This is getting really, really close to kind of what we call a blow off top, not a blow off top that the market's going to go back to its pandemic lows, just a blow off top that it's going to catch a lot of people with their pants underneath their ankles. Welcome to Access a Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability, and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process, and own your future. Hey guys, good evening everybody. Welcome to another edition of the AccessTrader.com Nightly Wrap Up Show. Usually I'm off on Thursdays, but since my daughter had a soccer game on Tuesday, I didn't get a chance to record there. I figured, you know, let me share my thoughts kind of where I think is going on. Number one, first of all, last night, if you watched the video last night, we knew we were going to get a lot of value today. And the reason why we knew that, there was a lot of names that were consolidating on the bottom ranges or consolidating their really big moves that haven't really taken part in their second stage. So I kind of knew that. Second thing we kind of knew, the market is still in very, very big speculation money mode. People are chasing stocks left and right. But what we saw today, you really kind of caught my attention. And what I'll talk about in a few minutes, kind of is a little bit more of a cautious approach kind of going into tomorrow.   Usually it's associated with some small, smaller float stock that has just, you know, just gotten absolutely nuts. And there's no rhyme or reason behind it. And you can, you know, you can blame whatever outside forces what's happening with the name. But usually it's regulated to that, you know, to that one name that nobody's heard. You know, we're at the point right now, since we've reclaimed the 50 day moving average on the cues, that it all started out very innocently. You know, stocks started getting pulled up one by one. Earnings and tech names have, you know, been very, very good. Even when they missed their numbers, quote unquote, on the surface after hours, they reversed course and start going higher. And we're at the point right now that we are now 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 days. That's nearly three weeks, right? 14 calendar days, but of four, you know, nearly three weeks of trading that we've gotten straight up. And what I've seen today, what I saw yesterday that we saw the day before, this is getting really, really close to kind of what we call a blow off top.  I'll buy the stock at any given price. The market will make me whole. Maybe you will, maybe we won't.  And again, if you were watching this broadcast, I try to remove names from the top, right? I try to remove names that have been running for five, six days in a row. Of course, I'll buy them on dips. And of course, I'll watch for sneaky channels, especially pre-market, that you could take advantage of a sneaky pivot. But the last thing I'll do is like chase, or I don't want to use the word chase, but buy and attack the top of the channel after a four, five, six day run.  It's getting really, really tough now to find those names coming off the bottom, which basically means that we are really, really long in the tooth as far as an aggressive move. And again, I don't know about you. And again, I could only speak for myself. If you're a believer that the cues are going to go to 416, to this measure potential move to the linear aggression line, maybe they do. Okay, maybe I do. And I might be a day wrong, kind of getting a little bit more conservative going into tomorrow, but based on what I saw today on phenomenal moves, and we'll get to the pivots in a second, epic, epic moves, right? Epic moves. Google, Google, Nvidia, Amazon, Amazon was just a monster today. Tesla, Tesla up 16 is the new rate, right? That's how strong this market is. So when you see these parabolic moves chart after chart after chart after chart, and you say to yourself, well, where's the meat left in this bone? At least for me, again, I can always speak for myself. This is only my opinion. Like I've always said in my course of thinking, I rather be a day early, right? A day early and miss the next training day or at least miss the bolt of the next trading day than be a day late and get run over by that train that you see coming. You just kind of look away. But you see it coming. You see the light coming. You see the tunnel coming. You see everything coming.    You know what? I'll stay on the tracks for one more minute. Maybe it'll stop. It doesn't work that way. So I went through a lot of charts today this afternoon. I think the market is still very, very strong. I do believe you still can find some really good pockets of strength to take advantage of. But when you start looking at names like the video, I mean, ridiculous, and what Amazon did today, although it's not near parabolic, and today's candle basically took out three days worth of selling, including earnings. When you talk about Tesla and, I mean, Tesla, I mean, look at this move. I mean, just absolutely insane Google today had a really, really strong move as well. But when you start looking at semiconductors and cloud names and a lot of different bios and this, that, and the third, you start looking and you say, well, damn it, where the hell is the meat on this bone? And I think tomorrow is Friday. I still like some names. I went through some charts. I definitely like some names. And maybe Google reclaims the top of the supply zone, maybe gets a second wave up. Okay. I like Google. I'm watching Google. Maybe if Amazon, because again, these are not extended names yet, right? Maybe if Amazon clears off this ball in German, maybe it has one more day. Okay, fine. Cool. And again, you could do a lot of damage with Amazon and Google being on your focal list like we had today. But again, you start looking at a lot of names that usually I wouldn't, you know, really watch. Okay. But they're starting to look pretty good. I mean, Lucid is still getting a lot of call buying, right? A lot of call buying three days in a row of higher highs, higher lows off the five-day moving average. And listen, maybe if it starts taking out this linear regression line, you know, and some good option flow comes in. Okay. I could get my attention. A name like CERS had a really, really big move yesterday, you know, relaxed today, maybe goes one more day twice, maybe gets a third day. Okay. It's definitely warranted my attention. Even a name like Land Research, right?  