1 00:00:05,889 --> 00:00:08,690 well it is my pleasure to be here it's 2 00:00:08,690 --> 00:00:10,309 also kind of fun to be talking at Maker 3 00:00:10,309 --> 00:00:12,110 Faire I apologize that my talk comes 4 00:00:12,110 --> 00:00:14,660 with a legal disclaimer don't invest in 5 00:00:14,660 --> 00:00:16,099 my company on the basis of anything I'm 6 00:00:16,099 --> 00:00:17,300 about to tell you is what you should 7 00:00:17,300 --> 00:00:19,850 take away from that but I thought what I 8 00:00:19,850 --> 00:00:21,199 would do for the next thirty minutes was 9 00:00:21,199 --> 00:00:23,270 talk a little bit about what we've seen 10 00:00:23,270 --> 00:00:25,010 coming out of the work we do at Intel 11 00:00:25,010 --> 00:00:27,289 about what it means to be human in a 12 00:00:27,289 --> 00:00:28,550 world that is increasingly full of 13 00:00:28,550 --> 00:00:30,560 digital technologies I'm willing to bet 14 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:32,058 many of you in the room have multiple 15 00:00:32,058 --> 00:00:33,859 pieces of technology you have multiple 16 00:00:33,859 --> 00:00:36,050 sites that you live in online and places 17 00:00:36,050 --> 00:00:38,239 where you spend your time but what I 18 00:00:38,239 --> 00:00:39,680 want to do is reflect here a little bit 19 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:41,450 on the ways in which there are things 20 00:00:41,450 --> 00:00:42,980 about us as human beings 21 00:00:42,980 --> 00:00:45,800 that persist despite the appearances of 22 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,410 digital technology there's lots of ways 23 00:00:48,410 --> 00:00:50,540 to think about how I got into my job 24 00:00:50,540 --> 00:00:51,950 there's usually a couple of things I 25 00:00:51,950 --> 00:00:53,210 like to tell people by way of 26 00:00:53,210 --> 00:00:55,820 introduction to myself the first is that 27 00:00:55,820 --> 00:00:57,800 I'm Australian which means I have this 28 00:00:57,800 --> 00:00:59,829 accent and I can't do anything about it 29 00:00:59,829 --> 00:01:02,360 the second thing is I'm the child of an 30 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:04,610 anthropologist so my mother is someone 31 00:01:04,610 --> 00:01:06,979 who studies people and I spent my entire 32 00:01:06,979 --> 00:01:09,499 childhood living on her field sites in 33 00:01:09,499 --> 00:01:10,880 central and northern Australia in the 34 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:13,759 1970s and 1980s so I spent most of my 35 00:01:13,759 --> 00:01:15,439 childhood living with indigenous people 36 00:01:15,439 --> 00:01:17,479 who remembered their country before 37 00:01:17,479 --> 00:01:19,459 Europeans and before cattle and before 38 00:01:19,459 --> 00:01:21,979 fences and who at the drop of a hat and 39 00:01:21,979 --> 00:01:24,249 any request would take my brother and I 40 00:01:24,249 --> 00:01:26,509 Bush with them and we would spend our 41 00:01:26,509 --> 00:01:29,840 time running around effectively wild no 42 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:32,090 shoes we didn't speak English I didn't 43 00:01:32,090 --> 00:01:33,619 go to school for years don't tell your 44 00:01:33,619 --> 00:01:36,169 parents it had no effect on me and I 45 00:01:36,169 --> 00:01:37,639 learned to kill things which was 46 00:01:37,639 --> 00:01:38,899 excellent right was about as good as a 47 00:01:38,899 --> 00:01:41,119 child would get going back to regular 48 00:01:41,119 --> 00:01:43,399 school was very hard for me I was 49 00:01:43,399 --> 00:01:44,899 required to wear shoes I was required 50 00:01:44,899 --> 00:01:46,520 not to kill things in the playground it 51 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:50,329 was a big transition but it propelled me 52 00:01:50,329 --> 00:01:52,219 into a very particular kind of life 53 00:01:52,219 --> 00:01:54,259 right living with indigenous people in 54 00:01:54,259 --> 00:01:55,849 that period of time it was really hard 55 00:01:55,849 --> 00:01:59,209 not to be motivated to think about how 56 00:01:59,209 --> 00:02:01,189 to change the world those were hard 57 00:02:01,189 --> 00:02:03,469 conditions to see right and my mother 58 00:02:03,469 --> 00:02:04,999 was very big in impressing on me from 59 00:02:04,999 --> 00:02:06,829 the time I was a little girl that if you 60 00:02:06,829 --> 00:02:08,209 could see a better world you were 61 00:02:08,209 --> 00:02:10,160 morally obligated to go out and make it 62 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:10,580 happen 63 00:02:10,580 --> 00:02:11,900 right that you should be actively 64 00:02:11,900 --> 00:02:14,629 working to make a better world and so I 65 00:02:14,629 --> 00:02:16,459 waited yeah exactly 66 00:02:16,459 --> 00:02:18,049 my mother was a very smart my mother was 67 00:02:18,049 --> 00:02:20,420 a very smart woman um and you know I 68 00:02:20,420 --> 00:02:21,739 thought the way to do that was to get a 69 00:02:21,739 --> 00:02:23,540 good education so I went to university I 70 00:02:23,540 --> 00:02:24,980 came to the states to do it I went to 71 00:02:24,980 --> 00:02:26,780 graduate school I thought I would be a 72 00:02:26,780 --> 00:02:28,579 professor because that seemed like a 73 00:02:28,579 --> 00:02:31,790 good way to help shape young minds in 74 00:02:31,790 --> 00:02:33,200 some ways fortunately for me and 75 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:34,459 possibly for my students 76 00:02:34,459 --> 00:02:36,680 I met a man in a bar in Palo Alto in 77 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:40,069 1998 and he changed my life I hasten to 78 00:02:40,069 --> 00:02:43,879 add I didn't marry him but he pointed me 79 00:02:43,879 --> 00:02:45,469 in the direction of industry and said 80 00:02:45,469 --> 00:02:47,659 that people like me who studied human 81 00:02:47,659 --> 00:02:51,109 beings and culture had a role to play in 82 00:02:51,109 --> 00:02:52,849 the development of new technology which 83 00:02:52,849 --> 00:02:54,470 was a startling thing for me I never 84 00:02:54,470 --> 00:02:55,849 even contemplated that that was a 85 00:02:55,849 --> 00:02:58,939 possibility and in September of 1998 so 86 00:02:58,939 --> 00:03:01,189 16 years ago this month I joined Intel 87 00:03:01,189 --> 00:03:03,620 and on my first day at work my new boss 88 00:03:03,620 --> 00:03:04,849 sat me down and said we're very excited 89 00:03:04,849 --> 00:03:06,590 to have a social scientist we don't 90 00:03:06,590 --> 00:03:07,700 really know what you do but we're very 91 00:03:07,700 --> 00:03:09,769 excited you're here and we need your 92 00:03:09,769 --> 00:03:12,319 help with two things I'm like excellent 93 00:03:12,319 --> 00:03:14,629 what are they my new boss says we need 94 00:03:14,629 --> 00:03:20,239 