Thanks. So great pleasure to be here. Also, great pleasure to be part of the book, which I think will have a lot of impact. I'm very excited about this. So, first of all, I want to say that the future is not something that happens to us. As my friend Van Heemstra says, the future is something that we create. We're not just sitting here and waiting for technology to run us over. Or for somebody in Silicon Valley to invent a simulation that we can live in. Which they already have. It's called Google. But we're actually making choices about the future. We made the choice of nuclear energy, which we invented, unfortunately. We invented nuclear bombs, and now we make the choice that not everybody can have one. We make those choices. And I think it's crucial that we think about what this means for our future. As of half a year ago, I kind of shifted focus of my work a little bit away from the future of business. You know, IE, making more money with technology. Moving to the future of humanity and technology. So I made a movie about this called Tech vs. Human. And you can watch it on the internet. Just go to this web address. Tech vs. Human dot com. Tech vs. Human dot com. And I also have a TV show called The Future Show. All of that stuff is available. And, of course, I will make this slide available. And also, from today's show at the London Business School, FutureWiseGirl.com, you download the old PDFs and all that stuff. If you want to download about 5 gigabyte of stuff, you can go to Good Cloud. Which is a joke, really. But it's a Dropbox folder. It has lots of movies and all my free books and about 550 presentations. Don't print. Don't print. Alright, so first, when we talk about artificial intelligence, let's forget about Hollywood. Okay? If you watched all the stuff coming out of Hollywood, this is entertainment. It's the lowest possible denominator to make money. I love those movies. I watched them. Anything from Blade Runner to a Blurdy Young 2. Transcendence, you know. It's interesting. But this is not what we're talking about here. We're not talking about real scenarios in the next 20, 30 years. We're talking about scenarios that are much further removed. So let's forget about that stuff for a second, if you've seen some of those. Most importantly, at this curve, and I'll tell the story because I think it's a good story. Some of you may already know. Exponentiality. There's a story about the invention of the chessboard. Five years before Christ in the multi-period in India, a wise man went to the ruler, to the emperor, and said he brought the chessboard along. The emperor loved the chess game. And one day, that said, we'll make a bet. If you win, what do you want? The emperor said to the wise man. The wise man said, all I do is I want to feed my family. So at that point, he said, well, if you put one rice corn in the first field, and then twice as much in the second field, and twice as much in the third field, that's all I need. Just rice corn. And the emperor said, well, that's cool.  We'll do that, right? As it were playing, pretty quickly it turned out that he was going to lose the emperor to the wise man. So half the way to the chessboard, the wise man had earned as much rice as all of India would produce in one year. And by the end of the game, on the 64th field, it would be enough rice to cover the entire earth in one meter of rice. Because it was exponential. So, of course, the wise man was beheaded because he turned out not to have been modest. But the lesson is, yeah, we are now in the second part of the chessboard. We're at the part where it really takes off. The difference between two and four isn't very much an overall scale, but the difference between, you know, 50 trillion and 150 trillion is a lot. And we're now in the second part where they're placed to work and safely say, the innovation that's happening is absolutely mind-blowing. I mean, we're living our science fiction age. Possibly defeating cancer, Alzheimer's, solving the energy problem. I mean, the stuff that's really science fiction. I mean, just using a thing like an app called Say Hi, you may know, Say Hi is an app for $2, allows you to translate in real time 34 languages through an app. So I was in Japan three months ago in a sushi restaurant. I'm speaking into the app in German, regular German, not Swiss German, those kind of aberrations, right there. And the guys being back to me in Japanese through the app, right? We had a real good chat about it. It's not about anything deeper than that. Pretty simple stuff, right? It worked great. I had science fiction moment right there, right? It's actually working on it. So exponential technology, humanity will change more than the next 20 years than the previous 300. Ever since the industrial revolution. All people are saying, oh, yeah, yeah, this is because exponential, it is truly going to be a big deal for your kids, for example, even if we don't get to live to the point where it can be 150 years old, our kids will. Because this is truly a mind-boggling moment. And there's two things about this, I don't know why I went all the sudden, but anyway, there's two things about automation. Everything that can be automated will be. Whether it's delivery of movies or motion pictures or books or whatever, and everything that can become intelligent will become intelligent, right? So our mobile phones have become intelligent, they know us, in fact, they act on our behalf already. Mobile phones have become our external brains. And this is nothing yet, just give it five years, right? I mean, this is really what companies that sell those boxes want, right? They want us to get rid of our brain and give it to them because it makes millions of dollars. So we're thinking in the true sense, right? So here we have the biggest strategy, of course, artificial intelligence, which essentially is emulating human intelligence, copying it, essentially. In some way, where we can do things, you know, any single technology company in Silicon Valley has major initiatives or artificial intelligence. Google has acquired over 20 companies, including two companies that make military robots using artificial intelligence. Google is no longer a search engine.  Google is going away from searching on the internet to searching us. That is really Google's mission, now, searching us. And basically running a simulation for us. So when you use Google, you don't have to do much thinking. Google will tell you where to go, who to talk to, who your friend is, where you are, where you should be going, and eventually whether you should have a baby or not, for example. Then we have trends that are the reverse of this, really, is intelligent assistance. That is really a great business application to look into and that sort of, you know, making more money next month. This is where you start. Intelligent assistance basically means using technology to make life easier, assisting people. For example, this is a persistent car system. The ball of a road train is not self-driving.  So that's the idea of how I turn this around. IA, intelligent assist. And that makes lots of money. Lots of stuff will happen in that trip. And then we have the more ambitious part. That's artificial intelligence. Driving in a car while it drives itself, like a plane that will fly itself, man, that is a little bit further away. It is actually extremely difficult for the car to drive itself, like truly drive itself. You know, the moment, for example, when we drive a car and we have to make a decision about something that's on the road, it takes about one thousandth of a split second for us to decide to do this or that. It's extremely complicated for a computer. This is called the Moravec paradox, which is what is really hard for a computer is easy for us. And what is hard for us is easy for the computer. And that is still prevailing. So you can see that, of course, prevailing here with Siri. This is a technical teacher where we are looking at a situation where years ago, this was two years ago, but he was asked Siri that he had alcohol poisoning who told him to drink more.  But now, exponentially improved, if you've seen the stuff two weeks ago from the Apple event, you could say, this is really my problem. I would go and say, fetch the pictures with me and my wife on the beach in India while I'm wearing the blue hat. If I had one. It would surge it. Or maybe put one on me retroactively. So what's happening here, the afternoon show, this is, you know, if you're interested in business stuff, this is the place to go. Intelligent assistance everywhere. What we do on Google Maps, on Gmail, all the other stuff will absolutely explode in every single part of society. We have a ranking. Intelligent assistance augmentation. That's kind of the obvious part, right? And then we have the very tempting part, the numbers. This is a study from Tata and also McKinsey. They put potential economic impact of all the disruptive technology, automation, robotics, vehicles, internet of things, mobile internet, 30 trillion dollars. And we talked about the huge amount of money. Now you can, you don't have to wonder why so many companies are going into this and saying, well, we're not even mentioning that technology. This is a mind-boggling shifting. And then, as a result, we have the so-called unicorns. You heard about the unicorns. Unicorns are companies that are worth over a billion dollars that are privately funded. No stock market, no banks, 86 of them. Unfortunately, only three in Europe. The rest of the U.S. and China. 86 companies. And a lot of that stuff is happening in California. Unicorns are extreme money makers for the investors, of course. And here's what Peter Diamantus has to say. He was one of the founders of many companies and once a single American university. I got this email from him yesterday. He started a company called Human Longevity Inc. This is not satisfactory. This is actually real. To whether they want to end agent or at least delay it. This is what he says in his email. The astonishing part here is that it should give us pause to think, right? He's basically saying, okay, we have six to seven trillion dollars a year spent on healthcare, people over 65, and these people hold something of the order of 60 trillion dollars in wealth. And the question is what would people pay for an extra 10, 20, 30, 40 years of a healthy life? It's a big opportunity. In other words, it's about money. If you're rich, if you're old, you can be happy. You can buy all the stuff you need and buy a new liver and everybody else can go and bugger off. So, that makes a question. When we have exponential digitization, optimization, virtualization and robotization, I call this the Asians because there's so many of them, society changes. That media is first. As you know, I come from the music business. Media was first robotized essentially. They were completely superfluous and now it's coming to logistics, transportation, telecom. In the telecom business, hundreds of thousands of people are working to run the network. Well, the future is, yeah. Robots will run the network. I mean, this is not about emotions. It's about running a network. If you're running a container ship, you have unmanned container ships. You need two people to be on the boat. Now you have, what, 400. You know, this is happening pretty much. Financial services is lawyers. Legal discovery. Legal discovery already done by software. Can be done by smart robots. Not all of it, but a very large term by paralegals.  In the future. Fray and Osborn last year said 58% of financial advisors will be replaced by robots. And I think that's a lie. It's actually only 80%. Anything that can be automated will be. And so we're moving up the food chain to a place that cannot be automated. Creative lawyers, right? Creative. Creative lawyers, yeah, they exist, yeah.  