It's not exactly the easiest stock to trade, but at least you can see it's attempting to come out of a range, right? You can definitely see the potential on the off coming off the bottom. So when you look at Tesla and NVIDIA and, you know, you know, names like that, it's very tough, right? Very, very tough. Maybe into dips into rising 60 minutes support. Again, ridiculous amount of call buying still coming into the name. But as I've always said, be safe. And then sorry. So again, if there is a pull in the market, again, I'm not saying the will. Again, I'm just trying to be more conscious, right? Be more conscious of kind of how many charts I saw to have this value versus how many charts are overextended. So I'm kind of being a little bit more prudent going into tomorrow's session, although I am still, you know, still by bias. You know, there are names we could definitely take advantage of the outside. I mean, Netflix had a nasty reversal today and lost the 10-day moving average. If you have, if you've been watching this broadcast, you know the 10-day moving average is the birth of the trade to the upside. Well, if it confirms to the downside, well, it's the birth of the trade to the downside. Roku, you know, had a nasty move on earnings, okay? Maybe earning, maybe this thing gets stuffed into supply, rolls over, starts taking out phase low, starts moving lower as well.  Again, there's obviously some still a little bit of meat left on the bone to the upside. But again, I believe in this business, and I've been saying this for years, is the long game, right? Is the long game. So even if you miss and the video continues to go higher and Tesla on strength continues to go high, it's possible, right? Very, very possible. Again, I'm still very, very a big believer of this bull market. But again, at some point when you got a linear move in the cues, right, let me show you guys, when you have a linear move in the cues and they hit the upper Bollinger Band, this is the first time they hit the upper Bollinger Band since one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight days, we're talking about almost two weeks. Tomorrow will be day nine. So you're talking about almost two weeks of testing any type of supply in any healthy market, any market that's going to have staying power going more than two, three weeks, needs some sort of rest. This is just common sense. It needs rest. It needs a little bit of distribution.  This stock has moved up 200 points in the last five days. How can I possibly even look at this thing? And that's not what you want, right? You don't want that personality that coming in from the, even the biggest macro bulls talking about too much, too fast. Let's get, you know, let's take the money when we want to, not the one we have to, and kind of reassess, especially tomorrow's Friday. Again, nobody's going to start going tomorrow, guns blazing after, you know, after the cues just put up a candle from, where is it, from 269 to 400, right? In three weeks, nobody's going to start turning around and say, I need to get long today. Well, what happened to the other 40 points in the last three weeks of the cues? So just for me, again, again, take my advice, don't take my advice, just one humble man's opinion. I think we're a little extended, right? A little bit extended. I'm still bullish tomorrow on certain select names coming off the bottom, but I'm definitely now more conscious of some names that we could take advantage to the downside in case there is an aggressive pull. And again, the last thing you want to do is be caught without a chair, every great market, every bullish market that I've ever traded, whether it was the internet craze or even this last run, you forget about this last one, even the run from 2009, right? 2000, excuse me, from 2000, yeah, 2009, the bottom of the mortgage crisis all the way up to 1011, right? There was a phenomenal run. It definitely had pockets of very aggressive selling so the market could kind of reset. Will that happen tomorrow? I don't know, right? I don't know. The only thing we can do is have an opinion based on data, trust our opinion, trust everything that got us up to this point, right? That put us in the position that we are in control. And again, at the end of the day, isn't it all about control? Isn't it about being a day early than a day late? Isn't it about recognizing the signs before the signs hit you over the head? And the moral of the story is, even if I'm wrong tomorrow, the market continues to go higher, well, what's the worst case scenario? We buy stocks that are not overextended. I just mean, right? Not the end of the world. But if we are right and stocks gap up, get stuff into supply, at least we have some place to the downside that we could take advantage of. So let's talk about today's action. Again, what are you going to say? So Amazon went absolutely nuts today. Absolutely nuts from pillar to post. And when I tell you, it didn't have a retrace today. It did not have a retrace. It's very rarely you see Amazon or any stock, not named Tesla, go up without even taking out the previous 60 minute candle on the way up the test. Amazon never came even close to taking out a previous 60 minute low, not even close. The closest it came was, I think, 25 or $30 from the previous candle. That's how strong the name was. 3397, 3400, right off the gate. They came for the 3400, the 3500 weeklies. Amazon went absolutely nuts. Definitely the trade of the day. I mean, definitely. So here is this whole channel here, right? 3397, 3400. I mean, this thing just went nuts, 100 points. Look, this is what I'm talking about. Here's the first candle was 60, right? The next four candles, the next five candles, never took out the previous candle. High, higher, higher, higher, higher, higher, higher, higher.  Netflix, I was actually watching through the upside, got absolutely destroyed. Cisco is complete dud. I think it never reclaimed the $58 number. Never. It's still the number. I'm just surprised it didn't zoom. Nice little pop on zoom. 287 needs to build. Put up a $4, $5 candle. Nothing crazy. Put up a $4, $5 candle. Here's the 90. Here's the 87. This whole channel here went right to supply in 91. Again, four or five bucks before it got rejected. Again, there's no surprise. We know we talked about, hey guys, 291, 292, start making some sales. It's going into supply. Again, you need to know where supply is, where you're going to be trading completely blind. Airbnb was a nice move. They had some pretty good earnings after the close. A couple of days ago, they came for the 8250 weeklies. Today, they came for the 8750s ahead of earnings. Nice earnings here. 177 needs to build. It traded up to 87 after hours, but that's not what we were concerned. We were concerned basically with this whole channel here, this whole channel here of 77. Put up a couple of bucks, a couple of dollar move, a two and a half dollar move, and then obviously it's having a pretty good, it had a big, big pop initially after the close. Now it's just kind of going sideways. TDOC never gave a second entry. Popped to 56 and change. Never gave a second entry. Went straight down. AI stopped right at 50. Never gave a second. Never even gave an entry. Here's Amazon. Google was awesome as well. Google was great as well. 2960 rejected. Twice needs to build. I don't remember the last time I saw size buyers come in on Google, but size buyers came in on Google nonstop for the 3,000 calls. 