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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,450 --> 00:00:08,146 ♪ 2 00:00:20,986 --> 00:00:26,129 ♪ 3 00:00:26,129 --> 00:00:30,996 ♪ 4 00:01:49,799 --> 00:01:54,735 ♪ 5 00:02:02,018 --> 00:02:05,263 I would argue to all of you that 6 00:02:05,297 --> 00:02:08,335 we are in a new turning point of history 7 00:02:08,369 --> 00:02:10,751 for our nation and the world. 8 00:02:10,785 --> 00:02:15,169 ♪ 9 00:02:15,204 --> 00:02:17,206 For the first time in all human history 10 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:20,070 we have the opportunity to bring people together 11 00:02:20,105 --> 00:02:24,799 across the planet in common cause for common good. 12 00:02:24,834 --> 00:02:29,149 We live in an age of interdependence. 13 00:02:29,183 --> 00:02:31,910 But that can be good or bad. 14 00:02:31,944 --> 00:02:36,432 It simply means that we cannot escape each other. 15 00:02:36,466 --> 00:02:38,986 Last year I read a book that described the way 16 00:02:39,020 --> 00:02:43,093 the world works in ways better than I can. 17 00:02:43,128 --> 00:02:45,026 The title of this book is "Nonzero," 18 00:02:45,061 --> 00:02:47,132 the author is Robert Wright, and if you haven't read it 19 00:02:47,167 --> 00:02:48,720 I urge you to get it, and read it. 20 00:02:48,754 --> 00:02:51,930 ♪ 21 00:02:51,964 --> 00:02:56,037 If you look at the progression of human history there's 22 00:02:56,072 --> 00:03:01,284 an experiment involving how broadly can people collaborate, 23 00:03:01,319 --> 00:03:04,011 to what extent can different kinds of people 24 00:03:04,045 --> 00:03:07,428 separated by great distance get together and solve problems, 25 00:03:07,463 --> 00:03:10,466 pursue common interests without succumbing 26 00:03:10,500 --> 00:03:12,088 to the darker side of human nature 27 00:03:12,122 --> 00:03:15,471 that might lead the planet to dissolve into chaos. 28 00:03:17,507 --> 00:03:24,963 ♪ 29 00:03:24,997 --> 00:03:26,930 Gosh, you know, you look at all of human history 30 00:03:26,965 --> 00:03:30,417 and you have, you know, a good like, 40,000 years 31 00:03:30,451 --> 00:03:34,904 of just talking face-to-face interaction, and then you get 32 00:03:34,938 --> 00:03:38,632 the first writing, and then, just a few thousand years later, 33 00:03:38,666 --> 00:03:40,496 in the grand scheme of things just a few thousand years, 34 00:03:40,530 --> 00:03:43,188 right, you get the printing press, and then 500 years 35 00:03:43,223 --> 00:03:46,571 you get electronic communication and then, you know, 36 00:03:46,605 --> 00:03:49,677 now it just-- gosh, every day there's probably 37 00:03:49,712 --> 00:03:53,371 five or six new applications that are of some significance. 38 00:03:53,405 --> 00:03:56,028 At least once a year or maybe once every other year 39 00:03:56,063 --> 00:03:58,824 we get a big one, you know, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, 40 00:03:58,859 --> 00:04:01,033 and it changes the way everybody's connecting. 41 00:04:01,068 --> 00:04:10,767 ♪ 42 00:04:10,802 --> 00:04:12,942 You've gotta tell us before we look at this video 43 00:04:12,976 --> 00:04:15,772 what is an internet, would you mind just, you know, 44 00:04:15,807 --> 00:04:18,188 sharing that with us for the-- for the four or five people 45 00:04:18,223 --> 00:04:19,880 that don't know what an internet is would you tell us? 46 00:04:19,914 --> 00:04:22,814 Uh, I don't believe we have the time to go into that. 47 00:04:22,848 --> 00:04:26,749 Okay, so, uh, this internet thing gets its start 48 00:04:26,783 --> 00:04:30,684 from an experiment that was done in 1969 49 00:04:30,718 --> 00:04:33,307 to design something called the Advanced Research Projects 50 00:04:33,342 --> 00:04:34,895 Agency Network. 51 00:04:34,929 --> 00:04:37,449 The internet is defined in different ways 52 00:04:37,484 --> 00:04:38,381 by different people. 53 00:04:38,416 --> 00:04:40,176 For me, as an engineer, 54 00:04:40,210 --> 00:04:45,940 it starts out being a set of standards for communication, 55 00:04:45,975 --> 00:04:47,908 that if you observe those standards, 56 00:04:47,942 --> 00:04:50,013 if you implement those standards, then all kinds 57 00:04:50,048 --> 00:04:53,500 of devices and networks can be made to interwork. 58 00:04:53,534 --> 00:04:56,986 So the internet was literally that, a system for connecting 59 00:04:57,020 --> 00:05:01,715 between networks, uh, supporting inter-net transportation 60 00:05:01,749 --> 00:05:03,199 of information. 61 00:05:03,233 --> 00:05:05,581 ♪ 62 00:05:05,615 --> 00:05:09,412 It is now possible, in theory, to communicate 63 00:05:09,447 --> 00:05:12,829 with every human being on the planet. 64 00:05:12,864 --> 00:05:15,556 One way of thinking about the 21st century world 65 00:05:15,591 --> 00:05:19,077 is exactly a world that is ever more connected 66 00:05:19,111 --> 00:05:20,285 through the internet. 67 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:24,151 But then if you're disconnected, you are more 68 00:05:24,185 --> 00:05:27,568 isolated than ever before. 69 00:05:27,603 --> 00:05:29,846 Thank you, very much, very happy to be here 70 00:05:29,881 --> 00:05:35,921 and present a $100 laptop that we have invented at MIT 71 00:05:35,956 --> 00:05:38,752 and worked jointly with a nonprofit 72 00:05:38,786 --> 00:05:41,375 whose job will be to make these and distribute them 73 00:05:41,410 --> 00:05:43,481 to developing countries around the world 74 00:05:43,515 --> 00:05:46,518 on the basis of one laptop per child, 75 00:05:46,553 --> 00:05:48,693 and...thank you. 76 00:05:50,695 --> 00:05:55,838 ♪ 77 00:05:55,838 --> 00:06:00,705 ♪ 78 00:06:28,733 --> 00:06:40,814 ♪ 79 00:06:40,848 --> 00:06:44,576 One Laptop Per Child is about eliminating poverty 80 00:06:44,611 --> 00:06:47,855 by providing primary education to the poorest 81 00:06:47,890 --> 00:06:50,444 and most remote kids in the world. 82 00:06:50,479 --> 00:06:54,034 And the way we achieve it is by giving them 83 00:06:54,068 --> 00:06:59,039 connected laptops, each one that they own, they take home, 84 00:06:59,073 --> 00:07:01,213 they use for school, they use it for play, 85 00:07:01,248 --> 00:07:05,114 they use it for everything in their life seamlessly. 86 00:07:05,148 --> 00:07:07,150 It's a window to the rest of the world. 87 00:07:07,185 --> 00:07:12,501 ♪ 88 00:07:13,743 --> 00:07:22,890 ♪ 89 00:08:03,103 --> 00:08:14,666 ♪ 90 00:08:54,879 --> 00:08:58,952 We're at a cusp in history that has to do with 91 00:08:58,986 --> 00:09:00,919 how you learn. 92 00:09:00,954 --> 00:09:04,164 For the past 200 years we've assumed 93 00:09:04,198 --> 00:09:06,235 that the way you learn is you go to school, 94 00:09:06,269 --> 00:09:10,204 and that somebody teaches you, and it's the first time 95 00:09:10,239 --> 00:09:14,105 that learning can happen without teaching. 96 00:09:14,139 --> 00:09:18,247 That, sort of, cusp happened because of computing, 97 00:09:18,281 --> 00:09:20,801 because of the internet, because of interactivity, 98 00:09:20,836 --> 00:09:22,562 because of a lot of things. 99 00:09:22,596 --> 00:09:26,427 And so you add that to the fact that the world right now 100 00:09:26,462 --> 00:09:32,986 is in a situation where as many 300, 400 million children 101 00:09:33,020 --> 00:09:36,610 around the world aren't getting any education, 102 00:09:36,645 --> 00:09:39,302 they don't go to school, and so you have to leverage 103 00:09:39,337 --> 00:09:42,685 the children, you can't just train more teachers 104 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:45,481 and build schools, you've got to go back, 105 00:09:45,515 --> 00:09:49,002 and say to yourself, well, can the children be part of this 106 00:09:49,036 --> 00:09:51,349 versus just the objects of teaching. 