You're going to raise an old scar in me. Far too many technologists, just because they have a degree from the University of Waterloo in computer engineering or software engineering, happen to believe they're designers as well. They're programmers. They don't know the first thing about design. But that's a battle we'll leave outside.
The thing of it is.... The best analogy I can think of is that I have a friend who works for the CBC in Toronto. Because this is on the public record, we'll keep this individual's name secret. But this person marvels that the first time they walked into the Front Street building, the coffee room on every floor looked like Timothy's, with 16 different blends.
We're not going to change that. It's the corporate structure now. If you go anywhere else, you see it's the same thing. The changes are not going to come from Toronto, Front Street. The changes are not going to come from Ottawa. They're going to come from these young kids who have access to the technology.
I just think of the people I know who came back after the war, people like Budge Crawley. He took his Mitchell, trundled out into the Arctic, flew on Beavers, and got these great shots. Everybody thought he was nuts, but he was at the forefront of his time. The National Film Board did the same thing.
Do you recall the name of that gentleman who had the exhibition up here, who did the gold mines? Was that Hunter...?
At any rate, a photographer came up here under the auspices of the National Film Board, and did the most stunning work I've seen taken in the Northwest Territories--just because he was crazy enough to come up to someplace really cold and foreign.
So this is where the changes are going to come from, not only for the CBC but for any other organization. We have a unique opportunity in Canada as opposed to, say, Britain, which is much smaller, or the States, which is much more regimented, in that the younger people will come up here to get their chance. They're the ones who are going to make the differences, the changes, and implement the new technology. It's a matter of getting the tools to them.
Those tools are coming very rapidly. If I had told you in 1994 that I would have a chip for you 12 years down the line that was ten thousand times more powerful than the 486, you would have taken me down to the Queen Street mental hospital in Toronto.
We just don't know what's coming. The important thing for the CBC is to get the tools out of the cities to young and talented people who don't know enough to know that it can't be done. Let them get on with it, because that's where the changes are going to come from.