2960 was a sneaky pivot on Google, right? 2960 was right over here. You see these two candles? 2960, 2960. So once it finally got above the 2960, it took out 2973 and went right to 3,000. Just a really, really strong move on Google and Amazon. Here comes Airbnb taking the way up. Phenomenal move on Amazon. Nice move on Airbnb. Here comes Google, right? 2960, 2973. Just phenomenal. Just a really, really good, strong session. There was a sneaky pivot coming in on Tesla that never confirmed. So the moral of the story is here's the last move. Feel free to book all the runners. You can trade at the $34.98. Yeah, I mean, so look, the market's been in a great run. The pivots have been phenomenal. Technology's been an absolute beast, but at some time, again, I don't care how strong of a high-performance vehicle you have. I don't care what it is, a Ferrari, a Bentley, whatever it is, whatever your driving choice, your favorite exotic mobile is. You can't drive at one speed. You have to learn to kind of take the step. Put off the gas. Relax before you run into trouble. Just one man's opinion. So I'm going to be a little more prudent for tomorrow. I'm going to watch both sides of the market. And if we have any type of sides of exhaustion, I'll start looking at like the names like Roku and Netflix for a possible date to melt down. So guys, have a great night. God bless, and I'll see you all tomorrow.


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We cannot thank you enough for your presence here this afternoon at the inauguration ceremony We welcome all of us team dignitaries central and state government officials senior leaders of Boeing members of the Boeing family members of media and guests to the inauguration Ceremony of the Boeing India Engineering and Technology Center campus and the Boeing Sukanya program Honored dignitaries and guests Namaskara Welcome not only to a proud milestone for Boeing not only a proud milestone for India, but also to a new era We have always had a sense of India's destiny to be a global leader and a foremost partner for freedom and yet When India we asked when we asked when India would become one of the most important Markets for aviation and defense in the world many experts for so many years said someday and We said when will India develop the technologies of tomorrow and they said someday and We said when will India manufacture the most advanced parts the most advanced components the most advanced airplanes and Produced them at the highest quality in the world and they said someday and We asked When will women lead the way in aviation and still they said someday? Devi or Sajnu? Wooden Agaya hey Bharat me Wooden, Ajay Ajab ka swagat hey Someday has arrived some day is today And so it is the honor of a lifetime to greet the dignitaries who have joined us the Shree The Prime Minister of India Shree Narendra Modi G. Thank you so much for being here The Honorable Governor of Kanataka Shree Genoji The Honorable Chief Minister of Kanataka Shree Siddharamia G Shree R. Shoka G and of course the Chief Operating Officer of the Boeing Company Ms. Stephanie Poe Welcome To the inaugural of Boeing's world-leading Center Welcome to the inaugural of Boeing Sukanya program for women in aviation and Welcome to someday Thank you. Danyavad and Jayan Thank you, sir Technology Center Truly a new era for the aerospace industry in India begins today with this committed and Invested step in the right direction by Boeing May I now request the Chief Operating Officer of the Boeing Company Ms. Stephanie Pope to render the special address of this very important occasion Ministers our Boeing partners Customers and colleagues for being here today as we celebrate the inauguration of the Boeing India Engineering and Technology Center And the launch of the Boeing Sukanda program for empowering women on increasing women pilots in aviation Today marks the latest chapter in decades of collaboration and partnership between Boeing and India Prime Minister Modi your focus on growth of Aviation in India has been instrumental in making these programs a reality today We are truly grateful for your continued support and look forward to working together to shape the future of aerospace First I want to address the new engineering and technology campus, which the honorable Prime Minister just unveiled At Boeing we take pride in our pursuit of innovation collaboration and a relentless drive for excellence Our vision is to shape the future of aerospace and defense and the completion Center today Makes a significant milestone in that journey This new campus is a testament to Boeing's engineering legacy and our belief in the availability depth of talent and capability that exists here in India It represents our unwavering commitment to this great nation and its talented workforce This Center will serve as a hub for innovation fostering collaboration with customers partners academia and startup Through these partnerships, we will create a thriving ecosystem that propels India to the forefront of the global global aerospace industry This campus will also be the center of our Codevelopment efforts in developing new aerospace and defense technologies from the ground up That meet not only India's requirements, but serve the world Engineers here will drive India's ambition of world-class development from design development testing and certification Ultimately our campus will become One of the most cutting-edge examples of the Prime Minister's self-reliant India initiative This campus is where we will shape the future of aerospace and defense for India To achieve this we need a highly skilled and diverse workforce, which is the very reason behind the Boeing Zoukanya program Prime Minister Modi this was your idea and It is with great pride that we have created a program It is with great pride that we have created a program to accelerate opportunities and aviation for Indian women from all walks of life This program will break barriers inspire more women to pursue careers in aerospace and Create an environment where they can excel with dedicated training facilities curriculum flight simulators scholarships and career opportunities in addition to the pilot training and initiatives the program will provide STEM labs and middle schools inspiring and empowering young women from across the country Through our shared values and vision Boeing in India are committed to embracing diversity pursuing excellence and driving innovation together we will Shape the future of aviation and make a positive difference for the people of India and around the world Thank you all for joining us here today on this very special moment May I now please call upon the determined the visionary and the dynamic chief minister of Karnataka Sri Siddharamayaji to please address the audience Sir the people of Karnataka look towards