Everybody, welcome to the Waldoch Way. I'm Jessica. And today's video is going to be an Usborne haul. You guys, I am surrounded by Usborne goodness right now in the floor in front of me. So I'm just going to dive in. So in no particular order, this is what we got. The first two books we got are the two books from Catherine Woodfine. You guys, these are amazing. If you have a little girl in your life, you need these. They are small. So like here is a peek inside book. You can see they are really only about, I don't know, probably four by six.  They are only about 80 pages.  So if you have like maybe a six to eight year old, these would be great for either reading aloud or for them to read by themselves. So we have Sophie takes to the sky and Rosie's Dress of Dreams. Next up for a real out, I grabbed the Tanglewood Animal Park series. Now I did read in a few reviews that these are very similar to the, we bought a zoo storyline. So if that makes a difference to you, like if you don't want to read something that's very similar to something you've already read, you may not want this particular series, but Emily loves animals. Emily loves zoos, Emily loves, even if it was the exact same story with like one word changed, she would still let me read it aloud. So it really didn't make a difference to us. And I knew that we needed kind of an animal based read aloud for our bedtime basket. So I grabbed these without a second thought. So we have the Tanglewood Animal Park Baby Zebra Rescue, the Elephant Emergency, and the Troublesome Tiger. I also grabbed these experiment books. We have the Biology of Bananas and the Chemistry of Coke. What I really, really liked about them is it wasn't just like experiments, it had a lot of the why behind it, which is really important to me in a science book. And with the Chemistry of Coke, all right, you guys know that Dr. Pepper is my bad habit. Coke is Kevin's bad habit. So it's something that we always have on hand, like it's always in the house. So I knew we could do the experiments in here without having to go get something else. Now, we may regret having this book because she may be preaching to us to quit drinking it constantly, but I just knew that it would be something fun for us to do at home with things that weren't gonna be hard for us to find. I hate those experiment books where you need like the Petri dish and all these things that you can't just find around your house. So that's one of the reasons I got the Coke. And then you guys know Emily absolutely adores Bear Grills. In fact, I wrote an entire survival unit around it. So when the brand new Epic Climes and Epic Expeditions books came out, I knew we had to have them. The Epic Climes are Discover How Five of the Most Difficult Mountains were Covered. And it has a ton of great information about those climbs. And then the Epic Expedition says Discover Five of the Most Amazing Adventures in Tracks and History. And again, it has a ton of information about those tracks. I have a thing about having two complete series. So I had to have the brand new Lift the Flat book, which is how your body works. And this one, you guys, I probably say that they're all my favorite, but this one is so fun. So you have like what your body is made of, these cute little flaps. Then you have like this giant flap. And then there's tons of little flaps within that, like tons. I mean, it just looks like such a fun book. I'm so excited.  Like when this book came in, I was like, Emily, can we please do a human body unit? Can you please wanna do that? Just because I really, really wanted to dive into this. It just looked like so much fun. Okay, the next step, we have the Big Picture Dinosaurs. You guys, I should have bought this one sooner. I didn't because I honestly thought it's a picture book about dinosaurs. We have a ton of book about dinosaurs and there is not gonna be anything in this picture book that Emily's not gonna already know because she's obsessed with dinosaurs. But everybody kept telling me how beautiful it was and how I really needed to have it, so we got it. And I'm glad I did. Because there is actually a ton of information in here and some of it Emily doesn't know. And it is beautiful. So even if you have 101 dinosaur books, this is still worth having. The next book I have is the Book of Comparisons.  That was until we started homeschooling and now I'm like, you have a head full of the most useful knowledge because I've noticed that my daughter is the same way. She loves those random crazy facts about things. She likes those things. So this book is, while it may not necessarily be my favorite in the world, it is going to be their favorite because it is just like two page spreads. For instance, that is Earth's energy and it's just all these random comparisons. Here we have hidden depths. Let's see, we have a microscopic jump and here is super senses. So if you have a kiddo who loves like random facts, especially if they love random facts and numbers, they need the Book of Comparisons. The next two books we got were the Life Size series. Again, I thought, oh, we're kind of house picture bugs. There's not going to be a ton in here. And again, I was wrong. These are awesome, you guys. So they have kind of like a life-size thing. And then after you have that life-size thing, it tells more about it. So this is my favorite. So like, here's the two cans beat. That's what Emily did. And then it tells you more about the two cans. The same thing with the dinosaur's life-size. You have like a life-size thing. Like here we have its claw. And then it tells you more about that dinosaur. Both are really, really fun. Okay, the next stack of stuff I got, I did actually kind of separate it, is mostly activity-based. I knew we were probably going to be stuck home, which meant I need as much things possible to keep her entertained. So this is how to draw dinosaurs. And it's just a how-to drawing book. It's really cool. I liked that it wasn't super cartoony. I mean, there are some different cartoon things, but then there's like different techniques and stuff in here. And I got her a handful of the little sticker books. We love these. I normally like the little ones because they travel well. Obviously we know nobody's really traveling anywhere right now. But I still like the little ones because they're easier for her to manage. And they're a really, really great size. So we got dinosaurs, animals, zoo, aquarium, and unicorns. Now, in case you've never seen inside one of these, they're like these glossy pages which make these stickers reusable. The sticker pages are all in the back and they're perforated so they easily rip out.  So when Emily was really young, I could put the stickers on here for her and then she could pull them off of here. I also picked up a handful of the magic painting books because she loves these. So these are what I like to call intricate paint with water because you really do just need water but they're a little bit more detailed pictures. So we got animals, mermaids, narwhals and other sea creatures, and under the sea. I also got her the Usborne Write Your Own Story book. I love these because it takes you through step by step like how to write your own story. So here you have like Getting Started. It uses a mountain to illustrate how you need to draw making a character and it just takes you through step by step. We have the first one and we loved it so I went ahead and got the next step up. And then I also got her the Write Your Own Comics because I thought it would be a lot of fun. She's been asking a lot about comics and superheroes and stuff like that.  So you have the basics of comics. Then of course, giving into making your character. Then once you go through eventually, you start planning to write your own comic. Next, I got Emily the White Clean Intermediate Pack. We had the Beginning Pack last year. We really, really loved the White Clean. It makes it, especially if you have a perfectionist, it's not so daunting for them to do some of the tasks because they can just wipe it off, at least for my little perfectionist. So this specific pack included four books and they are White Clean Spelling. Let me see if I can show you some of the, I'm not sure how bad the glare is going to be since these are really glossy. And then in the back of each of these, there is the answers and kind of like a little quiz. I think, see, there's your quiz down there for when you get done and then the answers to the quiz. And this serves as like paper. I think if they needed to jot down notes or whatever. And then you have the Grammar and Punctuation. It's set up the same way. I'll just show you one of the spreads here. We have Multiplying and Dividing. And there's one more set above the Intermediate. So there's three different packs. You have like the Beginner, the Intermediate and then Advanced. I believe that's what it's called. We have the Across the USA Activity Book. So this is just fun activities. The Osworn Map Activity Book. The Osworn Museum Activity Book. And then I got Emily the two puzzles we were missing. So the Space Puzzle, we actually bought this at Christmas time last year and then we gave it. So she was like super sad. But it is a book and a puzzle. I'm going to show you the book that comes with each. The Solar System is 200 pieces and it comes with the Solar System Foldout Book. Yes, this is actually one of our favorites. Now when you buy the book by itself, it has like a hard cover on the front and the back, but this is still really sturdy and it's awesome. Emily lays it out. When she lays it on the floor, it's longer than her. But it's double sided with tons of information on the Solar System. The other one we got was the book and puzzle for the periodic table. It is a 300 piece puzzle and the book that comes with it is the all about the periodic table. I'm pretty sure I haven't compared this page to page, but it looks very similar to the periodic with the flap book that we have. You're just not getting the flaps. So maybe if you have a kiddo who loves periodic table and you can't afford both, you could get this, which would give them the information in the book and the puzzle. And that's it. That is our most recent Usborne haul. I hope you guys enjoyed this. And if you have a favorite Usborne item that you didn't see or you don't think I own, please tell me in the comments down below because I obviously need to add that to my wish list.