107 00:09:51,383 --> 00:09:59,288 ♪ 108 00:10:53,169 --> 00:11:01,108 ♪ 109 00:12:54,325 --> 00:13:07,959 ♪ 110 00:13:09,996 --> 00:13:15,139 ♪ 111 00:13:15,139 --> 00:13:20,006 ♪ 112 00:15:04,420 --> 00:15:09,563 ♪ 113 00:15:09,563 --> 00:15:14,430 ♪ 114 00:16:42,829 --> 00:16:49,215 ♪ 115 00:16:49,249 --> 00:16:53,529 The idea is quite simple, let a child learn mathematics 116 00:16:53,564 --> 00:16:55,773 by speaking in mathematics about things 117 00:16:55,807 --> 00:16:58,017 that really matter to him. 118 00:16:58,051 --> 00:17:02,676 So at MIT we've given computers the power to turn motors, 119 00:17:02,711 --> 00:17:05,955 to make sounds, to draw pictures, 120 00:17:05,990 --> 00:17:08,268 and we've found ways of giving children 121 00:17:08,303 --> 00:17:11,168 the power to control the computer. 122 00:17:11,202 --> 00:17:13,687 So that the child can make the computer do anything 123 00:17:13,722 --> 00:17:15,758 that he can describe in a suitable 124 00:17:15,793 --> 00:17:19,693 mathematical language by typing on a keyboard like this. 125 00:17:21,799 --> 00:17:26,148 The initial ideas came in the late 1960s 126 00:17:26,183 --> 00:17:29,841 and early '70s when a man named Seymour Papert 127 00:17:29,876 --> 00:17:33,707 made a very simple observation and that was that children 128 00:17:33,742 --> 00:17:37,815 learn differently when they write computer programs 129 00:17:37,849 --> 00:17:40,714 because the act of writing a computer program 130 00:17:40,749 --> 00:17:43,959 is the closest you can come to thinking about thinking. 131 00:17:43,993 --> 00:17:46,341 What produces involvement, engagement, 132 00:17:46,375 --> 00:17:48,239 what grabs the individual? 133 00:17:48,274 --> 00:17:50,897 Education has very little to do with explanation, 134 00:17:50,931 --> 00:17:53,831 it has to do with engagement, with falling in love 135 00:17:53,865 --> 00:17:56,075 with the material. 136 00:17:56,109 --> 00:17:58,870 Seymour Papert was a student of Piaget's back 137 00:17:58,905 --> 00:18:01,597 in the late '50s, early '60s, and he got a-- 138 00:18:01,632 --> 00:18:04,221 this idea in his head that computation's 139 00:18:04,255 --> 00:18:05,601 a thing to think with. 140 00:18:05,636 --> 00:18:08,397 ♪ 141 00:18:08,432 --> 00:18:12,367 The simplest way I know of to talk about learning 142 00:18:12,401 --> 00:18:14,955 is you learn through doing. 143 00:18:14,990 --> 00:18:17,579 So if you want more learning, you want more doing. 144 00:18:17,613 --> 00:18:18,683 It's really that simple. 145 00:18:23,516 --> 00:18:29,142 What Seymour brought to this was this idea of the children 146 00:18:29,177 --> 00:18:31,800 constructing knowledge, not just receiving knowledge, 147 00:18:31,834 --> 00:18:34,285 having the computer be a wonderful vehicle, 148 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:37,702 or catalyst, or haven for that kind of construction. 149 00:18:37,737 --> 00:18:41,810 And, uh, then for the next 40 years, uh, at MIT 150 00:18:41,844 --> 00:18:45,745 we were exploring the space and doing pilots. 151 00:18:45,779 --> 00:18:49,162 With One Laptop Per Child, we said, you know what, enough, 152 00:18:49,197 --> 00:18:51,820 we can do pilot, after pilot, after pilot 153 00:18:51,854 --> 00:18:55,064 but now it's time to actually get these ideas into the world. 154 00:18:55,099 --> 00:18:57,895 So One Laptop Per Child is all about how do you take 155 00:18:57,929 --> 00:19:01,278 40 years worth of research around technology and learning 156 00:19:01,312 --> 00:19:03,418 and bring it to scale. 157 00:19:03,452 --> 00:19:06,869 The telecommunications was ready, the computers were ready, 158 00:19:06,904 --> 00:19:09,700 the internet existed quite widely spread, 159 00:19:09,734 --> 00:19:13,842 and the time was right in the beginning of 2005 160 00:19:13,876 --> 00:19:19,088 to build a laptop that was child centric, affordable, 161 00:19:19,123 --> 00:19:23,162 connected, and something that could be read in the sun, 162 00:19:23,196 --> 00:19:26,337 and was very robust, and that is the evolution. 163 00:19:38,073 --> 00:19:43,216 ♪ 164 00:19:43,216 --> 00:19:48,083 ♪ 165 00:20:07,551 --> 00:20:10,036 Well, there've been a couple of waves in human history 166 00:20:10,070 --> 00:20:11,831 of globalization. 167 00:20:11,865 --> 00:20:15,283 This is probably the third or fourth wave of globalization, 168 00:20:15,317 --> 00:20:18,389 and every time, uh, it occurred, people thought 169 00:20:18,424 --> 00:20:20,253 the world was becoming one. 170 00:20:20,288 --> 00:20:22,738 I think this time it may actually be happening. 171 00:20:22,773 --> 00:20:26,328 Uh, the ease of international travel, 172 00:20:26,363 --> 00:20:28,468 the ease of international communications, 173 00:20:28,503 --> 00:20:31,195 and the ease of international commerce, 174 00:20:31,230 --> 00:20:34,336 uh, are much, much greater than they were 175 00:20:34,371 --> 00:20:36,235 20 years ago, 30 years ago. 176 00:20:36,269 --> 00:20:40,446 And so we begin now to think, really, as a global society, 177 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:42,724 which we didn't before. 178 00:20:42,758 --> 00:20:54,080 ♪ 179 00:20:54,114 --> 00:20:56,427 Almost everyone comes to the conclusion 180 00:20:56,462 --> 00:20:58,843 that whatever their time is is a critical time 181 00:20:58,878 --> 00:21:01,329 in human history, so I'm not sure that I would buy 182 00:21:01,363 --> 00:21:03,227 an absolute argument. 183 00:21:03,262 --> 00:21:06,610 But I think it's fair to say that we're at a tipping point 184 00:21:06,644 --> 00:21:10,234 in terms of people's access to computer-based information, 185 00:21:10,269 --> 00:21:12,754 to computer-mediated communication. 186 00:21:12,788 --> 00:21:19,830 ♪ 187 00:21:19,864 --> 00:21:23,005 With about a quarter of the world's population 188 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:27,286 online in one form or another, there is something fairly major 189 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:30,772 happening in, uh, our information society, 190 00:21:30,806 --> 00:21:31,773 if you like. 191 00:21:31,807 --> 00:21:34,362 ♪ 192 00:21:34,396 --> 00:21:38,642 There are an estimated 1.8 billion people online. 193 00:21:38,676 --> 00:21:43,578 There are about 740 million in Asia, 194 00:21:43,612 --> 00:21:49,204 250 million in North America, 450 million in Europe, 195 00:21:49,238 --> 00:21:52,690 and the numbers get smaller in other parts of the world. 196 00:21:52,725 --> 00:21:55,693 The interesting thing is that as we get 197 00:21:55,728 --> 00:21:58,972 more and more of the population up on the internet, 198 00:21:59,007 --> 00:22:02,873 the avenues for interaction will become much richer, 199 00:22:02,907 --> 00:22:07,049 and here I am not capable of predicting 200 00:22:07,084 --> 00:22:10,294 what the outcome will be when six billion people 201 00:22:10,329 --> 00:22:13,504 are online, sharing their knowledge with each other, 202 00:22:13,539 --> 00:22:17,577 so I don't see this as being a particularly distinct point 203 00:22:17,612 --> 00:22:21,443 in human history, but I do see this as an evolution, 204 00:22:21,478 --> 00:22:25,482 an unfolding of our ways of communicating 205 00:22:25,516 --> 00:22:26,690 with each other. 