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we are
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wondering what is happening to the
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world everything is
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changing the very idea of human being
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some sort of natural concept is really
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going to change
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our bodies will be so high-tech we won't
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be able to really distinguish between
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what's natural and what's
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artificial inside our own heads is the
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most complex arrangement of matter in
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the known
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universe you might ask yourself can we
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get to be
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superhumans
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the original Industrial Revolution was
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driven by the discovery that you could
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use steam engines to do all kinds of
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interesting things but that was followed
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by additional revolutions for
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electricity and computers and
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Communications technology we're now in
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the early stages of the fourth
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Industrial Revolution which is bringing
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together digital physical and biological
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systems one of the features of this
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fourth Industrial Revolution is that it
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doesn't change what we are doing but it
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changes
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us with the ability to visualize brain
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activity for example through a simple
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consumer-based EEG device it gives us
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access ourselves in ways that we've
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never before thought possible it unlocks
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the black box that is the brain and
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enables us to um really truly be able to
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uh realize an identity that is
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aspirational there's now a scientific
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foundation for the effects of
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mindfulness on the brain on the genome
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on biological aging and when the human
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mind does know itself then you get the
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potential for a new Renaissance that
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restructures itself in terms of our
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relationship to life our relationship to
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the planet our relationship to work we
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need a different economic model by that
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I don't mean capital ISM versus
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communism what I'm talking about is a
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shift in the system along the lines of
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the two big changes that happened in the
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20th century keynesianism with a much
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greater focus on health and education
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and the role of government working with
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business and then a reaction against
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that in late Century to neoliberalism
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where the focus was on free markets
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freedom of the individual and getting
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governments out of the way we need a
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shift to a new system that will allow us
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to meet the basic needs of every human
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on the planet that will live within
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implant means that will be fairer and
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that will be focused as its key goal not
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on growth per se but on maximizing human
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wellbe and history tells us that a value
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shift is triggered by creation of a new
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story about how we want to
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live I see the circular economy as
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something which fits very closely with
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Mankind's goal to be Innovative and
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creative and to always progress we can
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use asset tracking we can use it we can
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use 3D printing to enable this different
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economic model to C materials feed them
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back into the economy and really to
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decouple growth from the resource
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constraints we
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have the reason we live in cities is not
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different today than it was 10,000 years
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ago even if we have got networks
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connecting us we still want to have
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places where we meet in person this
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means the place where we work and the
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place where we live are much closer to
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each other a city where we don't need to
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have big Supply chains in order to
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produce things where many things can be
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sourced locally thanks to 3D printing
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and Robotics so if we're able to do
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something to transform cities to make it
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more efficient then the impact can be
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huge think about the prospect of getting
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rid of plastic we must not only be
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inspired or informed by nature but
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actually use natural organisms with
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which to design products and building
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Parts only instead of varying material
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properties we're varying biological
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functionality design is critical today
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because it's the first signal of human
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intention so the question of adding
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quality to quantity it isn't a matter of
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Simply circulating things that are
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potentially toxic it's circulating
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things that are safe and healthy for all
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generations so the goal is no longer I
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want to be less bad less monotonous less
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unsafe less unjust it's really about a
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diverse safe healthy and just world with
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clean air clean water clean soil clean
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energy together we are fighting to
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preserve our fragile CL climate from
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irreversible damage and Devastation of
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Unthinkable
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proportions if we think about the
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original Industrial Revolution it was an
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energy Revolution I like to think of it
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as a kind of book ending of a period in
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human history during which we used
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fossil fuels and it worked very well for
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us for a long time but now we have to
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bring that to an end we have Energy
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Technologies that can power our
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civilization solar wind uh biomass so
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then the question is well how do we get
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GD integration maybe the wind is blowing
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in Denmark the sun is shining in Germany
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and now you can move that electricity
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through an integrated grid you can
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supply energy to everyone who needs it
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and you can supply energy at all