Hello, my name is Dr. Madeleine Delittle and I'm a psychologist and I'm presenting at the AIN conference on July the 26th and I want to tell you about what I do because it's a little bit out of the box in terms of counselling and I'm going to show you and present that and you're going to be part of that if you join me. So play therapy for adults is basically what I'm calling it and it uses creativity play and imagination to move the client away from their stuck sense of what's going on for them and we use these figurines that you can see behind me and they they get chosen by the client and they and that brings up this these stored memories that are not at conscious level and then the client can move them around and make them fit for them in the in the present. So my work then at the AIN conference will be to show you how we go with the flow it's not I don't block I allow the client to lead and I follow sometimes I might lead but only lead because I'm asking a few open-ended questions but really they're in charge of the content I'm in charge of the process but together it feels like a beautiful dance with with with both of us I change they change and it is an extraordinary powerful way of working and it's very quick changes can occur in the client's body and literally shifting the physiology of the client's body there's nothing like laughter and fun and play to really help relieve the pain of the past trauma so please join me July the 26th at the AIN conference please join me and and we can have some fun together thank you


So, do you think you're going to win? My prediction is I'm going to win on Saturday. So, I'm going to give it a really good effort and we're going to fight all day and hopefully it will be exciting no matter what. What advice do you have? So, this is what I told my focus on the pain, focus on the job you've got today. Yeah, my way of doing that is I try to make the big job and the smaller jobs and we just try to do the small jobs all day and then it's not so difficult. Does that make sense? Yeah. How did you become a runner? I started running by first playing football and then I had a really good friend that convinced me to go out for cross country. So, I started doing cross country athletics when I was about 14. So, probably a little older than you guys, huh? What's your favorite pair of shoes? My favorite pair of shoes are the Mafari EVO. So, I like them, they're pretty light, they're kind of got an aggressive tread on them and for me they're comfortable so I like them. So, what would I do? Hopefully in a fast style and not too much stopping.  Have you guys had those before? They're almost like gummy bears but they have more salt and sugar in them. How big is the cowbell? That big? It's not too big. Did you have to wear it? Yeah. Where'd you hit? Did you get a knee? I usually get my hands. It didn't hurt? No. You make me feel not so tough usually when I feel it hurts a lot and I'll lie there for a second but the race must go on, right? I like wearing tights and then probably on the top if it's not wet which I imagine from where you're from it's usually wet but I like going with breathable layers on top ideally so if I start sweating I'm still not too hot but if it's wet I'll start putting on a layer and I'll do more like a t-shirt underneath so not heavy layers underneath because I get really hot and waterproof layers. What's your advice for running in the rain? We might have to run in the rain on Saturday.  We need to make sure you wear waterproof clothes because it's a one-time water content and I was soaked really cold. I just... Okay, I'll try to avoid the cut and I think Hocus set us up with some gum here. Okay. Are you in the rain? I'm from a really dry, sunny area so I like sometimes. Yeah, I say you get your tan on at the same time. Are you going to be racing me? Yeah, I'll have to think about it first then. Yeah, maybe if you don't race and you crew for me that might be more tempting and you've got to give me a couple suggestions about what we'll think about it. Archivetrician and South Danceway 100 as long as Jim lets me win the South Danceway one. I heard... are you James? There's a James. I heard I have to tell about... Oh, James, yeah, yeah, James Elson. Yeah, he's a good runner.  I had to say a message that I'll be seeing him next year at the course.


