from Las Vegas, extracting the signal from the noise. It's the Cube, covering IBM Insight 2015, brought to you by IBM. And I've been asking, a lot of people have been asking for the last five years, since the Jeopardy match, you know, what are they doing? When are they going to bring this thing out and really make a business out of it? And it was clear from the keynote this morning that Watson is ready for business. It's not just the healthcare, they've got plays in retail. They had the weather channel out there talking about Watson. They have their whole mobile app partner ecosystem talking about what they're doing with backend analytics on Watson. And so it's clear that they have finally sort of gotten their act together. Took them a while to do this, but they've got a very clear coherent message that Watson is a differentiated product. Now, of course you're going to have, Microsoft is going to have its own Watson type of play and IBM certainly won't be alone in that market. But for right now, I think they're leading with their strong suit. I also was impressed by the partners that they brought up today. They had the weather channel on stage. They had Twitter on stage. IBM, of course, has partnership with Facebook. They have put, and their Apple partnership, of course, they've put a lot of the pieces in place with a lot of the major brands. Now, I think in a statement of saying, we are the company that's easy to do business with. And when their competitors are AWS, Google, Oracle, not companies necessarily have a reputation for being easy to do business with, IBM wants to be the nice guys, the nice company, the company that wants to partner. That, I think, came out clearly this morning in the slate of speakers that they had on stage. So George, we were talking off camera about, okay, let's dig into Watson a little bit. Let's understand how developers interact with Watson. They talked about 30 plus APIs. They're going to double the number of APIs next year. You're a former Wall Street analyst, so you see, you know, those old saying on Wall Street, don't bet on companies in transition, right? It's scary time for a lot of organizations. We're seeing all kinds of machinations going on in the business. Dell, you know, acquiring EMC, companies like, smaller companies like BMC and Informix going private. Of course, Dell went private last year. IBM selling its micro-electronics business, actually paying somebody to take its micro-electronics business, jettisoning its x86 server business. All kinds of changes, George, and a big transition going on in the core of IT hardware and software. You've talked a lot about the slow motion collapse in infrastructure software. What's your take on what you heard today specifically, but also IBM in general, from a, you know, Wall Street, former Wall Street analyst perspective? Well, if you step back, IBM's sort of value proposition to customers and its business model has always been about solving hard problems for big business. And they've not been a commodity oriented platform ever. But the shift from their traditional sort of hardware software platforms has been sort of commodified a little bit faster than I guess they expected. And frankly, you know, Wall Street expected. And you know, Amazon is eating into that and the sort of low level professional services that would have put those systems together. But what I thought was most interesting about this new platform that they're pushing that's going to solve hard analytic problems for customers, if you look, listen to last year's keynote and then compare it to this year's keynote, last year was all about a platform as a service and the databases, particularly the analytic databases on it. And Watson was a corner of it, an important corner. But they talked about dash DB, which is their new, you know, analytic database in the cloud. They talked about cloud and operational database in the cloud. And they talked about the roles, the traditional roles, business analysts, application developers, knowledge workers, IT and data stewards and DBAs. This year, there was no talk about all that. It was almost as if that layer melted beneath Watson. And we, as you said, it was all about the Watson services and APIs. And I do want to say one thing. APIs, as we all know, that's critical for building an application platform. What they didn't tell us, and I expect we'll hear a lot more about it, what those APIs look like, who goes in there and builds on them. And the other thing was, in addition to just the APIs, we saw for the first time, analytic data feeds like the Weather Channel. So you're not just a SaaS software app. You can subscribe to an analytic service that tells you, okay, you know, here's what the weather's going to look like in this micro site. And I think we're going to see a lot more of those so that you can feed these data services, analytic data services into custom apps that you're building on the Watson platform. So I think you're making some great points about IBM's, you know, traditional history of going after high margin businesses. I mean, essentially they failed in the PC business. They failed in the PC operating system business and the PC apps business. And so it's interesting when you go around at all these tech conferences, everybody's trying to, when they talk products, trying to differentiate. And the difference between most products is the square root of zero. And so what IBM, it seems to me anyway, has done is that all right, we're going to make a big bet on something that's going to change the world, that's going to be cognitive. And they, the other big difference to your point relative last year is they started to give some substantive examples, Paul, and we've seen that. We saw that a little bit at the MIT event this summer when we talked to Pitchiano. But the, they showed a pepper, which is sort of the future, this sort of robot, but they showed some real examples. The wine sleuth, the woman from the wine sleuth got up.  Certainly in the healthcare industry, there's a lot of famous sort of well high profile examples. Ken Jennings, there was a video of Ken Jennings up on stage, which was quite humorous. Ken Jennings talking about how he hasn't given up. He's gone off and written books and he's speaking a lot of conferences. You know, interesting, Gary Kasparov didn't give up either, right? The greatest chess player in the world is not a computer. It's a team of computers and humans. So from a CIO's perspective though, what do you think all this means? Are CIOs stepping back and saying, okay, I'm going to transition my business into cognitive or is IBM risking sort of this big chasm where the market is over here, they're over rotating into, you know, this new cognitive world. Eventually the market will get there, but what are your thoughts on that from a CIO perspective? I just returned from a conference where there were about 70 CIOs of some of the largest companies in America and then for two days, they talked about digital business. They talk a lot about digital business. They're very hot on this idea of transforming the company with not only operational efficiencies through digital, but more importantly, I think changing the business, finding new lines of revenue, transforming the relationship with the customer. It's very clear that this is a top of mind issue, not just with them, but with their boards. And some of the CIOs were saying that they are now regularly presenting to their boards on the issue of how they're transforming the business. So this is an opportunity for IBM, it's an opportunity for any vendor, of course. But what IBM needs to do is to make this easy. It needs to provide examples. And I think IBM does a very good job at this. You look at their history of how they run these trade shows, there's a lot of customers up there. There's a lot of real world experiences.  And Watson predicting the weather. And all of these areas where you could see practitioners sitting in the audience and the light bulbs going off, seeing how they could apply those examples to their purposes. So to George's point, this conference, at least in the first hours, has not been about vits, bytes, digits, and programmers. That's always been important to IBM, but this very much, this is starting off as an application oriented conference. And I would indicate that IBM has turned a corner, at least, in its ability to turn Watson into something that is practical and people can really see the opportunities of how to use it. George, in your manifesto, you talked about systems of intelligence. In fact, you're perpetually talking about systems of intelligence. So we like that. IBM talks about systems of record. They talk also about systems of insight. From your perspective, when you think about systems of intelligence and what that means, being able to actually predict and affect outcomes, take action in real time, where do you, how do you assess IBM through that prism? It's funny, because that was just a point I wanted to make, which was it's becoming pretty well known how to build on systems of record where the key thing you're adding is prediction or recommendation to take an action, whether the consumer, suggesting to the consumer or the operational system sort of automatically making an offer or taking an action. And we know that we've been building essentially Hadoop clusters to process lots of data to come up with predictions that then get sort of put into a model that works in real time in the operational system. But what I didn't see today, and frankly, nor last year hints yet, of how are we going to connect these Watson analytic apps to our existing systems? That I would like to see more of. Well, and I think traditionally IBM's answer to that has been whatever you want to do with services. And so when Gerstner made the choice to really not split up the company and go heavy into services, IBM became quite reliant upon that business for income and revenue stream and was very, very successful. Now that services business is changing quite dramatically. And that is one of the challenges that they face, right, is you've got the traditional business declining faster than new businesses are growing. But IBM I think is organized in a way to address that. They've put a lot of the services and industry capabilities into the different business units. But again, Paul, come to you from a customer's perspective. Obviously that services play worked because it was very high touch. Does IBM risk losing some of that high touch? Or do you feel like culturally they'll maintain that? I think the services business is shifting. Companies, CIOs increasingly want to, they want solutions to be simple. They don't want to worry about the plumbing. And the services business has always been all about the plumbing. I think in that business shrinking now, I think the traditional services business shrinking, as it hit Perot and EDS and all the traditional outsourcing services companies, that's just not a great business to be in. What IBM is doing seems to be pivoting the services business now and focusing more on applications that have demonstrated value. So one of the first presentations we heard this morning was from, I can't remember his name, but a representative of Twitter talking about how they've trained. Chris Moody, who's coming to the Cube actually. Well, Chris talked about how they trained 33,000 IBM service reps to help customers create intelligence through Twitter analytics. That has real demonstrated value. And if they're going to save that services business, they're going to shrink it obviously, but they're going to need to point it in the directions where it's going to have an evident payoff to the customers. So, and I can see what the weather channel, you're doing that same kind of thing. So many businesses are dependent upon weather data for forecasting and for their very existence. That's another potentially lucrative services business for IBM, but it's about the application now. It's not about the plumbing. So IBM has obviously George, a massive portfolio of products and analytics from Cognos to information management that things like Spark, they've got big insights. I mean, you name it, IBM has it, but it tends to be bespoke and it tends to rely on services to bring those things together. Now, Bluemix at PazLayer is a way in which IBM intends to bring that together. You were at Oracle Open World earlier this week. You heard all Larry's keynote talking about fusion and that really is their PazLayer. How do you compare and contrast IBM and Oracle? Are the similarities greater than the differences or are there stark differences in your view? There's a couple of cuts on that question. Oracle has done a great job of using the sort of profits from a declining database business to buy lots of applications, especially vertical applications. Those are a lot less price sensitive and they're packaged applications. And they're belatedly, but still building out purpose with great purpose, this platform around those apps to build customization. IBM has just by their DNA has been bespoke analytic apps that would extend what customers already have. I think we need to see Bluemix mature more in the direction of what Oracle is trying to do. Oracle hasn't done it yet, but- They've done it on paper. Yes, but on paper it's good. It's at least a good vision. And actually probably the most compelling value is that it's going to surround their existing apps because that's where the natural extension. So that's what IBM has to do to bring that to you because IBM has a lot of industry apps, manufacturing apps, information and management apps, tons of SaaS, I mean they've purchased probably 50 plus SaaS companies over the years. So I do see a lot of similarities there. The other similarity is that Wall Street is not too sanguine on either company right now. People are eager but disappointed at the headwinds, the revenue misses, the adjustments for talking about the new stuff but not big enough to offset the old. We are clearly in an industry in transition. We're going to be covering that transition, obviously focusing on some of the new exciting stuff here, exciting stuff here at IBM Insight. We're going to have IBM execs on, partners, we've got analysts coming on, we've got customers coming on, wall-to-wall coverage. This is theCUBE, we're here live at IBM Insight. Check out ibmgo.com, it's the digital experience for this site, registered to be able to watch the keynotes. Check out, as part of that digital experience, there's crowd chats running on, crowdchat.net slash IBM Insight or you can go to those through IBM Go. So please check that out. Tweet us and we'll get your questions with all the execs. Thanks for watching everybody. Keep it right there, we'll be right back. This is theCUBE, we're live from IBM Insight 2015. Right back.


