Kidding.
The media part of the Web Summit in the RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin today.
From top: Eric Lassard, 11, from Clondalkin, Dublin of ericlassard.com; founder and CEO of Storyful, Mark ‘Moneybags’ Little; Mark with Europe Editor of TIME, Matt McAllester and head of news production at Vice News, Kevin Sutcliffe; Contributing Editor of Wired, Spencer Reiss; and BBC presenter and producer Anne-Marie Tomchak.
They may have lost our invite.
Earlier: The Signal of Shame
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Bit of a coup getting Julian Assange.
Benedict Cumberbatch is a better Julian Assange than Julian Assange. Watch the fifth estate and tell me I am wrong!
I’m dying to see that Alan Turing movie.
An 11 year old with a self-help and motivational speaking bit.
The world has actually gone mental.
There really is no way back.
How the fupp do I raise a kid in this?
Plug out everything in your house. Home school him/her. Even still, they’ll be warped by your own neuroses. At least with the world being a mental place you get to blame bad parenting on teh internet.
Leonard Cohen has had a bit of work done.
“Be like the boy! Be like the boy!”
I was listening to someone during the week about their 8 year learning python programming. FFS.
Being an 8 year old who can code is not the same as being an 11 year old aspiring Tony Robbins.
We were made listen to Tony Robbins in a team meeting in work one time.
Amazing stuff..
I never imagined any one person had that amount of horsesh*t in them.
Yes, I was doing bits of coding as a nipper (in BASIC because I’m geriatric) because it was fun and I could make my own crap games. That’s worlds away from being an infant motivational speaker, which I suspect is not fun for anyone except perhaps his pushy parents.
There’s something telling in regards to the position of white men in our kind of society that the full, and gloriously comical, gamut of age/experience is represented from that particular niche.
I like the White Man in the last pictures highlights.
Pretty sure that is a woman.
I hope that kid a least dip a tap dance or someshit.
Louis Walsh has just offered him a contract. Based on that picture alone.
He better be announcing the sequel to Bugsy Malone.
de little b0ll1x
I can’t believe this kid is speaking at the web summit. His mother was on a forum that I was on a couple of years ago and she was aggressive and relentless in her marketing of him. She was warned several times that she was breaching the T&C of the forum in her marketing of her son (his book, his talks, his ‘game’ ) and she was eventually removed. The creepy thing was she was always posting as ‘Eric Lassard – The Game Changer’, not as herself. She would post videos of him giving ‘motivational talks’ that were clearly scripted by an adult. It looked and felt like exploitation of her kid. But I guess the web summit organisers thought otherwise. This is the kind of stuff we were exposed to on the forum. We didn’t have to watch it, but I did give it a chance in the very beginning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oETQyHlW4D8
Something seriously wrong with an 11 year old professional motivational speaker and even wronger with anyone who would actually listen to him.
I heard him on the radio a while ago and thought he was ludicrous. Yet another ‘thing’ that made me feel out of step with the world.
he might have a bit of cash to spend on the therapy though, so there’s that.
The f**k you just show me?
I can safely predict that that kid will have a very unhappy life.
And his parents will have blown all the money by then, and probably have gone through a very acrimonious divorce (if there hasn’t already been).
At least Macaulay Culkin has his filums to look back on.
Oh dear lord…
Tell me how to live my life, 11 year old kid, here, take my money!!!
For more info on Eric
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Lassard
Not a beard in sight.
Ok…the kid is excused. And the BBC presenter lady.
But honestly? No facial hair on any of that panel? At a web summit?
Summit wrong there..
(I’ll get my coat)
Beard is well over. Go into 3FE if you want confirmation.
Unless you wear the beard post-ironically, obvs.
So hard to find that sweet spot.
That’s it!
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Can’t help but think we’ll look back at all this “tech” hysteria and ehhh laugh…
The fastest broadband connection I can get in my house is 3.5 down and 0.30 up.
Is that basically dial up??
Wait…what?