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OK, so hello, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Nikkei Session. I'm Maoko Kotani. I'm an anchor of Nikkei Plus 10, which is a nightly business news in Japan. And I will be moderating today. Today's topic is virtues and vices of a digitally connected society. Young people spend, at average, of nine hours a day consuming media, fueling unprecedented growth for information and gaming platforms. Let me give you an example. I have a friend. She has a son that goes to junior high school. He started off playing games, online gaming. And then, as dates goes by, he started to be addicted to it. He would play the game 24-7. And eventually, he would not go to school. He would not eat. He would not bathe. So finally, he had to drop out of school. And he was transferred to another school. So I would say that would be one of the vices. And plus, that kind of situation, that kind of happens all the time everywhere around the world now, that you can say, maybe it's a social phenomenon. And online gaming is now classified as a mental health disorder by WHO. So those are the vices. Now, on the other hand, virtue. One of the virtue is that online gaming could have the potential of becoming one of the Olympic Games that is upcoming in 2024, which sounds very exciting. So today, we would like to see both side virtues and vices of the digitally connected society. Before we go on, I would like to introduce my distinguished panel. I would like to start off with you from my right. He is Mr. Jun Hee Do. I will call him Jun Hee. Yes. He's a partner and CEO of Future Play in Republic of Korea. He is South Korean leading mobile gaming accelerator. He started off as an inventor, then went on to entrepreneur. And then now, he's mostly mainly investor. Go on to his right. I would like to introduce Mr. In Shulin. Now, from now on, I'll call you Shulin. He's the CEO of Hero Entertainment, People's Republic of China. His company organized largest esports tournament in China. He was originally a gamer, a grand champion of China Cup international regatta three years in a row, starting from 2014 through 2016. So he's now a CEO, but he used to be a gamer expert. And so these two are actually the supply side of the gaming, right? So I'm not under gaming accelerator. No longer. Actually, we are not investing in the gaming industries, but we are investing to a lot of media industries, too. So maybe I'm the big supplier of that kind of thing. We'll come back to that later, OK? And let me introduce this panel to my left. He is Mr. Lee Sheldon. And I would like to call you from Sheldon, from now on. And he is a director and professor of Qinghua University for internet governance. He has contributed to many critical construction projects were implemented, such as global service platform for a national domain name system, data backup centers, analysis platform, and so on. So you know the policies of. No later. We'll talk about it. And then last but not least, Ms. Amy Ogden. And she is assistant professor of human-computer interaction from Carnegie Mellon University in the United States of America. She is young scientist specialist and has a very unique way of analyzing children's facial expression by deploying AI sensors in each classroom. We'll explain that later. Yeah, which is very exciting. So you can see whether the children is happy with AI or not, or these kind of things. So she's very professionally in that field. So to start off, I would like to go from you, Junhee. As I've explained about the virtues and vices of the digitally connected society, from your point of view, what is the virtue? What is the vice? So I think there is really hard to define the vice and butch. Vice and butch, or the digital media. So every ecosystem, they have vice and butch. So we should define what is butch. And what is vice. Sometimes this is butch for some guys, but this is vice for the other guys. So I think that, for example, you just said that the one guy, they're addicted to the gaming and their life in the real world. It's a very bad thing. I think that we have much more bad things in the real world, too. So I think that there, for example, internet or the media is kind of ecosystem. So every ecosystem, I believe that, every ecosystem has their own self-healing function. So sometimes we just see the internet or media as under the other platform. So we can control that. But I think that we cannot control that media or the internet. Can you give me an example? For example, so for example, we want to eliminate every poem in the internet. But it is impossible because they always invent some new technologies, the house spreading the poems among the audience. So they're easiest ways not just making new technologies to prohibit that, but just giving them a chance to have a self-healing function inside of the internet. So what I believe is that we cannot define the bias and the virtue of the media. But what can we do is just under helping their self-healing function inside of the media, inside of the internet. So addiction is something that can be solved anyway. So for example, the cigarette.  But if the guys, they are taking a cigarette and they can feel the real happiness, we cannot prohibit that. It's the history. So after we spreading the ideas that, hey, biologically, cigarette is so bad for your body, then the smoking ratio is dramatically decreased in every OECD country. So I think that it's a very nice example. So we cannot make some regulation. But we can help ourselves to make our self-healing function inside of the ecosystem. OK. We'll talk about the ecosystem later on. And what about you, Shilin? What is the virtue and vice of the digitally connected world? So just now, I think we heard some negative aspects. Zhong He linked the gaming to cigarette. I don't think it's a very appropriate analogy. 20 years ago, it was not a game. It was reading. It could be music. It could be sports, an athletic item. 20 years ago, all the excellent commercial product, the core objective is to set up stickiness with the consumers. That's a property of the commercial world, from Coke to LV, handbag to smartphone, Apple smartphone. And their main objective is to set up stickiness with the consumers. So actually, commerce in nature is for users to come back repeatedly to buy. So we talked about 10 years ago, we got to see young people. Due to basketball, they may drop out of school. 20 years ago, there could be young kids. Due to plays or reading novels, 24 by 7, they may stay at home refusing to go to school. And in human history, these kind of things are happening always. So gaming in this era posed challenges to many people. People say that they are addicting to young people. Don't forget. Gaming is also addicting for adults. And to look more deeply, for young kids or for adults, they bring happiness, joy as well. After all, we have such a large market. The peers are mainly adults. This is a high premium industry. Youngsters, they cannot pay their premium for gaming many times. Therefore, I think regarding gaming, in today's era, it's something new. And that fails to get the acceptance of many people. That's it. How? OK, I would like to go back to your school days. OK. You majored in, what was it? You majored in something geographic. Geographic faculty back in university. I wouldn't like to use the word dropout. But I dropped out. I dropped out. I would say most of the genius people in IT world, they do withdraw from their universities. But then from then on, you've launched your own company. You're so successful in it. Now, but before that, you were gamer.  And how did you get out of the addiction, if you were? Firstly, I really got addicted indeed in gaming. At least I know what I want. I don't think there is such a process. I still play games. I enjoy playing games. This is a hobby. And it's still in my heart. If addiction is 100, I think it's been at 50 in my heart. I love playing games. So I think this is true for most of the users. You may like a thing, but would you give up your other things for the sake of playing games or for the sake of your hobby? I don't think so. Some people prefer fishing, but he may also spend time to accompany their family at weekends. This is not in conflict. I think playing games is simply a hobby. There might be bad parents. They may fish all day and they want to accompany their kids. This is called addiction. But if it's simply a hobby, it's not something to be worried. They may only spend two hours fishing at weekends. Different persons may have their own way of doing things. But for online games, sometimes we only look at the extreme cases. But these extreme cases should not be viewed as a general situation. It's just like in the United States, like marijuana is illegal in many states of the United States because the government believes that people can regulate themselves. But in other countries, marijuana is illegal because the government is afraid that it may affect people's health. So Amy, I would like to go back to you. I would like you to address your version and vice of digital connected society. But have you gotten some ideas from these two gentlemen here? Yes, absolutely. And speaking as one of the young scientists, I would love to bring some of the research into the conversation as well. And so from the work that we know about today, there are many virtues of being connected, of playing games, of engaging in the types of media that children are exposed to today. Could you explain a little bit about how you deploy the sensors in the classroom and what you actually earn from that? Yes, certainly. So in one of my projects in my lab at Carnegie Mellon, what we're doing is actually working to get people off of screens. So one of the reasons that in educational technology, we often like to have people on screens is because we can collect a lot of data about what they're doing. And in that way, provide them with adaptive learning opportunities.  