206 00:22:26,724 --> 00:22:34,629 ♪ 207 00:22:34,663 --> 00:22:38,011 I think this is a critical time in the history of humanity 208 00:22:38,046 --> 00:22:40,911 because for the first time people are 209 00:22:40,945 --> 00:22:43,810 going to be coming together from every corner of the world 210 00:22:43,845 --> 00:22:46,779 and be able to engage in direct conversation with each other. 211 00:22:46,813 --> 00:22:49,368 I think it's really exciting to think about having 212 00:22:49,402 --> 00:22:52,267 amazing new cultural influences and ideas flowing 213 00:22:52,301 --> 00:22:54,718 all around the world from different cultures. 214 00:22:54,752 --> 00:22:57,755 In the next 5, 10, 15, 20 years, 215 00:22:57,790 --> 00:22:59,688 the rest of the world is gonna come online. 216 00:22:59,723 --> 00:23:01,759 The next billion people, the next two billion people 217 00:23:01,794 --> 00:23:03,589 are going to come online, and for the first time 218 00:23:03,623 --> 00:23:05,453 we're going to be hearing directly from people 219 00:23:05,487 --> 00:23:07,386 we have not heard from before. 220 00:23:07,420 --> 00:23:14,323 ♪ 221 00:23:23,505 --> 00:23:28,648 ♪ 222 00:23:28,648 --> 00:23:33,515 ♪ 223 00:25:24,868 --> 00:25:30,011 ♪ 224 00:25:30,011 --> 00:25:34,878 ♪ 225 00:28:06,615 --> 00:28:10,378 ♪ 226 00:28:40,615 --> 00:28:43,031 ♪ 227 00:29:15,236 --> 00:29:23,520 ♪ 228 00:29:23,554 --> 00:29:28,076 If we project any sort of democratic world, 229 00:29:28,111 --> 00:29:31,666 we have to assume that education and learning 230 00:29:31,700 --> 00:29:34,980 to think differently, and that means learning 231 00:29:35,014 --> 00:29:40,709 to learn how to think is going to be an essential contribution, 232 00:29:40,744 --> 00:29:43,091 maybe the essential contribution to that. 233 00:29:43,126 --> 00:29:45,680 The more people are capable of rational, critical thinking, 234 00:29:45,714 --> 00:29:49,270 the better the world will be. 235 00:29:49,304 --> 00:29:51,134 The more they have access to knowledge 236 00:29:51,168 --> 00:29:53,688 about the rest of the world, the better the world will be. 237 00:29:53,722 --> 00:29:57,209 ♪ 238 00:30:44,256 --> 00:30:49,399 ♪ 239 00:30:49,399 --> 00:30:54,266 ♪ 240 00:31:15,356 --> 00:31:17,530 It's always too tempting to say we're at a critical time, 241 00:31:17,565 --> 00:31:19,636 because then the numbers of critical times 242 00:31:19,670 --> 00:31:21,569 start to accumulate, and you think 243 00:31:21,603 --> 00:31:23,295 you're always at a critical time. 244 00:31:23,329 --> 00:31:27,506 But we're certainly at a point when, I think, a lot of people 245 00:31:27,540 --> 00:31:30,267 think that something has gone amiss. 246 00:31:30,302 --> 00:31:33,753 We're at a fundamental change in the way we communicate, 247 00:31:33,788 --> 00:31:40,760 and it's time to step back and take stock and see 248 00:31:40,795 --> 00:31:43,832 where things have gone right, and where things 249 00:31:43,867 --> 00:31:44,903 maybe haven't gone right. 250 00:31:44,937 --> 00:31:48,803 ♪ 251 00:31:52,703 --> 00:31:54,740 Just because we grew up with the internet, 252 00:31:54,774 --> 00:31:56,880 we think that the internet is all grown up. 253 00:31:56,915 --> 00:31:58,088 Which is not true. 254 00:31:58,123 --> 00:32:01,022 The internet is in very early days, 255 00:32:01,057 --> 00:32:05,854 but we've had it long enough to be able to say, you know, 256 00:32:05,889 --> 00:32:07,753 What about the way we now communicate 257 00:32:07,787 --> 00:32:10,963 with each other seems to be enhancing, 258 00:32:10,998 --> 00:32:14,104 and what about the way we now communicate 259 00:32:14,139 --> 00:32:17,590 with each other seems to be taking things away from us 260 00:32:17,625 --> 00:32:20,007 that are nourishing? 261 00:35:28,574 --> 00:35:31,681 Sunshine, our temperature 44 degrees, relative humidity 262 00:35:31,715 --> 00:35:34,097 at 82 percent, wind out of the west-southwest 263 00:35:34,132 --> 00:35:35,271 at five to ten. 264 00:35:35,305 --> 00:35:38,412 Again, it's 44 degrees, high of 52 later today. 265 00:35:42,347 --> 00:35:44,797 Here's what you need to know about the bridges and tunnels. 266 00:35:49,837 --> 00:35:51,528 15 minutes on the inbound Holland tunnel, 267 00:35:51,563 --> 00:35:53,634 about five to ten on the-- 268 00:35:53,668 --> 00:35:57,396 The 2nd Avenue subway project is not hazardous to your health, 269 00:35:57,431 --> 00:35:59,640 that's according to an air-quality study. 270 00:35:59,674 --> 00:36:01,504 Using a cell phone while driving in any form 271 00:36:01,538 --> 00:36:02,677 should be banned. 272 00:36:02,712 --> 00:36:03,954 That was the unanimous recommendation today 273 00:36:03,989 --> 00:36:05,956 of the National Transportation Safety Board. 274 00:36:05,991 --> 00:36:07,717 ♪ 275 00:36:07,751 --> 00:36:09,684 Every place on the planet is associated 276 00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,135 with a latitude and longitude, which also means that, like, 277 00:36:12,170 --> 00:36:14,448 every person has a latitude and longitude assigned to them 278 00:36:14,482 --> 00:36:16,622 at a given moment, every experience, 279 00:36:16,657 --> 00:36:18,521 or every story, or every little, you know, 280 00:36:18,555 --> 00:36:20,419 nugget of information discovered about a place 281 00:36:20,454 --> 00:36:22,007 has a latitude and longitude. 282 00:36:22,041 --> 00:36:24,043 People generally use Foursquare to check into places, 283 00:36:24,078 --> 00:36:25,942 and they're parks and restaurants 284 00:36:25,976 --> 00:36:29,083 and libraries and museums and bars, and when people 285 00:36:29,117 --> 00:36:31,050 check into places, we use that to, you know, 286 00:36:31,085 --> 00:36:33,294 broadcast your location, "Hey, I'm here. 287 00:36:33,329 --> 00:36:35,227 You know, if anyone's around, come and find me." 288 00:36:35,262 --> 00:36:37,505 And then from there, it allows people to, you know, 289 00:36:37,540 --> 00:36:39,024 to figure out like, well, what's next. 290 00:36:39,058 --> 00:36:41,026 Is there something interesting nearby that I should know about? 291 00:36:41,060 --> 00:36:43,684 It's like, let's build things that leverage 292 00:36:43,718 --> 00:36:46,100 all the interesting stuff that's going on with social media, 293 00:36:46,134 --> 00:36:48,758 to help people, you know, put the screens away, 294 00:36:48,792 --> 00:36:50,138 and go out and actually and discover things 295 00:36:50,173 --> 00:36:52,106 that they haven't discovered before. 296 00:36:52,140 --> 00:36:56,179 What's really the heart of how the internet 297 00:36:56,214 --> 00:36:59,182 is going to change everything in the future, 298 00:36:59,217 --> 00:37:03,738 is how things in the real world change because people 299 00:37:03,773 --> 00:37:07,501 are connected, and so, Meetup is a simple idea, 300 00:37:07,535 --> 00:37:10,987 which is, how do people self-organize a local gathering 301 00:37:11,021 --> 00:37:12,920 about anything, anywhere? 302 00:37:12,954 --> 00:37:18,236 ♪ 303 00:37:18,270 --> 00:37:20,755 I think the most powerful and interesting form 304 00:37:20,790 --> 00:37:22,654 of how community is going to take shape 305 00:37:22,688 --> 00:37:26,244 in the coming years is how people 306 00:37:26,278 --> 00:37:29,523 who have a common interest, common passion, common need, 307 00:37:29,557 --> 00:37:31,594 they have a common diagnosis, whatever it is, 308 00:37:31,628 --> 00:37:34,597 that, now that they can connect and they can connect locally, 309 00:37:34,631 --> 00:37:37,738 more easily, you're gonna have communities emerge, 310 00:37:37,772 --> 00:37:40,775 and there's no such thing, I think, as a real--real, 311 00:37:40,810 --> 00:37:43,433 sustainable community unless people are seeing each other 312 00:37:43,468 --> 00:37:44,434 face to face. 313 00:37:44,469 --> 00:37:52,131 ♪ 314 00:37:52,166 --> 00:37:53,719 A community, it's interesting. 