your help with women and I sensibly 95 00:03:20,239 --> 00:03:22,220 asked the next question which women 96 00:03:22,220 --> 00:03:24,620 because that seemed reasonable my new 97 00:03:24,620 --> 00:03:27,229 boss said all women and I'm like so 98 00:03:27,229 --> 00:03:29,180 you'd like my help with 3.2 billion 99 00:03:29,180 --> 00:03:33,040 women yes said my boss I'm like okay I 100 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:35,479 asked what do you imagine I will do with 101 00:03:35,479 --> 00:03:38,510 3.2 billion women am i noob I said if 102 00:03:38,510 --> 00:03:39,709 you could tell us what they want that 103 00:03:39,709 --> 00:03:43,400 would be excellent okay so in my 104 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:44,870 notebook of the day I wrote down women 105 00:03:44,870 --> 00:03:49,099 all and underlined it a lot and tried to 106 00:03:49,099 --> 00:03:50,959 imagine what is the project you would do 107 00:03:50,959 --> 00:03:53,389 as a researcher to understand all women 108 00:03:53,389 --> 00:03:55,819 and what they would want it's not a bad 109 00:03:55,819 --> 00:03:58,370 problem to have right except that this 110 00:03:58,370 --> 00:03:59,780 new boss had said there were two things 111 00:03:59,780 --> 00:04:04,250 and if the first thing is women all it 112 00:04:04,250 --> 00:04:05,959 is frightening to imagine what your new 113 00:04:05,959 --> 00:04:07,430 boss might think the second thing you 114 00:04:07,430 --> 00:04:10,759 should study is and I'm sure I secretly 115 00:04:10,759 --> 00:04:13,040 hope she would say men because then I'd 116 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:15,919 have everything but my new boss said 117 00:04:15,919 --> 00:04:18,918 that my company Intel had an arrow W 118 00:04:18,918 --> 00:04:21,259 problem and they needed my help and I 119 00:04:21,259 --> 00:04:24,469 had to ask what's our o W my new boss 120 00:04:24,469 --> 00:04:27,500 said that's rest of world and I was like 121 00:04:27,500 --> 00:04:29,689 oh like where's world 122 00:04:29,689 --> 00:04:32,569 that there is the rest of it my new SS 123 00:04:32,569 --> 00:04:34,249 whole world is America and then there's 124 00:04:34,249 --> 00:04:36,879 the rest of the world 125 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:40,630 at this point I realized I should go 126 00:04:40,630 --> 00:04:42,100 back to my desk and possibly not leave 127 00:04:42,100 --> 00:04:44,590 it again for a very long time because at 128 00:04:44,590 --> 00:04:46,750 that point my job was explained everyone 129 00:04:46,750 --> 00:04:48,790 who wasn't inside the building basically 130 00:04:48,790 --> 00:04:53,100 to everyone who was and so my job became 131 00:04:53,100 --> 00:04:55,810 spending time in people's homes all over 132 00:04:55,810 --> 00:04:58,780 the world living with them going 133 00:04:58,780 --> 00:05:00,550 shopping with them eating food with them 134 00:05:00,550 --> 00:05:01,810 going to markets with them going to 135 00:05:01,810 --> 00:05:04,030 temples and synagogues and mosques and 136 00:05:04,030 --> 00:05:05,920 cricket games and museums and wet 137 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:08,410 markets the whole nine yards to try and 138 00:05:08,410 --> 00:05:10,870 work out what makes people tick what 139 00:05:10,870 --> 00:05:14,350 they care about what frustrates them and 140 00:05:14,350 --> 00:05:16,210 what they want for themselves their kids 141 00:05:16,210 --> 00:05:18,010 their communities their families even 142 00:05:18,010 --> 00:05:19,990 their countries and then my job is to 143 00:05:19,990 --> 00:05:23,200 boil all of that down and try and work 144 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:25,300 out how you use that to inspire the next 145 00:05:25,300 --> 00:05:27,820 generation of technology development it 146 00:05:27,820 --> 00:05:30,040 is basically the best job on the planet 147 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:33,510 and you can't have it because it is mine 148 00:05:33,510 --> 00:05:36,190 when I am NOT doing that job though one 149 00:05:36,190 --> 00:05:38,050 of my other jobs is to talk about the 150 00:05:38,050 --> 00:05:40,180 future and it's great to be getting to 151 00:05:40,180 --> 00:05:41,740 do it in this building which is such a 152 00:05:41,740 --> 00:05:43,990 historic site for that as I came into 153 00:05:43,990 --> 00:05:45,580 the auditorium you can't help but come 154 00:05:45,580 --> 00:05:47,110 past all the pictures of all the World's 155 00:05:47,110 --> 00:05:48,820 Fairs that have gone before right and 156 00:05:48,820 --> 00:05:50,800 all the moments when we imagined what 157 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:53,170 the future would be like and the make 158 00:05:53,170 --> 00:05:55,690 community make magazine this whole 159 00:05:55,690 --> 00:05:57,340 movement is in no small part about 160 00:05:57,340 --> 00:05:59,020 telling stories about the future we 161 00:05:59,020 --> 00:06:01,450 might want to have or the futures we 162 00:06:01,450 --> 00:06:03,550 want to have and so part of my job is 163 00:06:03,550 --> 00:06:05,200 about doing that right about telling 164 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:07,000 what the stories of the future are and 165 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:08,980 sometimes we get it just a little bit 166 00:06:08,980 --> 00:06:12,790 wrong this is a picture from 1958 from 167 00:06:12,790 --> 00:06:14,860 California where the local electricity 168 00:06:14,860 --> 00:06:17,080 company predicted four things they 169 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:18,220 predicted that there would be a box 170 00:06:18,220 --> 00:06:19,810 outside of your door that heated your 171 00:06:19,810 --> 00:06:21,040 house in winter and called them in 172 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:23,560 summer that's not bad air conditioning 173 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:25,570 central heating check they predicted 174 00:06:25,570 --> 00:06:26,980 that you could have an oven in your 175 00:06:26,980 --> 00:06:28,750 kitchen that would cook your food in 176 00:06:28,750 --> 00:06:32,320 minutes not hours microwaves check they 177 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:33,670 predicted that lights would come on when 178 00:06:33,670 --> 00:06:36,700 it got dark yeah home automation they 179 00:06:36,700 --> 00:06:37,540 also predicted that there would be 180 00:06:37,540 --> 00:06:38,950 self-driving cars on the freeways by 181 00:06:38,950 --> 00:06:43,300 1970 kind of not so much what is of 182 00:06:43,300 --> 00:06:44,830 course fascinating here is that those 183 00:06:44,830 --> 00:06:47,230 stories don't go away right the story of 184 00:06:47,230 --> 00:06:49,000 self-driving cars has been with us since 185 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:50,350 the 1930s 186 00:06:50,350 --> 00:06:51,820 we are still tell 187 00:06:51,820 --> 00:06:54,520 we are closer to executing on it but 188 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:56,200 some of the same challenges persist 189 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:57,700 right now the vision would look 190 00:06:57,700 --> 00:06:59,170 different I suspect if you were to look 191 00:06:59,170 --> 00:07:01,870 at an ad today for self-driving cars it 192 00:07:01,870 --> 00:07:03,820 wouldn't necessarily have dad behind the 193 00:07:03,820 --> 00:07:05,470 steering wheel and mom in the passenger 194 00:07:05,470 --> 00:07:06,820 seat and two children in the back 195 00:07:06,820 --> 00:07:09,280 playing some very complicated form of 196 00:07:09,280 --> 00:07:11,470 Scrabble because I think you all have 197 00:07:11,470 --> 00:07:13,450 cell phones and it probably wouldn't be 198 00:07:13,450 --> 00:07:15,600 a tie in suit and she might be driving 199 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:17,080 god forbid 200 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:19,480 so one of the things that's really 201 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:21,370 interesting is that when we tell stories 202 00:07:21,370 --> 00:07:22,630 about the future we are anticipating 203 00:07:22,630 --> 00:07:24,280 change right we think the world is 204 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:26,620 changing really quickly we always talk 205 00:07:26,620 --> 00:07:27,700 about it everything is moving really 206 00:07:27,700 --> 00:07:29,710 fast everything is changing all the time 207 00:07:29,710 --> 00:07:32,530 and we know how to look at images and 208 00:07:32,530 --> 00:07:35,290 movies and photos and know that they're 209 00:07:35,290 --> 00:07:37,630 in the past right you look at this image 210 00:07:37,630 --> 00:07:39,310 here and you know this is what 211 00:07:39,310 --> 00:07:41,260 television looked like in America in the 212 00:07:41,260 --> 00:07:44,470 1950s maybe some of you remember this 213 00:07:44,470 --> 00:07:47,050 not many and you don't have to admit to 214 00:07:47,050 --> 00:07:50,440 it but we know that's the past right and 215 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:53,050 there's all kinds of clues in it and you 216 00:07:53,050 --> 00:07:54,640 know if I put this picture up you know 217 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:56,710 oh god it's the future or at least the 218 00:07:56,710 --> 00:07:58,900 present and it looks like everything is 219 00:07:58,900 --> 00:07:59,760 different 220 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:01,630 televisions are no longer black and 221 00:08:01,630 --> 00:08:03,130 white their color they're no longer big 222 00:08:03,130 --> 00:08:05,500 and boxy they sit on a wall the content 223 00:08:05,500 --> 00:08:07,330 is no longer delivered over the air it 224 00:08:07,330 --> 00:08:11,200 comes via DVDs and the internet and 225 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:13,810 cable and you don't have to poke your 226 00:08:13,810 --> 00:08:15,100 kids to change the channel because 227 00:08:15,100 --> 00:08:17,460 there's a thing called a remote control 228 00:08:17,460 --> 00:08:21,100 looks like a lot has changed but the 229 00:08:21,100 --> 00:08:22,870 reality is the reason we still love 230 00:08:22,870 --> 00:08:24,940 television has nothing to do with the 231 00:08:24,940 --> 00:08:27,220 technology it has to do with the fact 232 00:08:27,220 --> 00:08:28,990 that as human beings what we really love 233 00:08:28,990 --> 00:08:31,630 is a good story and no matter how that 234 00:08:31,630 --> 00:08:34,120 story is delivered to us we have made 235 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:36,429 quite happy and so on the one hand all 236 00:08:36,429 --> 00:08:38,530 the technology looks different but the 237 00:08:38,530 --> 00:08:40,780 reality is underlying it there is a very 238 00:08:40,780 --> 00:08:44,049 simple human motivation to hear a good 239 00:08:44,049 --> 00:08:46,840 story that hasn't changed in hundreds of 240 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:49,360 years television is just the latest way 241 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:52,090 to deliver a good story as was radio and 242 00:08:52,090 --> 00:08:54,250 movies before it as is the internet and 243 00:08:54,250 --> 00:08:56,830 YouTube today but underlying it is a 244 00:08:56,830 --> 00:09:00,700 desire for a good story and it's my I 245 00:09:00,700 --> 00:09:02,350 don't know work an argument for the day 246 00:09:02,350 --> 00:09:04,769 at least that there's a series of things 247 00:09:04,769 --> 00:09:07,079 that are deep in us as human beings as 248 00:09:07,079 --> 00:09:09,420 cultural beings that don't change very 249 00:09:09,420 --> 00:09:12,119 quickly their manifestations may look a 250 00:09:12,119 --> 00:09:13,529 little bit different but they are 251 00:09:13,529 --> 00:09:15,629 fundamentally and profoundly things that 252 00:09:15,629 --> 00:09:17,220 make us human and they just don't move 253 00:09:17,220 --> 00:09:19,019 that quickly and I think there are five 254 00:09:19,019 --> 00:09:21,600 of them that have been profoundly I 255 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:23,790 don't know ever-present for a very long 256 00:09:23,790 --> 00:09:25,259 time and they're really easy right 257 00:09:25,259 --> 00:09:27,689 number one is we need friends and family 258 00:09:27,689 --> 00:09:29,670 you may not like your family you may 259 00:09:29,670 --> 00:09:30,959 wish you didn't have to travel with them 260 00:09:30,959 --> 00:09:32,579 all the time or see them on holidays but 261 00:09:32,579 --> 00:09:34,920 you still need them there may not always 262 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:37,529 be your biological family but the notion 263 00:09:37,529 --> 00:09:40,049 of having a family and of having friends 264 00:09:40,049 --> 00:09:42,959 is one of the principal ways in which we 265 00:09:42,959 --> 00:09:44,189 define ourselves because human beings 266 00:09:44,189 --> 00:09:47,100 are ultimately social creatures and our 267 00:09:47,100 --> 00:09:48,839 friends and our families that's part of 268 00:09:48,839 --> 00:09:51,360 how we think about who we are it's also 269 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:52,949 for those of you who are thinking about 270 00:09:52,949 --> 00:09:54,839 technology development entrepreneurship 271 00:09:54,839 --> 00:09:57,089 any one of those things technologies 272 00:09:57,089 --> 00:09:59,639 that support friends and family have 273 00:09:59,639 --> 00:10:02,730 always been successful when the 274 00:10:02,730 --> 00:10:04,439 telephone first came along people were 275 00:10:04,439 --> 00:10:06,660 not mostly calling each other up to give 276 00:10:06,660 --> 00:10:08,399 long complicated instructions for 277 00:10:08,399 --> 00:10:10,470 business they were calling each other up 278 00:10:10,470 --> 00:10:13,499 to go what are you doing can I come see 279 00:10:13,499 --> 00:10:14,939 you when are you coming to see me 280 00:10:14,939 --> 00:10:17,459 you're late it was all social stuff 281 00:10:17,459 --> 00:10:20,100 right it wasn't deeply technical think 282 00:10:20,100 --> 00:10:23,639 of the most popular internet websites of 283 00:10:23,639 --> 00:10:26,160 our era they're mostly not about 284 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:29,369 productivity Friendster 285 00:10:29,369 --> 00:10:31,350 to Facebook you would hardly say 286 00:10:31,350 --> 00:10:33,209 Facebook is a productivity tool designed 287 00:10:33,209 --> 00:10:35,910 for work you would say however it is 288 00:10:35,910 --> 00:10:38,069 incredibly important to us because we 289 00:10:38,069 --> 00:10:40,170 are social creatures there's a whole lot 290 00:10:40,170 --> 00:10:41,429 of other technologies that have 291 00:10:41,429 --> 00:10:44,819 succeeded over the last 20 years in no 292 00:10:44,819 --> 00:10:47,309 small part because they let us be social 293 00:10:47,309 --> 00:10:50,459 creatures digital cameras digital movie 294 00:10:50,459 --> 00:10:52,499 players the same way with super 8 from 295 00:10:52,499 --> 00:10:55,079 my childhood but technologies and 296 00:10:55,079 --> 00:10:57,899 experiences that support this almost 297 00:10:57,899 --> 00:11:00,839 always succeed second one that hasn't 298 00:11:00,839 --> 00:11:02,279 changed is we actually want to belong to 299 00:11:02,279 --> 00:11:03,779 a community right we want to get to hang 300 00:11:03,779 --> 00:11:07,169 out with people who share our interests 301 00:11:07,169 --> 00:11:10,679 our practices the things we do this one 302 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:12,480 has been around for a really long time 303 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:14,879 whether this was guilds in the medieval 304 00:11:14,879 --> 00:11:16,379 era he wanted people who knew how to do 305 00:11:16,379 --> 00:11:16,899 the thing 306 00:11:16,899 --> 00:11:20,139 did whether it is social clubs whether 307 00:11:20,139 --> 00:11:22,329 it is belonging to a sporting franchise 308 00:11:22,329 --> 00:11:24,459 probably not the NFL at the moment but 309 00:11:24,459 --> 00:11:25,959 you know let's imagine maybe baseball 310 00:11:25,959 --> 00:11:28,269 it's still pure you know it's you 311 00:11:28,269 --> 00:11:30,069 support a particular team you want to 312 00:11:30,069 --> 00:11:31,569 belong to a particular club you're an 313 00:11:31,569 --> 00:11:34,300 alumni of a particular University all of 314 00:11:34,300 --> 00:11:35,860 those are ways where we create community 315 00:11:35,860 --> 00:11:38,860 with people who share our interests this 316 00:11:38,860 --> 00:11:40,600 is also why sites like Pinterest are 317 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:42,850 really successful right we create a set 318 00:11:42,850 --> 00:11:44,199 of places where people who share our 319 00:11:44,199 --> 00:11:45,970 preoccupations with a particular thing 320 00:11:45,970 --> 00:11:48,519 can come find us pretty much every 321 00:11:48,519 --> 00:11:51,550 single booth out there is designed to 322 00:11:51,550 --> 00:11:52,959 attract people that share your 323 00:11:52,959 --> 00:11:55,449 particular preoccupation whether it's 324 00:11:55,449 --> 00:11:57,459 about conductive thread whether it's 325 00:11:57,459 --> 00:11:58,990 about sewing whether it's about 326 00:11:58,990 --> 00:12:00,759 soldering whether it's about robots 327 00:12:00,759 --> 00:12:02,559 there is someone out there who shares 328 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:04,170 your interest and in its extraordinary 329 00:12:04,170 --> 00:12:06,509 exquisite pleasure when you find them 330 00:12:06,509 --> 00:12:08,769 because finding people who like the same 331 00:12:08,769 --> 00:12:10,149 things you do is another really 332 00:12:10,149 --> 00:12:11,889 important part of what it means to be 333 00:12:11,889 --> 00:12:15,100 human right the third one is we want to 334 00:12:15,100 --> 00:12:17,019 belong to something that has meaning 335 00:12:17,019 --> 00:12:20,709 beyond ourselves so you could think of 336 00:12:20,709 --> 00:12:23,470 this as being religion we want to 337 00:12:23,470 --> 00:12:24,809 believe in a higher power 338 00:12:24,809 --> 00:12:26,980 you could think of this as being about 339 00:12:26,980 --> 00:12:29,439 an ideology we want to believe in 340 00:12:29,439 --> 00:12:32,730 democracy in freedom in women's rights 341 00:12:32,730 --> 00:12:36,189 gay rights we want to believe in a cause 342 00:12:36,189 --> 00:12:37,689 basically something bigger than 343 00:12:37,689 --> 00:12:40,029 ourselves and it has frequently been a 344 00:12:40,029 --> 00:12:41,769 way that technology is used to mobilize 345 00:12:41,769 --> 00:12:43,420 people who share our beliefs in 346 00:12:43,420 --> 00:12:45,519 something whether it's as simple as 347 00:12:45,519 --> 00:12:47,889 using hashtags on Twitter as a way of 348 00:12:47,889 --> 00:12:51,179 constituting social movements to 349 00:12:51,179 --> 00:12:54,100 television shows and radio there's a 350 00:12:54,100 --> 00:12:55,600 whole lot of ways where technology has 351 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:58,149 always been part of telling a story 352 00:12:58,149 --> 00:13:00,579 about a bigger meaning so think of this 353 00:13:00,579 --> 00:13:02,049 also as about some of the ways we talked 354 00:13:02,049 --> 00:13:04,029 about things like the Arab Spring we've 355 00:13:04,029 --> 00:13:05,649 talked about all manner of stuff here 356 00:13:05,649 --> 00:13:08,049 but as human beings it's not just enough 357 00:13:08,049 --> 00:13:10,299 to be part of a family and have friends 358 00:13:10,299 --> 00:13:11,889 it's not just enough to have people who 359 00:13:11,889 --> 00:13:14,740 share your practices you want to have 360 00:13:14,740 --> 00:13:17,049 people who share your values you want 361 00:13:17,049 --> 00:13:19,779 something bigger fourth one 362 00:13:19,779 --> 00:13:21,759 unsurprisingly to anyone in this room I 363 00:13:21,759 --> 00:13:23,470 would say from birth to death this is 364 00:13:23,470 --> 00:13:26,980 true we want to use object to talk about 365 00:13:26,980 --> 00:13:29,290 who we are to ourselves and to other 366 00:13:29,290 --> 00:13:30,320 people 367 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:31,700 