WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.360 It's my great pleasure to welcome Mark Beam. 2 00:00:02.540 --> 00:00:06.160 So Mark, he describes himself as a social architect, 3 00:00:06.520 --> 00:00:09.860 an entrepreneur, an impact investor and a cultural theorist. 4 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:13.000 He's obviously an explorer of different worlds. 5 00:00:13.240 --> 00:00:15.920 He's been in Wall Street, he's been in Silicon Valley 6 00:00:15.920 --> 00:00:20.560 and I had the pleasure of hearing him speak on Tuesday 7 00:00:20.560 --> 00:00:26.920 and he's one of those people that I like to describe as far-seeing. 8 00:00:26.920 --> 00:00:31.260 So I'm really excited that you're all here today 9 00:00:31.260 --> 00:00:38.240 to listen to and hear what Mark sees out there in the future. 10 00:00:38.460 --> 00:00:39.340 Welcome, Mark. 11 00:00:46.420 --> 00:00:48.900 So this is my first time to Australia 12 00:00:48.900 --> 00:00:51.860 and I've absolutely fallen in love with this country 13 00:00:51.860 --> 00:00:53.940 and I'll be back many times, just so you know. 14 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:56.900 I started in Byron Bay with the Towson, 15 00:00:56.920 --> 00:00:59.800 the tower and everything, the light tower, just incredible. 16 00:01:01.880 --> 00:01:06.180 So I'm going to try to go through a lot of things pretty quickly 17 00:01:06.180 --> 00:01:08.900 so that we have plenty of time for questions 18 00:01:10.740 --> 00:01:13.460 and we're crossing our fingers on some of the technology. 19 00:01:13.980 --> 00:01:18.380 So I want to start just by telling you a little bit about myself, right? 20 00:01:18.520 --> 00:01:20.400 Like, where is this guy coming from? 21 00:01:20.620 --> 00:01:22.900 So I grew up in the Midwest, in the United States. 22 00:01:23.100 --> 00:01:26.300 So it's tornado land. How many of you guys have tornadoes? 23 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:28.260 Anybody experienced a tornado? 24 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:29.520 Yeah, okay. 25 00:01:30.060 --> 00:01:32.020 Well, I was about 10, I think, 26 00:01:33.300 --> 00:01:35.280 with my mom and my brother and sister 27 00:01:35.280 --> 00:01:39.380 and a big storm came up and really the winds were howling 28 00:01:39.380 --> 00:01:43.500 and of course we went down the basement and, you know, 29 00:01:43.580 --> 00:01:46.020 sometimes tornadoes sound like trains, 30 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:47.400 they're just really, really powerful, 31 00:01:47.580 --> 00:01:51.280 but then suddenly you hit the eye of the storm 32 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:55.740 and it's complete stillness, just silence. 33 00:01:56.380 --> 00:01:56.900 It's just... 34 00:01:56.920 --> 00:02:00.240 And at this point my mom starts walking up the stairs 35 00:02:00.240 --> 00:02:02.660 and we're all screaming at her, 36 00:02:02.700 --> 00:02:03.320 what are you doing? 37 00:02:03.980 --> 00:02:04.780 Scared to death. 38 00:02:04.980 --> 00:02:08.420 And she's peeking out, outside the door. 39 00:02:09.060 --> 00:02:11.160 And it was only later that I really realized 40 00:02:11.920 --> 00:02:13.720 she just wanted to experience it. 41 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:15.800 She wanted just a little peek, you know, 42 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:17.860 just put her finger in the middle of that. 43 00:02:18.640 --> 00:02:20.500 And I think that's kind of... 44 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:22.140 It's been... 45 00:02:22.140 --> 00:02:24.140 It's serving as a great metaphor for me 46 00:02:24.140 --> 00:02:26.520 because that's essentially what I really like to do, is... 47 00:02:26.920 --> 00:02:30.300 is look for patterns, see these vortices 48 00:02:30.300 --> 00:02:32.420 and put my finger in the middle of them, 49 00:02:32.480 --> 00:02:35.660 try to figure them out and then maybe do something with them. 50 00:02:37.540 --> 00:02:39.140 So Buckminster Fuller says, 51 00:02:39.240 --> 00:02:41.400 if a person lives with integrity, 52 00:02:41.620 --> 00:02:43.840 he or she knows their shape. 53 00:02:44.100 --> 00:02:45.640 And so that's my shape. 54 00:02:47.200 --> 00:02:50.500 And the Aboriginal people here, I understand, 55 00:02:50.640 --> 00:02:55.480 call it Piri Lirpa, I think, is the essence of a person. 56 00:02:56.040 --> 00:02:56.560 And... 57 00:02:56.920 --> 00:02:59.440 I don't talk a lot about native peoples, 58 00:02:59.620 --> 00:03:01.660 but they really... 59 00:03:01.660 --> 00:03:04.880 And I've lived in Oaxaca, Mexico for quite a long time. 60 00:03:05.140 --> 00:03:06.740 I get... 61 00:03:06.740 --> 00:03:08.720 I kind of get where they're coming from. 62 00:03:08.820 --> 00:03:11.040 They had a really great system before we came. 63 00:03:11.380 --> 00:03:14.120 So this is sort of embedded and resonates 64 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:17.600 with a lot of Indigenous people, I think, so far. 65 00:03:18.020 --> 00:03:21.840 So one of the things that Buckminster Fuller really believed, 66 00:03:21.980 --> 00:03:26.900 and clearly he's one of my, if not my greatest heroes, 67 00:03:28.580 --> 00:03:29.140 is that... 68 00:03:29.140 --> 00:03:29.420 He always... 69 00:03:29.420 --> 00:03:31.360 He always would quote E. E. Cummings. 70 00:03:31.540 --> 00:03:32.280 He says, 71 00:03:32.300 --> 00:03:35.780 a lot of people think or believe or know they feel. 72 00:03:36.320 --> 00:03:38.700 But that's thinking or knowing or believing. 73 00:03:39.320 --> 00:03:42.440 Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know. 74 00:03:43.640 --> 00:03:45.960 But not a single human being... 75 00:03:46.940 --> 00:03:48.420 can be taught to feel. 76 00:03:48.780 --> 00:03:49.340 Why? 77 00:03:50.100 --> 00:03:51.580 Because when you think... 78 00:03:51.580 --> 00:03:53.100 or feel or know... 79 00:03:53.100 --> 00:03:54.540 you're a lot of other people. 80 00:03:54.740 --> 00:03:55.980 But when you feel... 81 00:03:55.980 --> 00:04:03.000 you're nobody but yourself. He believed everyone should be thinking for themselves and following 82 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:07.820 their own experience and intuition. And I call this primary experience, and it's really 83 00:04:07.820 --> 00:04:15.180 important. It'll come back. And it's part of what I call how I'm defining integrity 84 00:04:15.180 --> 00:04:22.620 as part of a whole system, beginning with individual integrity, being whole. So these 85 00:04:22.620 --> 00:04:27.300 are the things I'm going to be talking about. I'm going to talk about how everything is 86 00:04:27.300 --> 00:04:32.280 connected. I'm going to talk about how this increased connectedness increases our own 87 00:04:32.280 --> 00:04:37.200 well-being. Then we're going to dive into media and technology and talk about how it 88 00:04:37.200 --> 00:04:43.120 alters our senses and what it does to our collective experience and what impact it has 89 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:47.620 on human potential. And then I'm going to talk about a new paradigm that I think is 90 00:04:47.620 --> 00:04:51.480 evolving and how we need really a new operating system. 91 00:04:51.780 --> 00:04:52.600 And then I'm going to talk about the role of community还是还是 92 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:57.480 talk a little bit about environments and how environments, we shape environments and environments 93 00:04:57.480 --> 00:05:03.620 shape us. And then we'll get into a little bit of regenerative design, which leads to talking 94 00:05:03.620 --> 00:05:13.520 about world game. So everything is connected. So here we are in the Lanakieya supernova cluster, 95 00:05:14.540 --> 00:05:20.060 this infinite dot in infinite space, and the space is accelerating at an accelerating rate. 96 00:05:21.100 --> 00:05:25.520 Like he always said, start with the universe. So if you're going to look at a whole system, 97 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:32.080 look at the largest scale. Well, this is the largest scale, right? But the way I understand, 98 00:05:32.220 --> 00:05:38.060 if you go to the next level, our own solar system, it's much different than now, 99 00:05:38.180 --> 00:05:40.420 our understanding than it was when I grew up. 100 00:05:52.140 --> 00:05:59.680 So this is the familiar view, right? Like there's the sun, all the planets rotating around the sun. 101 00:06:03.400 --> 00:06:08.340 Simple. The reality is we're traveling at 70,000 kilometers per hour 102 00:06:08.340 --> 00:06:11.000 through space. And remember, the space is expanding. 103 00:06:16.220 --> 00:06:19.300 So there's, there's us, the third rock from the sun. 104 00:06:20.060 --> 00:06:26.880 In this perfect, environmentally controlled, eternally regenerative spaceship, spaceship Earth. 105 00:06:31.500 --> 00:06:37.040 And so the Earth is really just, it's a comet. And we're following this comet. 106 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:46.040 And if you see, you could start to see that essentially at a fundamental level, 107 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:50.040 we're a vortex of energy and light. That's what it is. 108 00:06:50.060 --> 00:06:53.980 It really is. It's just this vortex of energy and light. 109 00:06:55.300 --> 00:06:59.400 And would it be surprising that we'd see those patterns in nature, the spirals? 110 00:06:59.460 --> 00:07:01.220 I mean, it's all connected, right? 111 00:07:02.380 --> 00:07:08.020 And not only that, it's part of a living system that breathes. 