And then we can process all of that data and use it to drive the learning experience. One of my projects is working on moving children off of screens and instead putting sensors in the environment so that we can collect a lot of information about what's happening during the learning experience and then provide it back to the instructor in order to help them change their practice, improve things for children, engage them in new learning opportunities in the physical world. How do you deploy the sensors? So what we do is integrate them into the fabric of the classroom. We put cameras and microphones on the walls. And we use artificial intelligence to process all sorts of things about the classroom scene. So body positions, who's standing, who's sitting, whether the teacher is looking at the board and ignoring the children or actually engaging and being warm and building relationships, where the teacher is walking throughout the class. And we can also look and see whether children are engaged, bored, frustrated, confused, and at what points in time. And in that way, we're actually able to help the students but also the teacher guide the experiences that they have. And so this is something that can be done in a classroom by physically instrumenting the space. But of course, we can also do it with devices as well.  Are they confused and they might need some support? Are they getting frustrated and angry with the experience? And so one of the things that we know is that detecting these emotional states is really critical to be able to provide the best opportunities and learning experiences for children but also could be used to detect things like where hobbies might turn to addiction to understand whether children are getting too engaged and involved and overwhelmed, blocking out the rest of their surroundings and only focusing on the media. So I guess with the school, in our school, you can actually earn big data. Yes. Of those children that may turn out to be addicted to some certain, I don't know, whatever that pops up on the screen. Yes, so this is not something we have applied our technology to yet, but absolutely, that's one of the potentials for this type of experience that you might have is sort of a detection or warning system. And so we really take care, I think, was already mentioned to make sure that there's a whole ecosystem around children involving their parents, their teachers, and others who can support them in making good decisions around media use. Well, obviously, teachers are gonna have hard time because their behaviors are watched as well, not only the children, right? Yes, they are as well. And in fact, that's one of our goals is to make professional development for teachers and ongoing regular practice so that they also can utilize this data and make sure that they're striving constantly to improve the experience for our children. I see. Okay, on to you, Sheldon. You've listened to the people from there in the digital industry, as well as he was a gamer, so he knows both sides of addiction as a gamer and supply side. And she... That is why he's very successful. Yeah, yeah, yeah, really. And well, so is Junhee. I mean, he's amazing. You were a gamer, too, before you invented? I'm just an inventor. You're just an inventor in the market. Yeah, because he's really impressive Try to make sure you're not addiction. Yeah, he's got a beautiful daughter, right? Anyway, so yeah, he was an inventor and what is so amazing is that he invented and he launched his company, so he was an entrepreneur, but then after six years, Intel acquired his company. And ever since, for a while, it was only for like two years, but he was with Intel and he was taking the lead of where to invest, which startups to invest. So now he's on his own, which is exciting. I'm going to come back to you later. Okay, so anyway, these amazing people that is actually doing analyze, providing, used to play games. Now, from your perspective, you know very much of a policy on those sides and what are the virtues and vices that you can think of from your perspective? I think it's, I don't know more about policy, but I do policy research, because you know, also my phone background is computer science, I'm a technical guy. But now I'm getting so many policy research matters because I think we need that. Just as you mentioned that Junhei is very successful to have others to be more successful, right? And I think Shuling is very successful to be a gamer, but now I hope that this year your company can be public. Yeah, so it will be very successful. And Amy is a professor to do a lot of research. I think it's very good, but how to make sure everybody can work together, right? So what kind of model we need to use to improve the state of the digital world and how to make sure that the digital world can give benefit for the human being? Yeah, I think it's a, we have a lot of discussion about the hobby or addiction. I think, you know, the internet is only birthed in 1970s and be popular in something to be major in 1980s and 90s, to be popular in the 21st century. I think everybody here, including the kid and the adult and elder person, all of the persons are kids. If we face the digital world, because the internet is a new science, I think the game is based on that. So that means everybody needs to learn how to face the new science, how to attract the different kind of information, even for the gaming information, how to make sure you can serve comfort. Is it like a digital divide sort of thing? It's not digital divide. I think it's because we cannot ignore the word to be the digital world. It's a new era. So that means if we cannot change that, just adopt that, right? If you want to adopt a digital world, that means everybody needs to learn how to face that. I think it's just a mention. Even basketball, it's a hobby or maybe it's addiction, right? So not only for games, because gaming is a fresh new thing, there are so many people who don't know how to face that. If you adopt that but make it to be a hobby, but so many people will fall in love with that, right? So they cannot adopt that. But we need to educate the people. Just like we educate our kids, right? Our kids don't know how to eat, how to play, how to learn. You need to educate them how to get more food, how to get more, you know, just like the books, the knowledge. So they need more educate. So are you saying the vices are that you have to lead more of the people come into this digital society and have them share all of those? I mean, we lack of the knowledge how to help the people to adopt a new world. New world. I think Juhi has an idea. Yeah, maybe. So I think that education can be made inside of their internet. So it's a very weird idea, but I just said that they're self-healing. Self-healing means that if we found some problems inside of one ecosystem, inside of that ecosystem, we can find the solutions too. So for example, the YouTube. So I have under the six years' dollar, she always is digging to the YouTube to find very nice videos there using her iPad. Sometimes she stopped using the YouTube application because why she found some videos related to their YouTube-looking education. So it's better to just send their looking YouTube through the within the 15 minutes that the video taught to her. So I think that our way to go to the future is just providing that type of their intrinsic, their education system inside of the media, inside of their internet. So I think that in the near future, it's very hard to differentiate the real world to the virtual world. For example, AR, augmented reality, is a technology coming up. So now we think that the gaming, as under just the objective things, that gaming is the one ingredient, one component of the real world. But in the near future, they're using augmented reality. For example, gaming or seeing email or seeing the YouTube video is combined to real world behaviors. Don't you try to take the iPad away from your daughter? So you mean... In case that she might turn out to be addicted to it. I think that it's really hard to define their addiction. So I think that the better way to get out of there, the iPad from my daughter, is just giving something, the more, the funnier things. They're going to hiking with me or they're giving some food or something, some toys. So I think the parents should know that if your children have got some addictions on the YouTube or the videos or the gaming, that you are the toxic parents. You are not giving them a better place, better their experience than their internet.  