the weather it's the choice of your 368 00:13:31,700 --> 00:13:33,440 baseball cap whether it's the choice of 369 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:34,910 your sweater whether it's the choice of 370 00:13:34,910 --> 00:13:37,160 your shoes and socks everything you have 371 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:39,890 put on your body was done with some 372 00:13:39,890 --> 00:13:41,600 level of consciousness even those of you 373 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:42,560 who think you just picked it up off the 374 00:13:42,560 --> 00:13:43,730 floor put it on and walked out the door 375 00:13:43,730 --> 00:13:45,050 I'm willing to bet there's a certain 376 00:13:45,050 --> 00:13:46,790 sourcing set of sentiments that go about 377 00:13:46,790 --> 00:13:49,550 what's on the floor and what isn't the 378 00:13:49,550 --> 00:13:53,000 cars we drive the technology objects we 379 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:56,630 own the apps we download all of them say 380 00:13:56,630 --> 00:13:59,030 something about who we are right and all 381 00:13:59,030 --> 00:14:00,860 of the ways we choose to use those 382 00:14:00,860 --> 00:14:03,350 things are hugely important if you strip 383 00:14:03,350 --> 00:14:05,420 human beings away of and you just let 384 00:14:05,420 --> 00:14:07,280 them be naked would be profoundly 385 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:08,720 uncomfortable for more than one reason 386 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:11,660 and part of that reason is we need stuff 387 00:14:11,660 --> 00:14:14,180 to tell other people who we are and also 388 00:14:14,180 --> 00:14:16,400 to tell ourselves so when we think about 389 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:18,560 what it is to be human this piece is 390 00:14:18,560 --> 00:14:21,500 hugely important and then last but by no 391 00:14:21,500 --> 00:14:24,620 means least one of the hugely 392 00:14:24,620 --> 00:14:26,270 identifying things that makes us human 393 00:14:26,270 --> 00:14:30,170 is we like to tell lies and keep secrets 394 00:14:30,170 --> 00:14:32,090 and I'm sure there are some of you going 395 00:14:32,090 --> 00:14:34,010 I don't tell lies and that actually 396 00:14:34,010 --> 00:14:37,250 isn't true the average human being tells 397 00:14:37,250 --> 00:14:41,420 somewhere between 6 to 200 lies a day by 398 00:14:41,420 --> 00:14:43,040 the time you get to 200 you associate 399 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:45,440 Pathak let's be clear but you can get to 400 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:49,580 6 pretty easily that was an excellent 401 00:14:49,580 --> 00:14:52,940 breakfast thank you yes you look great 402 00:14:52,940 --> 00:14:53,690 in those clothes 403 00:14:53,690 --> 00:14:55,790 I really thought that talk was 404 00:14:55,790 --> 00:14:57,080 interesting no you're not bothering me 405 00:14:57,080 --> 00:14:59,360 and you're at 4 already and you probably 406 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:01,610 not even out the door yet there's a 407 00:15:01,610 --> 00:15:02,930 whole series of the writing we don't 408 00:15:02,930 --> 00:15:04,610 necessarily tell them because we are bad 409 00:15:04,610 --> 00:15:05,120 people 410 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:06,790 they're not necessarily about wanting to 411 00:15:06,790 --> 00:15:09,380 confuse or bewilder or mislead people 412 00:15:09,380 --> 00:15:10,940 some of it's just about being social 413 00:15:10,940 --> 00:15:13,430 right and about not wanting to upset 414 00:15:13,430 --> 00:15:14,840 people not wanting to disrupt the rhythm 415 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:17,060 of the day there's all kinds of reasons 416 00:15:17,060 --> 00:15:20,180 why we tell lies but technology makes it 417 00:15:20,180 --> 00:15:23,540 easier you can lie without having to see 418 00:15:23,540 --> 00:15:26,750 someone's face some websites for some of 419 00:15:26,750 --> 00:15:28,340 you in the room when you signed on to 420 00:15:28,340 --> 00:15:30,920 them you lied about your age because 421 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:32,630 they needed you to be over the age of 14 422 00:15:32,630 --> 00:15:34,550 and you weren't and possibly your 423 00:15:34,550 --> 00:15:36,680 parents knew that when you did it so 424 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:38,060 sometimes the lies are socially 425 00:15:38,060 --> 00:15:40,040 sanctioned right and there are certainly 426 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:42,050 ways in which all kinds of technologies 427 00:15:42,050 --> 00:15:43,279 let us do this 428 00:15:43,279 --> 00:15:45,199 I have a colleague of mine at Cornell 429 00:15:45,199 --> 00:15:47,120 University who studies lying on the 430 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:48,829 internet and he decided the easiest 431 00:15:48,829 --> 00:15:50,779 place to look at it the one that was the 432 00:15:50,779 --> 00:15:52,699 least controversial was an online dating 433 00:15:52,699 --> 00:15:55,850 site now perhaps unsurprisingly a 434 00:15:55,850 --> 00:15:57,709 hundred percent of Americans when polled 435 00:15:57,709 --> 00:15:59,509 admitted to lying in their online dating 436 00:15:59,509 --> 00:16:04,339 profiles 100 percent that's everyone now 437 00:16:04,339 --> 00:16:05,720 that's kind of staggering because I've 438 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:06,980 lived in America for a very long time 439 00:16:06,980 --> 00:16:08,149 and I've never seen a place for a 440 00:16:08,149 --> 00:16:09,350 hundred percent if you agreed to 441 00:16:09,350 --> 00:16:13,399 anything but apparently online a hundred 442 00:16:13,399 --> 00:16:14,629 percent of Americans lie in their online 443 00:16:14,629 --> 00:16:16,879 dating profiles now unsurprisingly men 444 00:16:16,879 --> 00:16:19,819 and women lie differently men lie about 445 00:16:19,819 --> 00:16:20,569 their height 446 00:16:20,569 --> 00:16:24,800 women lie about their weight men lie 447 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:26,749 more often but women are less likely to 448 00:16:26,749 --> 00:16:29,029 get caught so you should just think 449 00:16:29,029 --> 00:16:31,370 about those things briefly also turns 450 00:16:31,370 --> 00:16:33,319 out we like to keep secrets right there 451 00:16:33,319 --> 00:16:34,970 are things we choose not to put on the 452 00:16:34,970 --> 00:16:36,110 Internet there are things we like to 453 00:16:36,110 --> 00:16:38,329 keep to ourselves clearly there are a 454 00:16:38,329 --> 00:16:39,680 whole lot of people in the last week and 455 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:41,209 a half