I had dinner after the VIP night with my buddy that lives in Dallas. He's not a real estate agent and we were talking about this and he was, I haven't talked to him in years and he was talking about, we were talking about, you know, me speaking and how I'm coaching for free and how it all works and all this stuff. And I was telling him the dynamics of the whole thing. And he said, you know what? That is interesting because there's a homeless guy right around the corner here and he, you know, I was walking past and he came up and he said, and he asked me where I'm from. He didn't ask me for any money. He just asked me where I'm from. And then he said they kind of had a little conversation. He said, oh, I'm from Alabama and stuff, mobile. And the guy said, oh, yeah, I know mobile. The underwater tunnel and all that stuff. And they had a little conversation. The guy never asked him for a dollar. My buddy said, see you later and left the next day. He saw the homeless guy and he gave him some money. Why? Because the homeless guy didn't ask him for money like all the other homeless people. He was actually curious about my buddy and he created kind of a little relationship with them. And my buddy knew that he needed money. He's homeless. So next time we see him, he's like, I like that guy. I'm going to give him some money. So what I don't want you guys to do is sound like every other real estate agent. How he didn't sound like every other homeless person begging for money.  What I want you to look at when you're looking at a market is not the opportunity of transactions. I want you to think about it in terms of the opportunity of relationships in the market. Remember market share. It's the percentage of property owners in your market that you have a relationship with. What agent has the most real relationships with property owners in the area? There's no way in the world ever in a million years that you can talk to every single person in Dallas. Never. So there's an unlimited potential of relationships for the rest of your life forever. You'll never even get to them all. Okay. Transactions come from a conversation that got converted into a relationship that was then converted into the transaction. You can go back through the worst of the markets through your MLS and recognize that there were closings that were happening every single day. So what does that tell us? It tells us what I have to worry about the next crash. If it ever happens, when it ever happens, it doesn't matter. Because closings are going to continue to happen every single day. Okay. So think about this. When a market transitions, this is what happens. I want you guys to really pay attention to this. This is important. When the market's going up, like it did from 2012 to 2017, 18, when the market's doing this, okay? The people that are buying and selling when the market's doing this, they put the brakes on when the market does this. Which I don't know about Dallas is where my market is. And I know a lot of markets in the country, it's a different market over the last, say, 18 months than it was the previous five years. So when the market transitions, the clients that you have that you're working with, all of a sudden put the brakes on. Because the market shifts, right? The prices, you know, things are staying longer on the market, inventory goes up, you know, things are changing. They're like, oh, I don't know what to do here. And it scares agents out of the business. Because your clients that you're working with right then currently stop, they just put the brakes on. And you're like, oh, no, I need money.  Here's the reality of it. Here's how you transition with the market. Okay? Number one, you don't freak out. And you understand that closings will continue to happen every day. The people that buy when it's going like this, not the same clients that are buying when it's doing this. When the market shifts, you'll have a temporary slowdown in your business. You won't be slowed down because any downtime you should fill up making phone calls and contacting people and helping people. You should never have a moment of downtime ever. But as far as your transactions, that's going to slow down temporarily. But then this is what separates the good agents and the great agents. The great agents understand this. They transition with the market. They get right back on track where they were. That's what's happened to me. My business slowed down earlier this year. Spring and summer is kind of dead. Now I'm right back to where I was or better. Because I understand this philosophy because I've been through it and I'm trying to tell you so that you don't have to, so you have some kind of idea that way when it happens, you know how to handle it. When people see you everywhere, they feel like they know you. I want you guys to really put some thought into personal branding, making videos, Facebook, Instagram, email, however you want to do it.


والله الذي هدان لهذا وما كنا لنا احتادي لولان هدان الله الحمد لله الذي انزل الفرقان على عبده ليكون للعالمين نذيره وصلاة والسلام على خير خلق ونور عشي افضل الانبياء والمرسلين حبيبنا وسيدنا وسندنا وشفيعنا ومولانا بالقاسم محمد وعلى آله التيبين الطاهرين المأسمين المظلومين اما بعد فودقار الله سبحانه وتعالى في كتاب المجيد فقول له الحق وهو أستخص صادقين اسم الله رحمان الرحيم إنما المؤمنين الذين إذا ذكروا الله وجلت قلوبهم وإذا توليت عليهم آياته زادتهم إيمانا وعلى ربهم يتوكلون صدق الله العليون عظيم صلوات الله محمد وأهل محمد أبدأ في الله's name the beneficent the merciful and all praise belongs to Allah سبحانه وتعالى for giving us this life and making us who we are and blessing us with this month of Ramadan in which much mercy has descended upon us and for the human race it is the month in which the Quran was revealed it is the month in which Allah has prescribed upon us fasting so that we can improve in our abilities to fight off the evil inclinations in order for us to elevate our standards and ourselves for this world and the next world and Allah has created us with two major components the material component and the spiritual component it's very important for us to know that these two components coexist within us and it is very important that we do not deprive either one of its due there are those who become very spiritual and they give up their material pursuits and then there are those who are very material and they give up their spiritual pursuits both are actually wrong that is not what Allah has created us for when we hear the story that we should be self annihilating you know we hear this the self in order to merge with Allah these metaphorical conversations need to be clarified otherwise people will misunderstand them self annihilation is not totality of self annihilation it is the annihilation of the evil inclinations that should be annihilated not the good one our material desires should be nurtured and we should go after them Allah says زينة الله التي أخرج لعبادي والطيبات من الرزق who has made the good things of this world haram for you Allah says they are for you in this world and they are exclusively for the believers in the next world so Allah has not forbidden that so we must when we discuss in these important nights how do we balance because the religion of Islam if there is one word besides the very profound words that should come to the front of our thoughts and our tongues when we ask what is Islam in the simplest of ways when someone says what is Islam the word itself should be sufficient it invokes the principle word called peace سلام you will find nothing resonates better with our hearts and the human race even on the social front even if you are running for politics the word peace is the most attractive word it causes people to imagine it it causes people to support such individuals and we are all looking for peace not only social political peace but internal peace the one that gives me tranquility we call it tranquility you see Allah says it is who sends tranquility into the hearts of believers and he increases their faith upon their faith so imagine this verse the last part implies that you and I can claim to be believers we can claim that we have faith but the Quran is saying that there is an evolution a growth in faith ايمانم مع ايمانهم even if you have faith there is always room to gain more faith it is very important on that to understand but in summary we have material and spiritual we must teach ourselves and our children and our generations that both are critical and important and they should not be neglected our desire to become wealthy our desire to live in good homes and have fine cars and fine clothes and to be sophisticated and to use advanced technologies is not forbidden in Islam it is encouraged today the advancements of what we have look at our cars today they have become much more sophisticated than they ever were if you look at the early times when Ford engineered the car those cars were very dangerous to drive on the road they had very minimal safety measures today cars are designed to also auto-drive they are still perfecting that art but if the desire for those things did not exist if there was no economy for that if there were no people demanding such technologies then we would be inhibiting progress materially so to want sophisticated things and to want entities that the average doesn't have is not forbidden in Islam and Allah proves that to us through His Prophet Sulaiman you notice Sulaiman in his period of time was so wealthy and so advanced in his technology that he rivaled all societies now he's a prophet of Allah and Allah reveres him in the Quran Allah blesses Sulaiman with much honor in the Quran and Allah says we gave him much wealth and much power to the extent that he invites the queen of Sheba she was stunned by his palace the floor of his palace was made of glass even in today's world you don't have homes with glass floors generally they are very expensive to build but Sulaiman had it Sulaiman had surveillance systems more sophisticated than the drones that we have today his surveillance was a living creature a bird who could fly and not only go see something in distant land but come back and tell him what they were doing wrong which drone today can do that which drone can come and tell you that they are obeying Allah and this obeying Allah Hood Hood who was the bird of Sulaiman would come back and tell Sulaiman that there is a queen who is worshipping the sun he was more advanced than we are today so such advancements are not forbidden in Islam it's the negative advancements that we must be careful about it's the ones that can cause destruction within our societies that we need to be vigilant about and to say no we will not allow such advancements because ethically they will violate the principle notion of peace peace so when someone asks us what is Islam tell them it's peace it's submission to the Almighty but another word you and I should use it's balance Islam is a religion of balance when someone asks you what is Islam in the function of peace is that you can't have peace unless you have balance when you have extremism you lack peace if you look at the physics of the universe you will notice it's