112 00:07:09.080 --> 00:07:15.360 So this is a one satellite image from, of the Earth in May. 113 00:07:16.700 --> 00:07:18.940 And if you combine 12 different, 114 00:07:18.960 --> 00:07:20.040 12 different satellites, you can see that the Earth is connected to the sun. 115 00:07:20.040 --> 00:07:22.040 And if you take 12 different months and put them in a loop, 116 00:07:23.240 --> 00:07:24.400 same perspective, 117 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:32.980 you can be, you can begin to see that the Earth is breathing. 118 00:07:35.620 --> 00:07:43.820 We breathe in and plants grow, flowers bloom, the animals reproduce. 119 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:45.960 We breathe out and it's winter. 120 00:07:50.640 --> 00:07:51.200 We breathe in and it's winter. 121 00:07:51.200 --> 00:07:53.200 So that's the system that we're in. 122 00:07:53.400 --> 00:07:56.520 Okay, well, where does man fit into there? 123 00:07:56.620 --> 00:08:01.520 Well, Leonardo da Vinci believed that the workings of the human body were analogous 124 00:08:01.520 --> 00:08:02.800 for the workings of the universe. 125 00:08:03.040 --> 00:08:08.000 And Bucky thought that man was really this experimental initiative of the universe. 126 00:08:08.460 --> 00:08:11.860 He said, man is born with legs, not roots. 127 00:08:12.480 --> 00:08:16.400 The principal advantage as a species is his mobility. 128 00:08:17.200 --> 00:08:19.040 And we got really mobile. 129 00:08:19.300 --> 00:08:24.340 As a species, we took off for the farthest reaches of the Earth. 130 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:29.860 We're really just information gatherers and problem solvers in these isolated environments 131 00:08:29.860 --> 00:08:32.840 that experiments in survival. 132 00:08:33.520 --> 00:08:42.300 And along the way, we create these tools like language that allows us to share this adaptive behavior more easily. 133 00:08:42.460 --> 00:08:45.800 And other tools that we'll talk about. 134 00:08:46.500 --> 00:08:48.760 And then, because, 135 00:08:49.300 --> 00:08:52.860 once our transportation networks started to arise, 136 00:08:53.100 --> 00:08:57.000 we started to reconnect ourselves with this, 137 00:08:57.120 --> 00:09:00.740 with ourselves, basically, these isolated regions. 138 00:09:00.860 --> 00:09:03.400 Leonardo da Vinci was born near Florence. 139 00:09:03.700 --> 00:09:08.040 Known throughout Europe, he was employed by the King of France late in his life. 140 00:09:08.260 --> 00:09:10.360 He died in Amboise in the Loire. 141 00:09:11.540 --> 00:09:18.780 Da Vinci is one of over a hundred thousand notable people whose birthplaces and deathbeds have been mapped in this animation. 142 00:09:21.580 --> 00:09:26.200 It's the work of a team led by Maximilian Schich, based at the University of Texas. 143 00:09:26.460 --> 00:09:29.460 The team wanted to chart hundreds of years of culture. 144 00:09:30.180 --> 00:09:32.100 Births are blue, deaths are red. 145 00:09:33.380 --> 00:09:34.940 Let's start in the Far East. 146 00:09:35.500 --> 00:09:39.240 This is 17th century Japan, just opening up to the West. 147 00:09:39.680 --> 00:09:42.580 Many of these names are Christian missionaries to the country. 148 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:45.000 Some persecuted here for their faith. 149 00:09:47.480 --> 00:09:49.280 In 19th century Australia, 150 00:09:49.280 --> 00:09:52.020 migration from Europe increases the traffic. 151 00:09:52.920 --> 00:09:56.300 If you watch this full screen, you might make out some names. 152 00:09:56.480 --> 00:10:00.280 Among them, the infamous bushranger Ned Kelly, born in the 1850s. 153 00:10:00.920 --> 00:10:04.760 His father was Irish, transported to Australia for stealing pigs. 154 00:10:07.780 --> 00:10:10.080 Back in time now, to the Roman Empire. 155 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:16.160 So, we're taking our wisdom, our knowledge, from wherever we started from, 156 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:18.000 and we're connecting it 157 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:20.440 with the rest of the world. 158 00:10:20.600 --> 00:10:23.980 And hubs start to form, called cities. 159 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:27.700 And that's where, they're essentially cultural centers 160 00:10:27.700 --> 00:10:29.780 where we can share this adaptive behavior. 161 00:10:30.640 --> 00:10:36.400 So, man's isolated experience in survival over the last 50,000 years 162 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:38.880 are slowly being reconnected. 163 00:10:39.760 --> 00:10:43.720 So, again, there's an integrity if you start from the largest scale. 164 00:10:44.200 --> 00:10:47.580 Everything is connected. We see these repeating patterns in nature. 165 00:10:47.580 --> 00:10:49.440 We're part of this living system. 166 00:10:49.680 --> 00:10:53.320 And man is, they're natural, by its nature, by man's nature, 167 00:10:53.440 --> 00:10:56.420 are information gatherers and problem solvers. 168 00:10:56.780 --> 00:10:58.540 And we want to share these solutions. 169 00:10:58.720 --> 00:10:59.900 We just do that intuitively. 170 00:11:00.680 --> 00:11:03.120 Okay, now I want to fast forward a bit. 171 00:11:04.260 --> 00:11:07.060 And I want to talk about how human potential is accelerating. 172 00:11:07.840 --> 00:11:11.040 So, Marshall McLuhan, another icon of the 60s. 173 00:11:11.500 --> 00:11:13.800 How many people know who Marshall McLuhan is? 174 00:11:14.020 --> 00:11:14.840 Yeah, wow. 175 00:11:14.840 --> 00:11:17.420 Yeah, I was told you guys are really smart people. 176 00:11:19.560 --> 00:11:21.160 But he kind of disappeared. 177 00:11:21.760 --> 00:11:27.500 But one of the things he said was technologies are really just extensions of our senses. 178 00:11:27.560 --> 00:11:30.020 That the automobile is an extension of our foot. 179 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:33.340 That the telephone is an extension of our voice. 180 00:11:33.760 --> 00:11:39.600 And that we've, not only that, but these media are coming at a faster pace, 181 00:11:39.700 --> 00:11:42.420 which is accelerating us even forward, just like the universe. 182 00:11:42.980 --> 00:11:44.820 So, like, it took over 100 minutes to get to the point where we're like, 183 00:11:44.840 --> 00:11:49.300 oh, it took 120 years for the automobile and the telephone to reach full market penetration, 184 00:11:50.120 --> 00:11:51.740 however that is defined. 185 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:56.060 It took 60 to 70 years for television and radio. 186 00:11:56.200 --> 00:11:59.380 It took 20 to 25 years for the internet. 187 00:11:59.540 --> 00:12:01.340 And it took a few weeks for Pokemon Go. 188 00:12:03.920 --> 00:12:05.940 And we're attached to these things. 189 00:12:06.220 --> 00:12:07.380 We don't want to let them go. 190 00:12:07.520 --> 00:12:10.800 On average, we pick them up 85 times a day. 191 00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:13.000 We spend 50 minutes on Facebook. 192 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:15.000 We want this connection. 193 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:16.160 We just seek it out. 194 00:12:16.220 --> 00:12:17.460 It's just part of who we are. 195 00:12:17.700 --> 00:12:20.600 And as we do, we see this steep curve. 196 00:12:20.680 --> 00:12:23.560 We can feel this acceleration now. 197 00:12:23.720 --> 00:12:28.700 All of you that are my age or older understand, probably younger too, 198 00:12:28.820 --> 00:12:31.940 but you can actually feel this acceleration. 199 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:34.720 And the acceleration itself is accelerating. 200 00:12:35.160 --> 00:12:40.780 And I don't know if you've noticed, but we're in this era of driverless cars. 201 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:42.920 Machines like Watson. 202 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:49.360 That are doing medical diagnosis better and faster than doctors themselves. 203 00:12:49.960 --> 00:12:52.860 And we can actually just take water from the air. 204 00:12:53.620 --> 00:12:57.320 And that we're now suddenly in a space race to Mars. 205 00:12:57.740 --> 00:13:00.060 So you can really feel this. 206 00:13:00.300 --> 00:13:05.940 So not only is man's experience over the last 50,000 years being reconnected, 207 00:13:05.960 --> 00:13:09.180 it's now instantaneously accessible to us. 208 00:13:11.220 --> 00:13:12.460 So what happens? 209 00:13:12.460 --> 00:13:13.520 What has happened? 210 00:13:13.780 --> 00:13:17.200 Well, a big result is that our well-being goes up. 211 00:13:17.300 --> 00:13:18.560 We're living longer. 212 00:13:19.320 --> 00:13:23.100 Our child mortality rates around the world are going down. 213 00:13:25.420 --> 00:13:26.960 Our health is better. 214 00:13:28.160 --> 00:13:29.900 So why don't things feel right? 215 00:13:30.120 --> 00:13:35.220 Why do we feel like there's something not right? 216 00:13:35.380 --> 00:13:36.600 Why do we have all these conflicts? 217 00:13:36.740 --> 00:13:40.580 Why do we have a reality TV presidential campaign in my country? 218 00:13:41.240 --> 00:13:44.280 Why can't we really get our hands around climate change? 219 00:13:44.940 --> 00:13:50.100 I think to understand that, I think we have to think about our world views and our world paradigms. 220 00:13:50.980 --> 00:13:53.260 So a world view is just a frame. 221 00:13:53.420 --> 00:13:55.440 It's just how we see the universe. 222 00:13:55.520 --> 00:13:56.560 How we see the world. 223 00:13:56.800 --> 00:13:59.760 And it starts when we're born with family and friends. 224 00:14:00.180 --> 00:14:02.040 Our tribes, our cities. 225 00:14:02.160 --> 00:14:06.760 And through culture and behavior of the places that we grew up with. 226 00:14:07.140 --> 00:14:09.920 But eventually, these coalesce. 