed. It's clearly the Democratic platform.

I agree with the thought that nothing is "off the record" with the internet now so readily available. Adjusting our thinking about privacy is necessary. But, when they say we all need to "define the new center" they're simply saying that because Obama is going to be president, the Republican platform needs to move left and those of us who embrace it's principles will too.

I'm sorry, but that's not going to happen! We will all have to agree to disagree and the new center will need to be tolerance and respect in the truest sense of the words.

[joyousjam1]

I have been a politics junkie for over 50 years; terms like 'liberal' and Democratic/Republican or Labour/Conservative no longer mean what they once meant, and in fact have very little distinctive meaning left. If they are allowed to dominate our thinking into the future we will never cope with the incredible challenges we face - that Al Gore set out. As Obama has insisted the only thing that will work is pragmatism. Does this work? Can this deal with this challenge? If we keep on defining policies and programmes as 'left' centre' 'right' we will just keep on going round in the same fatal circles while our world disintegrates around us. I am 74 years old and I know I will not live long enough to see whether the human race can reverse the appalling damage we have done to our environment, especially in the last 2-3 hundred years, but this week's political events in the USA do give a slightly increased hope that we may start to move seriously in the necessary direction.