constantly moving towards a balance everything in chemistry is trying to balance itself in physics it's balancing itself when we look within our body and you have free radicals in your body it's destructive free radicals are a result of you know atoms that are loosely destroying our bodies so we take antioxidants in order to neutralize free radicals there is a balance in the body when we eat there should be a balance excessive eating is dangerous Allah in the Quran says كلوا واشربوا ولا تصرفوا إنه لا يحبوا المصرفين eat drink don't overdo it he doesn't like it when you overdo it it's harmful to you so when we say what should I indulge in this world Allah says everything that is Halal for you but don't overdo it it's harmful to you because the physics of the universe demands balance and if you create an imbalance it will come back and throw you off off your extremism and it will force a balance the law of nature Allah is merciful Allah in the Quran says وعقيم الوزن بالقست ولا تخصروا الميزة maintain the balance and don't tip the balance Allah says we made the universe in balance maintaining balance justice تواسو بالحق تواسو بالصبر تواسو بالحق maintain justice maintain truthfulness maintain balance you will find the most powerful principles of Islam is built on the principles of balance our children when they come and ask us to do something and we know it's not good for them don't just say no to them say no with another option give them an alternative when you say no the child when they are told no it's extremism in their head you are extreme they say and that's right that perception appears to be extreme it's prohibitive sadly I question a lot of youth around the world and they consider Islam rather than it being peace submission balance they see it as prohibitive inhibitive too much haram everything is forbidden in Islam my friends can do so much they think that way and then of course they are very afraid they have to pray because mom and dad told them if you don't pray you are going to hell we are masters of defining and constantly talking about hell we are experts of hell the minute somebody does something you are going to hell and we are so good go to hell I don't like you go to hell Alhamdulillah because we will be sending each other to hell oh that sister is not wearing hijab oh she is going to hell she is going to be dragged by her hair who said that Allah has prescribed modesty and we will talk about hijab and modesty is not only for women it's for men too الله says وقل المؤمنات يغضد من أبصارهم وقل المؤمنات يغضد من أبصارهم الله is talking about a balance let the men lower their eyes and women also lower their eyes and cover yourselves properly so that there is no indecency because it's a religion of balance but when our children and our adults consider a religion to be inhibitive slash prohibitive then the love of that religion diminishes where we start to think less of it and we consider the religion to become a burden upon us when in fact religion of Allah is designed to remove the burden so we have to be cognizant that even when we are fasting in the month of Ramadan it's not a burden upon us it's a system of Allah to help us to balance ourselves so when we say no to our children give them an option or don't do this how about we do that oh ok it's not prohibitive there's an alternative Allah is describing this essence of peace even in paradise Allah says in paradise you won't hear vain talk no extremism gossip our extreme behaviors when we cause fitna with each other when we fight when we fault find our families and societies you find that that's extremism it leads to displeasure it leads to pain it leads to a lot of stress which leads to death but Allah says in paradise you won't hear vain talk fault finding none of that rubbish except everyone will be saying peace peace so when we talk about how do we achieve this peace not only within ourselves the most because I believe the greatest conversation is how do I achieve internal peace very important and we are trying we're experimenting and as I mentioned the stages of the evolution of the cell the nafs how do we reach that stage after when we have found ourselves to be the problem and we have found ourselves to be the solution how do I reach that stage where I am satisfied with myself with tranquility ever eager to return to my lord as Allah says you claim to be chosen people of god then have a desire to return to me here Allah is not talking about suicide not talking about death you mean you're eager to come to him how do you reach that stage where the petty things of the world don't bother how do you reach that stage where the petty things of the world don't bother you you think of the long term you are seeing yourself on judgment day the promise you made to that individual whether you borrowed money or you made a promise to help them you are looking at the day of judgment when you make that promise we need to teach our children the way to balance by the way the key component of causing the ship to be balanced in the sea is to peg itself to long term thinking when you and I have long term thinking and when our children are taught to think long term they become balanced the reason children become very agitated they are very impatient they lack the desire to wait till tomorrow it's very typical children have that it's because they have developed short term thinking because they are in survival mode they want to survive now now I need this pleasure now but you said them hold on you will get this pleasure tomorrow but better they said no that lack of long term thinking ends up becoming adulthood and you find adults who are unafraid of dying and they are still cheating and lying and while they bear religions that there is a day of judgment they don't really believe in it they haven't taken the long term into consideration as a result agitation starts you will notice people who have long term will not cheat you generally they won't cheat you and I'm talking about long term I'm talking about eternity because as they say in wisdom okay wise people think long term foolish people think short term now the wise person who thinks long term already has the short term in it but the foolish one has no long term in it so long term thinking is superior you find quran constantly reminds us of that be aware of يوم القيم and of the day of judgment they have certainty the God conscious ones in fact when you look at all the verses where Allah reveres and praises people you'll find that they talk in long term look I'll give you one example Allah says على حبه مسكينه ويتيمه وأسيره الله is talking about أهل البيت as you know you find that they may Imam Hassan and Imam Hussein were not well so she vowed that she will fast for 3 days as her promise to God that they should be recovered it's another so as you know as she is about to break the fast مسكينه ويتيمه وأسيره the poor man comes first then of course an orphan comes and then a wayfarer a stranger from another town and each time they are ready to break their fast they hear knock on the door and they give their food away and they break their fast with meager leftovers and they break their fast the second day the power of sacrifice you will notice without long term you can't sacrifice you will not let go of something if you believe in long term you will let go easily when Allah says ينفقون they spend with what we give them it's because they have long term in their vision they know they will not be bankrupt they know Allah gave them this so you find the house of Ahl al-Bayt is giving this food and Allah is so pleased with them يفون بالنظري ويخافون يوما كان شره مستطيرة ويتعمون الطعام على حبي listen to the verse they keep their promises and they are afraid of that day يفون بالنظري ويخافون يوما كان شره مستطيرة يعني they are afraid of that long day the day when the day of judgment will come they have it in their context constantly hence their behavior is the way it is ويخافون يوما كان شره and then Allah said يعمون الطعام على حبي this is in surat al-Dahar by the way in surat al-Insan then Allah shows us what they actually say because now Allah is talking about them now Allah is telling me what do they say they say لا نريد منكم جزاء ولا شكورة we want no reward from you not even thanks wow you just gave us food you fed us we knocked on your door you didn't slam the door on our faces you gave us the food that was meager for you when you shared it for us they said لا نريد منكم جزاء ولا شكورة you know why they say that you know what is the essence of why they say that because they feel they haven't done enough for Allah they feel Allah has done too much for them they feel even if they gave their souls to Allah they will not pay them back this is why they say لا نريد منكم جزاء ولا شكورة إننا نخاف من ربنا يوم عبوصاً قمطرير we are afraid of that day when hearts will be palpitating what will we answer our god when he has been so kind and generous and merciful to us that when we give we should not give for thanks or for reward we've already been rewarded subhanallah it's quintessential when we talk about essence of gratitude when you talk about an individual who has understood the rahmah of Allah سبحانه وتعالى it's such people to that level that they have accounted for Allah's mercy to such levels that they say nothing in this world will change us from appreciation of how mercy for Allah is يمامسين عليه الصلاة من كربلا as his child has received an arrow by hurmala and he's seeing the blood dripping and this child has lost its soul he looks up it says ردم بقضاء but the sleep and the amri we're satisfied by your decree Allah but your child just got killed and guess what you are the Imam you are the prince on earth you are the leader of all of mankind on earth and you answer this way they said yeah because we are too grateful to Allah we are balanced we are peaceful we have too much tranquility that while we see the misbehavior of the societies we have been sent as guidance to you so that we teach you how to behave believe me brothers and sisters travel the world study religions on earth there are thousands of them major ones few dozen study them you will find nothing in any historical equation to what i just mentioned in historical equations you will never find personalities of this character but the ones that we have in the dean of Allah in islam الله says to us how do you reach this so we have problems today i'm going to touch on a few today before i end but let me point out الله says انما المؤمنين الذين المؤمنين are those إذا ذكر الله واجلت قلوبهم when they hear God's name or they recognize God's presence their hearts become pliant meaning you feel cool you feel good like i've seen it by the way even among of course non-muslims too sometimes i would sit with non-muslim audience in the university and i talk about God and they would all look at me tell us more tell us who is this god we want to know and then they are spin drop silence and they are eager to hear the nuances of the definition of this ever-present ubiquitous god and i look at them and they have no distraction eager because heart is palpitating for god it's not muslim there are muslim sadly you talk to them about