your able leadership to take them into the next phase of this great States growth story We at Boeing hope to contribute to the new tomorrow. You've envisioned for the people of Karnataka. Please sir Yellow ego Namaskara honorable Prime Minister of India Sri Narendra Modi G Honorable governor of Karnataka See power chin yellow to G Leader of the opposition Karnataka Legislative Assembly Sri or Ashok Mrs. Miss Tiffany Pope C ovo the Boeing company See Salil Gupta President Boeing India and South Asia All distinguished guests Friends from media Ladies and gentlemen, it is indeed my pleasure to be here with you Surrounded by the splendor of the 43 a curve Boeing campers Near the international airport as we witness the launch of two important Boeing Initiatives by our Honorable Prime Minister This occasion adds yet another feather to the illustrious cap of Karnataka A state that has consistently stood at the forefront of technological advancement in India Karnataka proudly Wards the title of being the fourth largest technology cluster globally Ranking first in the India Innovation Index and leading in total exports among all Indian states Our state is home to 400 of the fortune 500 companies Excelling in R&D centers renewable energy and earning the well-deserved recognition as the start of capital of India the abundance of the talented workforce and Skilled manpower makes Karnataka the natural choice for technology and knowledge-driven industries It is no wonder why the state is the preferred destination for investments, and I wish to reiterate our unvarying Commitment to providing a conducive Ecosystem for businesses to thrive in our pursuit of an investor friendly Environment we have crafted sector specific and pro industry policies Today's inauguration of the new Boeing India engineering and technology center campus is a Testament to our continued dedication to posturing an ecosystem that propels progress in the global aviation sector I am particularly pleased that Boeing has chosen to establish this Expansive facility near the international airport an emerging hub for numerous future developments including aerospace and defense Karnataka has probably held the mantle of being the aerospace hub of the country commanding over 65 percent of aerospace and defense exports this new endeavor by Boeing will Undoubtedly create more opportunities for our talented professionals to work on global scale projects Aligning seamlessly with our vision of enabling development across the state however Our commitment to progress extends beyond technological Advancements it includes a commitment to inclusivity and accessibility To this end. We are dedicated to empowering our girl children and women across the state Karnataka has long supported the indomitable spirit of women and their value invaluable contributions to our Society I am especially thrilled that this launch of Boeing Sukanya Program is not just a milestone for Boeing but also marks a significant project for women in aviation the land that has Witnessed many dreams come alive for women in aviation is So with this I Conclude my speech.  Ye. Hamara Lakshaya Let us watch a short film that tells the story of the Boeing Sukanya program How Sukanya is perhaps a girl in a small town somewhere in my incredible India and her dreams and aspirations will find wings with the Boeing Sukanya program India already leads the world statistic of percentage of women pilots with 15% of our pilots being women far ahead of the global average of 5% ladies and gentlemen The Boeing Sukanya program aims to further advance this status quo Aye dekhain Boeing Sukanya program par aadharit ye laghu film jo khas aaj iss matvapurna afsar kele banaye gayi hai under the guidance of the honorable prime minister's vision the Boeing Sukanya program Sukanya, a young girl in a remote village of India Baba, why sky so high? Mom, what is there beyond clouds? Looking up at the skies, that painless sky, Sukanya dreams of flying above them and higher Sukanya dreams of becoming a pilot Chacha, naya to pilot banungi The village men say it's impossible But little do they know that her dreams would soon cross paths with the Boeing companies initiative marking the beginning of an extraordinary adventure India, with its rich history of reaching for the skies and beyond has had many women in the lead over the years India's skies for over 8 decades is now awaiting this status quo Prime minister Shreemarindra Modi, shared by the president and chief executive officer of the Boeing company Dave Calhoun, a revolutionary initiative is underway The Boeing Sukanya program Modi just dreams and now studies in one of the STEM labs established by Boeing in government schools across the country The lab serves as an incubator of knowledge, technology and inspiration aiming to engage with over 75,000 students like Sukanya In her university, Sukanya has numerous digital products for training With Boeing's commitment, Sukanya also has access to hard assets in flight schools The Boeing Sukanya program also helps her financially through a scholarship for her pilot training It becomes the wind beneath Sukanya's wings propelling her towards her dream of becoming a pilot Sukanya is now a pilot operations of thousands of young girls like her in India's tier two and three towns Just like Sukanya, the rock-solid educational and training foundation laid by Boeing aims to increase the number of women pilots in India To create such opportunities for women in aviation roles Boeing plans to partner with other airlines and industry stakeholders Audacious goal of having girl pilots from the remotest villages of India promises to transform industry and societal norms for a more inclusive tomorrow Intent women will write a narrative of empowerment breaking barriers and ushering in a new dawn where the sky becomes a limitless playground for every girl child in India This and so are the skies Our hope is that all the girls of India will be able to fly high The Boeing Sukanya program under the guidance of India's Honorable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji Ladies and gentlemen Narendra Modi ji's influence has started a new era India's every citizen whether he is from Uttar, Baschim, Purva or Daksim For a new India's leader Shri Narendra Modi ji's inspiration Nidrithwaki Chhatra Chhaya is able to make himself proud The passion of a new India's leader is unparalleled A new India is flying and transformation, progress and victory are the main objectives of this flight Our beloved, our beloved leader is the Prime Minister of India A powerful, strong leader and a person whose every breath, every step is a responsibility for all Indians and will always be a responsibility To address this historic opportunity we present the great Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi ji India's Honorable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji sir please address this event India's