227 00:14:09.920 --> 00:14:13.220 Have coalesced in dominant world paradigms. 228 00:14:13.800 --> 00:14:17.920 And it's most evident in the largest structures on the planet. 229 00:14:18.060 --> 00:14:19.840 So beginning with the pyramids. 230 00:14:20.220 --> 00:14:24.020 Which were essentially tombs for the kings to reach the gods. 231 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:26.100 Multiple gods in charge of their destiny. 232 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:32.260 To the steeples that we see throughout villages and cities around the world. 233 00:14:32.760 --> 00:14:35.580 That were for a long time the largest building. 234 00:14:35.680 --> 00:14:38.180 A single god in charge of our destiny. 235 00:14:38.180 --> 00:14:40.220 And then we have commerce. 236 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:43.640 Skyscrapers and money as our god. 237 00:14:43.740 --> 00:14:45.760 Our pathway. 238 00:14:46.760 --> 00:14:50.800 But that's not the largest structure anymore. 239 00:14:51.280 --> 00:14:52.580 The internet is. 240 00:14:52.760 --> 00:14:53.500 By far. 241 00:14:53.840 --> 00:14:57.760 It's the largest, most complicated structure man has ever built. 242 00:14:57.880 --> 00:15:00.860 With cables under seas and satellites. 243 00:15:01.180 --> 00:15:04.300 And millions and millions of computers networked together. 244 00:15:04.500 --> 00:15:08.160 In fact, McLuhan thought that with the arrival of the internet. 245 00:15:08.160 --> 00:15:09.280 With the arrival of electric technology. 246 00:15:09.340 --> 00:15:10.320 Which is instant. 247 00:15:10.640 --> 00:15:13.480 That he extended outside of himself. 248 00:15:13.640 --> 00:15:17.000 A model of his own nervous system. 249 00:15:17.800 --> 00:15:21.520 But the thing is that these media alter our senses. 250 00:15:22.360 --> 00:15:27.660 And he pointed to research that showed that these technologies. 251 00:15:27.880 --> 00:15:29.480 Even though they're extensions of ourselves. 252 00:15:29.760 --> 00:15:31.320 Are not connected to our brain stems. 253 00:15:31.940 --> 00:15:36.240 So that we can't naturally trust our intuition and our experience. 254 00:15:36.240 --> 00:15:37.520 We have to really pay attention. 255 00:15:37.820 --> 00:15:39.400 We have to look for the effects. 256 00:15:39.680 --> 00:15:41.760 And that's why he coined the phrase. 257 00:15:41.900 --> 00:15:42.940 The medium is the message. 258 00:15:43.040 --> 00:15:44.240 Look at the mediums. 259 00:15:44.300 --> 00:15:46.580 And what structures embedded in them. 260 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:49.700 Look at what the railroad did to people. 261 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:51.920 Or the television. 262 00:15:51.940 --> 00:15:57.020 When a few strong networks started to program our vision. 263 00:15:57.240 --> 00:15:58.700 In our own living room. 264 00:15:59.060 --> 00:16:00.060 Or the internet. 265 00:16:00.280 --> 00:16:01.260 Which by definition. 266 00:16:01.340 --> 00:16:03.420 It's underlying code is TCPIP. 267 00:16:03.980 --> 00:16:05.600 Which essentially means. 268 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:07.700 Any node can talk to any other node. 269 00:16:08.140 --> 00:16:10.180 So it's very democratic. 270 00:16:10.560 --> 00:16:12.300 Anybody can talk to anybody else. 271 00:16:12.400 --> 00:16:13.100 And look what happened. 272 00:16:13.300 --> 00:16:15.960 And that decentralization gets embodied. 273 00:16:16.380 --> 00:16:17.820 In our society. 274 00:16:18.860 --> 00:16:20.580 We'll see what happens with VR. 275 00:16:20.740 --> 00:16:21.840 Maybe we'll talk about it later. 276 00:16:22.800 --> 00:16:23.700 But McLuhan said. 277 00:16:23.780 --> 00:16:25.500 Unlike previous environmental changes. 278 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:28.460 The electronic media constitutes a total. 279 00:16:28.780 --> 00:16:32.400 And near instantaneous transformation of culture. 280 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:34.140 This all at once-ness. 281 00:16:34.140 --> 00:16:36.240 He said there are no remote places. 282 00:16:36.300 --> 00:16:37.700 Under instant circuitry. 283 00:16:38.340 --> 00:16:40.240 Nothing is remote in time or space. 284 00:16:40.840 --> 00:16:42.160 In the electric age. 285 00:16:42.260 --> 00:16:44.440 We wear all mankind as our skin. 286 00:16:44.760 --> 00:16:46.240 But the unique thing is. 287 00:16:46.360 --> 00:16:49.240 Is that man can pay attention to his environment. 288 00:16:49.520 --> 00:16:50.500 And alter it. 289 00:16:50.920 --> 00:16:53.920 That's where he got to the idea of this global village. 290 00:16:54.220 --> 00:16:56.560 And he thought the violence that we're experiencing. 291 00:16:57.020 --> 00:16:59.480 He was really very far ahead of his time. 292 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:00.840 He was really speaking to us. 293 00:17:01.320 --> 00:17:03.020 And I think Bucky was as well. 294 00:17:03.020 --> 00:17:06.460 If you listen to their YouTube videos now. 295 00:17:06.580 --> 00:17:09.420 It's like they're commenting on exactly what's happening right now. 296 00:17:09.900 --> 00:17:12.280 But he thought that violence was. 297 00:17:12.500 --> 00:17:16.000 Well if suddenly you're a part of this whole global thing. 298 00:17:16.260 --> 00:17:18.040 You're just so small. 299 00:17:18.340 --> 00:17:23.740 That this violence was essentially a reaction to a lack of identity. 300 00:17:25.300 --> 00:17:26.840 But on the other hand. 301 00:17:26.860 --> 00:17:28.220 You have the power of the individual. 302 00:17:28.540 --> 00:17:30.340 To conduct his own education. 303 00:17:31.280 --> 00:17:32.680 Find his own inspiration. 304 00:17:32.680 --> 00:17:34.580 Shape his own environment. 305 00:17:34.740 --> 00:17:37.420 And share this adventure with whomever he chooses. 306 00:17:37.500 --> 00:17:38.200 Or she chooses. 307 00:17:38.840 --> 00:17:40.960 But we have to connect this narrative. 308 00:17:41.020 --> 00:17:42.120 This story of ourselves. 309 00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:44.280 Back to our embodied environment. 310 00:17:44.740 --> 00:17:48.620 We've been so gripped with this internet. 311 00:17:48.900 --> 00:17:52.340 And maybe that explains part of our election in the United States. 312 00:17:52.780 --> 00:17:56.620 It's like this reality TV show of our own nervous system. 313 00:17:56.720 --> 00:17:57.480 And we're watching it. 314 00:17:57.640 --> 00:17:58.280 And meanwhile. 315 00:17:58.780 --> 00:18:01.100 We're disconnected from the earth. 316 00:18:01.760 --> 00:18:02.660 So in the end. 317 00:18:02.660 --> 00:18:03.540 And in that context. 318 00:18:03.540 --> 00:18:07.660 I really see three world paradigms playing themselves out right now. 319 00:18:07.860 --> 00:18:10.400 And of course the industrial age is not over. 320 00:18:10.600 --> 00:18:13.980 This mechanized hierarchical. 321 00:18:14.580 --> 00:18:15.980 Every man for himself. 322 00:18:17.920 --> 00:18:18.480 Scarcity. 323 00:18:18.520 --> 00:18:19.560 There's not enough to go around. 324 00:18:19.860 --> 00:18:21.020 And the operating system. 325 00:18:21.860 --> 00:18:22.420 Capitalism. 326 00:18:23.180 --> 00:18:25.560 But the new paradigm I see. 327 00:18:25.560 --> 00:18:27.700 Is a living system. 328 00:18:27.900 --> 00:18:28.520 Just at this. 329 00:18:28.600 --> 00:18:32.800 A different level of this scale that we saw from the beginning of this presentation. 330 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:36.100 Where knowledge sharing is where it's at. 331 00:18:36.440 --> 00:18:38.800 This is how our well-being goes up. 332 00:18:39.300 --> 00:18:41.640 We have abundance if we share. 333 00:18:43.140 --> 00:18:45.060 It is an abundant scenario. 334 00:18:45.300 --> 00:18:48.420 But we don't have the operating system for it yet. 335 00:18:49.400 --> 00:18:51.580 So we're in this third paradigm. 336 00:18:51.740 --> 00:18:53.080 Sort of betwixt and between. 337 00:18:53.800 --> 00:18:54.400 Where. 338 00:18:54.400 --> 00:18:56.520 We have one step forward. 339 00:18:56.580 --> 00:18:58.140 With things like open source. 340 00:18:58.620 --> 00:19:00.280 And creative commons licensing. 341 00:19:00.500 --> 00:19:01.280 Social entrepreneurship. 342 00:19:01.640 --> 00:19:02.380 Impact investing. 343 00:19:02.840 --> 00:19:03.880 And the sharing economy. 344 00:19:04.480 --> 00:19:06.600 Except the sharing economy is still. 345 00:19:06.860 --> 00:19:07.680 If you look at Uber. 346 00:19:07.840 --> 00:19:08.820 Or you look at Airbnb. 347 00:19:09.380 --> 00:19:13.040 The fruit of that productivity isn't shared with its employees. 348 00:19:13.460 --> 00:19:15.120 Or the people that use it. 349 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:16.140 It's not. 350 00:19:16.240 --> 00:19:18.980 That productivity is being held by few. 351 00:19:19.260 --> 00:19:20.520 And a lot of times. 352 00:19:20.560 --> 00:19:22.440 It's held in financial capital. 353 00:19:22.540 --> 00:19:24.080 It doesn't go back into our system. 354 00:19:25.020 --> 00:19:25.580 So. 355 00:19:27.020 --> 00:19:28.140 The discovery. 356 00:19:28.560 --> 00:19:30.760 And knowledge sharing is our new paradigm. 357 00:19:30.860 --> 00:19:32.400 But we need a new operating system. 358 00:19:33.020 --> 00:19:34.140 And this is. 359 00:19:34.200 --> 00:19:37.240 This idea of a post-capitalist society. 360 00:19:38.320 --> 00:19:39.280 Is not new. 361 00:19:39.420 --> 00:19:40.040 Peter Drucker. 362 00:19:40.080 --> 00:19:42.440 One of the most infamous business authors. 363 00:19:42.740 --> 00:19:43.700 By far. 364 00:19:43.960 --> 00:19:46.800 Was writing about this in the early 90s. 365 00:19:46.860 --> 00:19:49.440 There's a great book called post-capitalism by Paul Mason. 366 00:19:49.740 --> 00:19:51.600 The economics editor for the Guardian. 