So yeah. I think you are very much professional. You are aware of... You can draw the line. This could be addiction. So that's the key. Yeah. So how much time is there? How we can define the addiction? So they're just turned to seeing the YouTube. They're the one hour addiction or 10 hours addiction. So as researchers, like Mrs. Ogan can define that, the guidelines or there's something like that. So it's maybe the AI can learn about their child's behaviors and pair the guidelines to their parents. Hey, I think that your babies now seem to be... Yeah. To be hardcore. So then the parents can do that. So we can build some inventions to solve this problem. Right. That's what I think. So what do you think of this inclusion? I think it's... I thought I had one of you. Oh, would you like to present? Let's give one comment on that. You know, I asked my daughter to play the iPad since one years old. Yeah. One year? Yeah, one years old. And even two years old and three years old he can see so many videos on YouTube. You know YouTube. It's you cool. You know YouTube. So I think the key point is not stop the kids to use that. It cannot be isolated. You just tell him and tell her what kind of things you can use and when you can use that. To make sure that our kids have two daughters. Ask my two daughters know how to do the self-control since they are kids. Yeah. That's the point. Yes. I think Amy, you've actually learned over the time that when to see those children growing up and more they're into games they grow up in a certain way. And how did you define that? Oh, yes. So we were talking earlier about actually some of what are the actual virtues of being engaged in gaming in the digital world. And some of the things that we were talking about from the research are the ability of games to close gender gaps, for instance. So research in the United States shows that girls have on average lower spatial reasoning skills than boys. Fortunately with further research we are able to show that these are not genetic differences but that instead a short period of time in playing games and particularly games with a first-person perspective where you're running around and navigating maps are able to eradicate the differences in spatial reasoning entirely between adult women and men. We're also talking about some of the research showing that surgeons who played a lot of video games as children actually have improved hand-eye coordination and are better able to engage in delicate, difficult motions in surgery than those who did not play games as children. And so we're actually seeing many of these positive effects as we age in how they affect our brains and our actions as adults based on the activities that we played as children. How can online gaming affect the brain like becoming a good surgeon? What do you think? Actually you see that there are lots of prejudices against gaming in this world. You call it a devil, addiction, deprivation of people's sleep, deprivation of people's learning opportunities, or you call it something very positive. You can train a surgeon to become a better surgeon in operations. Actually in the real digital world from an active entrepreneur's perspective we have our mission. We have a sense of reasonable possibility. Currently the education is lagging behind the development of IT in different Chinese schools including in some American schools in communicating with the students I realized that about 60 to 70% of the knowledge they are learning, they are gaining, they are pertaining has got no value, no significance in the future world after their graduation there is a possibility, there is a likelihood. Anyway, fundamental elementary education is a pushing force for society, physics, chemistry they are very important the cornerstones of science. However, the internet has resolved issues once you need to learn but the internet has offered the solutions already for example you have to memorize lots of things once, but now we realize that the outstanding technologies can make up for our memories already. Now we need to emphasize more your thinking capabilities and however our educational system is still emphasizing memorization actually our education should emphasize learning of the fundamentals but this something still missing in our educational system we emphasize learning in silos and in the growth process of many kids they do not know the principle suggested by Newton, by Einstein but with the development of the IT in making judgment at the fundamental level we need to base our judgment on the fundamental principles but we are learning so many things at the top level but this top level knowledge is being replaced by the internet therefore from our perspective regarding the internet you may feel it is a devil sometimes you think you may turn it into an angel it is not a devil it is in the process of human development it's a new communication means and a platform it is enhancing our efficiency let me give you a very simple example in reading news once our habit was to turn to newspapers magazines or journals but in the past five years we saw a very interesting transition already once we were reading we were readers of books we read words but now the common means of reading is short video clips or short video streams so in the same unit of time accept your contact with knowledge, information you got better intensity actually and so the conventional way of learning and today's way of learning we see major transformation in the future we will see a lot of changes already into startups do you have that kind of philosophy in you? sure I'm 100% 100% because we are now in the changing situation so as I told the literacy changed to the video I met the guy, the high school guy he wrote some AI course so AI programmer so I just said how you can learn about AI he just answered me you too it's much easier to get some information rather than the words you go on to the streaming so I think that the human brain is now evolving together with the internet I'd like to call that co-evolution so we evolve the internet and internet also evolve our brain so we are now co-evolved together so for example even me it's really hard to read their text but it's much easier to just see the video clips how to do that but I think that in the near future the video should be evolved to the other form for example the augmented reality can overlay some videos for the real thing at that time we do not need to just type in the poor text so if you find there is some way how to use this bottle then you should type in how to use this bottle but using the augmented reality you just seeing this bottle then you can see how to use this bottle so it's kind of the co-evolution it's the final form of the merging the human brain to the internet or something like that that's my belief I think that updated with the AR augmented reality have you have you invented anything else further so my former company was the AR company so as you know for example the Facebook the face tagging so once we should type in the names everybody's names but now the AI of the Facebook can recognize your face at once so we did that yes I'd just like to differ from my colleagues a little bit in thinking that creating videos are now transforming the way we interact and learn the research shows that this is really no different from print and reading in books if you are a highly motivated self-sufficient learner who has the prior knowledge and the capability to go watch a video and gain something out of it that works for you but it doesn't lead to an equitable future where all children have the ability to gain from these experiences and so what really supports children this is not saying that this is a vice but it's amplifying what's currently happening in traditional education and so the way that we can use technology to transform the future to a more positive one is to create experiences that are social and connected interactive and constructive where children are actually engaging in activities in using what they know in trying exercises and trying them with their peers with adults and those are the experiences online that actually lead to the virtues of a digitally connected society you were agreeing do you think that's possible though I mean digital world is only by it's within that world and by connecting with the society maybe using AR that might become possible but would you like to talk about this would it be possible in this land there's industry industry more of a regulated so professor I think is a different kind of views so you know I want to first point I want to say that we don't need to be scared for the digital world and don't need to make the digital world to be a different world it's no difference theoretically our brain we didn't get data from eye, nose skin and the data will be used to merge into information and information will be used for computing to be the knowledge the knowledge will improve our smart and the intelligence so I think for the procedure there's no difference if you what kind of data and information you get you may get information from the book from the video from TV or from internet or future AR VR so that may be very fantastic ways for you to get more data and more information but for your brain we are human being, we are not a computer so if there's so many data so many information for you you cannot justify what kind of data is useful that's why there's so many people get involved in the game to be some addiction on that so because it cannot justify what kind of data should be used for himself so I agree with that we need to know how to learn even give an interactive video so you don't know how to learn and that's not enough so Shuin, how did you learn because first of all I learned from a game the game is okay the game is very good for education I think it's very very good to us because now as a CEO he's socializing without there, whatever but then started off as a gamer which will be totally a digital world now I know there's a huge contrast to and how did you balance those how is there any way that you can give an advice to children out there that might be addicted to it now but eventually they would have to grow up I think if a kid is addicted to a game we will first look at the percentage of this kid this is very important so in a country if there's a high