So, I would not say for some of what's happening if we don't need lawyers. Of course we need lawyers, right? But the low-hanging fruit of figuring out what's what can be done by software. Just like a call center will be 95% of software in the future. I mean, what's a call center then? Just speech recognition, basically. So in this world, the complete convergence of man and machine. That's what's happening today. And I would agree with Gray on this that this is what's happening and if we cannot go back and say, can we unmerge man and machine, right? But we have to decide what we want to do here. How far do we want to take this? Do we want women not to be able to have a body made inside their body and have natural birth because it is cheaper, less dangerous, faster, cleaner to have a baby outside of their body. It would save a lot of money if we were not to do things that make us human, like lying, making mistakes, get drunk buy the wrong food, smoke cigarettes. Yeah, it would be cheaper and, you know, it would best turn us into a giant machine. Do we want to go down this way? This is your house. This is a film about Gigo, the first family robot. This is a real proposal funded on Kickstarter. Well, I think 2 million dollars. This is a robot that sits in your kitchen that you talk to and the pinch of the founder, this is not a robot. It's a family member. And there is 14 companies that are doing this, including Amazon, I think, called the Echo. So, as my good friend, Sophocles said, just recently, not in English, however, nothing else enters the life of mortals without a curse. All these things are becoming possible that I can have a robot in my bloodstream treating my cholesterol. I have high cholesterol. But all the unintended consequences of this and the possibility of saying, yes, you know, I can stop Alzheimer's by genetic engineering, I can also design a baby. And who would get to do that? So here we have issues that are basically like this, right? You can make nuclear power with nuclear energy. If you consider that good, I would consider that positive, possibly positive, right? If it works, it doesn't grow up. It grows. Technology is 98% the same. So artificial intelligence has the same potential. Has the vast potential of positive kinds of efficiency, optimization, and which company would not like to fire half of their employees, right? I mean, for practical reasons, it saves money, right? I mean, that's what companies do. They save money, maximize profit, pay themselves more shares. So that leads to the thing that we've seen in many movies like Minority Report. And then our good friend Mark Zuckerberg who we know for a weird respect to privacy and personal rights on Facebook he started a new company called Viterious where he's saying, we're building software that learns like a human. That's the headlight of this company, right? Of course, all the investors in Silicon Valley are salivating with excitement because we can copy humans with the software. That's apparently software that thinks like a human. We want to retain super intelligence using technology, right? That's the promise. So rather than having 500 people do now CRM or so or ERP or WCOL companies, we have two people. It's possible. Because we can use IBM Watson to decide who gets what and who gets fired. IBM has a chip called the neuro-synaptic chip. It's a chip that is mirrored after the human brain. This is already happening. Schwab is using a new thing called the intelligent portfolio which is a Volvo advisor. Schwab intends to swap out tens of thousands of people working for Schwab to advise people on financial investment with an iPad with something that lives on the network. So here's the problem with all of this stuff we have to discuss. Technology does not have ethics. And you know, if I speak in America people say, well, so for what? Ethics is nice to have. If we can afford it we can afford ethics these days. If I speak in Switzerland they say, oh my god. Sorry, this is important stuff, right? If technology doesn't have ethics would you trust a robot to take care of the social contract or the dorms or the values? How would a system like that even know about values? I mean, if it knew it it would have to be programmed into it, right? It's way too mushy for that to a federal to actually be done in this way, right? Everything's important to you. So moving into a world that is this on one hand completely digital and I would read with great it's inevitable, right? It's happening. There's not much we can do about that. On the other hand, we have this, right? That's what makes us human. And I'm not going to talk about religion or any of those things, right? I'm talking about just practical matters. Standards, codex, social contract. And those two things have to merge. Somehow. All these things. Will we let those companies that have invented the tech that makes $22 a year decide on what is good for us on a social level, right? That would not be a good idea. I mean, we already know that Facebook wants to be our government, right? Basically, replace the government. And that Google wants to be the OS that we live in. So what about consciousness and body? We do have a body, some of us. This was the problem, of course, in the movie Her. That's why it didn't work out, because it turns out if you see the movie Her, the computer was having sex with 484,850 other people at the same time, right? That's kind of a problem for the guy. But anyway, embodiment, awareness, sentiment, purpose, right? All those weird things. Human lives exist. 95% of that stuff. The rest is algorithm. The rest is algorithm. Upload in our brain? What a crazy idea, right? I mean, I can upload if I could do that. The pictures remain in my memory, right? But then we like saying, okay, I go to TripAdvisor, and everything that's good on TripAdvisor, I just go wherever it says it's good. You know TripAdvisor can be good, but mostly it's just a tiny slice of reality. It's useful, but it's not real. When you stand in front of the restaurant, you're looking inside, you're smelling the food, you see the people, you have 100% of reality in four seconds. Do you get that on TripAdvisor? No, it's useful, but it's not real. It's not the actual thing, right?  And even though some people want us to believe that. So we're going to move in a world like this, a world that is machine things, something like this. What will our kids do? Will our kids be making the keyboard for the robot? I mean, that's not Kino's house, right? This time, it hasn't set me back full. But this time, technological unemployment is real. Very real.  My color job is our jobs. In fact, this is for the first time this year, at a tech talk, there's going to be a robot giving a tech talk. Well, I don't think there's much of a difference. The other guys are robots as well. So, I mean, at a tech talk, after all, you just have to have a safe role and make money, then you're fine. But this time it's real, right? So Martin Luther King already said a few years ago, what's the difference? The basic income guarantee? That sounds like socialism? Maybe. Do we have a choice? When 50% of our kids aren't working, because there are no lowering improved jobs, and not everybody can be a designer, or a therapist, or a cook, or a carpenter for them. So the future of work related to this, will we write on top of technology or will it crush us? And I maintain that if we don't watch out, it will crush us. We need to take a look at this and say, what do we need to do to write on top of technology? Who will control this? Should it be the ones that make this? Not really. These companies are more powerful than any oil company, any energy company in the world. Data is the new oil. We should not allow those people to be unregulated. They won't be like saying, we PNX or more, but I don't have to regulate. It's about this, our future. This is going to happen. Actually, there's too many humans in the future. This will happen. Our future is this. What else is going on that is going on over here? What makes us human in terms of work? Everything that can be automated and everything else will explode in value. Can we automate understanding and we automate negotiation? Intuition? Imagination? Empathy? Some of it maybe. You can emulate, right? Sooner or later. Do you really want to live in a simulation? And that idea is, I think that matters. I mean, to voluntarily want to do that. Sorry. Isn't that causing of that? Don't animate that. About the future of work. This is 50 years ago or something. He says he doesn't want to be a speed reader. Somebody that can do this becomes super great. He wants to be a speed understanding. Our only chance in the future is to be speed understanding. Because that's what we can do, right? Understanding stuff. If you have a tough person in court, a business challenge, an environmental challenge, you need people to understand stuff, not just store stuff. Most interaction between people when people are speaking is not about what I say. It's about what I don't say. What do you see in between the lines? I mean, that's the important part. That's how you would know you can trust me or not. Of what I don't say. So how much do you believe in technology? You know, the Holy Grail is technology can solve all that stuff. We have to sign up and say, yes, I agree with the terms of views. I think human existence is a lot more than that. A lot more than turning it into what I do. Now, this has precedent. This cart held in 1662. That basically an animal is a machine. And can't be copied to be like a machine, right? So people have built animal ducks. Unfortunately, the original one got lost by Hopesong. There's a bunch of other ones that are actually not that you can feed. It goes to Kamzath Yavan. It's a machine, right? That has been referred to as reductionism. Reducing apparatus into the most essential part. Can't the duck eat it? Yes, so it's a duck, right?  I mean, think about that for a second. And we are people because we can set up an engine at once. We weren't downloaded. We were born. For the time being. And guess what? There are people who won't have to be downloaded or uploaded, right? That is a very bad idea. I mean, works both ways, right? Project ourselves into this and then everything that we do is mediated and shared in some way. Think about this for a second. When you're watching a clip on video on YouTube or wherever and you look at this and it's quite nice to see stuff like that. We can see everything now, really. It's 5 to 10% of that reality that we're watching through a mediating object at the screen. When you're on the beach in Goa, like I was just a few days ago in Kerala, on this very beach here, I get 100% of what it actually is. The mediated experience is not the same as the actual experience. It's not. It's nice to have. It's useful. But it's an approximation. And technology has the potential of saying we can use it to self-inforce itself to actually amplify itself. That will be a very, very tough choice. I mean, look at this. What about this, the social contract? We don't need a social contract for artificial intelligence. It says, why do we do this? How can we do it? Who is it for? Who benefits for it? It's just as important as nuclear energy. I'll be talking very soon. This little bubble thing here shows basically what I think is the future. We have two bubbles. We have the technology bubble and then we have the human bubble. And what we need to do is figure out a way that it fits together. We cannot stop technology. We don't want to stop technology. We want to become technology because, you know, it makes money. It works for some people, but it would not work for me. We have to think about what I call the human imperative. The ultimate goal of business is happiness. It's actually not to make money. I mean, make it money is the result of happiness, right? Or the other way around. The state of Bhutan has a principle of gross national happiness. They're defining it as GDP. So what we need to think about is, what is that imperative? Where does it go? Because things are now disrupted, like Uber is disrupting the taxi industry, right? They also have to construct stuff. They also have to come up and start and fit. So I'll try to slide here. This is a key question, right? Who would believe humanity because, you know, it's cumbersome. It's wetwear. It's complicated. You know, it's not efficient, not productive, it's not, you know, optimized, whatever, right? Or do we make it do this? No one should do this. Deliberate us to do what we could do best. Not myself. Thanks very much for your time.