367 00:19:51.760 --> 00:19:52.580 I highly recommend. 368 00:19:53.320 --> 00:19:53.880 And. 369 00:19:53.880 --> 00:19:54.060 He wrote a book called. 370 00:19:54.080 --> 00:19:54.120 The 371 00:19:54.120 --> 00:19:56.280 And as we do this. 372 00:19:56.280 --> 00:19:59.300 You're starting to see economists talking about this. 373 00:19:59.300 --> 00:20:02.160 We see experiments in basic income. 374 00:20:02.160 --> 00:20:05.680 Because work and automation don't necessarily go together. 375 00:20:06.360 --> 00:20:06.960 People. 376 00:20:06.960 --> 00:20:09.360 Enlightened leaders are starting to give their companies. 377 00:20:09.360 --> 00:20:12.400 Or sell their companies back to their employees. 378 00:20:12.560 --> 00:20:13.320 So. 379 00:20:13.320 --> 00:20:14.260 Just to summarize. 380 00:20:14.260 --> 00:20:15.960 Our worldview structure our thoughts. 381 00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:19.400 The dominant world paradigms coalesce. 382 00:20:19.400 --> 00:20:22.840 Our collective experience is instantaneously accessible. 383 00:20:22.840 --> 00:20:23.660 Our new paradigm is sharing. 384 00:20:23.660 --> 00:20:25.420 But we need a new operating system. 385 00:20:26.900 --> 00:20:27.540 And I. 386 00:20:27.620 --> 00:20:28.100 And I think. 387 00:20:28.180 --> 00:20:30.020 To make the other bridge. 388 00:20:30.120 --> 00:20:31.540 Between that worldview. 389 00:20:31.920 --> 00:20:33.300 That I'm sharing with you today. 390 00:20:33.740 --> 00:20:35.720 And how you really embody it. 391 00:20:35.760 --> 00:20:36.780 This new paradigm. 392 00:20:37.080 --> 00:20:39.660 I think we have to talk about what I call social architecture. 393 00:20:40.360 --> 00:20:41.620 And another thing. 394 00:20:41.780 --> 00:20:42.120 You know. 395 00:20:42.320 --> 00:20:43.280 Bucky would say. 396 00:20:43.420 --> 00:20:44.420 Is don't change man. 397 00:20:44.620 --> 00:20:45.380 Change the environment. 398 00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:45.900 Well. 399 00:20:46.040 --> 00:20:48.560 That might create some confusion. 400 00:20:48.820 --> 00:20:49.560 But if. 401 00:20:49.660 --> 00:20:50.900 Based on what I've said so far. 402 00:20:51.020 --> 00:20:53.280 Man is perfectly suited. 403 00:20:53.660 --> 00:20:54.720 For this environment. 404 00:20:55.600 --> 00:20:57.340 But he needs to change his environment. 405 00:20:58.340 --> 00:20:58.860 Um. 406 00:21:01.920 --> 00:21:03.400 We shape our environment. 407 00:21:03.640 --> 00:21:05.260 And the environment shapes us. 408 00:21:05.360 --> 00:21:05.860 We become. 409 00:21:06.240 --> 00:21:07.280 What we behold. 410 00:21:07.500 --> 00:21:10.280 We build the tools and then the tools build us. 411 00:21:10.920 --> 00:21:12.800 Our thoughts shape our spaces. 412 00:21:13.160 --> 00:21:15.160 And our spaces shape our thoughts. 413 00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:19.420 It's been said many times in different ways, but it's the same idea. 414 00:21:19.600 --> 00:21:20.580 It's just like the Internet. 415 00:21:20.840 --> 00:21:23.280 That the any any node can talk to any node. 416 00:21:23.280 --> 00:21:28.700 playing itself out in the decentralized world we're seeing being created. 417 00:21:29.060 --> 00:21:31.600 But we can alter that. We can change it. 418 00:21:33.020 --> 00:21:36.680 So just a few first principles about regenerative design, 419 00:21:36.840 --> 00:21:40.440 because regenerative design is sort of where I view as the leading edge of sustainability, 420 00:21:41.400 --> 00:21:48.060 where you can start to see ecosystems being molded in ways like as an architect shapes buildings. 421 00:21:48.420 --> 00:21:50.920 And you have to start with primary experience. 422 00:21:50.920 --> 00:21:56.500 We have to go back to start trusting our own experience and our own intuition, everyone. 423 00:21:56.740 --> 00:21:58.860 That's fundamental if we want integrity. 424 00:21:59.220 --> 00:22:03.220 From a structural integrity, these two guys had it nailed. 425 00:22:03.460 --> 00:22:06.060 And I think the more you listen to them, the more you'll see 426 00:22:06.060 --> 00:22:10.580 that we really have to pay attention to the effects of our media. 427 00:22:12.400 --> 00:22:14.540 How is that going to change us? 428 00:22:15.120 --> 00:22:18.000 What if it changes us as much as the Internet itself did? 429 00:22:19.400 --> 00:22:20.380 We can do this. 430 00:22:20.420 --> 00:22:20.900 And he thought... 431 00:22:20.920 --> 00:22:27.720 He thought too, like Bucky, they were working at the electric frequency, 432 00:22:28.740 --> 00:22:30.040 so everything's instantaneous. 433 00:22:30.580 --> 00:22:34.580 Bucky was the first designer in history to understand structure as a pattern 434 00:22:34.580 --> 00:22:37.620 comprised entirely of energy and information, 435 00:22:37.980 --> 00:22:42.680 that social and natural environments are fluid and can be adaptive. 436 00:22:43.480 --> 00:22:45.500 And he called this synergetics. 437 00:22:47.280 --> 00:22:50.100 So it's no longer just to say, 438 00:22:50.100 --> 00:22:53.100 oh, there's a problem, let's find a solution. 439 00:22:53.660 --> 00:22:57.820 Because we don't know most of the time what the unintended consequences 440 00:22:57.820 --> 00:22:59.740 on the rest of the system are. 441 00:22:59.960 --> 00:23:06.100 And now that this world, this information environment that we have is speeding us up, 442 00:23:06.940 --> 00:23:09.100 we can't react in time. 443 00:23:09.220 --> 00:23:10.660 We have to start thinking in patterns. 444 00:23:11.540 --> 00:23:15.360 And I think regenerative enterprises are one step in that direction. 445 00:23:15.700 --> 00:23:19.280 So regenerative design is just simply whole systems 446 00:23:19.280 --> 00:23:23.240 where man partners with nature, complements. 447 00:23:24.680 --> 00:23:26.040 So here's some first principles. 448 00:23:26.320 --> 00:23:27.580 Things like potential. 449 00:23:27.680 --> 00:23:30.940 Instead of the problem-solution sort of mentality, 450 00:23:31.440 --> 00:23:32.620 we look at the potential. 451 00:23:33.040 --> 00:23:37.140 So if you're in a space where things are coming at you and things are changing, 452 00:23:37.640 --> 00:23:40.400 well, you look for patterns and you start looking at the potential, 453 00:23:40.620 --> 00:23:44.200 just like you would as a parent to a child. 454 00:23:44.340 --> 00:23:46.100 You don't see all their errors. 455 00:23:46.120 --> 00:23:48.000 What you're seeing is, you know, what the... 456 00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:48.440 What... 457 00:23:48.440 --> 00:23:49.660 Who are they? 458 00:23:49.720 --> 00:23:51.340 What's the essence of that child? 459 00:23:52.040 --> 00:23:58.140 So we need to take that same kind of view into our non-profits, our for-profits, 460 00:23:58.260 --> 00:23:59.160 our government structures. 461 00:24:00.560 --> 00:24:01.160 Development. 462 00:24:01.180 --> 00:24:02.580 Development in a different sense. 463 00:24:02.660 --> 00:24:08.260 Not development in the sense of just growth like we typically think of it, but the actual word, 464 00:24:08.340 --> 00:24:13.860 the definition of the world needs to unveil, to reveal a more intelligent, 465 00:24:14.640 --> 00:24:18.420 to have a more intelligent understanding of the present environment. 466 00:24:20.160 --> 00:24:24.800 Nodes, acupressure points, the world has places where they're more sensitive. 467 00:24:25.780 --> 00:24:27.480 And reciprocity, this mutual... 468 00:24:27.480 --> 00:24:30.780 This instinct for mutual cooperation and empathy. 469 00:24:32.680 --> 00:24:34.360 So systemic integrity. 470 00:24:34.800 --> 00:24:39.860 So this is where, you know, the operating system comes in at one level. 471 00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:42.340 And this is where I want to jump to talking about World Game. 472 00:24:42.560 --> 00:24:44.820 World Game was Bucky's biggest idea. 473 00:24:45.900 --> 00:24:48.400 And he grew up in this environment. 474 00:24:48.400 --> 00:24:51.920 He was born in 1895. 475 00:24:52.560 --> 00:24:57.640 So one of his first significant experiences was radio. 476 00:24:58.080 --> 00:24:59.200 So he had a real... 477 00:24:59.200 --> 00:25:00.680 Like that was his, you know... 478 00:25:00.680 --> 00:25:01.740 And he was a smart guy. 479 00:25:01.880 --> 00:25:06.420 He got kicked out of Harvard twice, but not because he wasn't smart enough. 480 00:25:06.820 --> 00:25:15.900 But he was immediately immersed in radio, and very particularly as a shipboard operator 481 00:25:15.900 --> 00:25:18.220 of the radio communication system. 482 00:25:18.400 --> 00:25:18.800 And then he finally got to follow the 483 00:25:18.800 --> 00:25:20.220 World war one. 484 00:25:20.220 --> 00:25:28.960 And this was sort of the beginning of this awareness of the military. 485 00:25:28.960 --> 00:25:34.060 Who very interestingly, take a very comprehensive approach. 486 00:25:34.060 --> 00:25:37.080 They look at things comprehensively. 487 00:25:37.080 --> 00:25:38.680 And so he found that really interesting. 488 00:25:38.680 --> 00:25:44.940 And in fact, he even built structures, some of the geodesic domes that many of you may 489 00:25:44.940 --> 00:25:45.720 be familiar with. 490 00:25:45.880 --> 00:25:53.280 He constructed one that were actually dropped by helicopters in remote places based on his 491 00:25:53.280 --> 00:25:57.600 idea of doing more with less, ephemeralization. 492 00:25:57.900 --> 00:26:00.360 That's what he thought was happening. 493 00:26:00.560 --> 00:26:04.820 And radio, electronics were a part of that progression. 494 00:26:06.020 --> 00:26:08.960 And it informs comments like this. 495 00:26:09.020 --> 00:26:17.060 In fact, he said, we have today, in fact, 150 supreme admirals and only one ship, spaceship 496 00:26:17.060 --> 00:26:17.540 Earth. 