The Discovery Channel’s Adam Savage and Mike Rowe each were recent guests at TED. They gave the great presentations below.
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/488
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/477
Mike Rowe discusses our relationship to work in the April 2009 issue of Fast Company Magazine. [Click here] In the article he says, “The seismic shift from manufacturing to services has not only changed the composition of our gross domestic product, but also changed our national mind-set toward work. We no longer celebrate the way things get made. We are more interested in the way things get bought.”