I'm Miss Talia Kaplanian and I'm a junior computer science and viability double major at Boston College And I'm currently working as a quality engineering intern on the central CI and tooling team at Red Hat Today, I'm going to take you through the tale of the open provisioning proof of concept The tale I'm about to share with you is based on a true story and like many true stories that abstract complex moral teachings This one abstracts the project that I had been working on this summer a tool for teams to provision resources using an agile integration methodology leveraging containers apis and distributed integration What is provisioning might you ask? Provisioning is fundamentally the process of setting up IT infrastructure or allocating data and resources and making them available While this definition feels a little technical one might compare the process of provisioning to baking mini cakes with lots of flavors and layers and textures And so our story begins Once upon a time there was a man named Paul Kromier who moved to a town famous for its annual cake day celebration While intentions were pure to celebrate cake and all of its glory the reality of the celebration was quite tragic Everyone in the town wanted to bake their own cake with their own tools and their own unique combinations of flavors and it was a mess Paul thought to himself that this seemed like a lot of unnecessary work To make a new flavor or add new toppings doesn't change the fundamental building blocks of a cake, right? So if everyone in town wanted to bake a cake for cake day, couldn't there be a way to standardize all of those common steps? Paul thought heavily about this when there was suddenly a knock at his front door Paul opened it to find a fire on his doorstep a desperate call to arms no more chaotic cake days But Paul had seen these fliers before Mr. Holloway a freelance baker on the other side of town had been posting Flyers giving speeches in the town square and trying to recruit locals for a machine that he wanted to build that would streamline the baking process Paul hadn't heard of anyone giving in the light of day, but now he was intrigued. So he paid a visit to Mr. Holloway Upon arriving Paul recounted his thought process to Mr. Holloway and found that the both of them were very much on the same page Together they began the process of building this machine The premise being that Paul will be able to choose all of the components of his cake from a set menu of options And the machine would make the cake and return it to Paul Paul would not have to provide any ingredients tools or special notes except for the exact cake that he wanted Mr. Holloway also recommended the use of open-shift metals and gears the best in the world and the only ones that would allow them to host his Order-taking menu software In order to ease the trouble of switching out the machine's internal tools as they became outdated or they broke like ovens and stirring utensils Paul Mr. Holloway used universal adapters to connect to the mainframe of the machine and finally after much hard work the machine was complete Paul and Mr. Holloway took their machine to the town square to present it to everyone as the solution to cake day Paul began his demonstration and selected the components of his cake He chose a three-layer cake vanilla on the bottom with Boston cream on top Followed by darkest chocolate with chocolate ganache raspberries and walnuts and finished with a red velvet tier with vanilla buttercream and shredded almonds The machine word and sputtered and did some magic and out the other side came Paul's cake The crowd was silent Then one voice called out I'm allergic to nuts your machine is useless to me another said I'm gluten-free Does your machine know how to make a gluten-free cake? I don't think so One more said I have sensitive teeth. I need a soft cake. Tell it. I want a soft cake and Many more voices to wind along Paul quickly quieted the crowd and then spoke you're right My machine doesn't support those things But all you have to do to change that and make it work for your cake is to plug in a new tool If you remember Paul and Mr. Holloway used universal adapters so that any tool could be replaced when needed By doing this, however, they were actually able to hit two birds with one stone when someone down the line Wanted to add a new flavor or type of cake all they would have to do is plug in another tool with the universal port Now the story ties directly to the project that I've been working on this summer The cake machine is representative of the open provisioning proof of concept that we're building and all of the features translate directly To the features of our POC Except our machine create system environments for red-hatters with tools like beaker and open stack and will soon be adding even more Functionality through other tools with our easy back-end connection that causes little to no change to the user experience Mr. Holloway is a real person and the actual lead developer in Godfather of this project Paul Cormier is also a real person and if you don't already know he was sadly not a part of the actual POC and unfortunately Cake day is not real But it could be we could have a red-hat cake day. I'm just saying I'm looking at you people team Anyways, thank you all for listening. I hope you enjoyed it If you have any questions or want to learn more about the POC feel free to shoot me an email And I'll happily get back to you or visit our confluence page It was linked in the last slide and you can find the answers to memory your questions there. See you all later Thank you very much Talia. Would you like to come on video and answer any questions? Hello. Hey, that was very well done Excellent presentation. Thank you. I had a lot of fun with it Yeah, it's a very good format. I hadn't seen that done before So does anyone have questions for Talia she is here with us We have 11 folks here your talk gained several people as it went along so it's like I don't know if you're seeing the Chat, but it looks like people really enjoyed your presentation. So I I Appreciate the intern support here It was an excellent job. Thank you. Okay. Well, do you have anything you want to add or anything you want to say? You have a question so Artica Patnik asked how did you think about this idea of presentation? I? I had actually reached out to a number another Person on my team asking for some advice I've had to do a technical presentation. I've never done one before and The two things that he said that really stuck with me were Make sure you tell it like the story like start with the origin of the project and then talk about the different conflicts you went through and then How you resolved it and then he also said to have fun with it. And so I really took him took him really literally and And and then this was born. I also figured Anyone who's watching it if I talk about the technicalities of it will probably not be paying attention anymore after a couple of minutes And so if I could make it more fun and make people understand it in an easier way that I then I would It's very good. So very much agreed Thank you Okay, well, thank you very much Talia. Thank you All right, have a good one. Okay you too


They were going to talk about death. It's sort of interesting that I was going in that little quiet space I was thinking about, you know, why I saw Vietnam as being so tragic and things and whatever, but again, I wouldn't have the hurt feelings and the sorrow and things had I not made myself and others victims of this and that was when I identified somebody in the bag. And so that's where the hurt comes from.  They feel sorry about or to feel injured as a result of someone's actions. So I think that's a lot of what is there, you know, and I have to give up that identity of attaching to that wounded soldier and just let it go on his way, you know, so to speak. And move on, you know, because that's what it's all about, I guess. And that's that little scene I guess, you know, where I saw all of this, this way you can see the clarity. Yeah, it's a big insight to see that, to start to see. Where is the soldier who is wounded, is that who I am? Yeah, it's a concept or one idea of how I even like to see myself at times, you know, but again, it's of no value now because all it calls me is suffering and banging, you know. It doesn't do me any good. It's just for you. So I have to let it go on his way and sort it this off. In the 60s and 70s, it was called Bread. I mean, the song Yep. And they did a song Yep and the very last line of the song is, and one by one the stars would all go out and you and I would simply fly away. The song ended and we thought that was real beautiful. The stars will all go out. I think we can talk with, really relate to what Ron's talking about is that Jesus describes the dream. He says, there's the dream that you dream in secret and then there's the dreaming of the world. The dream that you dream in secret produces the dreaming of the world. Another way to describe the dreaming of the world Jesus says is that it's the dream in which you have given away the role of dreamer. The dream in which you've given away the role of dreamer. In other words, it's not at all seen as a dream. It's the one that's been given away. That's part of what it means to be given away. It's like I had no part. The mind is completely absolving itself from having any responsibility in any part of it. And when the mind believes in the secret dream and doesn't question that and believes in the dreaming of the world, gives away the second part. Then it seems as if I was born less than such a year, less than such a parent. Then it's in a state where it's constantly trying to figure the screen out. Not looking at all. Not knowing that the whole screen is produced by the secret dream. Not even suspecting that there's a secret dream that's buried in the mind. It's uncovered. It's remained uncovered. Reminds me a little bit of that song, One Tin Soldier. I've read some of those passages, you know, where the people, they come and they want to take over what the mountain people seem to have a secret. They're very treasure.  But the people want the treasure for themselves. So they go and they kill the mountain people only to find the treasure and uncover that. The line in the song goes, peace on earth was always said.  And you believe you have to kill your brother's body to get it. And of course it can take mild reforms, seemingly mild reforms, with just, you know, irritation or yelling and screaming. But this is believed to be the secret treasure that your brother's hiding in his body. And it's just not there. The treasure is within. The treasure is the Holy Spirit, reminding us of our treasure in heaven. But it's really interesting when you think about that, the role, the dream in which the role of the dreamer has been given away, because that's where, like you were saying, that's where you would perceive yourself as a wounded soldier, or the burdened husband, or the burdened housewife, or the mistreated child that never had a life as good as other people, and on and on and on. It seems as if the world just happens, and when there's no sense of being the dreamer, it doesn't seem like there's any kind of causation, or if the mind has any hand in it, just like events just happen. Or in the movie, we just saw a horse gone, but it can really seem like you're just a feather. And if the wind decides to blow east, off you go, for miles and miles, and then if the wind blows north, you go north, and if the wind swirls, and you swirl, it just seems like you're at the mercy of so many forces that, or I used to get the image when I was in high school, I felt really like it's a time kind of like a pinball, a pinball machine. It just seemed like there were so many forces, and it was like ding, ding, ding, ding, there's parents up there, you know, make a good life for yourself too well, get good grades, ding, ding, ding, ding, and you go over here with friends, you know, peer pressure, and this and this, ding, ding, down there, and then ding, you know, over there. What about the draft? What about the government?  