497 00:26:18.740 --> 00:26:25.380 And his singular mission really throughout his life was making the world work for 100% 498 00:26:25.380 --> 00:26:31.980 of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological 499 00:26:31.980 --> 00:26:34.340 offense to the disadvantage of anyone. 500 00:26:34.440 --> 00:26:34.800 Yeah. 501 00:26:34.820 --> 00:26:36.280 Talk about a big goal there. 502 00:26:37.220 --> 00:26:39.220 But I mean, he's serious. 503 00:26:39.580 --> 00:26:41.580 And he made great, great strides. 504 00:26:41.700 --> 00:26:47.860 And a lot of it had to do with these domes, which he started by just looking for the strongest 505 00:26:49.540 --> 00:26:52.120 structures, the minimal strongest structures. 506 00:26:52.520 --> 00:26:59.440 Later they would discover a carbon molecule that they later named after him, the Buckminster 507 00:26:59.440 --> 00:27:00.040 fullerene. 508 00:27:00.280 --> 00:27:04.420 And so this is what informed his thinking about these domes. 509 00:27:04.420 --> 00:27:08.020 And then he called the 510 00:27:12.600 --> 00:27:12.960 ! 511 00:27:12.960 --> 00:27:14.080 Isn't that cool? 512 00:27:14.080 --> 00:27:14.100 Isn't that cool? 513 00:27:14.100 --> 00:27:14.700 Isn't that cool? 514 00:27:14.700 --> 00:27:14.800 Isn't that cool? 515 00:27:14.800 --> 00:27:16.200 Isn't that cool? 516 00:27:16.200 --> 00:27:16.240 Isn't that cool? 517 00:27:16.240 --> 00:27:18.200 Isn't that cool? 518 00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:19.920 Isn't that cool? 519 00:27:19.920 --> 00:27:19.960 Isn't that cool? 520 00:27:19.960 --> 00:27:20.660 Isn't that cool? 521 00:27:20.660 --> 00:27:20.840 Isn't that cool? 522 00:27:20.840 --> 00:27:20.900 Isn't that cool? 523 00:27:20.900 --> 00:27:21.100 Isn't that cool? 524 00:27:21.100 --> 00:27:22.520 Isn't that cool? 525 00:27:22.520 --> 00:27:23.840 Isn't that cool? 526 00:27:23.840 --> 00:27:24.840 Isn't that cool? 527 00:27:24.840 --> 00:27:28.160 Isn't that cool? 528 00:27:28.160 --> 00:27:31.860 Isn't that cool? 529 00:27:31.860 --> 00:27:32.800 Isn't that cool? 530 00:27:32.800 --> 00:27:34.340 what he was really trying to do, he said, 531 00:27:34.500 --> 00:27:37.360 I can see the United States is falling out of favor 532 00:27:37.360 --> 00:27:40.280 with a lot of the rest of the world, 533 00:27:40.340 --> 00:27:45.800 so we need to do something that shows our global awareness and prowess. 534 00:27:46.060 --> 00:27:50.200 And so he suggested putting inside the dome 535 00:27:50.860 --> 00:27:54.140 a sphere about a third of the size of the dome, 536 00:27:54.260 --> 00:27:55.480 and he called it the geoscope. 537 00:27:56.040 --> 00:27:58.500 And as you entered from a balcony, 538 00:27:58.500 --> 00:28:03.460 you'd have a bird's-eye perspective of your own planet. 539 00:28:03.800 --> 00:28:06.420 And he was way out of his time, 540 00:28:06.560 --> 00:28:09.440 but he thought computers could actually, 541 00:28:10.640 --> 00:28:13.680 the combination of computers and LED lights, 542 00:28:13.820 --> 00:28:21.240 you could visualize flows of trade or migration or commerce in this, 543 00:28:21.340 --> 00:28:25.540 so that everybody could see at once the real world as it was happening. 544 00:28:26.340 --> 00:28:28.480 He was so taken with his ideas, 545 00:28:28.500 --> 00:28:30.500 he proposed it to the United Nations 546 00:28:30.500 --> 00:28:33.500 to actually put a geoscope right out in the harbor 547 00:28:33.500 --> 00:28:38.040 in front of the UN building so that all the leaders would see it. 548 00:28:38.920 --> 00:28:43.060 And he also imagined this sphere opening up 549 00:28:43.060 --> 00:28:45.360 and becoming a Dymaxion map. 550 00:28:45.560 --> 00:28:47.180 So he invented the Dymaxion map 551 00:28:47.180 --> 00:28:52.960 because our Mercadian maps are not correct. 552 00:28:53.380 --> 00:28:56.880 The size of the continents are not correct. 553 00:28:57.120 --> 00:28:57.860 So he... 554 00:28:58.480 --> 00:28:59.920 corrected that, flattened them out. 555 00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:04.020 Also, so you could see is that it's just one Earth island. 556 00:29:04.500 --> 00:29:05.580 We're all just... 557 00:29:05.580 --> 00:29:07.100 It was all part of one island. 558 00:29:07.140 --> 00:29:08.360 It is, and we're all connected. 559 00:29:09.720 --> 00:29:11.320 He called it a peace game. 560 00:29:12.820 --> 00:29:18.040 And he really thought that he could inspire individuals and leaders 561 00:29:18.040 --> 00:29:21.080 to start gaming their own environment. 562 00:29:28.480 --> 00:29:31.820 The OS in OS Earth stands for operating system. 563 00:29:32.060 --> 00:29:36.380 And OS Earth's school simulations use real world data. 564 00:29:36.600 --> 00:29:40.800 They use real world roles that students play. 565 00:29:41.040 --> 00:29:45.160 So this is a legacy project from the original work of Buggy. 566 00:29:45.640 --> 00:29:46.980 It still happens. 567 00:29:47.860 --> 00:29:49.400 And we're not going to see it because it's going to crash. 568 00:29:50.300 --> 00:29:51.180 All right. 569 00:29:51.300 --> 00:29:52.260 We need to... 570 00:29:54.520 --> 00:29:56.540 I'm taxing the systems here. 571 00:29:58.480 --> 00:30:00.200 But essentially, you know, 572 00:30:00.220 --> 00:30:04.600 Buggy thought of the world game as this world peace game. 573 00:30:04.860 --> 00:30:08.240 And he handed over the world game, 574 00:30:08.360 --> 00:30:12.800 which was something he really did on his own all around the world. 575 00:30:13.500 --> 00:30:15.640 Many, many people were influenced by him. 576 00:30:15.820 --> 00:30:20.800 But it got embodied after he died in a workshop for students 577 00:30:20.800 --> 00:30:25.140 and also for strategic meetings of big companies. 578 00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:27.480 So they would start understanding 579 00:30:27.480 --> 00:30:30.840 how to not only understand it, 580 00:30:30.900 --> 00:30:33.060 but to actually play the game. 581 00:30:33.320 --> 00:30:36.480 So there would be different... 582 00:30:37.300 --> 00:30:39.420 There'd be a large map on the floor. 583 00:30:40.260 --> 00:30:41.060 And he would say, 584 00:30:41.160 --> 00:30:44.200 30 of you go stand over in the United States 585 00:30:44.200 --> 00:30:45.960 and 100 of you over in China. 586 00:30:46.220 --> 00:30:49.000 So you'd actually feel the population. 587 00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:53.720 So what would the world game look like today 588 00:30:53.720 --> 00:30:55.860 if we take what's happened so far, 589 00:30:56.060 --> 00:30:57.000 given the... 590 00:30:57.000 --> 00:30:57.400 given the... 591 00:30:57.400 --> 00:30:57.460 given the... 592 00:30:57.460 --> 00:31:01.120 the technological and human potential acceleration 593 00:31:01.120 --> 00:31:02.440 that we were experiencing? 594 00:31:02.900 --> 00:31:05.720 I think we have to sort of look at where he started, 595 00:31:05.860 --> 00:31:07.140 which was war games. 596 00:31:09.100 --> 00:31:10.740 That's why he called it a peace game. 597 00:31:10.860 --> 00:31:13.660 He thought, you know, you could think comprehensively. 598 00:31:13.660 --> 00:31:15.380 You could plan strategically. 599 00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:18.680 You could anticipate your own environment 600 00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:19.820 by thinking this way. 601 00:31:20.120 --> 00:31:23.260 And this arose in many different countries. 602 00:31:23.320 --> 00:31:24.620 But in India, for example, 603 00:31:24.820 --> 00:31:27.400 their form of chess was called Chaturanga. 604 00:31:27.460 --> 00:31:30.780 Where you move players like elephants, etc. 605 00:31:31.800 --> 00:31:35.640 And then it fully got transformed in the 19th century 606 00:31:35.640 --> 00:31:41.360 by this product or this game called Kriegsspiel. 607 00:31:41.580 --> 00:31:43.740 And it actually had a big influence 608 00:31:43.740 --> 00:31:46.660 on the leaders of the Prussian and German harmony. 609 00:31:46.940 --> 00:31:48.120 And by this time, 610 00:31:48.980 --> 00:31:50.600 gaming in the household, 611 00:31:50.880 --> 00:31:52.160 these board games, 612 00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:56.240 they became ways for the middle class of society 613 00:31:56.240 --> 00:31:58.720 to actually engage with each other 614 00:31:58.720 --> 00:32:00.760 and talk about the issues of the day. 615 00:32:02.260 --> 00:32:04.880 Another one is a Chinese, Mai Hong. 616 00:32:05.100 --> 00:32:07.800 In 1954, the Rand Corporation 617 00:32:07.800 --> 00:32:09.900 built this $10 million computer 618 00:32:09.900 --> 00:32:14.480 to try to simulate, you know, potential outcomes. 619 00:32:14.860 --> 00:32:17.040 It didn't really work very well, apparently. 620 00:32:17.400 --> 00:32:19.360 But it was the first sort of merger 621 00:32:19.360 --> 00:32:21.740 between computers and this gaming. 622 00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:24.440 They called it free gaming 623 00:32:24.440 --> 00:32:26.080 because they wanted to develop into, 624 00:32:26.240 --> 00:32:26.560 you know, a game that was a game of intuition. 625 00:32:26.660 --> 00:32:28.520 Gaming was a training device 626 00:32:28.520 --> 00:32:31.600 for adding intuitional development 627 00:32:31.600 --> 00:32:36.500 and referring to understanding anticipatory experience. 628 00:32:36.820 --> 00:32:38.500 I think these kinds of things are important 629 00:32:38.500 --> 00:32:41.880 in understanding where the world game might go. 630 00:32:44.360 --> 00:32:45.720 Yeah, so... 631 00:32:46.500 --> 00:32:48.260 I guess I'm going the wrong way. 632 00:32:49.240 --> 00:32:52.460 So the first board game from that 633 00:32:52.460 --> 00:32:54.040 that came into the public 634 00:32:54.040 --> 00:32:56.220 was a game called Tactics. 