tech potential is connected to global demand This new global technology campus of Boeing is also going to be a part of the recognition of Bangalore This will be the biggest facility of the Boeing company outside of America That is why this facility is not a new India but a new power to the aviation market But friends the importance of this facility is not just this Global tech, research and innovation also shows the commitment of India to drive design and demand This make India make for the world This makes the world This makes the world more confident on the talent of this campus This makes the world more confident This day of India celebrates this day that one day India will design the future of this facility That is why I, the entire management of Boeing I, the entire management of Boeing I, the entire management of Boeing I, the entire management of Boeing is a very good leader Friends this week it all was a very big day Last year India was under the the biggest manufacturing factor of helicopter Now this global tech campus We are going to meet them. It shows how the Karna Taka is growing in the form of a big aviation hub. I will express the youth of India in a special way. With this facility, they will get many opportunities to learn new skills in the aviation sector. Friends, we are trying to increase the participation of women in every sector of India. In our G-20 summit, we have seen a revolution. We have said it before the world. Now the time has come for women's late development. In the aviation and aerospace sector, we are trying to create new opportunities for women. Whether it is fighter pilots or civil aviation. Today, India is leading women pilots. I can say with pride that today, there are 15% women pilots among the pilots of India. And it is important to understand that there are more than three times than the global average. The Boeing Sukanya program has started. The aviation sector of India will increase the participation of our women. The dream of becoming a pilot for the poor families will be fulfilled in the areas of far-off areas. Many of the government schools in the country will have the opportunity to become a pilot for career coaching and development. Friends, just a few months ago, you have seen how the moon of India reached there where no country was able to reach. This success has brought the scientific temper to a new height in the new era of India. India is also a big hub for the same education. Women in India study science, technology, engineering and math in a big company. And today, when I was travelling abroad, a very big leader of a country was asking me whether women in India are interested in studying at this time? And I told him that there are more female students than male students here. It was a surprise for him. The Boeing Sukanya program is also going to benefit India's daughters. Friends, you have studied India's growth as an aviation market and are also following its trajectory. In the last ten years, India's aviation market has completely transformed. Every stakeholder from the aviation sector is filled with new enthusiasm. Every stakeholder from manufacturing to services is looking for a new opportunity in India. Today, India has become the third largest domestic aviation market in the world. In one decade, the number of domestic passengers has increased more than twice in India. In the next few years, the number of domestic passengers is increasing. Seeing such a big demand, our airlines have ordered hundreds of new aircrafts. That is, the aviation market of the world is going to give a new energy. Friends, today we are all so excited about the aviation sector of India. But what happened in the last ten years? In the global aviation sector, India has progressed so much. Because today, the aspirations of the people of India and the ease of living are being carried out. There was a time when the poor air connectivity was a very big challenge for us. Because of this, India was not able to change its potential in performance. That is why we have made investment in the connectivity infrastructure as our practice. Today, India is one of the world's most well-connected markets. In 2014, there were 70 operational airports in India. Today, there are 150 operational airports in the country. We have not only made new airports, but also increased the efficiency of our airports. Friends, India's airport capacity has increased rapidly in the area of air cargo. So, it is easy for India to reach the international market far and wide. India's overall growth and employment generation is also increasing rapidly. Friends, the growth of our aviation sector is increasing rapidly. For this, India is taking a drastic step at the policy level. We are advising the state governments to reduce the taxis associated with aviation fuels. We are trying to make aircraft leasing easy. We are trying to reduce India's off-shore dependence in aircraft leasing and financing. That is why we have established the International Financial Services Centre Authority in Gipp City. It will also benefit the aviation sector of the entire country. Friends, I had told Keele that this is the right time. And this is also the right time for other international companies. This is the right time for India to connect its growth with India's rapid growth. In the coming 25 years, the growth of India has become the target of 144 crore Indians. In the past nine years, we have taken about 25 crore Indians out of poverty. We are building a new middle-class economy. Today, in every income group in India, we are seeing increased mobility. The tourism sector of India is also expanding rapidly. In other words, we are building a new relationship for all of you. You have to take more and more benefits from this. Friends, if you want to establish a manufacturing ecosystem in India, you will have to quickly establish it. There is a network of MSMEs in India. There is a very big talent pool in India. There is a stable government in India. There is a policy approach to protect India. That is why this is a win-win situation for every sector. I also believe that the first fully designed Boeing in India… People of Boeing have heard of fully designed and manufactured aircraft. You will not have to wait for too long. I also believe that the aspirations of India and your expansion will be in the form of a helpless partnership. You all have done your work with this new facility. And the way I was talking to the people who I had to meet, I could not see only one condition. I felt an emotional touch in it. And this emotional touch is not possible without the conviction of the Boeing team. For this, I congratulate the Boeing team on a special basis. Thank you very much. Thank you very much sir. Ladies and gentlemen, as the Honorable Prime Minister debarts from the venue, please do remain seated until he exits the venue. We will wait for our senior dignitaries to also leave the venue smoothly.