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times walking around you do see
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different stuff um far as like the body
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marriage line they use a lot of things
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that help them lift up and move things
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to the car we just sit there and you
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know program something and if it has its
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own set mind to go ahead and do
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everything and then as humans we just
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come in and take the extra step to help
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the technology it's not the The Cure All
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for everything there's definitely a lot
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of things where people perform the
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operation better but certainly for the
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right applications Robotics are a huge
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Improvement for the
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process the projection of 5 million jobs
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lost by 2020 to technology is serious
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but it's not the main question
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construction Manufacturing Services
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Public Health and education these
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industries will still exist the main
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question is what will be the future of
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work how will we Define work how will we
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share the
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wealth from the Viewpoint of the the RoR
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were jobs now the we dearly need new
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education when new
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training we're working with a world in
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Motion in first robotics trying to
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encourage you know students from third
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grade all the way up through uh the end
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of high school we um had students make
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sailboats and then we had them race them
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and so they could see how quickly they
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could move and they immediately went
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back and started to say oh I saw what
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happened I'm going to go change this or
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that and that was third
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graders I've just given a prize to a kid
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of 18 years old that has discovered
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something really very very unique came
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up with how to get better productivity
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and better yields for seeds of corn and
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so he basically came with the idea that
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if you would perforate these seeds you
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would get more food and uh you think
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about it say but he didn't go to
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university so how does it get all that
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knowledge and he told me I mean I've
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been watching YouTube since the age of
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12 and I'm so interested that I've seen
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everything about it I've read everything
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about it the world is really open uh to
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learning the thing is
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uh how do you give the incentive to your
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kids to do that it's this ability of
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digital technology to change outcomes to
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truly Empower people all over the world
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that can create a more Equitable growth
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because I think the world needs
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that fourth industrial revolution has
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the potential to make inequalities
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visible and to make make them less
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acceptable in the future and hopefully
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to gather and Garner political support
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to take the necessary decision to reduce
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the
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Gap humans have always been using tools
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but because of the recent advances in
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technology we're beginning to have
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machines that can augment Us in all
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sorts of interesting
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ways I was the first person in the world
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to be able to voluntarily move my legs
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while stepping in a robot by exciting
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the nervous system using electrical
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stimulators directly onto the spine we
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believe that a cure will be possible if
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enough of the right people have the will
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to Fast Track a cure for
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paralysis we take two things from the
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patient um First We Take a
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three-dimensional X-ray and we extract
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the threedimensional data out of that so
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we can make a perfectly shaped puzzle
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piece and then we also take a sample of
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fat tissue from the patient so that we
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can extract the stem cells out of those
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and we use those stem cells with this
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threedimensional scaffold that we
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fabricate and after 3 weeks we have a
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piece of living bone that's uh ready for
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implantation being able to use genome
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editing to understand the genetic
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changes that lead to cancer and
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Technologies like a drug delivery
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getting molecules into particular types
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of cells there's a lot of excitement
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about being able to move much more
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quickly on this
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disease one of the things that I think
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is so essential to free and open
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societies is freedom of thought um and
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up until now the conversation we've been
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having is around freedom of speech once
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we can access people's thoughts and
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access people's emotions um we have to
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create a space that enables people to
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think freely to think Divergent thoughts
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to think creative thoughts and in a
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society where people fear having those
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thoughts uh the likelihood of being able
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to enjoy progress significantly
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diminished we need to take respons
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ability at every level of society from
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the individual and the personal to the
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institutional to the global to adapt to
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these technological challenges and
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changes which are redefining what it
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means to be human what it means to work
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what it means to be completely embedded
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in this
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world people always ask me if I'm an
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optimist or a pessimist the technology
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exists but how do we get it and
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implement it at the scale we need at a
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price that people around the world can
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afford even though we have everyday
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problems we have to solve we have to
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find a way to lay the foundations for
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the Innovations of
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tomorrow