635 00:32:56.240 --> 00:33:00.240 And it was the first real world game 636 00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:01.880 or war game board game. 637 00:33:02.140 --> 00:33:04.040 And one of those players happened to be 638 00:33:04.040 --> 00:33:05.620 a teenager named Will Wright 639 00:33:05.620 --> 00:33:08.000 who went on to create SimCity. 640 00:33:08.500 --> 00:33:12.120 SimCity, he thought of as a possibility space 641 00:33:12.120 --> 00:33:12.660 where... 642 00:33:13.700 --> 00:33:14.860 I think these words are important 643 00:33:14.860 --> 00:33:17.240 because these guys are thinking deeply about gaming 644 00:33:17.240 --> 00:33:18.840 and how they work. 645 00:33:19.780 --> 00:33:21.660 A possibility space in which a player 646 00:33:21.660 --> 00:33:25.160 becomes the game's designer 647 00:33:25.160 --> 00:33:26.100 and the designer of the game. 648 00:33:26.100 --> 00:33:26.220 And the designer of the game. 649 00:33:26.220 --> 00:33:26.320 And the designer of the game 650 00:33:26.320 --> 00:33:28.440 is the design for society. 651 00:33:29.840 --> 00:33:33.140 Take a look at the level of simulation 652 00:33:33.140 --> 00:33:34.480 that we're at now. 653 00:33:34.580 --> 00:33:36.340 This is another game called Sky Cities. 654 00:33:36.680 --> 00:33:40.420 And this is all players creating their own worlds. 655 00:33:47.500 --> 00:33:48.540 This is a game. 656 00:33:56.720 --> 00:33:57.800 You get the idea. 657 00:33:59.480 --> 00:34:01.960 The other unique thing that happened next 658 00:34:01.960 --> 00:34:07.520 was the rise of multi-user formats like MUDs, 659 00:34:07.600 --> 00:34:10.120 which were really text-based at the beginning. 660 00:34:10.260 --> 00:34:12.380 And they were just chat, online chats, 661 00:34:12.620 --> 00:34:15.580 but they had fictional ideas 662 00:34:15.580 --> 00:34:17.540 or that they were working on, et cetera. 663 00:34:17.740 --> 00:34:20.100 Then came things like Second Life, 664 00:34:20.220 --> 00:34:21.540 which I participated in. 665 00:34:21.600 --> 00:34:22.540 I thought it was really interesting. 666 00:34:22.820 --> 00:34:25.420 You could capture your own persona 667 00:34:25.420 --> 00:34:26.200 and go through it. 668 00:34:26.200 --> 00:34:27.720 You could go and really meet other people 669 00:34:27.720 --> 00:34:29.280 in different environments. 670 00:34:30.600 --> 00:34:31.740 And then World of Warcraft, 671 00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:34.560 which started to scale up this phenomena of gaming. 672 00:34:34.960 --> 00:34:36.880 And gaming today, 673 00:34:37.180 --> 00:34:40.200 it's a sport. 674 00:34:41.960 --> 00:34:42.260 Let's see. 675 00:34:44.120 --> 00:34:45.320 We can get this to play. 676 00:34:50.260 --> 00:34:52.280 40,000 roaring fans. 677 00:34:52.820 --> 00:34:54.840 Tens of millions watching online 678 00:34:54.840 --> 00:34:56.180 and in cinemas around the world. 679 00:34:56.180 --> 00:34:58.240 A million-dollar prize. 680 00:34:58.640 --> 00:35:00.180 This is big sport. 681 00:35:02.200 --> 00:35:04.540 The League of Legends World Championship, 682 00:35:05.020 --> 00:35:06.520 an online game. 683 00:35:07.420 --> 00:35:09.580 Fans came to Seoul from around the world. 684 00:35:09.940 --> 00:35:10.820 What's the appeal? 685 00:35:11.040 --> 00:35:12.300 Well, when you really appreciate a game, 686 00:35:12.380 --> 00:35:13.400 when you enjoy playing a game, 687 00:35:13.540 --> 00:35:15.000 you know, you can just come here, 688 00:35:15.020 --> 00:35:17.160 appreciate other people playing it way better than you, right? 689 00:35:17.240 --> 00:35:19.340 And it's universal, no matter where you're from. 690 00:35:19.560 --> 00:35:20.220 A bit nerdy. 691 00:35:20.920 --> 00:35:21.800 I don't think so. 692 00:35:22.720 --> 00:35:24.280 You know, this is right now, it's mainstream. 693 00:35:24.400 --> 00:35:25.380 Look at all these people here. 694 00:35:26.180 --> 00:35:28.160 If this is nerdy, then what's not nerdy? 695 00:35:29.520 --> 00:35:30.600 It's totally nerdy. 696 00:35:30.680 --> 00:35:31.720 It's definitely nerdy. 697 00:35:31.760 --> 00:35:33.460 I'm just lying, but I don't care. 698 00:35:33.560 --> 00:35:34.160 It doesn't matter. 699 00:35:35.980 --> 00:35:38.720 And it's not just boys. 700 00:35:39.020 --> 00:35:40.460 That's not just men. 701 00:35:40.700 --> 00:35:43.700 The numbers really show that it's evenly balanced 702 00:35:43.700 --> 00:35:46.500 between women and male gamers. 703 00:35:47.340 --> 00:35:49.660 And half of adults are playing games now. 704 00:35:50.300 --> 00:35:51.920 It's even higher in the east. 705 00:35:52.160 --> 00:35:55.940 There also is this sort of underground movement of what's 706 00:35:55.940 --> 00:35:59.320 called mega games now, or live action role-playing games, 707 00:35:59.600 --> 00:36:02.680 where you're actually role-playing in these environments 708 00:36:02.680 --> 00:36:05.800 where you become like a corporation with goals, 709 00:36:05.980 --> 00:36:08.400 or you become the UN, et cetera. 710 00:36:09.660 --> 00:36:14.120 And at the same time, we have this incredible merger of data, 711 00:36:14.500 --> 00:36:18.320 real-time data, with the aid of visualization tools. 712 00:36:18.380 --> 00:36:19.540 So we can see anything. 713 00:36:20.100 --> 00:36:22.980 In a lot of ways, world game is already being played, 714 00:36:23.080 --> 00:36:24.920 but it's not being played for the purpose 715 00:36:24.920 --> 00:36:26.780 of increasing well-being. 716 00:36:30.340 --> 00:36:33.840 Weather patterns, resource mapping, 717 00:36:34.040 --> 00:36:37.180 supply chain mapping, and then virtual reality. 718 00:36:37.580 --> 00:36:41.860 So if we go back to when I was talking about primary experience, 719 00:36:42.140 --> 00:36:45.900 your own experience, virtual reality has the promise 720 00:36:46.600 --> 00:36:50.680 of letting us experience what it's like to be in Syria 721 00:36:50.680 --> 00:36:53.160 as a refugee in the camp. 722 00:36:53.760 --> 00:36:54.860 Like this virtual reality. 723 00:36:54.860 --> 00:36:54.900 . 724 00:36:55.280 --> 00:36:55.380 . 725 00:37:00.280 --> 00:37:00.380 . 726 00:37:08.960 --> 00:37:09.060 . 727 00:37:09.060 --> 00:37:09.080 . 728 00:37:09.080 --> 00:37:09.100 . 729 00:37:09.100 --> 00:37:09.140 . 730 00:37:09.140 --> 00:37:09.160 . 731 00:37:09.160 --> 00:37:09.180 . 732 00:37:09.180 --> 00:37:09.200 . 733 00:37:09.200 --> 00:37:09.240 . 734 00:37:09.740 --> 00:37:09.840 . 735 00:37:09.840 --> 00:37:09.880 . 736 00:37:09.880 --> 00:37:09.980 . 737 00:37:09.980 --> 00:37:10.000 . 738 00:37:12.300 --> 00:37:12.400 . 739 00:37:13.080 --> 00:37:13.180 . 740 00:37:13.180 --> 00:37:13.260 . 741 00:37:13.260 --> 00:37:13.280 . 742 00:37:14.400 --> 00:37:14.500 . 743 00:37:14.500 --> 00:37:14.600 . 744 00:37:14.740 --> 00:37:14.840 . 745 00:37:14.840 --> 00:37:14.900 . 746 00:37:14.900 --> 00:37:14.940 . 747 00:37:14.940 --> 00:37:14.960 . 748 00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:14.980 . 749 00:37:15.320 --> 00:37:15.420 . 750 00:37:24.920 --> 00:37:27.220 Now go back and start thinking about world game now. 751 00:37:27.400 --> 00:37:31.620 The outcomes of these games would start to inform all of us. 752 00:37:31.640 --> 00:37:37.380 The more of us that play, the more we're not just dependent on somebody else's vision. 753 00:37:37.460 --> 00:37:39.240 We're experiencing the world ourselves. 754 00:37:39.900 --> 00:37:45.060 And as the numbers grew, Bucky thought that it would start to merge into reality, 755 00:37:45.380 --> 00:37:48.100 that you would start to have expert role players. 756 00:37:48.340 --> 00:37:49.420 And I see this with my kids. 757 00:37:49.520 --> 00:37:52.300 They play League, and there's 30 characters. 758 00:37:52.600 --> 00:37:54.160 They pick two of them probably. 759 00:37:54.920 --> 00:37:57.300 With certain abilities, and then they just go for it. 760 00:37:57.360 --> 00:38:01.480 They just are really, really skilled from these particular perspectives. 761 00:38:02.340 --> 00:38:06.920 Whole parts of the infrastructure could be simulated. 762 00:38:08.520 --> 00:38:09.040 Governance. 763 00:38:09.080 --> 00:38:10.020 Think about governance. 764 00:38:10.420 --> 00:38:11.340 This is what he thought. 765 00:38:11.480 --> 00:38:13.180 He thought that you would sort of, 766 00:38:13.220 --> 00:38:17.620 because everybody would start to coalesce around certain strategies, 767 00:38:17.760 --> 00:38:22.360 and if you're simulating millions of times and you're dealing with real data, 768 00:38:22.580 --> 00:38:24.840 that everyone might just see, 769 00:38:24.920 --> 00:38:30.440 well, I'm going to be the best alternative instead of trusting some politician to bring it into being. 770 00:38:31.440 --> 00:38:34.140 That they could serve as information polls. 771 00:38:35.100 --> 00:38:38.640 That you could join more than one games. 772 00:38:38.720 --> 00:38:41.980 You could have parallel games going for different proposals. 773 00:38:43.040 --> 00:38:49.080 Maybe one surrogate voting mechanism is the winner of the game. 774 00:38:49.460 --> 00:38:51.680 That's the legislation that gets through. 775 00:38:52.940 --> 00:38:53.700 Maybe. 776 00:38:53.840 --> 00:38:54.900 It's a pass. 777 00:38:54.900 --> 00:39:01.660 It's a pathway for breaking the gridlock that we see in this version of democracy that we have today. 778 00:39:03.200 --> 00:39:04.020 Bucky said, 779 00:39:04.100 --> 00:39:05.760 Operating at the scale of reality, 780 00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:09.920 the game that everybody wins must build our future world. 781 00:39:10.440 --> 00:39:15.300 So maybe we go from open states here in Adelaide to open world. 782 00:39:16.240 --> 00:39:17.080 Imagine that. 783 00:39:17.280 --> 00:39:18.580 Look what you guys started. 