Allah they yawn and they fall asleep you gossip and they're wide awake you find false oh wide awake they were sleepy they lost it but talk about God they fall asleep الله says فذكر إنفعت الذكرة سيذكر من يخشى وإذا جنبها الأشقى الذي يصل النار الكبرى ثم لا يموت فيها ولا يحيا remind them reminding is beneficial the one whose heart is pliant doesn't have to be muslim in name one who's conscious of God's presence will listen to you سيذكر من يخشى but the one who is hard hearted the one who is material selfish short-term vision individual material capricious as we say in english one who is very selfish self-centered only me me i'll destroy the world macavel and style let me take it for me الله says ويتجنبها الأشقى the one whose ears are heavy they will not hear you when you recite the verses to them they turn away like they haven't heard you like there is a heaviness in the ears quran states it unbelievably elegantly he says but what is the problem he says we'll remind them it's essential for them to recognize الله says إنما المؤمنين الذين إذا ذكر الله وجلت قلوبهم you and i should pray in this month of Ramadan يا الله that give me that cognizance that when you are mentioned in any gathering that i should be vigilant and i should be cognizant and focused in that and let me not be reckless and fidgety and material that i need to pop pills in my mouth all the time because i'm so depressed or i'm so hyper tensed i've got so much stress i need all kinds of chemicals to calm me down today we're swimming in chemicals we're swimming the drug industries are making trillions of dollars in playing with the human psyche and we are throwing all kinds of drugs at each other and we are so dissatisfied because we've ignored our spirituality that now we're imbibing in all kinds of fantasy drugs today there's this فانتانول they say there's just one car load of فانتانول that crossed the border of canada to the united states they said it is more lethal than all the nuclear power on earth and then there's another drug that has come out called car fentanyl it's much deadlier than that and i'm thinking there's a market for this الناس are lining up to buy these things and those labs are manufacturing these kinds of drugs that are so deadly they give you this fantasy for a moment and the next thing you're dead you're overdosed and dead and i'm thinking why is our society going in that direction honestly deep down it's the net result of having denied the essential nature of the spirit when it is denied it leads into apathy it leads into a vacuum spiritual vacuum where the individual feels lonely they feel depressed and as a result they need solutions and today the drug industry is ever ready to throw pills at us and once we get addicted we're done i know with sadness some physicians with due respect to physicians who are masters of causing people to become addicted they'll give you these you know vikadin and painkillers because they make money and then you keep coming back for that and rather than get cured you got addicted it's a it's an ugly industry with all due respect to physicians there are good ones and there are bad ones and i ask the question why is that happening we don't have such dialogues we hardly talk and i want to introduce today the i gen you know what the i gen is the i generation that's this group the one that was born in 1995 to 2012 that's the new generation these are the ones who are completely born with these instruments i have seen even in my lectures some of you come and you've got your phone with you you know you look like you're really reflecting but you're chatting you know how much research has come out lately that children are developing bipolar correct characteristics it's leading to an increased amount of depression suicide rates have increased loneliness you would think this child is talking to a million people at a time potentially on twitter and they're lonely and they're depressed and suicidal if you see pictures i've seen it i watch when parents bring their children at school mommy's on the phone the child is on the phone somebody else is on the phone the kid gets out of the car mommy's still on the phone slams the door mommy's still on the phone she zooms away never like hug you know salamu alaykum take care and then our modern cars today plugins every seat has a plug you got your separate video streams your audio streams the child gets into the car father goes to pick up the child from school child gets into the car he's got his headphones plug it in goodbye i'm in my cyber world we're giving each other cyber hugs cyber love sending hearts to each other lols you know all kinds of and by the way now the emoticons that's just one dimensional micho kaku says that there's gonna come a time soon because research has shown we're able to upload emotions into human brain now you know that we have successfully uploaded emotions into an existing living human brain it says soon there will come a time when we will not be sending such emoticons we will be sending emotions to each other like when you're happy i'll feel your happiness in actual emotion in my brain that's the world we're approaching so what's the answer to this you find children are constantly i've seen parents talk to their children on a dining table texting texting i'm sitting on a dining table they're both on the phone i said what are you doing oh i'm talking to my son i said he's right there see he doesn't talk to me we only talk by text that's sad very sad research has shown that this addiction by the way the ign population almost entirely has this phone in their hands now is it bad no it's not bad research shows if you use a screen a phone or a screen for less than two hours maximum meaning anything less than two hours it's not unhealthy for you anything more than that in a day leads to depression leads to unhappiness leads to sadness and leads to a disconnection socially الله سبحانه وتعالى has combined us to do جماعة i'll talk about صلاة إن صلاة تنه عن الفحشاء والمنكر ولا ذكر الله أكبر صلاة i'll talk about it some the other nights prayer why is prayer so important especially جماعة shoulder to shoulder you have to put your phone away some people sadly they leave it on so they can watch the texts as they're praying i've seen people in the white situation السلام عليكم لجميع الله has got phone on the head i say you doing طوuv لجميع الله لجميع الله لجميع الله they got a phone أنا أقول لا حولة ولا قواتل. و then of course we've reached beyond that of course we've lost our connection with society I've seen kids who don't even know how to shake hands, don't even know how to give you eye contact They don't even know how to communicate with you, but chattery online, very anti-social in the real world It's a problem. Today our children hardly go to parks, parks have disappeared You know that there was a time kids used to line up when they were 16 They used to line up to go get their license I remember when I turned 16 on my birthday I got my license This generation doesn't care about license They hardly go out, they don't need it Either call an Uber, don't go out They've done research to show that children hardly go out with their parents lately They hardly communicate with society They're online constantly chatting And they become sedentary where their levels of activity is minimized And they're developing type 2 diabetes because they are now getting overweight And you've got all kinds of problems So socially they're becoming up So I advise us all, zikr of Allah is balance As parents we should be vigilant to make sure to take them away In our school we asked the students How many of you are willing to volunteer to give us your phones And some says okay we'll try it Within 30 minutes after they handed over They came knocking at the door, can we get it back They says that's an addiction You have an addiction, back off What is it? You're making life threatening decisions that you need the phone Are you like a surgeon Who's now taking care of a very sick patient that you need to answer something No, these are our children But they need to see how many likes they got How many followers do they have It's an addiction And it's not only for kids Adults, successful Hollywood adults are dying online Looking for accolades and looking for how many followers they have So that they can get the return They are also becoming sick with this So I'm advising us all اذا ذكر الله واجلت قلوبهم ذكر الله is social transactions I'll discuss it tomorrow Harvard has done the longest study On what is needed by the societies And they have concluded Conclusively That the human race is greatest aspiration Is to build social relationships In person to person So I advise us all Spend time Look at each other Shake hands Smile Hug them Talk to them Say nice things to them Say الحمد لله I'm so happy to see you Sit down Let's talk And put the phone away Today it's become very difficult I'll tell you one final point before I end The phones The eye watches Now It's connected to your phone It's interesting I have one I don't use it Somebody gave it to me I don't use it It's very rude So you're sitting there A message comes You're having a meeting Can you imagine in the olden days You dare look at the clock Somebody's in your house You may look at it from a periphery But don't look at it You're telling the person I'm tired if you get out You're wasting my time أخلاق The prophet says إنما أبعثتو لأتم مما كارم الأخلاق I have been sent to perfect your أخلاق To perfect your behavior So this technology is a baraka But it's also a nemesis And the balance is what we're talking about So when you have this phone You're looking at it Excuse me I just have a message Oh really Are you sure you weren't looking at the time It's insulting Or you put it on silent In a meeting You're looking Sorry You know how insulting that is You're talking to somebody They're looking at the phone Oh hold on one second I got something Now Where do we draw the line to this Do you think our prophet would do that Can you imagine When our prophet was in our time And he had a cell phone And you're asking him a question He says Hold on I got a text message I got a reply Or are you my Maddie And I'm doing that No So let's conclude tonight That Allah سبحانه وتعالى Says وَإِذَا تُولِتْ عَلَيْهِمْ عَيَاتُوا زَا دَتْهُمْ When you recite verses They pay attention They listen I advise us all Even these kindle books They're great I have them But nothing beats a real book Nothing about that smell Touching the paper Flipping it It's a dimension to that That nothing can compare to it So I advise us all Get into the real world Come to facilities Put your phone away Turn it off and say I'm sorry For the next two hours I am out of commission Thank you I don't care Let it go into voicemail I don't care Unless it's an emergency Figure it out But try your best To socially connect the children Especially the children They should be discouraged From having excessive amounts Of this technology in their hands Because it's going to lead To all kinds of social misbehaviors And may Allah give us the strength To make them the future leaders Of our society Which implies That they need to be vigilant Smart Attentive And they need to recognize People's names Who are you? Assalamu alaikum Assalamu alaikum When you meet them You should know how to speak You should know how to look at them Because it has a huge impact On how the world will see us In summary brothers and sisters I'm saying very clearly Allah has given us Material and spiritual Islam is a religion of balance Material pursuits And spiritual pursuits Are both important While we fast For spiritual reasons We must also aspire To become successful individuals Highly educated And to become leaders of this world And to understand That all the tools Allah has given us Are a blessing And we must abuse them With excessive use Through abuse And especially through neglect And may Allah give us the topic اسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اللهم إنا نرغب إليك في دولة كريمة تعز بها الإسلام وأهلا وتذل بها النفاق وأهلا وتجعلنا فيها من الدعاة إلى تعاتك والقادة إلى السبيلك وترزقنا بها كرامة الدنيا والآخرة وآخرة الدوان الحمد لله رب العالمين والسلام عليكم جميعا ورحمة الله وبركاته