who are experiencing the problems 456 00:16:41,209 --> 00:16:44,420 of having their secrets released I think 457 00:16:44,420 --> 00:16:46,220 I cloud think Jennifer Lawrence think 458 00:16:46,220 --> 00:16:48,230 you know celebrities and things that are 459 00:16:48,230 --> 00:16:50,750 just also very wrong nonetheless this 460 00:16:50,750 --> 00:16:52,670 piece here is also really important and 461 00:16:52,670 --> 00:16:54,259 people who have cracked the code for 462 00:16:54,259 --> 00:16:56,779 this tend to be really successful so 463 00:16:56,779 --> 00:16:59,120 five things right friends and family 464 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:00,769 community something bigger than 465 00:17:00,769 --> 00:17:02,750 ourselves the idea that we use objects 466 00:17:02,750 --> 00:17:03,860 and the idea that we're not always 467 00:17:03,860 --> 00:17:07,309 entirely truthful other things that have 468 00:17:07,309 --> 00:17:09,020 in some ways been unchanging for a 469 00:17:09,020 --> 00:17:11,689 really long time it's also the case 470 00:17:11,689 --> 00:17:12,829 however that there are a series of 471 00:17:12,829 --> 00:17:16,398 things that have always been changing so 472 00:17:16,398 --> 00:17:18,250 the series of things that are very 473 00:17:18,250 --> 00:17:20,809 vulnerable to technology right that 474 00:17:20,809 --> 00:17:22,789 technology has always transformed these 475 00:17:22,789 --> 00:17:24,619 things and they're the ones that 476 00:17:24,619 --> 00:17:26,059 whenever we talk about technology would 477 00:17:26,059 --> 00:17:27,589 kind of cite these as if oh everything 478 00:17:27,589 --> 00:17:30,230 is different because of these things one 479 00:17:30,230 --> 00:17:32,450 of them is we now and in fact always 480 00:17:32,450 --> 00:17:34,700 have worried about our reputations we've 481 00:17:34,700 --> 00:17:36,590 had this conversation about privacy and 482 00:17:36,590 --> 00:17:39,860 security and Trust but now we also worry 483 00:17:39,860 --> 00:17:41,149 about what are people going to think of 484 00:17:41,149 --> 00:17:44,210 us what does it mean if you can look at 485 00:17:44,210 --> 00:17:46,880 my entire digital portfolio of 486 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:48,620 activities on the Internet what is the 487 00:17:48,620 --> 00:17:51,380 judgment you will make about me and it's 488 00:17:51,380 --> 00:17:53,690 one thing to have said you know I worry 489 00:17:53,690 --> 00:17:55,370 that the government knows how much money 490 00:17:55,370 --> 00:17:57,350 I'm making or my educational 491 00:17:57,350 --> 00:17:59,690 is another thing to imagine that there 492 00:17:59,690 --> 00:18:02,390 are multiple institutions both 493 00:18:02,390 --> 00:18:04,940 commercial and private that may know 494 00:18:04,940 --> 00:18:06,110 things about you that you didn't choose 495 00:18:06,110 --> 00:18:09,380 to tell them but the idea of privacy has 496 00:18:09,380 --> 00:18:12,350 always been complicated there is no 497 00:18:12,350 --> 00:18:14,870 universal human agreed to stand at about 498 00:18:14,870 --> 00:18:17,570 privacy if i sat every single one of you 499 00:18:17,570 --> 00:18:19,160 down in this room and said define 500 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:20,900 privacy you'd all give me different 501 00:18:20,900 --> 00:18:22,820 definitions because one of the 502 00:18:22,820 --> 00:18:24,500 challenges here is it changes with age 503 00:18:24,500 --> 00:18:26,960 with gender with history with where you 504 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:29,419 came from with what you have to keep 505 00:18:29,419 --> 00:18:32,179 private versus what you don't and we 506 00:18:32,179 --> 00:18:33,830 know it's under rapid transformation at 507 00:18:33,830 --> 00:18:36,470 the moment and the places where this is 508 00:18:36,470 --> 00:18:38,480 playing out are on you know some of them 509 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:39,530 are straightforward right you know how 510 00:18:39,530 --> 00:18:41,390 many passwords do you have company 511 00:18:41,390 --> 00:18:44,000 websites do you log onto but we also 512 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:45,770 start to see the emergence of a set of 513 00:18:45,770 --> 00:18:47,270 services that are trying to play to this 514 00:18:47,270 --> 00:18:50,120 whether it's Bitcoin tour next 515 00:18:50,120 --> 00:18:52,700 generation anonymization services people 516 00:18:52,700 --> 00:18:55,880 are struggling to think about how do you 517 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:59,179 maintain a certain level of anonymity in 518 00:18:59,179 --> 00:19:01,760 a world where everything is recorded but 519 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:03,830 the idea that our reputations are under 520 00:19:03,830 --> 00:19:05,720 threat that our privacy is under threat 521 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:07,490 that's the conversation we've been 522 00:19:07,490 --> 00:19:09,650 having about new technologies for 200 523 00:19:09,650 --> 00:19:12,260 years in front of the American Congress 524 00:19:12,260 --> 00:19:15,260 in 1910 I believe when the first debates 525 00:19:15,260 --> 00:19:16,190 happened about whether we should 526 00:19:16,190 --> 00:19:19,490 electrify American homes the congressman 527 00:19:19,490 --> 00:19:22,039 in the United States Congress declared 528 00:19:22,039 --> 00:19:23,990 the reason not to electrify American 529 00:19:23,990 --> 00:19:25,520 homes would be if you put lights on 530 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:27,200 people could see if people were home at 531 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:28,960 night and know what they were doing and 532 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:31,460 electricity was judged to be a violator 533 00:19:31,460 --> 00:19:35,030 of privacy and also it also make us 534 00:19:35,030 --> 00:19:36,860 unsafe because if you could see if 535 00:19:36,860 --> 00:19:38,090 people were home you would know if women 536 00:19:38,090 --> 00:19:39,440 were home by themselves or children you 537 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:40,220 could attack them 538 00:19:40,220 --> 00:19:41,659 so think about the fact that we now 539 00:19:41,659 --> 00:19:43,280 think about electricity and light as a 540 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:46,100 form of safety 100 years ago it was seen 541 00:19:46,100 --> 00:19:48,200 as being quite the reverse so we know 542 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:50,570 this one has been under transformation 543 00:19:50,570 --> 00:19:54,500 for a really long time as is this really 544 00:19:54,500 --> 00:19:58,700 complicated dynamic as human