And yeah, please give a warm welcome to Sebastian. Hi, and thank you for the introduction. Thank you all so much for having me. So what am I going to talk about tonight? I will, of course, being an artist, talk a bit about some art projects, but mostly I will speak about the research I do as part of my practice, specifically about humans as software extensions. And towards the end, I will share some thoughts on why being a human software extension could actually be something maybe not positive but brings some new possibilities. So I will try to end the talk on a positive note. In 2008, the science fiction movie Sleep Dealer speculated about a future which couldn't be more timely. The border between Mexico and the US has been closed. Therefore, immigrant workers in the US have been replaced by robots. However, the robots are remotely controlled by people in Mexico who have their bodies plugged directly into the network. Then two years later in 2010, the CEO of CrowdFlower, which is a crowdsourcing and cloud work platform, Lucas B. Walt, speaks of a similar situation. Before the internet, it would be really difficult to find someone, sit them down for 10 minutes and get them to work for you, and then fire them after those 10 minutes. But with technology, you can actually find them, pay them the tiny amount of money, and then get rid of them when you don't need them anymore. B-Wall's remarks, however, are not science fiction. Instead, they describe a contemporary condition. So humans as software extensions. What is this condition? I would summarize it as people extending computational systems by offering their bodies, their senses, and their cognition. And specifically, bodies and minds that can be easily plugged in and later easily be discarded. So bodies and minds algorithmically managed and under the permanent pressure of constant availability, efficiency, and perpetual self-optimization. So as such humans as software extensions are both the foundation and the result of a megastructure which Benjamin Bretton calls the stack. It's a computational totality of planetary scale. So somehow we can imagine it as a planetary scale computer consisting of a stack of layers, from rare earth minerals to data centers to bots and people, which in this model are exactly the same. So in this computational totality, even the smallest nodes can be addressed and can be programmed. What the stack also describes is a new geography. So Google Maps defining borders or as just seen in Sleep Dealer, the US building a wall while still being able to plug right into the bodies of Mexican workers. But to be clear from my point of view, the model of planetary scale computation as a totality is as much a reality as it is also a gigantic fantasy and ideology of power, optimization, and efficiency. So this is the state of self-driving cars right now, at least from the perspective of Ford. So I would now like to give some examples about what I mean by humans as software extensions and what affects these, like this way of managing digital labor has. Three years ago I worked on a piece in which I explored digital colonialism and among other things I explored Google's and Facebook's attempts to integrate into their services those two-third of the world population who are not online yet. As you all know, Google wants to use balloons, Facebook wants to use drones, and they want to have them circle above these areas that do not have any internet connection, basically sucking that which is below up into the network. So the piece of which you see a little bit here is called How to Appeal Offline Forever. And it consists of a mix of found material like videos, images, and questions. And there's also a layer of stories written by people from Silicon Valley, Sri Lanka, and Zambia, which are all locations of importance to this piece. And so in order to get in contact with people in Sri Lanka, I ended up using the outsourcing platform Upwork, which offers a highly efficient interface for hiring freelancers from all around the world. On their platform you can sort freelancers by price, skills, rating, and then you can pick whoever you think fits the job best. And their use experience of hire and fire is well-crafted. So it's software extensions that can be plugged in and removed again easily. It doesn't matter where they are, who they are, as long as they get it done. So once the freelancers in Sri Lanka got to work, I noticed that I was not only able but also encouraged to spy on them. Upwork records every keystroke and regularly takes screenshots while freelancers work, building a growing diary of their activity. So I found myself in a situation in which I wasn't only being surveilled by corporations or states, I was also doing the same myself, managing my extensions, spying on them in order to monitor their performance. So this is not them, like corporations or states, spying on us, us protecting ourselves against them through encryption. This is all of us fighting for our place in the network, trying to be valuable nodes. So this is me and one of the freelancers, which is a very lovely lady. I got to meet in Sri Lanka later. So if you look at this historically, and if you go back just 15, maybe 20 years, outsourcing via the internet was a practice that could only be employed by big IT companies, mostly from the US to India. Today it is cheap and easy and it can be done by anybody. A new service by Amazon called Amazon Key illustrates this rather new situation perfectly. With Amazon Key, you can remotely grant access to your apartment while you're not at home. Using the Amazon Key camera lock and app, you can spy on the otherwise completely invisible workers from your smartphone. So this is the lock, remotely unlocked. So here, outsourcing doesn't generate free time, instead it is born out of necessity. It is marketed as making possible the transformation and a liberation from being managed to also being able to manage others. And in this case, you're able to deal with them like without ever having to meet them in person. So now everybody not only can, but has to and actually of course wants to, we all want to use people as software extensions and with that comes also that we have to remotely track and rate their performance. So let's recap. Factory workers are extending machines with their