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Hello, I'm Oshui Tang, Taiwan's digital minister. I'm really happy to be here at the 11th Foreign Femcatch to talk about digital quarantine in Taiwan. In Taiwan, our counter COVID started on the first day of 2020. We did not declare a state of emergency at any point this time, but we did start health inspections for all flight passengers coming in front of Wuhan to Taiwan, essentially playing the SARS playbook that we learned in 2003 when SARS first hit Taiwan. And so, as part of that health inspection work, we started to devise a system that across all agencies will link the data together to foster not only border control, but also tracing and testing, medical care, and decision support. And the decision task force is by the CECC, or the Central Epidemic Command Center, as hosted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare with the commander of the CECC, the Minister Chen Shizhong. And so, because of the CECC's design, it has the lawful power to link not only all the data together, but also have secondments from pretty much all the ministries and to assume the ultimate responsibility to declare such data linkages. As you will learn, this enabled us to counter the pandemic with no lockdown and also without any emergency declarations. First of all, when we talk about digital technology, we think about the connection of people to people. When we deploy AI, we think about assistive intelligence, not authoritarian intelligence. So reducing the chore the time it takes for the frontline public service to do their work, to increase mutual trust through transparency and accountability, as well as to reduce the risk of everyone involved by making sure that each particular ministry only have access to the private details, the personal data on an as needed basis. These are all important pillars in the design of the digital quarantine system. From the entry, each visitor to Taiwan see this border control registration card, on which they're asked of their SIM card, their number of their telephone. And we use that on cell phone tower triangulation in partnership with the five major telecoms to make sure that during the next 14 days of quarantine, if the visitor choose to quarantine at home, we can make sure that they have fulfilled their duty of quarantining and also reimburse their time for this quarantine effort at around 100 euros per day for 14 days. It's a stipend. On the other hand, we do send them a quarantine notice and say, by the authorization of communicable disease act, if you break out of the quarantine, then you'll be fine up to 1000 times that, which is why pretty much nobody less than 1% I believe do break the quarantine and pay the fine. Now the quarantine care is as important as the tracking system to ensure that people feel comfortable and by themselves for 14 days. So the local administration in the local civil affairs bureau takes care of meal delivery, garbage collection, checking out and making sure that you're feeling well. The local health authorities are in charge of calling an ambulance if an emergency situation occurs, medical care arrangement and our development of telecare, that is to say the diagnosis and for mental health also and physical health over video conference is also very well developed thanks to our policy of broadband as human rights indeed anywhere in Taiwan, no matter where your phone is, you're enjoying at least 10 megabits per second broadband connectivity over 4G or 5G network and the 4G part is very affordable is just 16 euros per month for unlimited data connection. If you don't have that, it's my fault. So with the universal broadband coverage and the universal health care coverage, people feel safe even if they start developing COVID-like symptoms for they understand there will be no social or financial hardships if they speak truthfully to the medical workers taking care of them. And now the local government and central epidemic command center, they do have access if someone breaks out of the quarantine. There are three different levels of data collection going on. First of all, we use a chatbot, an automated line bot. Line is an end to end encrypted chat channel like WhatsApp that periodically the bot will check on you, ask how you feel, what's your temperature, do you have any improvement suggestions to the system, would you like to know more about COVID and things like that. In a way, it makes sure that people get access to the information that they need. But if they don't respond to the chatbot, there's also two way SMS and even phone calls from the local officials. It's also two way. Anyone who feels uncomfortable with any part of this journey is free to call 1922 and get a point by point explanation of the epidemiological reasons as well as the design and also their data rights. And they also have the local officials taking care of the day to day needs as previously explained. But if they do venture out, then the alarm SMS is sent first only to their phone, reminding them to go back, but then gradually escalating to the local officials who will then check their whereabouts. And if they check on your whereabouts and you're gone, well, it's sent to the police. And so because of this, people understand that if they break out of the quarantine, they'll actually get caught very, very quickly. And that's the digital fence. Now of course, the guidelines for using of such contact information data is very important. People understand that the CDC, the communicable diseases control center, only have the legal authorization to keep that for 28 days or four weeks. After four weeks, everything needs to be deleted from the data processes. People also understand as part of this clear informed rights, who exactly is processing such data, because the telecoms are the one that sends out the SMS, the five telecoms already collects the signal strength information anyway, it's not like they send it to some other data processes. So the cybersecurity parameter is clearer. And also it must only be used for this particular purpose and never for, say, selling advertisements or any other purpose unrelated to the CDC's mission. And all this is very clearly explained on this QR code in the CDC website. So what are the success factors? I would say that the deliberate choice of going with the triangulation, which may be quite imprecise actually, may be only on the block level, certainly not as precise as GPS is nevertheless a advantage for if we enabled mandatory GPS collection, then it's hyper precise. People will feel very uncomfortable. And also because it's a new data collection point, the privacy and cybersecurity implications is unknown. On the other hand, the cell phone tower signal strength triangulation is already used in Taiwan for disaster warnings. If there's an earthquake, people receive a location based earthquake warning SMS seconds before the actual earthquake is felt. People also send similar warnings on the SMS level for flood evacuation. So people understand that this will not interfere with their application level data. And people also understand that this does not enable a more finely detailed control as would any new technology actually gets people worried. So we didn't use GPS or Bluetooth or Wi-Fi or any other new data collection points. We realized strictly on what's already being collected. We also respect the privacy norms and democratic accountability. Because we never declare an emergency state, the parliament need to pre-approve, pre-authorize all the actions that I just listed here. So in addition to the formal authorization of the act enabling such emergency responses and a special budget, each legislator can get a public hearing or interpolation going on. So when we first roll out the digital fence system around February, people are okay with it, but people still have their doubts. The approval rate stayed at around 90% for quite a while. But after a public hearing was done and the Department of Cybersecurity, which is the architect of this whole system, explained on public record to all the MPs of the legislature, the approval rate grew from around 90% to 94%. Of course, we still thank the other 6% for they keep us honest and accountable. So with regard of our GDPR adequacy requirements, our legal compliance acts and epidemic management requirements, we make sure that we all act on the sense of proportion, a heuristic that's based on the familiarity in both the technology and the privacy norms. So thank you for listening. And this is indeed a group work. As you can see here, many actors, both in the public sector, in the academia, in the telecommunication companies and so on, all contributed to this common goal. And I would argue that it is because we have learned the institutional lesson in 2003 in starts when the central government and the municipal government were saying completely different things. It was very chaotic. We had to lock down an entire hospital and announce and so on. So that followed the chaos of 2003. In 2004, we institutionalized this all of society response strategy and have kept it fresh with yearly drills. So when SARS 2.0 or COVID-19 came, thanks to Dr. Lee Wenliang warning us on the social media in December 31st in 2019, we enabled this entire system in just a matter of a few days. And so this quick response, rapid response, coupled with a radically transparent attitude of democratic accountability, I think that's what brings these technologies to the people rather than asking people to blindly follow the technology. And this is going to be very important to the worldwide response to our upcoming challenges, be it's infodamic or the pandemic, maybe SARS 3.0, nobody knows whether it will come a year or 10 years from now. So I would advise all of you to learn what we have learned this time in COVID-19 and design the institutions of both the legal mandates as well as the technological designs that people feel comfortable after a careful public deliberation and deploy it for the next pandemic. Thank you for listening and I wish you live long and prosper.