beings it 545 00:19:58,700 --> 00:20:01,010 turns out we're constantly craving 546 00:20:01,010 --> 00:20:02,539 excitement but we actually occasionally 547 00:20:02,539 --> 00:20:07,100 need to be bored my useless fact for the 548 00:20:07,100 --> 00:20:08,690 day the word boredom didn't actually 549 00:20:08,690 --> 00:20:11,149 exist in English until 1858 550 00:20:11,149 --> 00:20:13,279 it was coined ironically by Dickens for 551 00:20:13,279 --> 00:20:14,479 those of you who read Dickens at 552 00:20:14,479 --> 00:20:15,679 university or high school you will 553 00:20:15,679 --> 00:20:20,269 understand the irony there it is a word 554 00:20:20,269 --> 00:20:22,339 that could only come into existence when 555 00:20:22,339 --> 00:20:24,589 you had choice basically boredom is what 556 00:20:24,589 --> 00:20:26,330 happens when you can make choices until 557 00:20:26,330 --> 00:20:28,309 you have choices to make there is no 558 00:20:28,309 --> 00:20:29,749 boredom it's just the stuff you have to 559 00:20:29,749 --> 00:20:33,049 be doing which is interesting right but 560 00:20:33,049 --> 00:20:34,719 it turns out that as human beings 561 00:20:34,719 --> 00:20:36,469 biologically physically and 562 00:20:36,469 --> 00:20:38,299 psychologically we actually need to be 563 00:20:38,299 --> 00:20:40,700 bored periodically there's a thing that 564 00:20:40,700 --> 00:20:42,589 happens in our brains when we are bored 565 00:20:42,589 --> 00:20:45,190 that lets us reset and recalibrate them 566 00:20:45,190 --> 00:20:47,779 so those of you in the room who are my 567 00:20:47,779 --> 00:20:49,820 age will remember in the summer times 568 00:20:49,820 --> 00:20:51,259 when our parents kicked us out of the 569 00:20:51,259 --> 00:20:53,539 house and said come home when it's dark 570 00:20:53,539 --> 00:20:56,779 or you're hungry but not beforehand and 571 00:20:56,779 --> 00:20:58,789 we would usually say things like but mom 572 00:20:58,789 --> 00:21:01,339 I'm bored and in my instance my mother 573 00:21:01,339 --> 00:21:03,049 would say well go mow the lawn thing and 574 00:21:03,049 --> 00:21:07,639 I was never that bored ever I would go 575 00:21:07,639 --> 00:21:09,289 make up things to do I would go find 576 00:21:09,289 --> 00:21:11,479 games I would go do repetitive tasks I 577 00:21:11,479 --> 00:21:14,179 would go daydream it turns out those 578 00:21:14,179 --> 00:21:17,989 things are hugely important it's one of 579 00:21:17,989 --> 00:21:19,700 the ways our brains actually spur 580 00:21:19,700 --> 00:21:22,609 creativity and one of the challenges for 581 00:21:22,609 --> 00:21:24,259 those of us in the room who are parents 582 00:21:24,259 --> 00:21:25,580 and in fact frankly for those of us in 583 00:21:25,580 --> 00:21:27,589 the room who are human beings is that 584 00:21:27,589 --> 00:21:30,559 the seductive siren call of the blinking 585 00:21:30,559 --> 00:21:33,349 lights on your digital device stop you 586 00:21:33,349 --> 00:21:35,239 from ever spending time not doing 587 00:21:35,239 --> 00:21:36,379 anything because there's always 588 00:21:36,379 --> 00:21:39,229 something to do and the consequence of 589 00:21:39,229 --> 00:21:40,879 this is we are not bored often enough 590 00:21:40,879 --> 00:21:43,820 and being bored turns out to be a 591 00:21:43,820 --> 00:21:47,389 straight shot highway to creativity so 592 00:21:47,389 --> 00:21:48,919 if you can work out how to create down 593 00:21:48,919 --> 00:21:50,659 time in which you are not sleeping and 594 00:21:50,659 --> 00:21:52,999 you are not surfing the web but you're 595 00:21:52,999 --> 00:21:56,089 actively bored this is a good thing by 596 00:21:56,089 --> 00:21:58,339 the same token if you're in the business 597 00:21:58,339 --> 00:22:01,609 of mining big data or writing algorithms 598 00:22:01,609 --> 00:22:04,580 you have a different challenge which is 599 00:22:04,580 --> 00:22:06,369 that as human beings our preferences 600 00:22:06,369 --> 00:22:08,960 tend to go too well I like the 601 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:10,399 Housewives of New Jersey so I'm gonna 602 00:22:10,399 --> 00:22:12,369 like the Housewives of Orange County and 603 00:22:12,369 --> 00:22:15,379 Houston and maybe New York City until 604 00:22:15,379 --> 00:22:18,440 suddenly you think huh Mad Men looks 605 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:21,440 really good because we like repetition 606 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:23,779 until we don't one of the challenges 607 00:22:23,779 --> 00:22:25,100 there is if you make content 608 00:22:25,100 --> 00:22:27,019 if you deliver content if you deliver 609 00:22:27,019 --> 00:22:30,500 experiences your hard work to do is to 610 00:22:30,500 --> 00:22:31,700 work out what is the moment at which 611 00:22:31,700 --> 00:22:33,259 people are bored enough that they are 612 00:22:33,259 --> 00:22:36,380 willing now to be surprised and it turns 613 00:22:36,380 --> 00:22:37,639 out surprising people without also 614 00:22:37,639 --> 00:22:40,370 creeping them out is really tricky so 615 00:22:40,370 --> 00:22:43,519 you've got that dynamic at work it is 616 00:22:43,519 --> 00:22:45,470 also the case and has been for a really 617 00:22:45,470 --> 00:22:47,210 long time we desperately want to be 618 00:22:47,210 --> 00:22:49,190 different from one another from other 619 00:22:49,190 --> 00:22:51,169 countries we want to be able to say we 620 00:22:51,169 --> 00:22:53,870 are this they are that that anxiety that 621 00:22:53,870 --> 00:22:56,710 technology is collapsing difference is 622 00:22:56,710 --> 00:22:59,149 really old there was some delightful 623 00:22:59,149 --> 00:23:01,250 stuff in the 17th and 18th centuries 624 00:23:01,250 --> 00:23:02,269 about what it meant that there were 625 00:23:02,269 --> 00:23:04,909 boats going to the East India Company in 626 00:23:04,909 --> 00:23:06,740 India to Australia where they going to 627 00:23:06,740 --> 00:23:08,990 create this sort of homogenous cultural 628 00:23:08,990 --> 00:23:10,940 zone and of course it didn't happen in 629 00:23:10,940 --> 00:23:13,490 the 1700s and it's not happening in 2014 630 00:23:13,490 --> 00:23:16,580 but the notion of difference and of 631 00:23:16,580 --> 00:23:18,200 sameness is a place that we are 632 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:21,740 constantly anxious and then only two 633 00:23:21,740 --> 00:23:23,090 more of these that I think are important 634 00:23:23,090 --> 00:23:25,909 one is that we desperately want to feel 635 00:23:25,909 --> 00:23:28,669 the differences in time we live in a 636 00:23:28,669 --> 00:23:30,440 world where the devices in our lives in 637 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:32,870 our hands in our backpacks function best 638 00:23:32,870 --> 00:23:34,840 