315 00:37:53,754 --> 00:37:57,033 I try not to let my students 316 00:37:57,067 --> 00:38:00,554 use the word community in class, because it's such 317 00:38:00,588 --> 00:38:03,315 an evocative and descriptive word that it actually allows 318 00:38:03,350 --> 00:38:06,456 people who mean two very different things, 319 00:38:06,491 --> 00:38:09,321 to pretend that they're talking about the same thing. 320 00:38:09,356 --> 00:38:13,256 So, a community, if you look and you know, 321 00:38:13,291 --> 00:38:14,499 find some dictionary definition, 322 00:38:14,533 --> 00:38:16,155 there's about a dozen different definitions 323 00:38:16,190 --> 00:38:19,158 of community, all the way down to, kind of, 324 00:38:19,193 --> 00:38:23,335 Grover's Corners-style little town, U.S.A., where everybody 325 00:38:23,370 --> 00:38:25,372 knows everybody, all the way up to 326 00:38:25,406 --> 00:38:27,270 the community of French speakers. 327 00:38:27,305 --> 00:38:28,858 Very different. 328 00:38:28,892 --> 00:38:31,619 The breakdown of traditional community 329 00:38:31,654 --> 00:38:33,207 happened in the past. 330 00:38:33,241 --> 00:38:37,729 It is indeed the case that a machine with a screen 331 00:38:37,763 --> 00:38:40,594 was partly responsible for eroding community, 332 00:38:40,628 --> 00:38:43,044 but it wasn't a machine with a keyboard, right, 333 00:38:43,079 --> 00:38:45,702 the rise of television, coupled with suburbanization, 334 00:38:45,737 --> 00:38:49,465 and a bunch of other factors, correlates really strongly 335 00:38:49,499 --> 00:38:51,570 with the decay in social capital. 336 00:38:51,605 --> 00:38:54,090 One of the things, I think it falls to our generation to do, 337 00:38:54,124 --> 00:38:56,644 is to figure out how to get that back 338 00:38:56,679 --> 00:38:58,025 in a modern context. 339 00:38:58,059 --> 00:39:00,061 We plainly never go back to white-picket fences 340 00:39:00,096 --> 00:39:04,514 and small-town life, but we have things like Meetup, 341 00:39:04,549 --> 00:39:08,553 we have things like Foursquare, whose existence is predicated 342 00:39:08,587 --> 00:39:11,107 on using these tools to coordinate 343 00:39:11,141 --> 00:39:13,523 real-world meetings, not to replace them. 344 00:39:13,558 --> 00:39:17,320 We know we're missing something in this community. 345 00:39:17,355 --> 00:39:19,909 If we can use these tools to get some of that back, 346 00:39:19,943 --> 00:39:21,704 we will. 347 00:39:29,643 --> 00:39:30,954 I think what we normally think of 348 00:39:30,989 --> 00:39:33,336 as community is more like the feeling of community, 349 00:39:33,371 --> 00:39:35,925 a feeling of being connected, and that's really what we need 350 00:39:35,959 --> 00:39:40,688 in today's world, because we're far beyond the time in which 351 00:39:40,723 --> 00:39:43,795 you could sort of say, "This is a community." 352 00:39:43,829 --> 00:39:45,279 And you could have defined boundaries to it, 353 00:39:45,313 --> 00:39:47,074 and all the people in this location 354 00:39:47,108 --> 00:39:48,558 are a community. 355 00:39:48,593 --> 00:39:51,975 We live in a network society which has fuzzier boundaries, 356 00:39:52,010 --> 00:39:53,356 if you can even talk about boundaries, 357 00:39:53,391 --> 00:39:57,602 so what we need is a feeling of community that would allow us 358 00:39:57,636 --> 00:40:00,605 to feel a sense of connection to people around us. 359 00:40:00,639 --> 00:40:03,435 That community connection has to extend beyond 360 00:40:03,470 --> 00:40:05,748 just connecting you to people like you. 361 00:40:05,782 --> 00:40:08,198 There's really no room for growth of empathy 362 00:40:08,233 --> 00:40:10,442 when you only connect with people like you. 363 00:40:10,477 --> 00:40:13,238 Empathy grows when you connect with somebody totally different 364 00:40:13,272 --> 00:40:17,587 from you, and experience a sense of shared vulnerability 365 00:40:17,622 --> 00:40:18,864 and love for that person. 366 00:40:52,519 --> 00:40:56,074 ♪ 367 00:40:57,316 --> 00:41:02,321 ♪ 368 00:41:02,356 --> 00:41:05,601 Well, there they are, our new electronic media, 369 00:41:05,635 --> 00:41:07,430 or, our new gadgets. 370 00:41:07,465 --> 00:41:10,122 You push a button, the world's yours. 371 00:41:10,157 --> 00:41:12,470 You know how they talk about the world getting smaller? 372 00:41:12,504 --> 00:41:14,679 Well, it's thanks to these that it is. 373 00:41:14,713 --> 00:41:17,336 Everywhere is now our own neighborhood. 374 00:41:17,371 --> 00:41:19,787 But not only is the world getting smaller, 375 00:41:19,822 --> 00:41:21,962 becoming more available and more familiar, 376 00:41:21,996 --> 00:41:24,620 to our minds and to our emotions, 377 00:41:24,654 --> 00:41:28,106 the world is now a global village. 378 00:41:28,140 --> 00:41:30,660 A global village. 379 00:41:30,695 --> 00:41:32,938 With me now is Marshall McLuhan. 380 00:41:32,973 --> 00:41:35,009 These new media powers have made our world 381 00:41:35,044 --> 00:41:37,046 into a single unit. 382 00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:39,186 The world is now like a continually sounding 383 00:41:39,220 --> 00:41:42,534 tribal groan, where everybody gets the message, all the time. 384 00:41:42,569 --> 00:41:44,294 A princess gets married in England, 385 00:41:44,329 --> 00:41:46,469 and boom, boom, boom, go the drums, 386 00:41:46,504 --> 00:41:47,953 we all hear about it. 387 00:41:47,988 --> 00:41:50,231 Why Marshall, do you use the word "tribal"? 388 00:41:50,266 --> 00:41:53,338 Well, I think you'll find everything we observe tonight 389 00:41:53,372 --> 00:41:55,651 about the media, points in the direction 390 00:41:55,685 --> 00:41:59,206 of tribal man and away from individual man. 391 00:41:59,240 --> 00:42:02,209 Involuntarily, we're getting rid of individualism. 392 00:42:02,243 --> 00:42:04,245 We're in the process of making a tribe. 393 00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:08,664 We are no longer so concerned with self-definition, 394 00:42:08,698 --> 00:42:10,769 with finding our own individual way. 395 00:42:10,804 --> 00:42:12,460 We're more concerned with what the group knows, 396 00:42:12,495 --> 00:42:14,877 of feeling as it does, of acting with it, 397 00:42:14,911 --> 00:42:16,395 not apart from it. 398 00:42:19,951 --> 00:42:21,849 The history of civilization in seven words is: 399 00:42:24,887 --> 00:42:27,821 And what the internet does is it allows 400 00:42:27,855 --> 00:42:31,238 many, many more people to pool many more 401 00:42:31,272 --> 00:42:33,792 kinds of resources in a wild variety 402 00:42:33,827 --> 00:42:34,655 of new ways. 403 00:42:36,415 --> 00:42:38,348 Because we can get dynamic information 404 00:42:38,383 --> 00:42:40,212 about the resources you've got access to, 405 00:42:40,247 --> 00:42:42,525 and the resources I've got access to, 406 00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:43,837 we can actually share them better 407 00:42:43,871 --> 00:42:45,942 than we used to be able to. 408 00:42:45,977 --> 00:42:49,497 The techies got there first, as so often happens, right. 409 00:42:49,532 --> 00:42:51,948 Linus Torvalds pops up in 1991, says he wants 410 00:42:51,983 --> 00:42:53,674 to build an operating system. 