Oi! Stop spouting this! Oh! Oh, what a god. What is this? What is this? Hi, I'm Rich Newbold, Game Director on Jurassic World Evolution 2. I'm here to show you today a close look at the game, including our Realistic Dinosaurs Enhanced Creativity and Deeper Management. Jurassic World Evolution 2 is a dinosaur management simulation game that builds upon the success of the first game released in 2018. The game includes new features, content, gameplay mechanics, and of course new dinosaurs. I'm Adam Woods, and I'm the executive producer working on Jurassic World Evolution 2. We're really looking forward to bringing players an incredible Jurassic World experience. Its head looked like it was going to snap. Oh, develop a diary or what? Jurassic World Evolution 2 includes four game modes. In campaign mode, players will experience an original Jurassic story that picks up where Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom left off. They're going to be working alongside iconic characters from the films, voiced by original talent, such as Bryce Dallas Howard and Jeff Goblin. We have our Chaos Theory mode, where players will be experiencing different what-if scenarios from various films within the franchise. We have our Sandbox mode that allows players to be fully creative and a challenge mode that will test their partbuilding skills. We now have a variety of locations that the player can experience. Each of these locations have their own unique challenges that the player must face, including their own bespoke weather conditions such as sand and snow storms. It takes us away from the tropical feeling of Jurassic World, evolution and away from the the islands of the five deaths and kind of really opens up into more of a Jurassic World. I'm Jim Stimpson and I'm lead designer on Jurassic World Evolution 2. No, it's not. We've expanded the range of dinosaurs that we've got in the game now. So while we've got land dinosaurs, we have also included flying and marine reptiles too. We've got more behaviors and interactions between dinosaurs in Jurassic World Evolution 2. We've added these in to bring an extra layer of realism and authenticity to our dinosaur behavior. We've been working really hard on improving the hunting and fighting system so they're more dynamic. We have group attacks now, so packs of velociraptors will attack their prey. We've also been adding more depth to their social and environmental behaviors so they'll now interact with the world around them in a more authentic way. Oh, dinosaur creation and research tasks are now handled by a new staff member, the scientist. They're going to be part of all aspects of dinosaur creation from the very beginning to the very end. As part of the creation process, the players will be manipulating the dinosaur DNA to increase or decrease the chance of traits appearing when the dinosaurs are alive. And one of these traits might be being more resilient to disease. With your scientists, I'll be really careful how you manage them. Each time you assign them a task, they get a little bit of stress. If you don't rest them, then you risk them getting burnt out. And then if they do become burnt out and then you assign them another task, then there is an increased risk of sabotage. We've also added a new terrorist system to our dinosaurs will dynamically create this territory depending on the different things in the enclosures that it might need as part of its environmental requirements. Dinosaur territory can overlap as well with some dinosaurs that's going to be fine because we've got cohabitation so some dinosaurs are happy to live with others. Sometimes as well, they don't like other species of dinosaurs and when that happens dinosaurs can fight and the winner gets to keep the territory and the loser will go and have to rebuild their territory and find the things that it needs. Oh, nice! We don't want to have herbivore feeders in Jurassic World Evolution 2. What we've replaced it with is paleobotany. We've reimagined prehistoric plants that the player must utilize to feed their herbivores within their territories. Each dinosaur will want different things so it allows you to create a bespoke enclosure for your dinosaurs. If it's just one species in there, then it's very easy to create that. But if you have two or more, then there becomes more of a puzzle element there to creating this wonderfully unique enclosure for these different dinosaur species to live in. We've also introduced new guest interest groups in the parks as well. Hey, Daniel! So the different types of guests will want to see different things in your parks. So we have general, we have adventure, we have nature and luxury. Around the enclosure of the big carnival, you will have lots of adventure guests.  Alongside the deeper management that the guest interest groups will bring, the players will have an opportunity to customise the look and feel of these guest buildings. You've got a modular system that will change some of the models on it. You'll be able to change the colour palette so you can make it feel very unique. Within the new environments, players now have a range of natural scenery items and surface textures that they can use to further customise their parks. Alongside the different ways the players can change the appearance of their parks and their environments, we've also been looking in the ways the player can change the appearance of their dinosaurs. What we've added in-game is very complementary to the different environments, but as a player, you know, we're going to leave it up to you. You're going to be able to do what you want to do and have the dinosaurs look the way you want them to look. Players should be really excited about using all the different creativity tools and building their own fully realised Jurassic World however they want. I'm really excited for the players to get their hands on the new management that we've added into the game. Things like the scientists, the guest types, it really changes how the game plays and I really can't wait to see what they do with them. I really can't wait to see the players' reactions to the new dinosaurs. The new behaviours interactions, I think, bring the dinosaurs to life better than ever before. We hope you've enjoyed this deeper look into Jurassic World Evolution 2 and we're thrilled to be showing you even more over the next few weeks and months. Hey, is that it? Is that all? Is that a lot? I think that might be a lot. That looks like it. Yeah, it's probably going to end there, right? So you've got rocks. You've got plenty of rocks. You've got the gyrosphere knocking about. You've got triceratops and stegosaurs actually together, which is interesting because they've shown that stegosaurs and triceratops don't like to live together. John Robertson, you can't remember. Thank you. I'm Adino. Hey, Beaver. It's my brother, Cad's birthday today. Oh, is it Cades? Happy birthday, Cade. And French toast. Hello, Beaver. I'm very excited for this game. I think everybody is. So we've got... Oh, no, you do get to see my mouse. Oh, good. Okay, so you've got the rocks here. That's good. The fence is nothing new. I think this is an amargosaur. I think it looks like it's... Top of its head's missing a bit. Two stegosaurs, a gyrosphere, a brachosaur. Triceratops looks around, but the same as the ones. You've got nice variation of trees. This is the Avery. Oh, is it close to the... I'm just trying to see if we spot anything that's outside. I don't think so. You've got two trinons. You've got a viewing area. I'm hoping we get some, like, Quetzalcoatlis. That would be pretty sweet. Okay, tyrannodons there. Different trees.  It was like you just place Avery down, put things in it, and then you just add capacity and then charge more.  So hopefully that's... We get to add, like, these trees, these conifer-looking trees. They're quite nice. This is a lovely animation. Hold on, we'll have a look at this. Yeah, look at that. Bam! That's nice. Now, again, I'm hoping that it doesn't just become this thing where... Oh, we've seen it a million times, you know, sort of thing. You've got the nice animation there of the Celeophysis interacting. Sorry, I'm so sorry. I know. I know. It's not done, so there we go. But this is interesting. I mean, look, it's show... This is a gyrosphere road here and you've got the Stegosaur as well as these raptors. Now, are they actually hunting or is this just a running animation? That's hard to tell.   So is that likely to happen in this case? Because the way the battles were with J-World Evolution was that they would have to, like, get into the right position and then once in the right position, then the animation would take place. So with hunting animations, are we going to see a similar thing? Are we going to have like two raptors sort of waiting around for the third raptor to run into the right position and then they do the chase? Hopefully not. I'd like to see more of a dynamic situation, but now that we've got way more rocks and other kind of aesthetics, I don't know. I mean I'd love, I'd love if that was the case. I really would. I mean this guy looks like he's just running off up this way and then this one kind of turns and goes this way and you get this other raptor down here which starts to run, but then he sort of circles back as if they're going like round the side of the Stegosaur. Don't know what this guy's doing. As far as like aesthetics go or UI, why are they like normal colored faces? Why can't they just be like, like everybody else's? Everyone's like just that tinge of blue over the top. That I think would work better. Maybe I wouldn't have a problem with that. So let's have a look. What do we have? We've got logistics, genetics, and welfare. Faster research, decreased task time by 50% per research task.  Motivated, increased stress limit by four. Okay, so when you give these people or these researchers the opportunity or you hire them and they do research, they have perks, they also cost an amount. So what motivated faster research, cheaper research, alturistic salary. Reduce the salary by 50%. That's an interesting, that's an interesting perk. Oh, it's cheaper. Let's have a look at everything that was in drosselworld evolution and now expand upon it. So instead of just doing clicking on research, how about we hire researchers? And in a way, this is frontier. Grabbing their planet zoo method and pulling it into drosselworld evolution. So you would have zookeepers, you would have maintenance staff. Now you've got these guys. I think I like the idea. I really do. I think this is great. I would just change the faces to blue just to fit in with the SX. I think it's a bit jarring. It's like, oh, they're realistic people. Oh no, there was cheap incubation there. Reduces the thingy for 30%. Okay. Obviously you've got the park rating, salary, speed up time. That was never an option. But now it is. Again, bringing over more concepts from planet zoo. I like it. There we go. Okay. So here's a good close-up view. So what I was hoping was that we could just drag and drop a mosasaur or a lasmusaur or something, please, you saw in there. And maybe we can make fences around it or be able to add levels, depth to the water and stuff like that. But that doesn't seem to be the case. What we can do is, just like you see here, this is the Avery. You plot it down. It'll probably just start as a bubble and then you can extrude out and make it as big as you want it, really. It'd be interesting to see a park that was all just an Avery. That'd be cool. I'd love to know what happens when they break out as well. That's something to bear in mind. You've got hotels over here. Don't know what this building is. Probably a shelter by the looks of it. You've got an innovation centre there. You've got research. But this is it. This is it right here. That is our aquatic dinosaurs, animals, whatever you want to call it. There's no other thing that that could be. That has to be it. It can't be anything else. Why would you just have a reservoir of water? I mean, you've even got the, if you look very closely at, hold on, I'll get my huge mouse in. You see here? This is the fence. Like if you remember from the Mosasaur and Jurassic World evolution or Jurassic World, it goes over. It sort of hooks back over to stop anything from jumping out. Gives the illusion. Yeah. And that sort of goes all the way around. It's almost like in Zutai Koon where you would have, you know, trainers that would go, yeah, do the flip. Do a show. And that's what that looks like. There could be. You've also got like, I know it's almost like it cuts into the terrain, which is interesting. Because you've got like obviously a hill there and that dips. Because all we've seen at the moment is just the top. Now maybe they'll have underwater viewing areas. It'll be interesting to see how different aquatic animals interact with each other.  