percentage of kids playing games there might be two factors that would be important the first family education and the second is social education if the younger generation in a country is higher than the other country I think we don't need to look at the individual cases we need to look at the general situation people might do many extreme things because of his hobby but this is only individual cases but we need to look at the overall percentage and just now everyone is saying that we have both pros and cons so I think this percentage is very important if there is a very high percentage this means that there is a problem with the family education kids who love the KFC and McDonald's and also lower than the young kids love cigarettes I think I think we still need to look at how they control themselves and how much time they spend on this matter I emphasise that whether it's a McDonald's, a KFC a family education and social education are the most important factor for the influence of online games to the kids so if I have a very fulfilling life in real world then I don't think there will be a big impact of online games on me first of all I love playing games I admit I spend a lot of time playing games however I also spend equal time to get education so I'm very happy that my school gave me proper education and my teachers also offered a great deal of help so I can get interested in what I learn when I was younger I thought education was not boring I was willing to learn despite a lot of time spent on playing games I know this would be a problem if I get addicted but this kind of playing games didn't affect my ability to get knowledge I would like to come back to you Sheldon regulations is it necessary and what sort of regulation I need it especially for game for addiction I don't want to speak how to make policy directly I think in the future there is very important three players here one is the industry by entrepreneurs one is gamma and one is the academia professors so I don't want the entrepreneurs to take more social responsibilities the main responsibility is to to push the world the economy and for the government in the government need to take more responsibilities and to give more policy make more policy to support the industry but also support the public interest academia professors need to give more suggestions to analyze the problem and give more policy recognition to the government and also work together with the industry to find the problem and give them suggestions I don't mean every stakeholders need to 100% do their role I don't want don't take the responsibility for social good but we didn't know the main responsibility my suggestion is the different stakeholders need to work together and we need to educate the kids we need to push the new technologies to benefit for the human being and also we need to educate the government officials to know there is a future so then the key point is the model is to make sure the multi-stay holders can really work together to make the policy and make sure that necessary technology can support the policy department I think that would be better for us to face the new digital world okay Junhee I would like to we don't have much time but we would like to go to the future of this digitally connected society and I'm sure you're optimistic yes and how do you see how do you visualize something that we can't see yet the ways to evolve to the future technologies let me think about the PC so we cannot see our emails when you're in the meeting room we should go back to the PC room and check my emails now we can do that everywhere because of the smartphone so that's why it's not because of the technology it's because of our desire we are now connected to the others every time so that's why the smartphone is so popular among us so I believe that sooner or later the technology will provide much better the tools for us to connect it to each other so maybe that occurs some situation that is very hard to differentiate the real world to the virtual world just on giving some information overweight on the real information that virtual information is belong to the real world so I think there is time to think about how to manage this situation now we think that we can install some filter on the internet servers or your smartphones that we can prevent their addictions that's our belief but when we face the future the near future I think within 10 years we are facing some mixture of the virtual and the real world so how can we handle this someone think that I want to use some virtual world some ingredients, the features to enhancing my real world experience so who decided that is kind of addiction so I think that we should talk about with the academia guys or the government guys the dealing about this situation for example the IOT so we have some NFC tag on their existing real physical things connecting them to the internet already it just started so it will be great now that we are just thinking about their internet or mobile or gaming as under the ingredients as a part of the real world but I think there is very equivalent world we have a two world we belong to both of the world so we should make some common sense on this situation it's hard to imagine yet because we are now in the real world and trying to control to access to the digital world and probably it depends on each human beings that maybe some might be committing 80% of their lives to digital world maybe 20 so by you telling us that there is a combination of both and we don't know 100% both so that will be very difficult to imagine but I guess that's the future for example I'm always seeing my email client checking my email for my mom so I'm sharing my time 100% in the real world and also spending my time 100% on their internet world too but I think it's very hard to differentiate how do you see the future well I think some of the topics that have been discussed here are where we need to head so the idea that many stakeholders are involved in this issue and we need to come together Junkie mentioned the issue of guidelines and actually there have been guidelines put out for this by the American Pediatrics Association however they're not necessarily reaching the majority of parents who are intended to implement them so one other way that we might address this is to give better tool kits to understand not just how much time should be spent online but what types of activities should be done and are beneficial and what they lead to so the types of things I was talking about earlier whether an experience is social is connected is active or constructive all of these things could actually be put out should we come up with the set that we would like to see that we know lead to beneficial outcomes we could then ask industry to rate themselves on these issues and provide that information to parents so they can help make decisions for their children about what exactly what types of activities online they would like them to engage in so instead of parental control not that having industry actually rate for example like moving maybe AI can do that or we could ask the algorithms to do it but this is one thing that we need to understand is whether we're all working together towards a future in which online experiences that children have are positive ones that lead to societal benefits and good and in that way we can work together to make sure that the algorithms we build the underlying technologies are actually helping us head in that direction just like rated R, rated PG like movies right so that's what you float from the supply side I hate that part okay could you present address your future what do you say the future of digital society yeah maybe I would be much more optimised than others so the god give us a lot of present the food, water, the environment and the biggest present is the internet so internet bring us so many information it will enhance our capability for human beings but the unlucky for us is give this present too late so we need to spend a lot of time to learn how to use that but the human being is very strong I think so we can work together to learn how to deal with so many bad things and to get the better things I do believe that the digital world will improve our life and also will increase the intelligence for the whole human being so just to believe that and rely on that and trust on that I think your perspective is pretty much like Jungi that it's an ecosystem that you call or it comes in nature that the problems will be solved in the digital world from this land they never use the digital world they just use that there is a new generation and there is a young entrepreneur after the 1980s so it's a different generation 1980s 1980s it's a new generation and maybe the people my daughters totally different world they have a different knowledge Jungi was mentioning about that about your father and yourself and your daughter we are living in the same physical world and living in a different virtual world their experience is totally different and their brain is maybe totally different to reacting to their situation so your father had to think on his own right you had support of between two generations I'm in TV and I'm sure you've been watching TV a lot Netflix we were the generation that were addicted to it that's right so maybe your daughter generation will be totally internet when somebody more chips was embedded in their body you will connect the physical world with the physical world glasses lastly last but not least at the very end how do you see the future here entertainment is actually in three segments you're actually producing