411 00:42:53,709 --> 00:42:56,263 Linus was the first person to realize he could use 412 00:42:56,297 --> 00:42:59,231 the entire world as his talent pool, 413 00:42:59,266 --> 00:43:03,615 and that, the opportunity to, in an instant, 414 00:43:03,650 --> 00:43:07,930 reach into that and get hold of the collective imagination, 415 00:43:07,964 --> 00:43:10,622 the collective wisdom, the collective knowledge, 416 00:43:10,657 --> 00:43:13,694 that kind of weaving together of things, is moving 417 00:43:13,729 --> 00:43:16,179 from, you know, we can build an encyclopedia, 418 00:43:16,214 --> 00:43:17,456 we can build an operating system, 419 00:43:17,491 --> 00:43:20,390 right, the famous, the famously virtual examples, 420 00:43:20,425 --> 00:43:21,944 it's moving into the real world. 421 00:43:21,978 --> 00:43:27,743 ♪ 422 00:43:27,777 --> 00:43:29,227 The interweaving of mobile phones 423 00:43:29,261 --> 00:43:30,849 and the internet, the fact that they're no longer 424 00:43:30,884 --> 00:43:32,644 separate networks, but they're really now, 425 00:43:32,679 --> 00:43:35,992 genuinely tied together means that we have, 426 00:43:36,027 --> 00:43:37,511 for the first time in human history, 427 00:43:37,545 --> 00:43:40,307 the majority of adults on the planet 428 00:43:40,341 --> 00:43:42,654 are part of a single, connected grid. 429 00:43:42,689 --> 00:43:46,209 There's a generation of people who simply think, 430 00:43:46,244 --> 00:43:48,902 "We can accomplish things our elders didn't, 431 00:43:48,936 --> 00:43:52,595 because we have tools and networks and agreements 432 00:43:52,630 --> 00:43:56,323 among ourselves to act and behave in a different way." 433 00:43:56,357 --> 00:43:58,636 Because of things like Facebook and Twitter, 434 00:43:58,670 --> 00:44:00,603 and even the software that came before them, 435 00:44:00,638 --> 00:44:02,778 there's millions of people, hundreds of millions of people, 436 00:44:02,812 --> 00:44:04,987 that are trained to use this type of software now. 437 00:44:05,021 --> 00:44:06,954 So, all the stars kind of align, 438 00:44:06,989 --> 00:44:08,404 and allow you to do things that we just-- 439 00:44:08,438 --> 00:44:10,061 we've never been able to do before. 440 00:44:26,974 --> 00:44:33,360 ♪ 441 00:44:33,394 --> 00:44:37,985 A large part of what is emerging out of the Arab Spring, 442 00:44:38,020 --> 00:44:42,196 is a new generation who has grown up 443 00:44:42,231 --> 00:44:44,682 with the technology and the possibilities 444 00:44:44,716 --> 00:44:47,477 that the technology creates in a world 445 00:44:47,512 --> 00:44:50,377 that is radically different from their parents'. 446 00:44:50,411 --> 00:44:52,862 What is clear is that what's really driving 447 00:44:52,897 --> 00:44:55,209 these revolutions is not technology, 448 00:44:55,244 --> 00:44:58,730 what's driving these revolutions is the desire of millions 449 00:44:58,765 --> 00:45:00,663 of people for change. 450 00:45:00,698 --> 00:45:05,564 What's facilitating it is the ease of the technology 451 00:45:05,599 --> 00:45:07,428 and the speed of the technology. 452 00:45:07,463 --> 00:45:10,121 What a Facebook page does is, at one glance, you realize, 453 00:45:10,155 --> 00:45:13,641 "Oh, my god, there's 70,000 people, or, 454 00:45:13,676 --> 00:45:16,748 700,000 people who feel the same way I do. 455 00:45:16,783 --> 00:45:19,199 So, maybe together, we can do something." 456 00:45:19,233 --> 00:45:21,822 That's again, why it is a turning point 457 00:45:21,857 --> 00:45:23,341 in human history. 458 00:45:23,375 --> 00:45:26,758 This generation starts from connections, 459 00:45:26,793 --> 00:45:28,760 starts from the assumption that you are 460 00:45:28,795 --> 00:45:30,762 inextricably connected to others, 461 00:45:30,797 --> 00:45:32,212 and that changes the way we think 462 00:45:32,246 --> 00:45:33,316 about what is possible. 463 00:45:33,351 --> 00:45:36,009 ♪ 464 00:45:36,043 --> 00:45:39,598 The ability of the human race to innovate, 465 00:45:39,633 --> 00:45:42,636 to surprise each other with things that are both 466 00:45:42,670 --> 00:45:46,398 unexpected and practical, things that can change the world 467 00:45:46,433 --> 00:45:48,676 for the better, is going to be increased, 468 00:45:48,711 --> 00:45:51,024 because we can get more ideas from more people, 469 00:45:51,058 --> 00:45:54,165 crossing more wires in more ways. 470 00:45:54,199 --> 00:45:56,788 We've got bigger problems, but we've also got 471 00:45:56,823 --> 00:45:59,032 a bigger network of potential solvers 472 00:45:59,066 --> 00:46:02,276 of those problems, and I'm hopeful 473 00:46:02,311 --> 00:46:05,486 that we can use that network to get those people 474 00:46:05,521 --> 00:46:06,971 tuned into each other, and thinking 475 00:46:07,005 --> 00:46:08,731 on all of our behalves. 476 00:46:11,769 --> 00:46:14,185 ♪ 477 00:46:36,172 --> 00:46:42,316 ♪ 478 00:47:25,187 --> 00:47:27,568 ♪ 479 00:49:04,942 --> 00:49:05,839 Yeah. 480 00:49:08,842 --> 00:49:09,912 Okay, Bari. 481 00:49:09,947 --> 00:49:10,948 Okay. 482 00:49:10,982 --> 00:49:13,709 ♪ 483 00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:22,373 ♪ 484 00:49:51,471 --> 00:50:05,761 ♪ 485 00:51:09,514 --> 00:51:22,596 ♪ 486 00:51:22,631 --> 00:51:26,807 If this were 1845, you would be making a movie 487 00:51:26,842 --> 00:51:29,396 about the telegraph, and you would be so excited 488 00:51:29,431 --> 00:51:30,777 about this. 489 00:51:30,811 --> 00:51:34,125 First of all, the signals on the telegraph go as fast 490 00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:36,403 as the speed of light in a wire. 491 00:51:36,438 --> 00:51:38,405 Now, do you know how much faster that is 492 00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:41,408 than a horse running, or a train going? 493 00:51:41,443 --> 00:51:44,204 You'd be saying, "Whoa, we won't have wars anymore, 494 00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:46,620 because people can communicate instantaneously 495 00:51:46,655 --> 00:51:47,794 with each other." 496 00:51:47,828 --> 00:51:51,177 Now, we all know that, subsequently, there were 497 00:51:51,211 --> 00:51:53,075 major World Wars that have happened, 498 00:51:53,110 --> 00:51:54,766 and all kinds of other, terrible things, 499 00:51:54,801 --> 00:51:57,390 despite the fact that we have increasing amounts 500 00:51:57,424 --> 00:51:59,702 of communication and connectivity. 501 00:51:59,737 --> 00:52:01,877 So, there is no guarantee, that just because 502 00:52:01,911 --> 00:52:04,500 you can communicate, that you will agree, 503 00:52:04,535 --> 00:52:07,296 and the consequence of that is sometimes tension, 504 00:52:07,331 --> 00:52:09,160 disagreement, and conflict. 505 00:52:09,195 --> 00:52:12,543 Technology does not solve all problems. 506 00:52:12,577 --> 00:52:16,133 In fact, it creates some, the internet is now an avenue 507 00:52:16,167 --> 00:52:18,687 for harm as well as good. 508 00:52:18,721 --> 00:52:21,552 Disappointing as that is, it's also a manifestation 509 00:52:21,586 --> 00:52:22,725 of human nature. 510 00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:32,804 ♪ 511 00:52:32,804 --> 00:52:42,089 ♪ 512 00:53:06,286 --> 00:53:09,910 ♪ It's a lonely, it's a lonely, it's a lonely ♪ 513 00:53:20,266 --> 00:53:27,134 ♪ 514 00:53:39,043 --> 00:53:48,984 ♪ 515 00:53:49,018 --> 00:53:57,234 Connectedness does risk erasing difference, 516 00:53:57,268 --> 00:54:05,103 in that the very exchange of ideas and flow of cultures 517 00:54:05,138 --> 00:54:11,248 can...overwhelm cultural differences 518 00:54:11,282 --> 00:54:17,046 that have taken millennia to develop and again, 519 00:54:17,081 --> 00:54:22,707 that are the diversity that makes the world 520 00:54:22,742 --> 00:54:23,708 so interesting. 