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Escape from IDEO on Vimeo.

This video is featured on Ideo's homepage, so I just thought I would talk a little about it.

More like RANT a little bit about it! HAHAHAHAHA!

Oh, how I love my rants.

I think this presents a very interesting solution to a potential energy shortage in a world without fossil fuels. I find it odd though, that the creators of this little ditty of a motion comic choose to forgo the obvious solution to this problem:

Hamsters running on wheels.

I mean, it's like, "Duh!" Those little bastards can book! Mad energy be created, yo.

All joking aside, this is a pretty fascinating take on a human-centered, electric-powered future. The only question I have is whether or not people would actually be willing to do that.

We, as a society, seem to have developed a severe case of monumental laziness, coupled with a generation of crippling apathy, and I wonder if people would have the drive to power their computer by foot pump.

But I certainly like the idea of charging batteries by attaching them to generators on play structures and bikes. That's pretty cool. It's nice to think that, in future generations, see-saws may be seen as a beneficial element of society, rather than implements of death and pain.