bodies. Freelancers have escaped the factory but have to offer themselves as flexible extensions to the modern media assembly line. For example, like we just saw on Upwork. So now, micro entrepreneurs have to invent their own jobs, offering their creativity in the form of little packages that are called gigs. You can buy such gigs at a fixed price on platforms like Fiverr. For those who do not know Fiverr, initially each gig on Fiverr was priced at exactly $5 of which the platform kept $1. So some months ago, I found a way to directly access all videos uploaded to the platform in real time, including every single video that people on Fiverr are producing for their clients. So through this crack in the surface or you could also call it a security problem or a privacy issue they have, I could look at the leaked stream of videos and I did this for days and weeks and months and I downloaded videos worth of like more than 100 gigabyte and I was looking for some patterns to understand this marketplace. So to give you some ideas about what I saw there, on the platform it is dog eat dog. Be the best, the cheapest, the most creative, the most efficient, be just like a proper software extension never sleep work all the time. At the same time, everybody is also fighting against the platform's algorithms and clean interfaces that hide most gig workers on page two, three, four and so on. As many gigs offer unrealistically short delivery times for creative work, it becomes clear that they themselves use bots, generators and templates, simulating creative work and creating yet another layer of man machine complexity. So using automation in order to not be replaced by automation. Their biggest selling point seems to be their low cost coupled with a truly natural interface, a human being. In contrast, there is another group of people consciously offering their bodies, often as carriers of messages like screens. So here the fantasy of the universal addressability and availability of all nodes manifests itself in the distant and often exotic body that acts as a screen. This goes hand in hand with gigs offering personalized porn or erotic videos and fetish videos.  That means coming up with whatever it takes to survive in a competitive environment. And as a reminder, Fiverr might be an extreme example, but it exemplifies a development that has become a reality for many already. And it's not like it's them and us, we are all human software extensions. So far I've managed to talk about software without mentioning artificial intelligence even once. That's nice, I think. Instead I've drawn this bleak picture of a quasi totality of work and exploitation. However, automation and artificial intelligence supposedly imply a future without work, right? So in the previous examples, platforms, software, artificial intelligence acted as scientific management, the Taylorist boss, algorithmically distributing and modulating human workers as software extensions. Now, one great post-work idea is to not only automate the management of working bodies and minds, but instead to completely replace all human nodes with AI as well. But I think this is an excellent foundation for discussing our society's obsession with work. I would also argue this hypothesis is as appealing as it is flawed, unfortunately. So my observation is this, AI, artificial intelligence, is an appropriation and a possible extrapolation of existing knowledge and skills, yes. And as such, it might as well do our jobs, but it is first and foremost used as a scheme to fragment work into tasks that can be done anywhere 24-7 and to make this labor invisible. What we see here is a piece called Segmentation Network, which I made last year. It plays back over 600,000 segmentations manually created by mechanical crowd workers, mechanical Turk crowd workers for Microsoft's Cocoa Image Recognition Dataset. These so-called segmentations are based on photos we have uploaded to Flickr and they're used in machine learning, training AI what it can see and what not. So you can automate as much as you want, but at some point, you will have to train and especially maintain the machines and the software. So I would say AI creates yet another layer of badly or unpaid care and maintenance work, which is often invisible on purpose. So I would say this needs to change. And I think feminist theory and practices have a lot to say about this issue, but that's another talk and I would like to hear it. So here is a point in case and maybe a solution. At the end of 2011 while still being students and sharing a studio, Silvio LaRusso, a friend and artist, and me, we started to take a screenshot of every single capture that we had to solve while navigating the web. So over the years, proving that we are human time and time again, we captured hundreds of captures. This year, we thought about how to make this little thing or these little things, the collection of these things into something which is as valuable and as expensive as possible. And so we published the complete collection as a series of five handmade Leporello books. So each of these books is one year.  So if you look at it, captures started as a technique to merely prevent spam. And then they kind of morphed into a method for deciphering house numbers and transcribing books. And then lately, it's become a means of teaching image recognition to AI software. While we were collecting these captures, Gabriella Rojas-Losano in 2015 filed a class action lawsuit against Google. And she claimed that Google operates a highly profitable transcription business built upon free labor, which it deceptively and unfairly obtains from unwitting website users. Unfortunately, her claims were rejected. So here the judge states that it's like you spend only a few seconds on this, you cannot be expected to pay for such a small job. So however, her attempt to sue Google was still a success, I would say, because it led to the proof that Google has perfected a magical process in which work is transformed into literally nothing. So welcome post-work society. How does this magical trick work? It's rather simple. You take a job, let's say transcribing books and you fragment it and you fragment it more and more and more until suddenly the job is magically done without anyone having ever worked on it. Because if nobody has to get paid, then