So what we want to do is we want to see that that's just the screen, that there's no hope of ever escaping from within the screen, but the only way of escaping, so to speak, is by unveiling the secret dream. And Jesus at one point calls this death, as he says in the back of the teacher's manual, the death is the central dream from which all illusions are born. So what we're going to do as we come at death today is, again, pull it off the screen. It seems, in my whole life, I've always associated death with death of bodies, or things breaking down and decaying, and then moving, being inanimate.  And those are all those associations and meanings that seem to be death, but it's defined all within the screen. And what Jesus is saying is that's not death. Death is the ego. Death is the central dream from which all these illusions stem. So death lies not in form, but in content. And it's, of course, an unreal content. It's a spragmatic thought. So really the only content and the only purpose that the mind can ever truly embrace would be the Holy Spirit. But it is pulling it back and recognizing all the forms in which this dream of death seems to be taken for withdrawing the mind from the destiny of death. So I thought what we would do in exploring death would be to use the teacher's manual. There's a question that's posed to Jesus, what is death? And I think on page 63 in the 1st edition, it's probably pretty close to that, because I think the manual is... It was interesting to us. I was reading through this today. I started coming across this word compromise. I said, oh my goodness. Put it in there again. Then use it again. It also shows that there's less than 163 where it says no compromise is possible. That's where we're going to go. 63, you get away in the back of the book. It's kind of related to the specific truth that Becca was saying that she has a close friend whose wife, the minister, seems to be dying and everything. And it relates back to what Beverly was saying. We really have to come to a real clear understanding of death ourselves and unveil it in ourselves before we can be helpful in any of those situations where our brothers believe the death is of the world and of the body. Because if we're invested in it ourselves, then it's like there will just be grief. And we've probably all had experiences at one time or another of just being with somebody who's going through immense grief and just kind of breaking down with them. And it almost seems like it's again uncontrollable. Because it's just being so heavy. It's so deep. And what we want to do is we want to come to such a clarity of death that we can let the Holy Spirit come through us and provide us strength in another way of looking at it, without it being a funny kind of superficial, arrogant thing. We want it to be real sincere and clear. So this is really helpful for that at times. What is death? Death is the central dream from which all illusions stem. Is it not madness to think of life as being born, aging, losing vitality, and dying in the end? We have asked this question before, but now we need to consider it more carefully. It is the one fixed, unchangeable belief of the world that all things in it are born only to die. This is regarded as both the way of nature, to be raised the question, but to be accepted as the, quote, natural law of life. The cyclical, the changing and unsure, the undependable and the unsteady, waxing and waning in a certain way upon a certain path. All this is taken as the will of God. And no one has if a benign creator could will this. As far as an opening paragraph, you can see the whole system is going to be questioned here. He's not going to question aspects of it. He's saying the whole world you perceive, waxing and waning in a way, you know.   And that was the two things that you were sure of. If nothing else, whether the sun was going to rise tomorrow or whatever, but those two things you always knew, you know. And that makes sense when it says, you know, that death is a central dream from which all illusions stem, but it goes on to say, where is that part of it? It is the one thing you don't believe. Yeah, mm-hmm.  You know, we know that so clearly. That's been sort of my experience, at least that that's been true. The reform is the only two things that are certain are pay taxes. Is that a current debt version? My math piece here. And seeing your high was always saying that, you know, over and over. Those aren't certain things, you know.  Yeah, yeah. That that already put you behind or out there. It was two sides, too. I mean, the other side could be the pride, you know. But it wasn't taken in that context. It was like a curse, you know. Death was a curse, being black was a curse, you know. So those two things were in that role in your life. Yeah, yeah.  Again, attaching those identities. Right. And, again, making it true. Yeah. Yeah. My husband would say being Jewish was a curse. Especially in that serenity. Yeah. And death was a given. Yeah.  Being a woman. Being a second wife to this. Mm-hmm.


Hello, everyone. I'm excited to dig into the deep research and development work at the heart of PL's computing breakthroughs. Innovation in the PL network spans the research and development pipeline and helps grow many early research projects into full-fledged production networks. There are a number of projects in the PL network in early-to-mid research stages, where ideas are being developed and de-risked, building into open test nets, and nascent new networks. Projects graduate from research into active development, launching alpha releases and attracting early adopters. The Protocol Labs network also has many products in the active productionization phase, gaining their first 100,000 users and iterating on their development success. And finally, a number of PL network projects have reached active production with millions of users and scalable business models. As you can see, there are a ton of projects actively crossing the research and development chasm, thanks to the PL network. We're going to deep dive into a number of these R&D breakthroughs in a moment. But first, I want to give a quick overview of a few other breakthroughs actively crossing the chasm. LERC is a Turing Complete programming language for ZK Snarks. This Lisp-like programming language allows verifiable computation over private data or in zero knowledge. So you can unlock distributed computation without sacrificing privacy. Zama brings fully homomorphic encryption to Web 2 and Web 3 networks, enabling compute over data to generate insights and power personalized applications without ever decrypting private data. BakaLow is a decentralized compute over data network where each node participates in executing computing jobs submitted to the cluster. BakaLow enables users to run arbitrary Docker containers and Wasm images against data stored in IPFS and Filecoin. Verifiable delay functions are cryptographic primitives that allow efficient and trustworthy time management and verification. The VDF Alliance is now sending its first VDF A6 into production, shipping later this year. Now to dive deeper into all of the research breakthroughs and vector commitments. Hello, everyone. This is Nikola, and I'm the lab lead for CryptoNet. CryptoNet is an open distributed research lab that is working on applied cryptography, protocol design to improve all the crypto networks that we've seen before. We go end-to-end in the research pipeline. We start from fundamental research, deploy protocol improvements, and launch products. We have over 60 collaborations, 15 research grants. Most of our projects land into Filecoin Improvement proposal or research papers. Today, I want to talk about a problem that is very early in the research pipeline. It is vector commitment. A problem like this one requires a large amount of external collaboration and several years to solve. Vector commitments are like a better form of medical trees. They could get us better proving time, better proof size, aggregatable proof, and more importantly, GPU cost reduction. And our main goal was to massively reduce the hardware cost for Filecoin Proofs. But a problem like this has massive ramifications. It could get us better verifiable computation over large data sets that could improve projects like compute over data, lurk, and even new possibilities like verifiable databases. And most importantly, we can use it to export the Filecoin chain into other chains. This could allow us to export storage across Web3. A problem like this one starts with a list writing down a list of open problems and distributing this as much as possible. Then we selected over 20 people to participate in our reading club, and we ran several events with over 120 participants. One in particular was the vector commitment day, first of its kind in the industry. Finally, we award research grants which were very successful, and we worked with several collaborators amongst which the Ethereum Foundation, and we worked on several attempts before coming up with the final solutions. We had five different vector commitments, then, unfortunately, were not practical. We even found an impossibility result that told us that there were paths that we cannot take. Finally, we worked on Colk and Mathets, which right now are just paper names, but the future is bright. It's the first time that we feel comfortable with the vector commitments that could be deployed to replace Miracle 3, and there is a full plan next year, eventually, by the end of next year, to get integrated into Filecoin. That's it. Thanks a lot. Hello, everyone. I'm going to talk about Consensus Lab and its flagship project, Interplanetary Consensus. So Consensus Lab is one of the newest groups in Resdev form like 15 months ago. Our goal is basically what we research is any problem that's related to consistency, availability, trade-offs between them that arise in distributed computing apply to essentially blockchains and decentralized world. This is what we research. And our focus is on Consensus, for example, total order broadcast. So why is this important is because Consensus is the bottleneck of decentralized computing and blockchains. So if you think about Bitcoin, it has limited throughput. Let's say seven transactions per second. Ethereum is radically better. But whatever Consensus protocol you put in, it's dependent on their Consensus