when they are constantly connected 639 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,399 constantly connected to power constantly 640 00:23:37,399 --> 00:23:38,809 connected to content constantly 641 00:23:38,809 --> 00:23:41,240 connected to the Internet as human 642 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:42,860 beings we function better when we are 643 00:23:42,860 --> 00:23:45,740 intermittently disconnected that's why 644 00:23:45,740 --> 00:23:47,659 in most major world religions there is a 645 00:23:47,659 --> 00:23:49,490 time for meditation and a time for 646 00:23:49,490 --> 00:23:51,500 prayer a time for retreat that's why 647 00:23:51,500 --> 00:23:52,940 historically there was nighttime in 648 00:23:52,940 --> 00:23:55,639 daytime we have bled those things into 649 00:23:55,639 --> 00:23:57,230 each other in really complicated ways 650 00:23:57,230 --> 00:23:59,679 but as human beings both our need for 651 00:23:59,679 --> 00:24:02,210 downtime and sleep but also for 652 00:24:02,210 --> 00:24:04,759 different patterns of use is hugely 653 00:24:04,759 --> 00:24:06,799 important and it's something that is 654 00:24:06,799 --> 00:24:08,629 always kind of worried and argued about 655 00:24:08,629 --> 00:24:10,370 right the Industrial Revolution changed 656 00:24:10,370 --> 00:24:12,139 our ideas of time so did indoor lighting 657 00:24:12,139 --> 00:24:14,899 so has the Internet but this notion that 658 00:24:14,899 --> 00:24:16,399 we want to know that the day is 659 00:24:16,399 --> 00:24:17,870 different from the night that weeks are 660 00:24:17,870 --> 00:24:19,580 different from weekends that time zones 661 00:24:19,580 --> 00:24:22,009 matter is this really interesting space 662 00:24:22,009 --> 00:24:25,279 of anxiety and trouble and then last but 663 00:24:25,279 --> 00:24:28,580 by no means least we occasionally want 664 00:24:28,580 --> 00:24:30,769 to be forgotten I come from an 665 00:24:30,769 --> 00:24:32,149 engineering tradition where people 666 00:24:32,149 --> 00:24:34,639 constantly talk about how much memory we 667 00:24:34,639 --> 00:24:37,370 can use to basically upload the entire 668 00:24:37,370 --> 00:24:38,659 of everything that has ever happened to 669 00:24:38,659 --> 00:24:39,510 us as human beings 670 00:24:39,510 --> 00:24:41,760 the one day in the not so distant future 671 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,760 we'll be able to have everything we do 672 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,490 and think and say recorded and available 673 00:24:47,490 --> 00:24:50,280 to us and the reality is that's 674 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:53,310 terrifying as human beings we 675 00:24:53,310 --> 00:24:54,810 desperately want to forget some of the 676 00:24:54,810 --> 00:24:56,670 things that we said and some of the 677 00:24:56,670 --> 00:24:58,890 things that were said to us we don't 678 00:24:58,890 --> 00:25:00,480 want to have to be remembered for 679 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:03,300 everything we ever did think about the 680 00:25:03,300 --> 00:25:04,830 fights that are going on in Europe right 681 00:25:04,830 --> 00:25:07,350 now about the right to be forgotten what 682 00:25:07,350 --> 00:25:08,910 does it mean to have parts of the things 683 00:25:08,910 --> 00:25:11,130 that you did not always on the internet 684 00:25:11,130 --> 00:25:13,530 in full color for the rest of eternity 685 00:25:13,530 --> 00:25:16,050 and I think there's a piece here about 686 00:25:16,050 --> 00:25:17,910 what makes us human about not wanting to 687 00:25:17,910 --> 00:25:19,740 be remembered but also wanting to be 688 00:25:19,740 --> 00:25:21,930 able to be I know this sounds odd coming 689 00:25:21,930 --> 00:25:23,430 from a technologist but wanting to be 690 00:25:23,430 --> 00:25:24,990 forgiven I think it's not just forgotten 691 00:25:24,990 --> 00:25:27,390 but forgive him so where does that leave 692 00:25:27,390 --> 00:25:29,820 us I think it's these 10 things to pay 693 00:25:29,820 --> 00:25:33,030 attention to so if you are designing new 694 00:25:33,030 --> 00:25:34,950 technology if you're thinking about how 695 00:25:34,950 --> 00:25:36,420 to raise kids in an era of digital 696 00:25:36,420 --> 00:25:38,310 technologies if you're thinking about 697 00:25:38,310 --> 00:25:40,560 where your next business might be if you 698 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:42,050 plated the column on though 699 00:25:42,050 --> 00:25:45,120 gosh I can do this on the left hand side 700 00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:47,280 or in the blue you'll always have a hit 701 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:48,810 if you find something over there right 702 00:25:48,810 --> 00:25:50,070 because those are the places that work 703 00:25:50,070 --> 00:25:52,080 if you want to do something disruptive 704 00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:54,150 and unexpected it's on this side on the 705 00:25:54,150 --> 00:25:55,410 purple side on the right-hand side 706 00:25:55,410 --> 00:25:57,210 because those are the ones where there 707 00:25:57,210 --> 00:25:58,920 is the biggest opportunity to swage 708 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:00,720 people's anxieties and to do something 709 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,900 innovative but the reality is every time 710 00:26:03,900 --> 00:26:06,600 someone says to you everything is 711 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:08,100 different now everything is changing 712 00:26:08,100 --> 00:26:10,410 culture is changing really quickly if I 713 00:26:10,410 --> 00:26:12,090 can leave you with one thing it's that 714 00:26:12,090 --> 00:26:14,250 you should take a step back from that 715 00:26:14,250 --> 00:26:16,080 claim and ask the question is that 716 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:18,720 really true because while the technology 717 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:21,810 is changing really quickly the things we 718 00:26:21,810 --> 00:26:24,830 care about and the things we worry about 719 00:26:24,830 --> 00:26:27,300 haven't changed in hundreds of years and 720 00:26:27,300 --> 00:26:29,100 ultimately those are the things that 721 00:26:29,100 --> 00:26:31,410 make us human those are the things that 722 00:26:31,410 --> 00:26:33,900 give me hope and those are the things 723 00:26:33,900 --> 00:26:36,840 that will shape what the next 50 years 724 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:38,460 of technology looks like too so that's 725 00:26:38,460 --> 00:26:39,630 where all the opportunity is so with 726 00:26:39,630 --> 00:26:42,279 that I want to say thank you 727 00:26:42,279 --> 00:26:44,340 you