I’m not one for getting lost in YouTube, but this is one of those clips that makes you realise how mad the world we live in has become.

Someone get me my horse. I’m off home now.

Ted Talks are amazing.
-If you’re having trouble sleeping.
-If you want to be inspired.
-If you just never realised how many interesting people there are out there and what they have to say.
-If you want to sound intelligent amongst your peers.

Fact is that there is one Ted Talk that has always remained with me – Jonathan Harris, ‘The Web’s Secret Stories’.
This is a lovely tale of just how small we are but how much we count when someone is listening. Jonathan has invented the machine through which we can hear these voices.

Next time you hear the words ‘cabin crew prepare for take-off’ or ‘arm doors and cross check’ for that matter, cast your mind aside to the bigger picture of what you are about to undertake. I recently went to the Future Digital exhibition at the V&A in London where I saw this video.

I remembered loving it at the time – I have a healthy fascination with the visual display of large sets of numerical data. Anyway, the next time I boarded a plane, there I was imagining myself as one of the yellow dots coursing its way around the globe. In fact, only last week, coming back from Dubai I was one of the yellow dots that first arrives in London in the morning.

I’m told that Heathrow closes at night – to let the rest of us sleep – and that they are only allowed to land planes after 6am… In fact I think the rule is that they are only allowed to land 5 planes before 6am (to allow for emergencies). So if you land at 6.05am, you’re one of the first!

Thanks to my Dad who reminded me about this video when he sent it through the other day…