protocol. Whatever Consensus protocol, ideal one you come up with, it's going to be a bottleneck at some point if it runs over every validator and every validator executes every transaction. So it's easy to see. And essentially, if we want to bring whole web 2 to web 3, we need something else. We need horizontal scaling. And we need improving these Consensus protocols while we essentially retain decentralization of security of these robust protocols that are slow. So this is what we are researching, essentially. So these are some web 3 requirements. So we are aiming to go to billions or trillion transactions per second. We need to be careful about latency. So it's a bunch of trade-offs here. And we want eventually to also be secure against nation's data attackers. So we have many conflicting requirements here that we are trying to research. One of them is this horizontal scalability and demand based throughput. And this is what we address in our flagship project, which is Interplanetary Consensus. So these are roughly three areas that we focus on. So horizontal scaling, efficient subnet consensus, and parallel execution of smart contract. And we are focusing on FVM for clear reasons. So how does IPC work in a nutshell? So you will have ability next year to go from the Filecoin mainnet basically to do some smart contract invocation and to launch a separate blockchain on which you will be able to cater better for your use case. For example, I have Saturn depicted here for retrieval markets, but it could be anything else. And if you want even faster performance on a data center scale, you can spawn a subnet of a subnet. And each of these subnets checkpoints and uses the security of higher level blockchain for its critical data, be it the state outputs or inputs. We are currently working on state outputs. And you can basically do this in parallel. So I'm here having a Metaverse Gaming example. And you would be able to tune the consensus protocols to suit, for example, the latency, different latency requirements of these different networks. So to power this, we have the mere BFT consensus framework, which implements consensus protocols on these subnets. And essentially, we are going to implement IPC very leanly with two FVM built-in actors. So this is roughly in one slide, basically how IPC works. This is our roadmap. We have a SpaceNet, our main test net launching end of this year. And the next year is reserved for interplanetary consensus on the SpaceNet with the go-to-go-to-filecoin mainnet in Q3. If you want to learn more about all of this, come to on Wednesday Consensus Lab Summit. This is Timeout Market. And we'll go in details into all these things. Thank you very much. All right, hello, everyone. My name is Raoul, and I'll be talking about the Filecoin Virtual Machine. So by this stage, you will have heard about the FVM. But just for those who haven't, just to recap, the FVM project delivers on-chain programmability to the Filecoin network. This is a big deal, because it enables developers, for the first time, to customize what the Filecoin network can do for its users, besides storage and retrieval. For the first time, developers get to build not with Filecoin, but on Filecoin as a platform. And these are just some of the apps and use cases that I'm particularly very excited about. Data douse, liquid staking, under collateralized lending, decentralized compute, and a lot more is possible with the FVM. On the technical front, when we conceived the FVM, we envisioned a system that could host multiple runtimes and serve as a seamless conductor between them. We drew inspiration from hypervisors, the actor model, and the Linux kernel. So this is what the FVM looks like today. It is based on WebAssembly. It can power multiple runtimes, like the EVM, Secure ECMAScript, and more. Each actor runs in isolation and can escape its sandbox through syscalls, inspired by the Linux model. All data is managed, and all data managed and exchanged is IPLD data. And it supports foreign addressing and foreign signature schemes. It also performs gas accounting and execution halt by instrumenting the Wasm bytecode. We expect many of these ideas will actually make it onto IPVM, which you'll hear about in a few minutes. Now, shipping the FVM itself is a hard engineering endeavor, as it transforms the entire execution layer of the Filecoin network. This is why we're delivering the FVM in stages. Earlier in July, the SCUR upgrade activated in Filecoin mainnet. Yes, you heard it right. The FVM is already powering mainnet as of today. But it is not programmable yet. And this is what we're working on. We're working on programmability in the M2.1 milestone. The first runtime we're shipping is the Filecoin EVM. We also call it FEBIM. This requires deep protocol developments, like a whole new address class, a count abstraction, and on-chain events. And on-chain events. We've implemented the Ethereum JSON RPC API in Lotus, which makes all of the Ethereum tooling compatible with Filecoin immediately. This allows Filecoin to meet existing Web3 developers where they are today. You can reuse all your existing knowledge of languages like Solidity and UL, libraries like Web3.js and ethers, and awesome tools like Truffle, Hard Hat, Foundry, and Remix. The Wallaby Testnet is our bleeding edge testnet. And it is already live. So you can start building on it today. We will be running several hackathons in November. And the FEBIM itself should reach Mainnet by February next year. At that point, we will move our focus to Wasm Actors and further protocol improvements. And guess what? Just before we arrived to Lisbon, we shipped a major release to the Wallaby Testnet. And we conducted our first ever metamask transaction. So if you're excited to build on FEBIM, you should join the FEBIM Foundry by following this link. There are more than 100 teams and builders that have registered, and we're excited to have you too. And these are just some of the things that past early builders have already built, SDKs and Go, assembly script and Rust, as well as playgrounds to get started quickly. And here is what early builders are building today, some open opportunities and some open protocol problems. So if you see any of these actually catches your attention, come speak to us. Most of the FEBIM team is actually here on site. These are our faces. So come find us and say hi. And before I go, I'd like to invite you to the FEBIM Open Hack Day, which is happening on the 29th of November in Adgarajem in Jardim, Novdabadil. We hope to see you there. Thank you very much. My name is Boris Mann. I'm the founder of Fission. I'm here to tell you about IPVM, the Interplanetary Virtual Machine. So what do we even mean by IPVM? We have a lot of IP acronyms these days, and we have no sign of slowing down. So for starters, this means adding a blessed virtual machine web assembly into every IPFS node. Like data, compute should be ubiquitous. Building on this foundation actually enables a number of things across the IPFS network. But for today, we'll focus on IPVM, replacing serverless platforms like AWS's Lambda with open protocols to power the future of computing for humanity. So what does it mean to build the HTTP of compute, to make compute as ubiquitous as what we think of as the web today? We're not talking about static web pages anymore. We're talking about combining and recombining data with compute for the many things that Juan has talked to us today. It means we can do things like take data, compute over it, and then cache it across the entire network, which in turn, other people can compute on top of. It means being able to compute locally, as well as remotely, instead of having to have pre-negotiated arrangements with the large commercial US-only hyper clouds that will control our future unless we build this together. There's many other projects that this connects in. This is not just us. It's all of us. The Filecoin virtual machine, Fluence's Aquamarine, Cloudflare workers, Baccalaureate, Web3 storage, and things like the IPFS function network. So we'd like to join the IPVM working group. My co-founder and CTO of Vision, Brooklyn, leads that process. We already have GitHub discussions live and regular community calls. And we're coordinating with the Compute Over Data Working Group. We're growing our team with some great new members who are going to help build this for all of us. But what even is Vision? We're a blue-green team that builds protocols so that other people can build great platforms and products on top of it. It's not just us. It's been amazing the past year to be invited to be part of the protocol network and understand what it means to build together. At Vision, we're still trying to get better at this, but we think this is a phrase that everyone should start adopting. Let's become ecosystem obsessed. We build a number of protocols, and we move things from research and graduating it to ecosystem projects that many people can build on top of. These are some of the ones that we have in the pipeline. We also have a side gig of creating cute stickers and mascots. So feel free to drop by and get some for me during this week. There's amazing folks that are already building on top of this, both within the PLN and beyond it. You'll hear more later in this presentation how Web 3 Storage is adopting UCAN, and we hope it can spread everywhere connecting our ecosystem better. Web Native is what Vision takes to mean that any front-end developer can take this stack and build on top of IPFS today. We've got a number of things in active development. Today, you've heard about the IPM working group, and we're also having sessions later this week about the Filecoin account working group and private data on Filecoin built by these lower-level protocols. One last thing. I'd like to invite you all to our first conference on the future of computing. Coastal Islands will take place in Toronto in April 2023. I hope to see you there. Filecoin Storage and Retrieval is actively crossing the chasm from development to productionizing. In 2022, we shipped a number of new products to help solidify the full lifecycle from data onboarding to retrieval. This is at the core of what we work on here in IPFS and Filecoin, and it's super important to actually storing and being a great network for preserving humanity's most important information. In this Filecoin system map, storage requests flow from storage clients to domain-specific on-ramps to storage providers who verifiably maintain storage over time. Retrieval requests flow from retrieval clients to retrieval providers to storage providers and then back, using a network of indexing services to identify where desired data is stored. Retrieval providers offer an additional layer of caching along with improved performance and accessibility. Let's dive into this flow, starting with the on-ramps. NFT.Storage is a simple developer on-ramp for NFT creators, now supporting over 95 million NFTs, 275 terabytes of data stored in Filecoin, and NFT marketplaces like OpenSea, MagicEden, and Rarible. Moving on to the storage provider section, Boost is the new Filecoin markets node and shipped earlier this year in May. It's scaling data onboarding for storage providers and also adding new retrieval transports, including HTTP and now BitSwap, to support easy retrieval via IPFS clients like Kubo. Moving on to the next section around indexing, the network indexer ingest billions of CIDs every week from over 120 Filecoin storage providers and large-scale IPFS pinning services. There are currently six independent indexer mirrors providing accelerated routing lookups to both IPFS and Filecoin content discovery. Retrieval providers have seen the most innovation in 2022. The IPFS gateway added integrations with network indexers and Boost for fast lookup and retrievals across Filecoin storage providers. The ipfs.io gateway has also scaled to over 12 million weekly users and 1.5 billion requests. It's pretty impressive. Saturn is a new Filecoin CDN, already operating 62 L1 test net nodes with 64 terabytes of data retrieved daily and over 1 billion retrievals every week. Station is a fill worker node that allows putting spare computing resources to work in the Filecoin network to start earning Filecoin. Finally, highlighting the retrieval clients. IPFS and gateway-powered browsers like Brave, Chrome, Firefox, and more connect end users with data on IPFS and Filecoin to make sure we complete the full lifecycle from data storage all the way through Retrieval. So that's our storage and retrieval lifecycle. There's been a ton of work put into this system helping connect all of the pieces together and make sure folks can have smooth, robust, and reliable retrievals over time. Next up, let's hear from the amazing startups harnessing these R&D breakthroughs.