784 00:39:23.060 --> 00:39:23.700 Look at it. 785 00:39:23.700 --> 00:39:24.240 This is a... 786 00:39:24.240 --> 00:39:24.880 This is a... 787 00:39:24.900 --> 00:39:26.780 A little dated, but... 788 00:39:26.780 --> 00:39:30.660 Your game is being able to see our whole earth at once. 789 00:39:32.240 --> 00:39:33.940 When we wake up in the morning, 790 00:39:34.120 --> 00:39:36.040 how many of us ask ourselves, 791 00:39:37.040 --> 00:39:39.780 what's the most important thing I can do today? 792 00:39:43.100 --> 00:39:48.300 There's a growing gap between our individual desires and our global needs. 793 00:39:50.420 --> 00:39:53.460 Some of us are trying, but it's not enough. 794 00:39:53.780 --> 00:39:54.780 The challenge... 795 00:39:54.900 --> 00:39:57.540 The challenges we're facing require the support of everyone. 796 00:39:58.740 --> 00:40:00.400 All seven billion of us. 797 00:40:01.380 --> 00:40:05.460 What if we could harness everyday activities as agents for social change? 798 00:40:07.400 --> 00:40:11.160 What if playing Angry Birds could help rebuild someone's home after a natural disaster? 799 00:40:13.280 --> 00:40:17.340 What if clicking like on Facebook could provide a whole town with solar panels? 800 00:40:18.720 --> 00:40:22.200 What if a tweet could provide children with access to clean drinking water? 801 00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:23.960 Sound crazy? 802 00:40:23.960 --> 00:40:26.460 Not if we include everyone. 803 00:40:27.020 --> 00:40:34.300 Launching at the 2012 Olympics in London, World Game 2.0 will focus the global audience on our collective future. 804 00:40:34.620 --> 00:40:40.620 In partnership with global media outlets like CNN and across all digital media platforms, 805 00:40:41.060 --> 00:40:45.220 we will harness the ideas of every country's best and brightest youth, 806 00:40:45.380 --> 00:40:48.400 using everyday technology to spark social change. 807 00:40:48.900 --> 00:40:50.620 World Game 2.0. 808 00:40:50.680 --> 00:40:53.640 The one game we can't afford to lose. 809 00:40:53.700 --> 00:40:53.940 World Game 2.0. The one game we can't afford to lose. 810 00:40:57.220 --> 00:41:04.040 World Game 2.0. The one game we can't afford to lose. 811 00:41:04.080 --> 00:41:08.040 World Game 2.0. The one game we can't afford to lose. 812 00:41:08.040 --> 00:41:08.380 World Game 2.0. The one game we can't afford to lose. 813 00:41:08.380 --> 00:41:08.900 World Game 2.0. The one game we can't afford to lose. 814 00:41:08.900 --> 00:41:08.920 World Game 2.0. The one game we can't afford to lose. 815 00:41:08.920 --> 00:41:09.020 World Game 2.0. The one game we can't afford to lose. 816 00:41:09.020 --> 00:41:09.240 World Game 2.0. The one game we can't afford to lose. 817 00:41:09.240 --> 00:41:09.320 World Game 2.0. The one game we can't afford to lose. 818 00:41:09.320 --> 00:41:10.380 World Game 2.0. The one game we can't afford to lose. 819 00:41:12.680 --> 00:41:13.920 World Game 2.0. The one game we can't afford to lose. 820 00:41:16.140 --> 00:41:19.580 World Game 2.0. The one game we can't afford to lose. 821 00:41:20.460 --> 00:41:30.160 World Game 2.0. The one game we can't afford to lose. 822 00:41:30.220 --> 00:41:33.120 World Game 2.0. The one game we can't afford to lose. 823 00:41:33.120 --> 00:41:33.900 World Game 2.0. The one game we can't afford to lose. 824 00:41:34.340 --> 00:41:35.920 World Game 2.0. The one game we can't afford to lose. 825 00:41:36.360 --> 00:41:37.520 World Game 2.0. The one game we can't afford to lose. 826 00:41:37.600 --> 00:41:39.600 World Game 2.0. The one game we can't afford to lose. 827 00:41:40.460 --> 00:41:43.740 World Game 2.0. The one game we can't afford to lose. 828 00:41:44.940 --> 00:41:48.000 World Game 2.0. The one game we can't afford to lose. 829 00:41:48.000 --> 00:41:55.880 with creating these tools and these technologies, imagine it coming all together and we really 830 00:41:55.880 --> 00:41:56.340 collaborate. 831 00:41:56.780 --> 00:42:05.000 We see this in things like art and the Beijing 2008 Olympics, which we're not going to see 832 00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:06.280 because it just crashed again. 833 00:42:07.280 --> 00:42:13.500 They may see the drumming that happened at the 2008 Olympics, the synchronous action 834 00:42:13.500 --> 00:42:15.520 of thousands of drummers. 835 00:42:15.740 --> 00:42:25.200 It just really shows the potential that we have, this natural mutual cooperation instinct 836 00:42:25.200 --> 00:42:25.960 that we have. 837 00:42:28.880 --> 00:42:29.740 So we'll skip that one. 838 00:42:29.900 --> 00:42:31.240 That's in your memory. 839 00:42:37.420 --> 00:42:39.600 So I just want to... 840 00:42:39.600 --> 00:42:40.160 Yeah, that's fine. 841 00:42:43.180 --> 00:42:48.160 I just want to come back to where we started and just remind us of where we started and 842 00:42:48.160 --> 00:42:50.940 where we came from, this crazy place I took you guys. 843 00:42:51.520 --> 00:42:52.420 Everything is connected. 844 00:42:52.740 --> 00:42:53.440 I mean, you see it. 845 00:42:53.480 --> 00:42:53.980 We know this. 846 00:42:54.440 --> 00:42:58.100 When we increase this connectedness, our wellbeing goes up. 847 00:42:59.380 --> 00:43:03.020 We have this power of these media and technology, but we got to be careful. 848 00:43:03.140 --> 00:43:05.460 We got to pay attention to the effects they have on us. 849 00:43:05.980 --> 00:43:09.620 We can see that our collective experience is now... 850 00:43:09.620 --> 00:43:10.140 0.05. 851 00:43:10.140 --> 00:43:12.620 instantaneously accessible, and it's confusing. 852 00:43:12.980 --> 00:43:16.700 But I really do believe that we'll start to figure out 853 00:43:17.260 --> 00:43:23.080 how to see it for the collective intelligence that it is. 854 00:43:23.400 --> 00:43:27.040 And we can see that, I believe, this new paradigm unfolding. 855 00:43:27.380 --> 00:43:29.200 We're making steps in that direction, 856 00:43:29.400 --> 00:43:31.880 but our operating system just doesn't work. 857 00:43:32.000 --> 00:43:33.200 We have to figure it out. 858 00:43:33.400 --> 00:43:35.400 So we can do that through regenerative design. 859 00:43:35.640 --> 00:43:38.220 We can start to do it through social architecture. 860 00:43:38.220 --> 00:43:40.760 Perhaps we can do it through the world game 861 00:43:40.760 --> 00:43:43.240 and actually start to understand 862 00:43:43.240 --> 00:43:45.500 what that operating system really looks like. 863 00:43:45.980 --> 00:43:49.440 So I'll just leave you with another final personal story. 864 00:43:50.220 --> 00:43:53.600 And it goes to this idea of potential, 865 00:43:54.920 --> 00:43:56.160 working from potential. 866 00:43:56.300 --> 00:43:57.580 Maybe it's not going to work. 867 00:43:58.660 --> 00:44:01.080 Anyway, so I started working. 868 00:44:01.380 --> 00:44:05.660 I became a stepfather over the last five years. 869 00:44:05.700 --> 00:44:07.860 So I have two beautiful, young, 870 00:44:08.220 --> 00:44:11.900 20, 24-year-old stepdaughters and one son. 871 00:44:13.420 --> 00:44:19.120 And, you know, it makes me think about the challenges 872 00:44:19.120 --> 00:44:20.940 that our young people have. 873 00:44:21.640 --> 00:44:25.000 It's so much more complicated to be young now. 874 00:44:25.900 --> 00:44:28.900 It was so much simpler when I grew up, really. 875 00:44:29.080 --> 00:44:32.740 So it's not surprising that young people are confused 876 00:44:32.740 --> 00:44:36.300 and they kind of go off path sometimes. 877 00:44:36.540 --> 00:44:38.200 Or, you know, where they go, 878 00:44:38.200 --> 00:44:39.440 where do they focus their attention? 879 00:44:40.060 --> 00:44:43.840 Well, my stepson started to go off in not a good way 880 00:44:43.840 --> 00:44:46.100 for, you know, almost a year. 881 00:44:46.400 --> 00:44:48.320 Pretty serious things. 882 00:44:49.200 --> 00:44:51.980 And, you know, not being the primary parent, 883 00:44:52.100 --> 00:44:55.840 I felt like I could be like that light tower at Byron Bay 884 00:44:55.840 --> 00:44:58.720 and just go, okay, you're smart. 885 00:44:59.680 --> 00:45:00.720 You're creative. 886 00:45:00.920 --> 00:45:01.940 You can do this. 887 00:45:03.480 --> 00:45:05.840 And I'm not taking credit for it 888 00:45:05.840 --> 00:45:07.080 because there's a lot of factors. 889 00:45:07.160 --> 00:45:08.180 But, like, in the last five years, 890 00:45:08.200 --> 00:45:10.180 in the last month, he declared himself an artist. 891 00:45:10.380 --> 00:45:11.140 He's creating music. 892 00:45:12.480 --> 00:45:15.000 He's doing stencil graffiti. 893 00:45:15.460 --> 00:45:16.880 He's got interviews on radio. 894 00:45:17.120 --> 00:45:18.200 It's just unbelievable. 895 00:45:18.680 --> 00:45:21.420 But it's just an example of the kind of potential 896 00:45:22.200 --> 00:45:22.860 that we have together. 897 00:45:23.140 --> 00:45:25.660 And I hope that maybe I've inspired you to think 898 00:45:25.660 --> 00:45:26.820 about how we could use it together. 899 00:45:27.000 --> 00:45:27.280 Thanks. 900 00:45:39.580 --> 00:45:40.560 Thank you. 901 00:45:40.560 --> 00:45:42.140 Thank you so much, Mark. 902 00:45:42.280 --> 00:45:44.760 We have run a little bit over time, 903 00:45:44.840 --> 00:45:51.380 but I'm going to at least create five minutes space for questions. 904 00:45:52.040 --> 00:45:52.560 You've... 905 00:45:52.560 --> 00:45:56.100 The microphone, we need to ask questions via the microphone 906 00:45:56.100 --> 00:45:57.600 because we are recording the session. 907 00:45:57.820 --> 00:46:01.640 So if you have questions, please move to the microphone at the back. 908 00:46:01.700 --> 00:46:03.600 And we don't have any time for statements, 909 00:46:03.780 --> 00:46:05.760 so make your questions crispy, 910 00:46:05.840 --> 00:46:08.180 which I have asked Mark a question, 911 00:46:08.200 --> 00:46:10.640 on Tuesday, and was completely confused 912 00:46:10.640 --> 00:46:14.380 because of so much going on in our heads 913 00:46:14.380 --> 00:46:18.100 around the ideas that he's inspired. 