521 00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:29,127 There's a trend toward homogeneity in societies. 522 00:54:29,162 --> 00:54:30,957 And as you go around the world, 523 00:54:30,991 --> 00:54:34,547 cities are beginning to look like each other. 524 00:54:34,581 --> 00:54:37,653 You're finding the same stores and the same restaurants 525 00:54:37,688 --> 00:54:39,655 and the same products. 526 00:54:39,690 --> 00:54:44,211 And people are doing more of the same kinds of things. 527 00:54:44,246 --> 00:54:45,351 Wherever you go in the world, 528 00:54:45,385 --> 00:54:47,594 the world is becoming more similar. 529 00:54:47,629 --> 00:54:53,738 ♪ 530 00:54:53,773 --> 00:54:56,879 It's not very popular to question why 531 00:54:56,914 --> 00:54:58,950 we're holding onto these things, 532 00:54:58,985 --> 00:55:01,884 but we have to question it. 533 00:55:01,919 --> 00:55:06,924 Because sometimes, you do that in a very paternalistic way 534 00:55:06,958 --> 00:55:09,236 where you say, "Well, that culture 535 00:55:09,271 --> 00:55:13,517 is something we shouldn't disturb, because their identity 536 00:55:13,551 --> 00:55:15,277 is so strong and the fact that 537 00:55:15,312 --> 00:55:16,761 they're poor, and they're not learning, 538 00:55:16,796 --> 00:55:19,799 and they don't have medicine, it's better to leave it alone." 539 00:55:19,833 --> 00:55:21,007 The world is changing. 540 00:55:21,041 --> 00:55:23,527 The numbers of languages are reducing, 541 00:55:23,561 --> 00:55:27,151 and there will be a time where we will be one race 542 00:55:27,185 --> 00:55:28,221 speaking one language. 543 00:55:28,255 --> 00:55:29,567 Maybe that'll take 1,000 years, 544 00:55:29,602 --> 00:55:31,293 maybe it'll take 5,000 years, 545 00:55:31,328 --> 00:55:32,639 maybe it'll take 500 years. 546 00:55:32,674 --> 00:55:33,709 I don't know what it's gonna take. 547 00:55:33,744 --> 00:55:35,470 But that's where we're headed. 548 00:55:35,504 --> 00:55:42,994 ♪ 549 00:55:43,029 --> 00:55:45,825 The story of human history has been the extinction 550 00:55:45,859 --> 00:55:47,930 of indigenous traditions. 551 00:55:47,965 --> 00:55:53,557 The capacity to preserve the elements of the tradition 552 00:55:53,591 --> 00:55:55,835 is richer than it's been. 553 00:55:55,869 --> 00:55:57,457 There's no need for any language 554 00:55:57,492 --> 00:55:59,839 that exists now to recede from human memory 555 00:55:59,873 --> 00:56:00,667 ever again. 556 00:56:00,702 --> 00:56:02,428 We can capture them digitally. 557 00:56:02,462 --> 00:56:05,362 But, there is the fact that time and again 558 00:56:05,396 --> 00:56:12,334 when indigenous people have been faced with... 559 00:56:12,369 --> 00:56:15,406 the modern world, they find parts of it attractive. 560 00:56:15,441 --> 00:56:17,028 The story of humanity is the story 561 00:56:17,063 --> 00:56:19,721 of cultural traditions disappearing 562 00:56:19,755 --> 00:56:21,757 by human choice, 563 00:56:21,792 --> 00:56:24,208 by people abandoning those traditions. 564 00:56:24,242 --> 00:56:29,386 ♪ 565 00:56:29,386 --> 00:56:34,252 ♪ 566 00:58:43,312 --> 00:58:45,970 I no longer can speak for One Laptop per Child, 567 00:58:46,005 --> 00:58:47,869 I can only speak for myself. 568 00:58:47,903 --> 00:58:50,457 Our goal was to give every child 569 00:58:50,492 --> 00:58:52,494 an opportunity to learn. 570 00:58:52,529 --> 00:58:55,428 And we had a means to that goal, 571 00:58:55,462 --> 00:58:57,775 which was a connected laptop that every child 572 00:58:57,810 --> 00:59:02,193 would have running great software for learning. 573 00:59:02,228 --> 00:59:05,093 So, we built a laptop, and we started getting 574 00:59:05,127 --> 00:59:06,577 it out into the world. 575 00:59:06,612 --> 00:59:07,820 We're not there yet. 576 00:59:07,854 --> 00:59:09,580 It's gonna take time, and it's gonna take time 577 00:59:09,615 --> 00:59:12,721 for the teachers to become comfortable with this, 578 00:59:12,756 --> 00:59:15,206 and it's gonna take time for the curricular goals 579 00:59:15,241 --> 00:59:18,002 to evolve so that they make room for this, 580 00:59:18,037 --> 00:59:19,590 and even though there are deficiencies, 581 00:59:19,625 --> 00:59:23,180 the vector's pointed in the right direction. 582 00:59:23,214 --> 00:59:31,982 ♪ 583 00:59:34,018 --> 00:59:39,161 ♪ 584 00:59:39,161 --> 00:59:44,028 ♪ 585 01:00:14,541 --> 01:00:19,892 ♪ 586 01:00:57,308 --> 01:01:03,038 ♪ 587 01:02:44,139 --> 01:02:45,209 What is a friend? 588 01:02:45,244 --> 01:02:47,764 What is a friend? 589 01:02:47,798 --> 01:02:49,317 What is a friend? 590 01:02:49,351 --> 01:02:50,697 Where do you come up with these questions? 591 01:02:50,732 --> 01:02:51,284 What is a friend? 592 01:02:51,319 --> 01:02:52,665 Well... 593 01:02:52,699 --> 01:02:53,873 you know, a friend is-- 594 01:02:56,255 --> 01:02:58,498 Used to be somebody you knew really well. 595 01:02:58,533 --> 01:03:03,400 A friend on Facebook or a friend in reality? 596 01:03:03,434 --> 01:03:05,436 It is funny that I feel like 597 01:03:05,471 --> 01:03:08,508 I have made friends virtually with people 598 01:03:08,543 --> 01:03:09,958 I've never met. 599 01:03:15,584 --> 01:03:18,967 Well, a friend is, first of all, very rare. 600 01:03:19,002 --> 01:03:20,072 What we used to call a friend 601 01:03:20,106 --> 01:03:22,729 is now what we would call a really good friend, 602 01:03:22,764 --> 01:03:24,214 somebody you actually kind of know. 603 01:03:29,288 --> 01:03:31,600 Aristotle was the first, I'm an academic, 604 01:03:31,635 --> 01:03:33,016 so, I'm required to take really simple questions 605 01:03:33,050 --> 01:03:35,984 and answer them on absurdly grandiose historical canvas, 606 01:03:36,019 --> 01:03:37,468 but Aristotle, he's one of the only 607 01:03:37,503 --> 01:03:40,402 philosophers ever to take on the concept of friendship 608 01:03:40,437 --> 01:03:43,889 as a salient human characteristic. 609 01:03:43,923 --> 01:03:49,446 And in his telling, someone that you had 610 01:03:49,480 --> 01:03:52,829 such a deep association with that you shared their life 611 01:03:52,863 --> 01:03:55,624 and they shared yours without other gain, 612 01:03:55,659 --> 01:03:57,281 without also being in business together, 613 01:03:57,316 --> 01:03:59,697 without also being romantically attached. 614 01:03:59,732 --> 01:04:03,253 It goes from that to a friend is someone 615 01:04:03,287 --> 01:04:05,911 who I click the button on Facebook that says, 616 01:04:05,945 --> 01:04:07,326 "Will you friend this person?" 617 01:04:07,360 --> 01:04:09,984 In that process, the word "friend" 618 01:04:10,018 --> 01:04:15,472 has become damaged because it now stretches 619 01:04:15,506 --> 01:04:18,958 to cover really all kinds of connection. 620 01:04:18,993 --> 01:04:21,409 ♪ 621 01:04:21,443 --> 01:04:24,067 Does the number of casual friends, right, 622 01:04:24,101 --> 01:04:27,070 on the long tail of sort of Facebook connectivity, 623 01:04:27,104 --> 01:04:30,142 does that actually reduce the number 624 01:04:30,176 --> 01:04:33,248 and depth of our closest friends? 625 01:04:33,283 --> 01:04:35,526 I remember growing up with a multi-party 626 01:04:35,561 --> 01:04:37,632 telephone line and no television. 