What's up guys, these are the brand new Fullame X5 true wireless microphones for your camera. Fullame were kind enough to send me this unit and I'm going to go ahead and test how great these sound. So let's go ahead and start off by unboxing this running through the design, the features, and the specs and let's get straight into it. So right here at the top you have yourself the user manual, information in multiple different languages, very quick and easy to get up and running but this is essentially just plug and play. You then have the main unit here. Now I will go ahead and talk about the design of this in a second but let's go ahead and finish off the rest of the box. So you have a TRX to TRX cable for your camera, USB-C charging cable for the unit. You get two adapters, one is a USB-C to USB-C and the other one is a USB-C to lightning port adapter. These two are quite important as well. One of these will allow you to connect this to an Android, one to an iPhone but the USB-C one will also allow you to transfer the inbuilt audio recordings from one of the transmitters directly to your laptop and I will showcase that in this video. Then you've got a couple of wind protection muffs as well so when you do film outdoors this would isolate a lot of the windy noise. So now let's dive in a little bit more about the design of the microphones. Okay so let's open up this unit. You can see this will give you a battery indicator just at the bottom on the front of the charging box. You can see the two transmitters are blinking red because they are actually charging. You can also check out the battery life on the TFT display on the receiver. Before I go ahead and take these out you'll notice at the back inside the lid you have two LED lights that are just there. You don't actually see them light up but what this is is when you do close the charging case this actually has inbuilt UV disinfection so these are UV disinfecting lights that actually allow you to keep your transmitter and receiver very clean especially when you do film outdoors when it's very dusty and it could get dirty or when you've recorded for a long period of time and you've breathed onto these and you wanted to share this maybe with someone else you can be pretty much sure it's going to be very clean when you do put this back in the box and take it out again the next time. So let's take out one of the transmitters and the receiver. So we'll start off with the receiver. It's a very nice clean display and I'm a big fan of wireless microphone kits that do have a digital display just so that I can see what setting it's on, how much battery life it is, is it connected, is it paired and various other pieces of important information. So you can see on the top left there you've got the battery life and you got the signal to show that it is paired then you also have the waveform just there in the middle of the bar to see how loud your audio actually is. The decibel levels you can go up to five different levels up to the maximum and then you also have the different type of mode displayed on the bottom right. There are three different modes but before I change them let's just have a look at the rest of the receiver. On the left you have the headphone monitoring port, the power button and the set button. You have yourself the belt clip at the bottom which is also a cold shoe mount and on the right hand side you have yourself the USB-C port and also the output for the camera cable. So let's go ahead and press the set button once. You'll notice that the decibel levels will increase so you can cycle between the different levels by just pressing the set button very easily. So now let's change the mode. So right now it's on mono. If you hold down the set button for a few seconds it's now gone to stereo mode. If you hold it down again this is gone into a mode called MS. Now MS is basically safety mode and what that does is it will divide the sound that you record into two tracks the left and the right and the right audio that is recorded will be six decibels lower than the audio from the left channel just so that you have two different audio output options to work with in case that's something you might need to have. So let's go back to mono and I will record in mono and stereo just so you guys can hear the differences. Now looking at the transmitter you have a couple of LED lights here that are going to showcase different things depending on the color or the blinking variations of them. Just on the left hand side you also have a set button and a power button and on the other side there is also a USB-C port and this is what is going to connect this to your laptop with the USB-C adapter that I showed you in the unboxing. Now on the belt clip on the back you'll notice there's a tiny little attachment. This is a very strong magnet as you can see and what I'm going to showcase is how to actually put this onto your shirt when you want to reposition the transmitter using the magnet rather than the belt clip because this is a very nice thing that I haven't come across in any other wireless mic to be honest and I think you know this is going to make it so much easier to get clearer audio when I do my filming so I will showcase this in a second. Now when you do press the set button on here just once you'll notice that the second blue light is now appeared this will go into noise reduction mode so if you're maybe outdoors and it's a very windy day and maybe there's a lot of background noise from a busy road for example this will start to do background noise isolation and I think that's very key as well especially if you are going to be using this outdoors I wouldn't use this so much indoors because this will alter your voice naturally so that's very quick and easy to see if noise reduction mode is actually set to on and just press it again to turn it off. Now I wanted to talk a little bit about the inbuilt audio recording that's inside the transmitter this has a 4 gigabyte internal memory so if you didn't want to connect the receiver to any camera or phone for example some situations I really need this is when I do recordings using a gimbal using my phone because there's no very convenient way to put a wireless microphone receiver on top of a gimbal and I want to maybe get the best audio by just having an inbuilt audio recorder somehow. This set can actually do that so to start using the inbuilt recording and I can do that now without any cables attached on the transmitter I will hold down the set button and you can see on the transmitter there is a red blinking light and on the receiver you'll notice just above that wi-fi signal you can see a recording text in red and that just shows you that is now using the internal audio recorder on the transmitter so if I speak into this this is now a test and you can see the waveform just there in the middle I've got the transmitter closer to my mouth and now I'm recording this as a test audio so that I can transfer this directly to my laptop and my MacBook Pro using the USB-C adapter you can also use one of your own USB-C to USB-C cables if you find that a little bit easier so this is a very quick and convenient way to get audio recordings without having the need to attach this to any camera or phone and then when you're ready to stop the internal recording hold down the set button and then the recording symbol will disappear from the TFT display and the red light will stop flashing very convenient way to have yourself a different set of options when you do need to record so that's everything I wanted to show on the microphones let's go ahead and charge these for a little bit and then let's test out the audio okay now that these have charged up let's talk about the battery life a little bit the unit itself the charging case has up to 18 hours of battery life each of the transmitters and the receiver host a total battery life of six hours and with the charging case it can charge it an additional two times giving you an overall 18 hours of battery life and that 18 hours in total is more than enough to get a lot of filming done over a set of days so that's very convenient to have a very long battery life in there and one of the other features of this is that this allows you to have a transmission range of up to 200 meters so if you are going to do very long distance shooting then this is going to be very good for you as well not only that but this has 48 kilohertz and 24 bit audio compression inbuilt into the audio recordings they are saved as dot wave files so they are very high quality and we are going to test that out very shortly and lastly let's test out the magnetic clip with the attachment so there's three different ways that I would generally set up a transmitter to my shirt which sometimes you know they do work but it's not the most convenient way to get the best audio and I've noticed that when I do my recordings the first way and the most common way is if you wear a shirt like this with buttons you would clip it on like this now the microphone you can see is kind of facing sideways so you don't get the most clear audio because it's not like a 360 type of microphone where any direction it will pick it up you'll hear it when you do transfer this for post production editing that it is very light and it's not super clear as if I'm holding it in front of my mouth the second way is you can put it right at the top of your shirt something like this even if you don't have a button the shirt now what this does is it blocks some of the audio because the voice coming from my mouth is coming out like this and this gets blocks kind of like from my chin so it is a little bit distorted and it's not super clear the third way I sometimes will do