games and you are doing tournaments everywhere it's divided into three segments I've downloaded the records of Three Kingdom I've downloaded the Warrior Saga it's not for me it was so complicated everything just moved so fast and so I could see there is four teenagers and millennial people how do you see the future of your industry we were talking about the sense of responsibility for entrepreneurs especially for IT entrepreneurs or startup entrepreneurs in the beginning before our discussion you mentioned that by 2024 the gaming could become part of Olympic Games how it will take place depending on our industry's promotion and professionalism of gaming IT we are making a lot of money but we are not creating many job opportunities that's the biggest issue for the internet so people are worried about the internet and they do not want to have too much contacts with the internet because if you contact too much you cannot resolve your job problem you could not make more money that's why people are scared gaming if a kid loves football soccer maybe he could become a soccer player in the future if he enjoys gaming you worry what kind of job he will engage in if he loves watching a movie maybe he could be a playwright and actor but as an entrepreneur our biggest responsibility is to promote the professionalization so we can offer more job opportunities to give the younger generation so that they won't be worried about this sector it's because in the past 5 years I have been developing very quickly in my perspective it's not because 200 million viewers are watching the game so the biggest value is for many people to see the hope last month I was in Indonesia in Jakarta I was watching the Asian Games and Chinese kids were participating in Esports game and they got the gold award their parents were very excited because 10 years ago and these kids were being given up by the kids but these kids are doing something wonderful beyond the imagination promoting the professionalism professionalization of the industry will see better acceptance by the whole society maybe in the future every entrepreneur on the internet involved in IT has to think about social responsibility how they can create more jobs for more people so that people won't be pressured to think my kids are watching YouTube all the time that makes them nervous no parents would think so in the future because when I was reading my parents were not nervous in the past yeah we're running out of time I'm sorry and I can see the bright side now and I would just like to share with you according to survey Esports observers were overall 320 million people in 2016 and potentially increased up to 590 million people in 2020 so thank you very much and thank you all audience for joining us please give them a big hand thank you so much


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Welcome to the private property podcast. I'm the brand new host of the show, Sibs Matiella, and we're here to talk all things property. Today on the show, we'll be discussing how to secure a luxury property in the current economy. I know, right? With the managing director of legendary investment properties, Nazreen Moosa. But before we get to our guests today, I must tell you, all roads lead to the property show. This year, we're back. In real life and virtual, with content generated in our metaverse studio, we've designed the exhibition space to replicate the world's most popular property game and added in activities for the whole family, including an indoor park and play area. The game board is divided into four journeys, namely, first time homebuyer's Boulevard, investment avenue, Sellers Street and Renters Road. Visit thepropertyshow.co.za for more information and to get your tickets today. The property show 2022, 27th to the 28th of August at the Santan Convention Center. 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Legendary Investment Properties is actually a development property that was curated for a particular lifestyle. Legendary investments brings you opulence while offering you the international trends that you aspire to have in your homes. So we don't just build homes, we build dreams and we create the dream home for you that other countries have. So we look at the trends overseas and we bring it to the homes that are here and we give you the home of your dream. Nazreen, would you mind elaborating for me on what exactly you offer? Like what kind of investments do you offer? Here I am imagining the softest life living in my dream home and I come to you. What is it that you have to offer me? The homes that I offer is of plan. So I would offer you a home that other developers don't really offer you. That'd be something different that speaks to you and your personality that calls you and says, oh my God, this is it, this is it. Those are the type of homes that I offer you and investments that I offer you. So for example, 19 on Torquay for a person that's like a loving wine, I offer a wine seller. For a person that loves, you know, that has kids and loves watching movies with their kids and spending time with their kids, I offer a movie theater. So there are different aspects that I offer to different homes that speak to you. And for the person that likes simply entertaining, I offer conversation parts and outside entertainment area with a bright area and simply being able to enjoy your home is what I offer you. You know, I hear what you're saying and it all sounds wonderful. But I mean, given the current economic climate, it all sounds very luxurious and very perhaps out of the budget. So I do need to ask you, is luxury property now a trend? You know, what exactly is it? What would define luxury property? And are we seeing, you know, an upward trend? Oh, absolutely. You know, we have the same beauties in the eye of the beholder. In the same way, luxury is in the eye of the beholder. So what I may define as luxury may not be the same thing you define as luxury. For example, you may find having a his and her dressing room a luxury. I know for me, it's definitely a luxury. I like my privacy, I like my space for dressing and I definitely do not want my spouse in the room while I'm dressing, hurrying me up or wanting to be in front of the mirror or something like that. So for me, that's my luxury. For you, it may be something else and it is a trend. It's a trend that's increasing and that it's increasing. And if you have a luxury home in a prime location, it's fantastic because all it does is it increases your price of the house when you sell it. I think what's really surprising to me is that you're describing these sort of magnificent aspirational features. I mean, everyone wants a bespoke home, right? Everyone wants to live in a place and move into a place that is made, especially for their needs and their wants. But we've just come out of a pandemic. We're still in it, actually. I hate to say we've come out of it because the effects of COVID-19 are still very much with us in 2022. So given the current economic atmosphere, how would you compare now this upward trend of people investing in luxury properties compared to previous years? With COVID, a lot of people have spent on bigger houses because they want a house that offers them an office. They want space for their children to run around in. And with COVID, the market has increased. The lecture market has increased. And with today's times being what it is, I mean, South Africa is the top five in inflation. China's leading the way with the lowest inflation rate. We look at UK, we look at the USA, and we look at Europe. And their inflation rates are absolutely off the charts. UK and USA is at 9.1%. The UK has had to increase their interest rate to 1.25%. The USA has increased it from 1% to 1.75%. And both these countries are expected to increase their interest rate. So yes, our interest rate is going to increase, but we are living in a time where we're getting value for money wherever you are. A lot of people have been investing in South Africa. We've been seeing from 80% being South Africans in this country, South African residents, to 60% being South African residents, and 40% being non-South African residents. These 40% comprised of Ukrainian, Russians, Germans, as well as the British and Europeans. So we are seeing people moving down to South Africa and wanting to live here. And with COVID making us work from home, we're seeing a trend that a lot of people are cutting down on office spaces and using that money instead to pay extra staff. And with that happening, we're seeing commercial buildings not doing so well, but instead the luxury market doing very, very well. So for us in South Africa, now is the best time to buy luxury property. I was doing an exercise where I took a million pounds and I put it into the bank of London. And I made a loss of, looking at that million pounds next year, I made a loss of 28,500 pounds. I did the same thing, taking a million rand, converting it to pounds and putting it in Britain. And I made a loss of 78,500 rand. But then I took the same million rand and I put it into a bank in South Africa and I made a profit of 103,500 rand. But with the interest rates increasing, with inflation going off the roots in all these different countries, South Africa is the best country to actually invest in, especially your residential, your luxury residential markets, I should say. I'm hearing what you're saying. And I think you're totally right. We have seen a trend in sort of, I mean, COVID necessitated for a lot of us to work from home and stay at home and do a lot of things in the home environment. And I think it really