627 01:04:37,666 --> 01:04:40,497 I'm not nostalgic, necessarily, for any of that, 628 01:04:40,531 --> 01:04:42,844 and the reason is that I feel that I am 629 01:04:42,879 --> 01:04:45,295 far more connected with a larger group of people 630 01:04:45,329 --> 01:04:47,124 now than I ever could've been in the past. 631 01:04:47,159 --> 01:04:48,160 Hello. 632 01:04:48,194 --> 01:04:49,506 Hello. 633 01:04:49,540 --> 01:04:50,921 The tools that are available to me 634 01:04:50,956 --> 01:04:55,132 to maintain friendships, to maintain family relationships 635 01:04:55,167 --> 01:04:58,653 are infinitely more varied and richer 636 01:04:58,687 --> 01:05:02,312 than anything I had available in the pre-internet age. 637 01:05:02,346 --> 01:05:06,005 Hello, Isaac. 638 01:05:06,040 --> 01:05:07,938 That's Michael. 639 01:05:07,973 --> 01:05:09,388 Oh, he could see? 640 01:05:09,422 --> 01:05:11,183 Yeah, that's what he sees when he looks at his screen. 641 01:05:11,217 --> 01:05:12,287 Hi, Michael. 642 01:05:12,322 --> 01:05:15,221 I don't pine for the past at all. 643 01:05:15,256 --> 01:05:16,947 I'm very happy to watch this internet 644 01:05:16,982 --> 01:05:19,777 evolve and become an even better tool for me 645 01:05:19,812 --> 01:05:22,332 to stay connected with the rest of the population. 646 01:05:22,366 --> 01:05:23,954 You know, sometimes when I kinda think 647 01:05:23,989 --> 01:05:27,440 I have my iPhone with me, then realize I don't, 648 01:05:27,475 --> 01:05:28,786 you know, and I need to check my e-mail, 649 01:05:28,821 --> 01:05:31,686 I wanna check my e-mail, the moment when I realize 650 01:05:31,720 --> 01:05:34,413 I don't have it, there's like a thing 651 01:05:34,447 --> 01:05:39,176 in my gut, like, this feeling of loss, you know? 652 01:05:39,211 --> 01:05:42,421 You're like emotionally attached to the device itself. 653 01:05:42,455 --> 01:05:45,148 ♪ 654 01:05:45,182 --> 01:05:46,770 I think it's gonna get a lot worse. 655 01:05:46,804 --> 01:05:49,428 I think you're gonna see mainstream uses of people 656 01:05:49,462 --> 01:05:51,326 just on their phones all the time. 657 01:05:51,361 --> 01:05:53,984 And the things that they're disappearing to 658 01:05:54,019 --> 01:05:55,779 aren't things that make their real world experience 659 01:05:55,813 --> 01:05:58,402 any better, they're distractions. 660 01:05:58,437 --> 01:06:00,749 As these technologies pile up, 661 01:06:00,784 --> 01:06:02,820 there's a way in which you can see a future 662 01:06:02,855 --> 01:06:06,376 in which things are even more radically different. 663 01:06:06,410 --> 01:06:08,378 I think there's a certain way in which these connections 664 01:06:08,412 --> 01:06:12,761 are becoming easier to make, and it'll be even easier 665 01:06:12,796 --> 01:06:14,039 in the future. 666 01:06:14,073 --> 01:06:16,041 As these connections become more automatic, 667 01:06:16,075 --> 01:06:19,320 then, you know, what happens to our sense 668 01:06:19,354 --> 01:06:20,907 of real connection? 669 01:06:20,942 --> 01:06:28,018 ♪ 670 01:06:33,817 --> 01:06:40,134 ♪ 671 01:06:40,168 --> 01:06:43,137 Currently, 68 percent of the world's population 672 01:06:43,171 --> 01:06:44,552 cannot get online. 673 01:06:44,586 --> 01:06:47,141 That's about five billion people. 674 01:06:47,175 --> 01:06:49,246 In 2011, a special repertoire 675 01:06:49,281 --> 01:06:52,146 for the Human Rights Council of the United Nations 676 01:06:52,180 --> 01:06:53,388 released a report. 677 01:06:53,423 --> 01:06:56,322 In it, he detailed that access to the internet 678 01:06:56,357 --> 01:06:59,705 is a vital part of any society, 679 01:06:59,739 --> 01:07:03,502 and every state should make it a priority 680 01:07:03,536 --> 01:07:05,193 to ensure all their people are connected 681 01:07:05,228 --> 01:07:06,470 to the internet. 682 01:07:06,505 --> 01:07:08,817 My vision and my dream is to ensure every person 683 01:07:08,852 --> 01:07:11,337 has access to the internet as a basic human right. 684 01:07:11,372 --> 01:07:25,524 ♪ 685 01:07:25,558 --> 01:07:28,009 Many people think that the internet is the bits, 686 01:07:28,044 --> 01:07:30,115 wires and protocols that make it work. 687 01:07:30,149 --> 01:07:32,117 It's your wireless router in your living room. 688 01:07:32,151 --> 01:07:34,119 It's your cell phone in your pocket. 689 01:07:34,153 --> 01:07:36,121 But that's not what the internet is to me. 690 01:07:36,155 --> 01:07:38,399 The internet is this digital civilization 691 01:07:38,433 --> 01:07:40,815 that lives on top of our brick and mortar civilization 692 01:07:40,849 --> 01:07:42,610 that we live in. 693 01:08:02,354 --> 01:08:09,464 ♪ 694 01:08:09,499 --> 01:08:13,365 For the first time, it is theoretically possible 695 01:08:13,399 --> 01:08:16,126 to communicate with every human being on Earth 696 01:08:16,161 --> 01:08:18,197 and to allow them to communicate with each other 697 01:08:18,232 --> 01:08:20,648 and to connect them to the people 698 01:08:20,682 --> 01:08:23,237 and to the knowledge that they need 699 01:08:23,271 --> 01:08:25,929 to make something of their own lives. 700 01:08:25,963 --> 01:08:28,552 ♪ 701 01:08:52,714 --> 01:08:54,682 ♪ 702 01:08:59,342 --> 01:09:09,386 ♪ 703 01:09:09,386 --> 01:09:22,606 ♪ 704 01:09:26,231 --> 01:09:41,073 ♪ 705 01:11:06,710 --> 01:11:08,643 There are a lot of things that happen as a result 706 01:11:08,678 --> 01:11:09,817 of having the internet 707 01:11:09,851 --> 01:11:11,612 that are basically just silly, right? 708 01:11:11,646 --> 01:11:13,372 Kittens on treadmills on YouTube, right? 709 01:11:13,407 --> 01:11:15,443 It amuses you for lunch hour. 710 01:11:15,478 --> 01:11:17,825 But it's not exactly the stuff that civic revolutions 711 01:11:17,859 --> 01:11:19,413 are made of. 712 01:11:19,447 --> 01:11:20,759 And then when you look back in history 713 01:11:20,793 --> 01:11:22,657 at the printing press, you see that the stuff 714 01:11:22,692 --> 01:11:26,040 we take for granted now took decades, 715 01:11:26,074 --> 01:11:28,629 in some cases, centuries to actually come into being. 716 01:11:28,663 --> 01:11:29,733 The printing press gets set up. 717 01:11:29,768 --> 01:11:31,459 The first thing we get, erotic novels. 718 01:11:31,494 --> 01:11:33,944 Somebody's like, "Hey, I know." 719 01:11:33,979 --> 01:11:36,671 The scientific journals took another 150 years 720 01:11:36,706 --> 01:11:38,121 to get going. 721 01:11:38,155 --> 01:11:40,296 When you look at things like Ushahidi, 722 01:11:40,330 --> 01:11:42,884 the crisis mapping service that sort of takes 723 01:11:42,919 --> 01:11:45,197 what a whole population knows about a crisis 724 01:11:45,231 --> 01:11:48,234 and turns it into a map you can see and work with. 725 01:11:48,269 --> 01:11:49,339 Or you look at PatientsLikeMe 726 01:11:49,374 --> 01:11:52,238 which is trying to transform medicine 727 01:11:52,273 --> 01:11:55,483 by making the patients much more active participants. 728 01:11:55,518 --> 01:11:57,692 You see that we have a chance here 729 01:11:57,727 --> 01:12:00,523 to take these tools and their incredible flexibility 730 01:12:00,557 --> 01:12:02,801 and their distracting amounts of freedom 731 01:12:02,835 --> 01:12:05,700 to create bits of self-amusement 732 01:12:05,735 --> 01:12:08,358 and not much more, or we have the opportunity 733 01:12:08,393 --> 01:12:11,465 to really figure out ways that we can use 734 01:12:11,499 --> 01:12:14,571 these tools to make society better off. 735 01:12:29,759 --> 01:12:34,073 People think the internet is just a tool for communication. 