Rick added some notes to the description on YouTube:<\/p>\n

The clay tablet “first example of tech documentation” is about ten thousand years old, not two thousand.
\nThe odd photo at about the 4:50 mark (where I say any of us could have explained it better) was a hotel room layout map posted at the elevators. It gave room locations based on compass points, but there was no way for the reader to know which way was actually north. It was completely useless.
\n“All of this has happened before, and it will happen again” was originally from Peter Pan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Danielle M. Villegas has just pointed us towards a five minute lightning talk by Rick Lippencott on the future of technical communication, and its value. Rick covers in five \u00a0minutes a great deal of the content I covered in my 45 minute presentation at the same conference – it’s worth watching. He summarises the value… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[246,172,512,243,185,143,194,236,222],"tags":[346,144,262,303,415],"class_list":["post-5313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-challenge","category-conferences","category-content-strategy","category-myths","category-presentation","category-roi","category-technical-communication","category-technical-documentation","category-trends","tag-presentation","tag-roi","tag-technical-communication","tag-trends","tag-value"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n