gave people an opportunity to sort of look at their surroundings and think what can I do to optimize this space to meet my immediate needs and also to make it a place of pleasure for me, a place of relaxation, a place of serenity, for family, for growth. So I see why the move towards enhancing your home space and entering this market would have been, you know, the, I suppose natural thing to gravitate towards. And you've touched on it a little bit, but I do want to ask you Nazreen, what would you say the benefits would be of investing in these luxury properties right now in South Africa? And I asked this with, you know, we're speaking about bespoke properties right now, creating something that is uniquely for you and your needs and your wants. So I understand sort of investing and doing so in an area that is, you know, perhaps it will grow in value, but you're not really investing in this home right now with the intention to sort of sell it off or flip it. Do you know what I mean? So I'm curious as to what you would identify as being the benefits right now of investing in these luxury homes. Well, one of the benefits is we have our kids come in at the end of the day from school. Well, I shouldn't say the end of the day, but the end of the school time. And working from home, you want your privacy whilst you're in a meeting. You don't want a little, you know, five-year-old walking into a meeting and saying, mommy, mommy, mommy, can I have this? Or daddy, daddy, daddy, can we do this? You want your privacy away from them. So the benefit is you'd be able to work in peace whilst you're in there. I know with me, I simply close the door and she knows, okay, mommy's in a meeting right now, you can't go in there. The benefits of it is you're able to enjoy your home more.  So we're having to spend more and more time in the house. And you want to enjoy the home that you have, this home that talks to you, the bespoke home that talks to you. The investment, I mean, we're not gonna sell our property right now. That's obviously a given. I mean, you've just bought this amazing house. Who would wanna sell it right now? But you wanna make the best of the bespoke home in having things that you enjoy around you. I mean, when we buy clothes, do we just buy clothes off the rack because we need that, you know? We buy something that we enjoy. We buy something that we enjoy using, whether it's a pajama, whether it's a top, whether it's jeans or anything for that matter. I think a lot goes into sort of investing in the stream home, finding the right builders, finding the right vendors, finding the right lights, trying to make it green and eco-friendly. There's so many things to consider when working towards this goal. So what would you give, what sort of fundamental advice would you give to someone who's investing in property? The first thing I would ask them is if they've got offspring. Because if they've got children, location is absolutely important. To be near the schools is really something that everyone wants. Because whilst you're working, you want to maximize your time.  So location is the most important thing. I would say, if they're downsizing, I would say to look at what criteria they, why are you selling your current home? And from there, move forward to decide what you need in your next home. If you're looking at a retirement home, what are you looking for? You wanna slow down the pace of your life in comparison to what it was before. I mean, the hustle, the bustle that we go through in everyday life. So I would suggest then looking at areas that have, you know, you can walk to the beach or you can walk to Kirstenbosch Gardens and just simply relax there. And if you like hiking, being near nature, that's definitely what I would suggest. So that fundamental rule, it seems, has not changed. Location, location, location. Everything's about location. I think if I get one next to the nearest bar, that would be fine. Listen, I love the fact that you mentioned downscaling and people, because obviously, you know, circumstances have changed. The economic climate is doing what it's doing. People have to downscale, people have to downsize. You know, older people have to move into retirement villages and retirement homes. I'm so glad you touched on that because you'll find that a lot of those people might feel as though they are priced out of the market or that there aren't necessarily products geared towards whatever their needs are, whatever phase and time they are in their lives. I'm curious as to what clients are usually seeking from you and your company when they come to you? Most of the time, I've got two different companies. I should mention that to you. Okay. So Capital Wide Pty Ltd is the other company that I have with another partner in which I'm an active partner as well. So I may not be running it in the sense of being, you know, the face of it, but I am part of it, you know, in the design process, in the building processes, in the payment processes, in the choosing of the finishes, the, you know, every part of it. So Capital Wide looks at that aspect of it. When you want to downscale, you would come to Capital Wide and you would be looking at that. So we look at the medium-scaled markets, you know, people want to downscale because they can't afford their homes anymore. So they would come to Capital Wide and they would buy off plan a home that suits their needs. It may not be a bespoke home, but it's a home that we can cater to and that we can change or do small changes that they require in that home. For legendary investments, it's more the high-end market, you know, people moving from Johannesburg to here to, you know, retire, and let's admit it, if you're in Johannesburg, you're making more money than you are in Cape Town. Yes, that's why we moved here to begin with. Yes, so if you're moving here, you want to be in Camps Bay or Sea Point, you know, to enjoy that atmosphere. So legendary investments is all about that area as well as upper clear mountains. It's more about the expensive areas and prime location. I've got you. Listen, what do you think the luxury property market is going to look like in the next five years? I know there's a lot going on right now. I know people are trying to rearrange their finances and their investments and, you know, their portfolios and trying to diversify in ways that are safe, given the turns and the dumbbells that we've taken in the last sort of two years. When you look at this market, what do you think is going to happen in the next five years? It's growing. It definitely is. But it's to a selective clientele. So whilst people may think, OK, Camps Bay is like way out of my reach or hen and chicken in upper clear mountains, way out of my reach, it is growing. As long as the price, the asking price, marries the value of the property, it is being sold. That essentially is what's happening. In the next five years, we're looking at changes in not just our portfolios or in the luxury market. We're looking at things like smart blocks being added to our homes, definitely, because 8.9 million units were sold in the year 2020. And they actually said 20.4% is the increase in it that they're expecting compounded annually. Of this 8.9 million units, 65% was actually sold to residential homes. Artificial intelligence is becoming something that every home wants to have. At this moment in time, 14.7% of the homes have it. By the year 2028, they forecast that 93% of the homes in the world are going to be having artificial intelligence. But would you say that this is the direction in which legendary property investments is heading? Yes, it is. It is heading in this way. Those are things I want to bring to the market because I haven't seen it yet. In any of the developers' specs at the moment, maybe in Johannesburg, but I'm not cleared up on the Johannesburg market. I'm cleared up more on the Cape Town market. And having smart ovens, lighting, technical devices, those are things that we want because often what we want being a mother and being a business woman in two different companies, I look at my daughter's needs and what do I want her to have at the end of the day is a healthy meal. So I want to buy a smart oven and that is what I am going to install in my home because that essentially meets the needs and criteria that I have for myself. But we are going to be seeing this because it makes our lives very, very easy in the future. At this point in time, you're getting the vacuum cleaners that are robotic so you don't even need your domestic to plug in your vacuum and start vacuuming your house. I definitely hear you, Nazreen, and it sounds like a lot of exciting things are on the horizon, both for the property market and for legendary investment properties. That is Nazreen Rusa, the Managing Director of Legendary Investment Properties. Thank you so much for joining us this evening and you've given us a lot of food for thought. I'm definitely into this AI direction we're headed in. So I hope to speak to you soon about more of that. Definitely. And one of the things I should mention is now is the time to invest in solar. It may sound expensive at the moment, but in the long run with the power cuts and the shortages of power, it will pay off. We're seeing even in the USA, they had a six hour power cut in San Francisco. In the UK, the prices of gas has gone up tremendously that during the winter months, no one actually applied the gas heater or switched on the gas heater for fear of the gas balls. So my advice at this moment to end the program is solar panels all the way. 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