Now you can't obviously subdivide in the aviary, right? Or maybe you can. Because how are you going to have an aquatsaquallus with like a demorphodon, right? The aquatsaquallus would probably eat it. So the same thing applies with how will aquatic creatures work? How will this work? Can you like subdivide it? Or do you need to keep them in separate tanks? Because you can't just make one big one, I assume. Or maybe you can. I don't know. But there you have it. That does appear to be... Oh, God. Oh, God, I have to make this really small now. What I actually love that they've added is a difference in how you construct your enclosures. A little bit more thought goes into it with how you... So I'm just making sure we're all okay. People white spot is the shark feeder. It could be. It could be the shark feeder, that little bit. What I like about this is basically all dinosaurs used to want is trees and planes and grassland. That was it. If a dinosaur had those two criteria filled, then it was fine. But now it appears like, you know, the crag and the, you know, that sort of thing, the weeds and stuff. Depending on what you put in your enclosure. Dinosaurs want that. And again, it's another thing that I feel like dressable evolution should have had in to start with. But maybe it was just they were on a time crunch and they just need to get it done for a certain time. But this is definitely... They've definitely put more thought This is also interesting.  That's what I'm kind of curious about. If they got low enough help, or will they even fight? Or if they are really in an enclosure that's too small, you know, will they constantly fight until one dies? And depending, of course, on who's got the highest attack. I love this animation. That like triceratops one, it just feels like it's from Jurassic World alive. That's what that feels. And then whoever wins gets the territory, right? So if that's overlapping. Now once they fight, how do they not then overlap? Or does one just have reduced territory and then the one gets that contested territory? Because I assume they're overlapping because there isn't enough space in the enclosure. So if there isn't enough space in the enclosure, they are overlapping. They have contested area. Then they fight, one wins. Does that then mean that they never fight again? And that's just the triceratops territory and the stegosaur is reduced. Therefore the stegosaur now needs more space and wants to break out. That could be a way that it goes. But then that just means that like, at any time you see this, any time you see this cool animation in the back of your mind, you're like, oh for God's sake, I'm going to have to make the enclosure bigger again. I mean it's cool to see it, but at the same time, it's like it's going to be one of these things that we see after so many times. We're like, oh they're doing this again. So basically, at the moment in Jurassic World Evolution, you make the enclosure with so many trees and so much grassland and then once that's done, the enclosure's finished, right? You don't have to do anything again. But if these two territorial change, depending on how they're fighting, then you kind of have to keep an eye on each enclosure. Let's say you play Jurassic World Evolution for a good few months.  You're going to be like, oh this again. Okay, let's make the enclosure bigger. It's not going to be like, and I'm hoping that they're going to approach it from a different way. I do like it though. I do like that we have some more interaction with dinosaurs, which, you know, J-Pog didn't even have that. It was just like a set like territorial dispute and then it wasn't even anything to do with territory. They've added that level of depth to it, which is quite nice. Let's have a look what we got. We got ground leaf. You got cacti. You got fruit and nut. This is forest, leaf and fiber. And judging by the scroll bar, it's not very big. We're basically seeing everything. You get forest, leaf and fiber and you get fruit and nut. Maybe you can research other kind of trees and stuff. Maybe that'll be, you know, something that you can do in future. Yeah, this is it. This is gorgeous. And this thing, I don't know what this is. It's like a little antenna that sticks out. You got the viewing platform there. Curve fence, nothing new there, but the rocks and it just looks way more. This looks nicer. This looks a lot more appealing, a lot more pleasant on the eyes than Jurassic World Evolution, which was like green, green and more green. Yeah, here we go. So this is new guests. So instead of just guests being like, they still are figures on a chart, basically. Now they're going to have their own sort of wants and needs. You have your general public. You have your thrill seekers or adventure, which is denoted by the jarrosphere. You've got your nature. So that is just people who like herbivores and all that stuff. And then you've got your luxury, which is also denoted by the truck tour or whatever it is. So desires, dinosaur variety, hotels and jarrospheres. Adventure, you want jarr... Lagoons. There you go. Right there. Lagoons, that's what they're called. They're not called... Like you've got paternalans, you've got avarice, but for aquatic creatures, you've got lagoons. So general one avarice, viewing galleries, dinosaur count, innovation center. They want an innovation center. Okay. Like, oh, maybe, maybe you can do more with an innovation center. Maybe you can actually go inside it and, you know, do some more stuff that way. Because otherwise just like, oh wait, you've got one. There you go. That's that neat sword. I like how we got lagoons now. So here we go. We've got a T-Rex, sporting a new color scheme, which I've never really seen before. I feel like we're going to get to be able to design a lot more of the aesthetics. I know in this video, they mentioned about you'll be able to do that. Like, but we could kind of do that anyway, right? So are they going to do more? Are they going to add more varieties? A bit like with the buildings, you get a color swatch tool. So you can actually be very precise with the color that you make it. Can you do that with dinosaurs? It would be interesting to see if, like, if you made a dinosaur that was all red, then it would be more aggressive or something like that. I don't know. Something's silly. This looks like a mini hotel, like a mini resort. So with Rostov World Evolution, you would have giant hotels, absolutely ginormous hotels.  But now, maybe you don't need a big hotel at first and you get a little resort. Like it. You've also got picnic benches here. And we don't have park benches still. We don't have bins by the looks of it. But we do have picnic tables. Although this is a completely deserted place. So also, depending on what you want to target your, your clientele to, that looks like nature. Like that would get more nature visitors in. So I think maybe there's like pre-designed things forward or to attract. That's luxurious, I would say, with the modern design, the way these and this weird structure on top. Maybe general. Or maybe these are just different shops. So you've got a coffee shop. Well, these are all the same shop. They might be. Yeah, it's another one. It does look like that T-Rex. You're right. Yeah. Oh, maybe a little homage. Maybe you're right. That's interesting. The more variety, the better. I'm not going to say no to more coffee shops. And this is quite nice. We get to actually, like as before, when it came to rotating, I could you be very precise? I think you could lock it. But I don't know if you could rotate it on like the x-axis or the y-axis. Stuff like that. You could like, like probably like lock it in a few positions, I think. But this one, you can actually now rotate all the way, like x, y, z, whatever rotation you want. Nothing new here. I think this is where they just talk about, yeah, the different kind of colors that you can go with. But they do hop on about it for quite some time, which makes me think that maybe there's more to it than we first think. Like with the aesthetics, like changing the skin. Maybe you'll be able to really change the color and have customization over it. So you go, you've got the main street. You've got this really huge building here. I don't know what that is. I mean, that looks like a clothing shop from Jurassic World Evolution. And then that's the end of it. Oh, okay.  Ah, there you go. We no longer have further or feeders. That's the smoking gun right there. Yes, the one that gets, the one that wins gets a territory and then the other one has to go and find the things that it needs, basically the foliage, the size, and the trees and stuff. And that's when it could break out.  After a while, like you kind of just don't want to put triceratops and stegosaur together. Around the enclosure of a big carnivore, you will have lots of adventure guests. So when you place down an amenity, you can tailor that to be more interesting to your adventure guests. And by doing that, you're going to make more money. Alongside the deep. Right. So yes, there will be certain. So when you place down a building, it will probably have like a different sets or loadouts for different things. A bit like or at least maybe you'll be able to switch the things inside. So hopping back to Jay Park one last time, when you place down a restaurant or something, you could change the food. You could change the side order. You could change the price. And with Jurassic World Evolution, all you could do is just change the price and the capacity. And that was it. But now maybe you know, thrill seekers will like the hot dogs and chili or something or the Rex burger. Yeah. Remember those? I remember those, wasn't it? So we have that. There's also an image here I wanted to bring up, which is a bit blurred before we actually completely move on altogether. Because they've talked about what we can expect with the dinosaurs, but this actually shows us the UI. You've got overlap. So here you go. So when it comes to territory, there's a certain level that dinosaurs could overlap and then be happy with.  Apparently with overlapping may can be. Area. So that's just obviously the size of its enclosure, which is obviously very low because they don't really care. Social, social position. I don't know what that is. Position pattern. I don't even know. Obviously it's a number. Social population. That's the one. So it's got like three or something at the moment. Again, it only needs like one or two and it's completely fine. And then you've got environment needs. So you've got the water, which is very low. You've got ground leaf, which is, you know, the stuff that was the crag or the exotic, whatever it was called. And which didn't exist at all in the original. I think you could just put whatever you wanted down. It was really the trees that made difference and forest. So another really good thing that they've got here is edit environment. So you can quickly go, instead of, you know, going to the side and trying to find a menu. Okay, right. Tree, where are the trees? Yep, there we go. You can just quickly go into the edit environment tab with that little shortcut that's right there, which is really, really frigging handy. Thank you so much. And until next time, guys, I'll see you later. Oh, bye-bye.