it is just pinch a part of my shirt and I will try and aim it upwards somehow even if I pinch this way you can see it's it's not the most comfortable and it's kind of like a workaround to aim it properly that's where this magnet really comes into play because it is quite strong you put the magnet behind your shirt wherever you find convenient and then you just clip this directly over that and it will hold so there you can pretty much place it wherever you like across your chest and have it aimed directly to your mouth and this is how I'm going to do my recordings so you guys can hear a comparison now hopefully you can watch this video with some headphones to get the best audio experience to understand how clear this is up until now I've been shooting it with my shotgun microphone just here and I'm going to be switching over to test out the audio so let's go ahead and see how they sound and I'll set this up with my camera this also works very well with my iPhone using the adapter so you can use that very easily but the audio will be the same and let's go ahead and make that switch okay the audio that you are now hearing is coming directly from the x5 microphone I've set it to the volume gain number four number five is the maximum I think four is quite a good point when I'm filming indoors just to compensate for the distance of the microphone from my mouth I've had a playback of this and you know I found that this sounds very good I think it's you know one of my favorite microphones to be honest up until now it has all of the features that I could potentially ask for this magnetic clip for me is you know very unique and I find it so much more convenient because having to decide what type of shirt to wear to make sure the microphone is going to be positioned correctly to get the best audio this eliminates that need so I'm quite happy on that front now this is currently shooting in mono audio but I also want to shoot in stereo audio because that will also give you an example of how it shoots between the left and right channels and I will pull out the other tx so that you guys can see that comparison so let's go ahead and test that out okay so I have both microphones now ready to go and I've set this to stereo mode still on decibel four you can see how clear this sounds but this is on one of the channels the left channel now this is on the right channel and you can see it differentiates between both of the channels when you are listening to this with headphones if you bring them both closer together you can really see the stereo audio output it gives it kind of more of a clearer monotype feel but more of a surround sound setup I think you know this is very good especially if you are going to do interviews with two people and you want it to distribute the different channels with these two transmitters then that's going to be very convenient you know I find that stereo mode is very good because it's much more clearer audio than mono but if you just use one of these in post editing with softwares like Final Cut Pro you can switch that stereo mode to automatically convert to dual mono mode and you will maintain that clarity in the audio even though it will make slight adjustments so if stereo mode is something that you do like to shoot in then this is going to be a very good option for you now that I've shown you mono and stereo mode I also want to show you a showcase of using the noise reduction mode outdoors so let's go ahead head outside and see how that sounds with very windy and noisy conditions in my background I'll also use the wind muff on one of the transmitters as well and I'll show you comparison without the wind muff and without the noise reduction and with both of them on as well just to see how much of a difference that makes so let's go ahead and test that now okay guys so now I'm outdoors it is pretty windy today you can see it's very cloudy I have quite a busy road behind me I've got the volume gain it's still set to number four so it's not at the maximum I don't have the wind sleeve on and noise reduction mode is not on so what I'm going to do now is to put the wind sleeve on turn on noise reduction and hopefully you guys can hear a comparison between how it sounds now and how it's going to sound next and now this is with the noise reduction mode set to on wind sleeve it's on can you guys hear the difference and is the audio a lot clearer now so for me I played this back and I've found that you know this is a very useful feature to have especially if you are going to film outdoors every time I do film indoors I try to avoid using noise reduction because it is very quiet anyway but you can see this really helps if you do a lot of outdoor shooting so I'm quite impressed with that and as with all the wireless microphones that I've used in the past especially when I'm filming outdoors I always do recommend that you use the wind sleeve even if it's not that windy outside I think it's just a great thing to have to make your voice a little bit more clearer so now let's head back indoors and we'll go ahead and showcase how to transfer the internal audio recordings from the transmitter to my MacBook okay so I also wanted to show you now if I wanted to transfer the internal audio recordings from my transmitter all I need to do is connect this little USB-C adapter to this and then connect this to my MacBook Pro but also I also want to showcase that if you have your own USB-C to USB-C cable if you find it a little bit more convenient so let's collect this one if you hook that up you'll see that the red light will start flashing and then in your finder window on your MacBook or your laptop you can see this pops up as like a external USB flash drive this one comes up as no name if you click that you can see the wave audio recording is right there in the root folder of your USB drive so that is very convenient to then just transfer over now this has four gigabytes worth of space in the internal audio recording so you can use this as a backup so whilst you are actually recording your filming using a TRX cable for example directly to your camera or your phone you can also set the backup recording to happen at the exact same time just in case there were any interruptions with your camera the audio recording will still be there and you can be more confident that you've got every single piece of audio that you needed for your filming and that's it guys i'm back to now recording again to wrap up this video with the transmitter connected to my shirt this comes in at 149 pounds check out the latest pricing information in case they do have any discounts or coupons running at any time link is in the description do check out their website as well for the full list of specifications if you are interested in this make sure to like this video if you like the sound of this audio and how convenient this looks and all of the features that are packed with this i'm super happy this is going to be my main microphone that i'm going to use especially with the in-built audio recording feature that's going to be very convenient for me when i am shooting with gimbals and if you did have any other questions always drop a comment down below i'll get back to you as soon as i can make sure to subscribe i have new tech reviews out every week and i'm sure you're going to like them there's a playlist of all of my previous wireless microphone reviews down below in the description as well if you also want to check out other wireless microphones otherwise i will catch you guys at the 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OK, folks, good afternoon update for TFNN Larry Pesavento reporting. We have stock sharply higher, well, not sharply higher. The Dow Jones is up less than 100, close to 100. Russell's up a bit. See the S&P is up about 18 or 19, maybe 20. And of course, we got the NASDAQ, up in the New High Ground substantially after gapping up Sunday night. And we are trading very close to 14,900, believe it or not. The whole world is talking about artificial intelligence as they should be because that is a new breakthrough by anybody's imagination for sure.  I heard that on Bloomberg not more than an hour ago. Unbelievable. We got gold down as expected. Soybeans were up a little, corn is down a little, wheat is up slightly. And let me see what else. We got Treasury bonds and Treasury notes are still down on the day. We've got a huge amount of supply coming in there. So that'll be affected quite a bit. And then also on the energy front, we have seen a big drop here in crude oil down $2.65. We've got heating oil down four and a half. And as I mentioned before, we've got gold down $9 and we've got silver down $0.35. Hopefully, these markets will continue trading the way that they are. And they have, for the past several hundred years, people ask me that question, is it different this time? Folks, I can say with 100% certainty it may be a little different in a period over an hour or two or a day or two, but longer term, I don't care what chart you use. If you just go back and look to see what the market was doing an hour ago, three hours ago or four hours ago, it's going to be doing pretty much what Andrew Lowe said in his book, the non-random walk down Wall Street. Markets repeat and they do it with precision and it is predictable within limits. And that's what pattern recognition is all about. Within limits and only over a period of time. And you don't know what that timeframe is. So that's what you have to do is to select the timeframe that you want to be using. And that's what's important. Stay tuned, folks.<PHONE_NUMBER>.


ViperCon is a research project funded by the European Research Council in which we emulate how the human visual system processes what we see. We have been able to develop a model of how we perceive contrast and we have translated this into a technology that can be used to modify images so that they look much more close to how we see things with the naked eye. Our company Lucid is integrating ViperCon technology into new production tools where the first image that you'll work from is one that's faithful to the eyes, faithful to how we perceive the scene. So with realistic contrast and colour, what you would expect to see on set if you were there looking at the set yourself. The first image we have to create is the image that comes out of the camera. Directors of photography like me use photography to create an artistic image that supports a guide, that supports a sensation. These new years can allow more interesting, more developed, more complex creation points. The outcome has been not only an academic advance but also in the terms of producing things that are good for society, in this case that are useful for artists, for creators. Technology should be at the service of cinematographers, videographers, colourists and DITs. And it's only with us really being in the conversation with these creators that we can come up with tools that are going to help them realise their ideas in the most immediate and natural way possible. The creators need some tools that can only bring us science, because we don't have these knowledge. We all dedicate ourselves to know about light, to know about colour, but also to the part of emotions, not the part of science. Thank you.