914 00:46:18.380 --> 00:46:23.520 So I'm going to take the lead and the indulgence of the chair 915 00:46:23.520 --> 00:46:28.900 and ask Mark about this starts from within 916 00:46:28.900 --> 00:46:32.180 because I think that's something we can all take away. 917 00:46:32.860 --> 00:46:36.340 We may not get our head around the entire picture, 918 00:46:36.520 --> 00:46:38.000 but talk... 919 00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:42.900 Can you talk a little bit more about that finding self inside there? 920 00:46:43.400 --> 00:46:43.800 Yeah. 921 00:46:43.880 --> 00:46:46.420 Again, Bucky was such an inspiration to me. 922 00:46:46.760 --> 00:46:49.600 Like, he thought that if he... 923 00:46:49.600 --> 00:46:53.020 He saw nature around him and he said, you know, 924 00:46:53.820 --> 00:46:55.460 a tree doesn't have to... 925 00:46:55.460 --> 00:46:59.680 Or a plant, a flower doesn't have to call for the rain or the sun to appear. 926 00:47:00.060 --> 00:47:00.820 It's just... 927 00:47:00.820 --> 00:47:03.500 It's a flower or it's a tree and it gets everything it needs. 928 00:47:03.600 --> 00:47:07.020 And he thought, if humans acted the same way, 929 00:47:07.040 --> 00:47:07.880 why shouldn't that... 930 00:47:08.000 --> 00:47:08.240 Why shouldn't that be true? 931 00:47:08.360 --> 00:47:10.500 So he set about, like, doing that. 932 00:47:10.520 --> 00:47:11.740 He didn't try to make money. 933 00:47:11.840 --> 00:47:13.920 He just tried to make sense, is what he said. 934 00:47:14.140 --> 00:47:15.900 And so I really tried to follow that. 935 00:47:15.960 --> 00:47:18.140 That's what drove me to leave Wall Street. 936 00:47:18.600 --> 00:47:20.100 It drove me to technology. 937 00:47:21.140 --> 00:47:24.140 It drove me to social innovation and social entrepreneurship. 938 00:47:24.600 --> 00:47:28.100 And the more I do it, the more I... 939 00:47:28.720 --> 00:47:31.360 I don't focus on the other things. 940 00:47:31.400 --> 00:47:33.620 I focus on what I should be doing. 941 00:47:34.040 --> 00:47:36.700 And the hardest thing, though, is to trust it 942 00:47:36.700 --> 00:47:37.960 because we're... 943 00:47:38.000 --> 00:47:41.020 We're not surrounded by people that think that way. 944 00:47:41.060 --> 00:47:42.420 Our culture tells us otherwise. 945 00:47:42.800 --> 00:47:45.200 But that's why it's so hard, but why it's so important. 946 00:47:45.480 --> 00:47:46.400 And I think that's... 947 00:47:46.400 --> 00:47:47.560 If you're going to have... 948 00:47:47.560 --> 00:47:50.240 Be integral in an integrated system, 949 00:47:50.400 --> 00:47:51.420 you have to start with yourself. 950 00:47:52.160 --> 00:47:52.620 Excellent. 951 00:47:52.860 --> 00:47:53.840 Question up the back there. 952 00:47:54.700 --> 00:47:55.400 Thank you. 953 00:47:55.440 --> 00:47:57.780 I'm David Salomon from Two Brothers Walking, 954 00:47:58.000 --> 00:48:01.300 a production company that records traditional knowledge 955 00:48:01.300 --> 00:48:05.440 with Anagul, Pinjari, Yankajari in the far north of the state. 956 00:48:05.700 --> 00:48:07.560 Now, I want to ask you about the connection, 957 00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:09.420 what you've been talking about 958 00:48:09.420 --> 00:48:15.260 with traditional Aboriginal knowledge and being 959 00:48:15.260 --> 00:48:21.060 because your talk has stimulated a thousand conversations in my mind 960 00:48:21.060 --> 00:48:24.820 and I think I'll be experiencing sort of happy polyphrenia for the next week. 961 00:48:25.280 --> 00:48:26.600 But your... 962 00:48:27.720 --> 00:48:28.840 The conversation... 963 00:48:28.840 --> 00:48:31.340 What you've just presented was so much like 964 00:48:32.580 --> 00:48:36.280 conversations that I had with old men around the campfire every morning 965 00:48:36.280 --> 00:48:37.580 when we were up there doing production. 966 00:48:38.840 --> 00:48:40.860 Except we're not talking about the internet. 967 00:48:41.540 --> 00:48:44.320 Instead of that sort of code, 968 00:48:45.240 --> 00:48:48.040 substitute song, story, dance. 969 00:48:49.000 --> 00:48:52.380 And the world view is not unlike what you've described here. 970 00:48:53.920 --> 00:48:57.040 And the sort of motivation for it, 971 00:48:57.120 --> 00:48:59.080 they call it Nuppagee Nuppagee, 972 00:48:59.080 --> 00:49:02.140 which is a sort of a third party reciprocity 973 00:49:02.880 --> 00:49:03.480 that... 974 00:49:04.580 --> 00:49:06.360 of cooperation, you know. 975 00:49:06.400 --> 00:49:07.800 And so things can come together, 976 00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:11.920 through consensus rather than majority or, you know, 977 00:49:11.980 --> 00:49:15.780 this consensus is the place that they can always work towards. 978 00:49:16.220 --> 00:49:19.280 So I'm just wondering if you have thoughts about, 979 00:49:19.380 --> 00:49:22.560 you know, how with our Western mindset, 980 00:49:22.580 --> 00:49:26.640 we think that this is a place that no one's been to before. 981 00:49:27.180 --> 00:49:28.920 And yet in the heart of Australia, 982 00:49:29.180 --> 00:49:33.600 we've got a culture that has been doing this for many millennia. 983 00:49:35.040 --> 00:49:37.660 It's interesting because I have a colleague at the Institute, 984 00:49:37.660 --> 00:49:39.420 that joined me at the same time. 985 00:49:39.900 --> 00:49:41.500 And when he speaks, 986 00:49:42.500 --> 00:49:43.740 he tells me regularly, 987 00:49:44.080 --> 00:49:45.480 indigenous people come up to him, 988 00:49:45.520 --> 00:49:49.740 they go, oh, this is the first white man that understands me. 989 00:49:49.960 --> 00:49:50.440 You know. 990 00:49:50.840 --> 00:49:53.040 And I think it is because you're going to, 991 00:49:53.160 --> 00:49:57.260 you know, if you're starting with the way the universe really is, 992 00:49:57.540 --> 00:49:59.460 you're starting with the natural environment, 993 00:49:59.640 --> 00:50:04.380 like, I mean, that's how native peoples saw things. 994 00:50:04.540 --> 00:50:06.220 And that's how they interacted with them. 995 00:50:06.400 --> 00:50:07.640 I mean, I see it as, you know, 996 00:50:07.640 --> 00:50:10.960 I see it in Oaxaca, Mexico, where I've lived for the last 13 years. 997 00:50:11.160 --> 00:50:13.280 It's 70% indigenous peoples. 998 00:50:13.400 --> 00:50:15.020 And there's apothecary. 999 00:50:15.100 --> 00:50:18.800 And there's just a different relationship with the environment. 1000 00:50:19.320 --> 00:50:21.320 And it informs them. 1001 00:50:21.440 --> 00:50:23.560 And even if you look at it from science, 1002 00:50:24.340 --> 00:50:28.380 you know, the science at the highest levels of quantum theory, 1003 00:50:28.580 --> 00:50:30.080 time doesn't exist. 1004 00:50:30.920 --> 00:50:34.660 All reality, according to the multiverse theory, 1005 00:50:34.780 --> 00:50:37.360 all potential realities exist. 1006 00:50:37.880 --> 00:50:39.600 And simultaneously, it's the ones that you observe 1007 00:50:39.600 --> 00:50:40.620 that come into existence, 1008 00:50:41.060 --> 00:50:44.220 which sounds to me like the Aboriginal people in Australia. 1009 00:50:45.180 --> 00:50:47.080 If I can quickly follow up, 1010 00:50:47.180 --> 00:50:50.480 I asked the old men the same question when I was up there. 1011 00:50:50.620 --> 00:50:52.320 I said, what about white fellas? 1012 00:50:53.120 --> 00:50:55.200 How do they fit in with the world view? 1013 00:50:55.440 --> 00:50:59.340 And the reply was, well, you know, 1014 00:50:59.360 --> 00:51:01.940 everyone who was born in this country is part of this country. 1015 00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:05.020 They come up out of the munda, out of the earth. 1016 00:51:05.260 --> 00:51:07.060 They belong to it. They're part of it. 1017 00:51:07.060 --> 00:51:10.440 The chukupa, they belong to that chukupa, that dreaming as well. 1018 00:51:11.280 --> 00:51:14.500 He said, they might know it, but that doesn't make any difference. 1019 00:51:14.620 --> 00:51:16.460 They're still, you know, linked to it. 1020 00:51:16.500 --> 00:51:17.300 They're part of it. 1021 00:51:17.420 --> 00:51:20.180 And if they do want to know, well, we're here. 1022 00:51:20.280 --> 00:51:21.640 We can tell them about it. 1023 00:51:22.100 --> 00:51:25.940 And there's an interesting pattern there around the concept of culture. 1024 00:51:26.080 --> 00:51:30.180 So when you presented the internet as the biggest thing, 1025 00:51:30.660 --> 00:51:34.540 I thought, well, what about commerce and capitalism 1026 00:51:35.060 --> 00:51:36.980 and the fact that we all use coins? 1027 00:51:37.060 --> 00:51:41.260 And the monoculture that we've had to accept 1028 00:51:41.260 --> 00:51:44.300 as that has spread its way around the globe? 1029 00:51:44.600 --> 00:51:49.920 And when do we grab our own culture and celebrate it better? 1030 00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:54.720 And when do we go back to that thinker's moving and dying in different... 1031 00:51:54.720 --> 00:51:57.320 born in one place, dying in another, 1032 00:51:57.480 --> 00:52:01.940 and helping create the richness that we are as a planet full of people? 1033 00:52:03.120 --> 00:52:05.520 Well, when we start listening to our own integrity, 1034 00:52:05.700 --> 00:52:07.040 that's, I think... 1035 00:52:07.040 --> 00:52:08.740 when we start to do that. 1036 00:52:08.940 --> 00:52:11.060 I think that's a great note to finish on. 1037 00:52:11.100 --> 00:52:12.920 Thank you so much for your patience, everyone. 1038 00:52:13.000 --> 00:52:14.660 Please, thank Mark.