Aloha, and welcome back to JSA TV Live, the newsroom for tech, telecom, and data center professionals. Buffy Harakitas, and we are live from PTC23, and it's the biggest PTC conference today here in sunny Honolulu, Hawaii. Unfortunately, it's our wrap up day, but we still have some great interviews lined up for the rest of the stream. And joining me today is Scottie Benda. He is the chief product officer of Light River. Scottie, welcome to JSA TV. Thanks for having me. I really appreciate the opportunity. Yeah. It's been a great week here. Yeah, it has been a great week. It's been a long week, but it's good. It's been a great week. I love your shirt. Hey, aloha shirt, right? You have to in Hawaii. Yeah.  The conference has been fantastic, and we've had an opportunity to meet with a number of our customers and a number of our partners, and I've also attended some of the breakout technology sessions. The future of the submarine networking is quite impressive, and also the open and disaggregation themes are fantastic as well, so it's been really good for me. Well, that's good to hear. Yeah. So, like, for viewers that don't already know about Light River, I mean, I'm sure many of them already do, but can you just give us a little bit more information about Light River and what makes it so unique? Yeah. Light River, it's going to have its 25th anniversary here in the end of February, and it's been an advanced solutions provider of fiber optic, packet optical, and routing and switching solutions with a little bit of network management and automation built into it. And right now, the company is positioned very well inside the service provider space, inside the utility space, inside the data center space, and the cloud vertical. So it's, this show is right up its alley. Yeah, it sounds like it for sure. You just joined Light River not that long ago from what I understand, so congrats. Yeah, it's been six months. It's amazing. It went by in a blink of an eye. I know. It does seem like time's going by faster these days. I don't know. Yeah. It's a little bit better that we're out of the pandemic because the pandemic was groundhog day. Every day seemed like the same. So it is nice to be back to business and to be with our customers face-to-face. And live here, you know, in beautiful Hawaii, this is my favorite trade show. So I'm so glad. Right. It is mine too. 5,000 attendees this year, the biggest PTC conference to date. What made you so excited to join Light River? So as the market has been evolving to more open and disaggregated solutions, and by the way, so Light River for my former company was our premier partner and had worked really well with them. The people are fantastic. The technologists are fantastic. The solutions they bring are fantastic. And for me, the fact that they work with the premier vendors in the space from a routing and switching perspective, from a transport perspective, it just was a really good fit for my skills. And it gave me an opportunity to continue to grow. So I'm very excited about being there. Yeah. Well, congrats again. It seems like you've settled right in here representing Light River at PTC. And Light River did have quite a year in 2022, a monumental year there. Can you give us a little bit of the highlights? Sure.  It's a fantastic company. They actually are a conglomerate of telecommunications specialists. So they've got a number of operators, such as Hunter, Ritter, Great Plains, Communications, et cetera. They also have some construction firms and they also have a lot of wireless assets as well. So for us, you know, it creates a very nice palette for us to not only serve grade management and the properties that they own, but they give us best practices that we can share and take to the field with our other customers. Yeah. Well, that sounds like it's been an exciting year. And then 2023, we jumped right in. I'm sure you have plenty of exciting new developments and things coming up. What can we expect from your company coming up the road here? Yeah. So, so, you know, kind of closing out 22, we had a lot of new logo wins for our software management and automation platform called Netflix. And it's moved us into Europe. So we've got some new wins in Europe. Some major operating companies there that we'll share later online. But and at the same time, we're also having a lot of success moving to what we view the vision of the future network, which is an open and disaggregated network and meaning that you can have an open line system for your transmission systems. You can choose your best of breed from a transport platform or even the optical plugs. And so not only that, it's also managed by our Netflix platform. So it's just been a really good year and moving into 23. We see more of those themes at the same time. We're looking at the back half of 23 for the supply chain challenges to start to clear up, and that's going to be huge for us. We've had a lot of pent up demand and it'll move us into more of the professional services arms side of our business implementing these networks at the same time. We're also expanding. So broadband has continued to be an investment point for the federal government here, like rural digital opportunity funding to get more, you know, it solves the digital divide between the more rural type of subscribers. Right. And so we've got a, sorry, guys, we've got a number of partners that we're working with and we're going to help them, you know, roll out the next generation broadband solutions. So it's exciting. It does seem so exciting and that's such a critical. All those pieces of the puzzle that you just mentioned are critical in today's world, closing the digital divide and all these supply chain issues that we're dealing with. So so excited to hear that Light River is moving into this direction and has such great announcements coming up for the next year. I mean, you've been a thought leader in our industry for so long and what trends do you see impacting the marketplace? Yeah, so there's a couple of different forums that I'm participating in. So one is the OpenXR forum and the other is the OpenZR Plus forum. And those are really about getting, you know, the standards for having the ability to do IP over WDM or point to multiple types of networking with, you know, really best of breed, best of class. And at the same time, both of those solutions are allowing us to deliver the next generation open optical solutions. So we're excited about that. At the same time, you're also starting to see in the routing and switching space, the platforms have, you know, for aggregation of 100 gig and 400 gig and delivering those next generation services. They're now available and so it's allowing us. We've got a lab that we've built where we're actually participating with the OpenZR Plus forum, for example. And we've got a lot of proof of concepts that allow the members to test and, you know, see how their equipment performs. And it's also allowing us some learning lessons so that when we're working with our customers, we can be an authority on that technology, which is great. Yeah, that is great. Is there anything else that you wanted to add today, Scotty? You know, I'm looking forward to 23, even though we're already in it. There's a lot to do and a lot to achieve.  We've integrated a lot more functionality into the platform. We've got our next generation user interface coming in. And so customers that are building their open and disaggregated solutions, they'll have a platform that, you know, what you saw on 21 and 22 with some of the supply chain challenges is that customers started investing and adding other vendors into their network infrastructure. And that flex platform really allows them to handle a multi-domain, multi-vendor type of solution mixed with automation to allow you to manage all of these, I would say, maybe a little more complex networks and turning them into a more homogeneous solution. So it's it's really good. Yeah. All right. Well, thanks for joining us today. Where can viewers go if they want to learn more about Light River? Yeah, go to lightriver.com.  You can also look up grain management on the Internet as well. And you can actually see all the different operating companies. And of course, you can always email me, benda at lightriver.com. It's easy to find me. So Benda at Light River. Yeah. All right. Simple enough, right? Yeah, that is simple enough. Well, thanks again, Scotty, for joining us here live at PTC 23. And thank you viewers for tuning in to another fabulous episode of JSA TV from PTC 23. Happy networking. Meloja.