Thank you so much for being with us today. Please introduce yourself. So my name is Mathias Winkenbach. I'm a research associate here at CTL. I'm also the director of the Megacity Logistics Lab and of late I'm leading a new research initiative here at CTL with just a visual analytics lab. Great. Please tell us a little bit more about what the motivation behind establishing this new lab. So basically the idea for this new lab emerged out of some of the research projects of my other lab which was mainly concerned about quantitative models that would help companies or cities to solve logistics problems. And what we saw is that you can build the greatest model and as long as you don't really provide an intuitive interface to those models you kind of struggle to have the impact that you would like to have. So we started thinking about how can we provide a better way of people for people to interact with data and with complex quantitative decision support tools. And that's how the whole thought process around the visual analytics lab started. Great. What are some of the key use cases that you can see as being applicable? So one of the primary use cases for now might be how can we create better visual interfaces to provide companies but also cities with real-time visibility of what's going on in a logistics network, in a supply chain or maybe even in a city as a basically as a traffic network. So probably the first use case that we're going to work on is providing interactive interfaces for people to really explore, analyze and kind of experience data in a more intuitive, more natural way through interactive visualization. Great. The vision of this lab. You don't see this just as a place for the mega-city logistics lab. We see this as a place for other research areas within the center to go and visualize things but also for our corporate partners to come. Tell us a little bit more about what you see for the vision of that. Yes. So you're right. I mean it started from an idea that was created within the mega-city logistics lab but it should not at all be limited to that. We can see applications across the board in the supply chain domain, be it my area which is urban logistics, be it humanitarian logistics, be it like global or at least national network design, all sorts of problems that are kind of data-driven that need a better understanding of data to make better decisions for the supply chain could be potential use cases for this new lab environment. Perfect. And you also see this as an area for companies to come and use for their own personal needs as well. Yes, absolutely. It should be basically used as a platform both for our research, for our corporate research projects but also for teaching and training activities for instance. So we could imagine bringing in a group of executives or supply chain decision makers, exposing them to a interface to one of our research models and letting them understand intuitively for instance what are the trade-offs in network design without having to teach them the hard math behind but giving them kind of a natural way of interacting with one of our quantitative models to really get out of this workshop or whatever it is with an understanding of what are the key trade-offs that I have to keep in mind when I tackle this specific problem. That seems like a great way for companies to engage with the lab. Are there other ways that you envision companies engaging and moving forward with this? So, I mean, the use case that I mentioned before, the real-time visibility is only going to be the first step of development. We want to take it further. We want to take it beyond the screen if you wish by adding augmented reality technology. And augmented reality technology right now is a big buzzword used in a lot of different contexts but hardly ever in a corporate decision-making context. So, what we want to achieve with this lab is to bring in this new form of technology into the way companies make decisions, the way companies look at their data and use that data to create value. And coming back to your question, I see roughly two different ways of engaging with that lab. One is probably tied to a little bit more of a long-term, also a long-term financial commitment to becoming a strategic partner with that lab. And those strategic partners should have a long-term interest in kind of co-developing this lab and this technology with us as something that they would leverage within their own company or probably even think about commercializing in the future as a solution to other companies. But basically, that would be a multi-year commitment to working with us on really creating a whole research environment around how we can use interactive visualization and augmented reality in corporate decision-making. The other way of engaging with us would be simply through an ongoing series of research projects. So, for instance, once we have the lab infrastructure available and a certain corporate partner has a project that would lend itself or a problem that would lend itself to be addressed in one of our typical research projects, we could use the existing lab as a resource to build on for working on that problem. Thank you so much for the time that you've spent with us. We're very excited to hear what happens with this lab and excited for it to open. Thank you.


Pediatric trauma is the leading cause of death and disability among children worldwide due to insufficient resources and lack of attention to the treatment of injured children compared to adults. Furthermore, there is no pediatric trauma center in Korea, which contributes to high mortality rates. Additionally, insufficient training and lack of experience in the management of injured children may be the key factors that contribute to children's disabilities and deaths. The primary survey for pediatric trauma does not differ from that of adult trauma, but the basic concepts of advanced life support that have been used for adults remain applicable and critical for injured children. Pediatric trauma patients require more attention than adults because of their unique physiological characteristics such as smaller size, different anatomy, and different responses to blood loss, temperature regulation, and specialized equipment. Therefore, it is important to pay close attention to the initial approach for pediatric trauma patients. This article was authored by Yo-Ha and John Cook-Jong Lee. We are article.tv. Links in the description below.


Excellencies, honorable guests, distinguished delegates, colleagues, a very good morning to you all. Allow me to welcome you to this meeting, held at an uncertain time in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has prevented me from being able to join you in person, much as I would have preferred to have done so. I would like to thank the ESCAP Executive Secretary, Ibu Armeida Salsia Alice Ribana, for the dedicated support to the GCM regional review process and that of her team who have supported the organization of this meeting for ESCAP member states, partners, observers and stakeholders. Today's meeting is informed by government contributions to the voluntary regional review survey that has been shared over the past year. In addition, numerous partners, stakeholders in the lexicon of the Global Compact on Migration, have worked closely with UN Network on Migration in the lead up to this meeting, in organizing and participating in consultations geared at informing the regional review process. Your engagement is invaluable. I want to especially acknowledge the bold undertaking made by those member states that have joined the Champions Initiative, a third of whom are from Asia and the Pacific, namely Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Nepal, the Philippines and Thailand. I applaud their commitment to lead by example and empower states through experience. I also extend an invitation to join the initiative to all states. I am grateful to the Kingdom of Thailand for being both a donor to the Migration multi-partner trust fund and joining the Fund Steering Committee and to the Republic of Turkey for their own contribution to the fund. I invite you all to contribute to the broadening as well as deepening of the donor base of the Migration NPTF as the only joint funding mechanism exclusively dedicated to migration. As we look towards the first International Migration Review Forum in 2022 and realizing the work plan of the network, I am pleased to inform you that the network will soon launch the Migration Network hub as called in the GCM. The hub is a key element of the capacity building mechanism. It will facilitate peer learning, exchanges of good practices and providing a platform for dialogues. We count on your continued support and collaboration, including in the socialization of the GCM at all levels, national, regional and global, and support for the work of the network. We value the important role you play in your respective country contexts, diplomatic missions, institutional settings and areas of expertise. Excellencies, we are at an unprecedented moment in time. In wind and through a pandemic that has shaken the international community to its very core. The pandemic has highlighted the challenges that too many migrants face and how they have often been left behind in efforts to prevent, to curb and now inoculate against the virus. As the world turns its attention to the vaccination rollout, I call on governments to ensure that non-nationals are fully included in vaccination programming, irrespective of their legal status. The contribution of migrants in many critical service areas before, during and after the worst of the pandemic waves are often instillable value, from health care to logistics, from food supply chains to agriculture and social services. Governments working alongside nationals have risen to the challenge and made a marked contribution to the communities they have joined, as well as those from which they have come. The global compact is rooted in the sustainable development goals and its commitment to leave no one behind. Evidence from across the globe has shown time and time again that migration can be a powerful driver of sustainable development for migrants and their communities in countries of origin, countries of transit and countries of destination. The Asia and the Pacific region is comprised of several distinct social, cultural, political and economic subregions, each with unique mobility and development dynamics within and between them, disparities in levels of social economic development and the existence of opportunities within countries and subregions continue to shape migration patterns and highlight the need for and value of dialogue and cooperation at the bilateral, subregional and pan-regional levels. Disasters and natural hazards which are expected to increase in scale and in intensity with climate change and environmental degradation are a constant threat to the region's population and economies. Connected to these, violence against women and girls, including gender-based violence, has been shown to increase in prevalence and severity in communities experiencing a disaster. We must do more to protect women, children from violence, especially in the context of migration, now exacerbated by the scourge of COVID-19. The region faces many endouncing challenges, but none of these are uncermontable, especially if we stay true to the call to advance our collective efforts, to work better together for safe, orderly and regular migration. Thank you.


Sympa question, what's the first year you earn any money from your capital gains tax and how much do you get? I'll tell you the answer to that. It starts gradually because it's not retrospective. What's the first year and how much do you get? It comes in about, you know, probably about 2016 and it ramps up. Just tell me where the money's come from. Show me the money! Show me the money! I gotta tell you this.