736 01:12:34,108 --> 01:12:35,903 It's how we get in touch with one another. 737 01:12:35,937 --> 01:12:38,837 It does that, but it does so much more. 738 01:12:38,871 --> 01:12:41,218 And it has impacts in basically 739 01:12:41,253 --> 01:12:43,911 every facet of life. 740 01:13:03,137 --> 01:13:05,415 The internet is a tool for innovation. 741 01:13:05,450 --> 01:13:08,384 All of the world's knowledge is catalogued, 742 01:13:08,418 --> 01:13:11,387 categorized one Google search away, 743 01:13:11,421 --> 01:13:12,491 and education. 744 01:13:12,526 --> 01:13:15,252 You can now go online and go to Harvard 745 01:13:15,287 --> 01:13:18,394 and watch Harvard lectures, MIT lectures. 746 01:13:19,533 --> 01:13:21,327 With Telehealth and Telemedicine, 747 01:13:21,362 --> 01:13:25,055 villagers can talk to doctors via Skype. 748 01:13:25,090 --> 01:13:28,334 ♪ 749 01:13:28,369 --> 01:13:31,061 In disaster relief, we're seeing how communications 750 01:13:31,096 --> 01:13:35,272 is reinventing how lives are saved. 751 01:13:35,307 --> 01:13:37,689 We've watched how, in the Middle East, 752 01:13:37,723 --> 01:13:39,829 the internet gave people a voice 753 01:13:39,863 --> 01:13:41,209 that they never had before. 754 01:13:41,244 --> 01:13:43,522 And not only were the people in the Middle East 755 01:13:43,557 --> 01:13:46,249 rallying for change, the rest of the world 756 01:13:46,283 --> 01:13:48,182 rallied with them. 757 01:13:48,216 --> 01:13:51,806 ♪ 758 01:13:51,841 --> 01:13:54,119 People's ability to communicate shouldn't 759 01:13:54,153 --> 01:13:58,088 be limited by imagined cultural boundaries. 760 01:13:58,123 --> 01:14:00,746 Every person that we connect to the internet 761 01:14:00,781 --> 01:14:04,681 becomes a co-creator in our future. 762 01:14:04,716 --> 01:14:07,650 They get to be part of what happens next 763 01:14:07,684 --> 01:14:09,203 on planet Earth. 764 01:14:09,237 --> 01:14:19,282 ♪ 765 01:14:19,282 --> 01:14:30,569 ♪ 766 01:14:39,164 --> 01:14:40,510 For me, one of the most exciting things 767 01:14:40,545 --> 01:14:42,581 about the internet is this ability 768 01:14:42,616 --> 01:14:45,998 to recognize the humanness of people, 769 01:14:46,033 --> 01:14:47,931 the reality of people and other cultures 770 01:14:47,966 --> 01:14:49,243 and other languages. 771 01:14:49,277 --> 01:14:51,763 So, I think we've really barely scratched the surface 772 01:14:51,797 --> 01:14:54,490 of what is possible through collaboration. 773 01:14:54,524 --> 01:14:56,388 If you think about it, doing an encyclopedia 774 01:14:56,422 --> 01:14:58,459 is one of the easiest things. 775 01:15:21,309 --> 01:15:23,035 I see collaboration, 776 01:15:23,070 --> 01:15:25,141 especially computer mediated collaboration, 777 01:15:25,175 --> 01:15:28,247 as an extremely enabling tool 778 01:15:28,282 --> 01:15:30,284 for the population of the world, 779 01:15:30,318 --> 01:15:33,632 and I hope what it'll do is uncover voices and ideas 780 01:15:33,667 --> 01:15:36,566 that might be invisible otherwise. 781 01:15:53,790 --> 01:15:56,724 When we or are grandchildren look back and see 782 01:15:56,759 --> 01:15:59,175 what we made of the internet when we were the first people 783 01:15:59,209 --> 01:16:01,557 to shape its place in society, 784 01:16:01,591 --> 01:16:03,559 the question they're gonna ask is 785 01:16:03,593 --> 01:16:05,043 did they use it to change the world 786 01:16:05,077 --> 01:16:07,321 for the better? 787 01:16:07,355 --> 01:16:12,257 The greatest hope of this technology 788 01:16:12,291 --> 01:16:15,501 is that human beings would be connected 789 01:16:15,536 --> 01:16:19,229 to each other globally in ways that allowed us 790 01:16:19,264 --> 01:16:22,025 to realize our common humanity. 791 01:16:22,060 --> 01:16:25,235 That's the vision that really imagines 792 01:16:25,270 --> 01:16:29,792 that we could erase so much conflict 793 01:16:29,826 --> 01:16:33,347 that comes from seeing ourselves one way 794 01:16:33,381 --> 01:16:34,969 and others another way. 795 01:16:35,004 --> 01:16:37,938 ♪ 796 01:16:37,972 --> 01:16:41,286 Anything that enriches our knowledge of the range 797 01:16:41,320 --> 01:16:43,288 of human traditions, I think enriches 798 01:16:43,322 --> 01:16:45,911 our understanding of ourselves. 799 01:16:45,946 --> 01:16:49,535 The broader our database of human experience, 800 01:16:49,570 --> 01:16:50,847 the more clear we can be 801 01:16:50,882 --> 01:16:52,884 on kinda what are the universals 802 01:16:52,918 --> 01:16:54,402 of being human? 803 01:16:54,437 --> 01:16:56,301 How broad is the menu 804 01:16:56,335 --> 01:16:58,406 from which we can choose? 805 01:16:58,441 --> 01:17:01,720 And to what extent maybe has the menu shrunk 806 01:17:01,755 --> 01:17:03,446 by virtue of modern technology? 807 01:17:03,480 --> 01:17:05,103 What have we lost? 808 01:17:05,137 --> 01:17:07,484 We know what we've gained with e-mail 809 01:17:07,519 --> 01:17:09,107 and telephones and whatever else 810 01:17:09,141 --> 01:17:10,522 is characteristic of modernization, 811 01:17:10,556 --> 01:17:13,629 but what have we lost? 812 01:17:13,663 --> 01:17:16,735 We've left behind a way of life. 813 01:17:16,770 --> 01:17:19,082 I don't know that that's good or bad, 814 01:17:19,117 --> 01:17:20,428 but it is. 815 01:17:20,463 --> 01:17:22,707 The way we live is different. 816 01:17:22,741 --> 01:17:25,986 And as the information revolution continues, 817 01:17:26,020 --> 01:17:28,713 we may find that it has very fundamentally 818 01:17:28,747 --> 01:17:31,543 changed the nature of global society 819 01:17:31,577 --> 01:17:33,718 and what it is to be human. 820 01:17:33,752 --> 01:17:41,035 Throughout all of history, we have moved from isolation 821 01:17:41,070 --> 01:17:46,040 to interdependence to cooperation. 822 01:17:46,075 --> 01:17:48,698 That's what's goin' on here now. 823 01:17:48,733 --> 01:17:50,700 People all over the world are trying to figure out 824 01:17:50,735 --> 01:17:53,496 how to hold on to their religious, their ethnic, 825 01:17:53,530 --> 01:17:56,050 their racial, their tribal characteristics 826 01:17:56,085 --> 01:18:00,606 that make them proud and give them identity 827 01:18:00,641 --> 01:18:03,920 without having to denigrate, dehumanize somebody 828 01:18:03,955 --> 01:18:05,681 who's different. 829 01:18:05,715 --> 01:18:11,238 I believe the great mission of the 21st century world 830 01:18:11,272 --> 01:18:13,171 is to build up the positive forces 831 01:18:13,205 --> 01:18:15,656 of interdependence and beat back the negative ones, 832 01:18:15,691 --> 01:18:20,281 to move from mere interdependence 833 01:18:20,316 --> 01:18:22,145 to a global community. 834 01:18:22,180 --> 01:18:27,323 ♪ 835 01:18:27,323 --> 01:18:32,190 ♪ 836 01:18:52,693 --> 01:19:02,738 ♪ 837 01:19:02,738 --> 01:19:14,301 ♪ 838 01:19:18,546 --> 01:19:28,591 ♪ 839 01:19:28,591 --> 01:19:37,842 ♪ 840 01:19:50,509 --> 01:20:02,314 ♪ 841 01:20:02,349 --> 01:20:05,524 And there's whole worlds of civilizations there 842 01:20:05,559 --> 01:20:07,423 that we don't really hear from all that often. 843 01:20:07,457 --> 01:20:10,391 Should we wait for that ringing to stop? 844 01:20:10,426 --> 01:20:12,324 It's my phone. 845 01:20:15,362 --> 01:20:17,398 That's brilliant. 846 01:20:17,433 --> 01:20:18,365 Sorry. 847 01:20:18,399 --> 01:20:23,542 ♪ 848 01:20:23,542 --> 01:20:28,409 ♪ 849 01:20:53,572 --> 01:21:03,617 ♪ 850 01:21:03,617 --> 01:21:10,348 ♪ 851 01:21:17,044 --> 01:21:25,363 ♪ 65171

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