nobody had to work either, right? Hence the judge's statement is proof that this magic actually works. It gets better. In the end, Google still ends up being paid even though they have just made the job disappear magically. So what I want to suggest now is to seize the means of magic. What about this? Fragmenting those platforms that algorithmically manage us to such a degree that they simply do not exist anymore. Magically their job will still be done and in the end, we get the money. I guess in like a less magical version we could call this platform corporativism. If you do not believe in magic, then I have two more suggestions about what we as software extensions can do. So I will show you two clips from my latest video piece which is called I Will Say Whatever You Want in Front of a Pizza. You can see the full version online on this website or there's gonna be, I think there's gonna be a screening somewhere here in the video lounge. Anyway, I will show you two bits even though it's a 12 minute video and just looking at two bits doesn't make too much sense. Still, I think they show a point I want to make pretty nicely. So the video is narrated from the perspective of a cloud worker and this is the protagonist. My hope for a future when machines do all the work hasn't come true. Instead, I was working for a pizza delivery company. Brian, your next automated pizza delivery is scheduled for Saturday, February the 25th at 12 p.m. To confirm, text yes. To decline, text no. Text help for help. Thank you, Papa John, you handsome man. I shall call you the carbs fixin'. We're sorry we didn't understand. Please confirm or decline. When I make love, I imagine you tossing some dough, shirtless. Dude, our automated system isn't set up yet. This is a real person texting you. I make minimum wage. Please just tell me if you want the pizza. So that's the protagonist. To give you some background, in 2016, Donald Trump's team hired a Singaporean teenager through Fiverr, which is the platform I talked about before. And they hired her to convert a PowerPoint into a pressie, which is the software I'm using for the video. Basically outsourcing the Make America Great Again campaign, which is a true story. So at some point in the video, the protagonist who is now working not only as a pizza delivery bot, but also as a cloud worker on Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform, preparing data sets for AI. At some point, he gets to know the Singaporean teenager as a fellow worker. And she has got an idea. One day, I found a thread started by her. She talked about the political implications of what we did and what kind of things we could do. Of course, we on Mechanical Turk had created the data set. It was sad to see how depressed many of us actually were. Researchers asked 500 workers to complete a survey which contained a standard clinical depression survey. 170 workers agreed to share their Instagram posts for the study. Out of those 170 workers, 70 were clinically depressed. By the way, the depression filter is inkwell. It turns photos to black and white and adds high contrast. Better not to use it. But she pointed to something else. It was in our power to manipulate or even to change the very core of such mechanisms. Our data sets, machines, society, you, the future. We started to discuss, to organise and to experiment. Of course, we didn't always agree. Was this just for fun? Like Easter eggs? Did we share a political agenda? In any case, things had to happen secretly. Otherwise, it wouldn't work. Teaching Google to identify a photo of an eggplant as British singer Chris Maloney served as a proof of concept. OK, so the idea is this. When we are extending software with our bodies and minds, we're also extending our reach into the software and reaching into the software, being part of the software, we can start to manipulate these systems that govern us and that we have to use to govern others and once we're plugged in, we can manipulate data, we can create new and weird and slow and inefficient software from within. So it can be fun like leaving Easter eggs for others to find, realising, yes, there are actual people inside these systems, which brings me to my third and last thought why being a software extension also has some chances or possibilities.  Being a software extension can also offer a new aesthetic and a new way of being, and I think this video, which could be called The Father of All Stupid Demos, illustrates this in a rather interesting way. Here for whatever reason, Zuckerberg is demonstrating Facebook's virtual reality by visiting Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria. So why do I show this video? Contrary to what he had intended, Zuckerberg as a crudely abstracted version of himself turned into a software extension, detaches and dissociates himself from the real world.  Therefore embracing the weird and abstract aesthetic of a human as a software extension could actually allow us to detach ourselves from circumstances under which we are required to be our best working selves all the time. So being available all the time, addressable, programmable, to update ourselves all the time, we could use being a software extension, the aesthetic of being a software extension as a mask behind which we can hide, pretending to be a bot. That's the idea. Thank you. Thank you, Sebastian, indeed, for making a bleak future look a little more bright. I think we have about five minutes for very short Q&K, otherwise you said you have a Twitter account and you can also meet Sebastian next to the stage. So are there questions, maybe from the Signal Angel? None, okay. Then just another round of applause for Sebastian. Thank you.


If you look at your learning targets, I'd say you guys are doing a great job. I saw some excellent annotation, especially Marcel. Thank you, Marcel, for sharing that. Everybody's working on citing text evidence to support their analysis. And we're going to move here to three, engaging in a rich, evidence-based conversation with my classmates. So, evidence-based is obvious, right? You're using your text details to support your opinion. Ah, I don't think Claudette's quite there yet. Or, yes, she is. Look at this right here. That's evidence-based. But the richness, the rich conversation comes from you're listening to each other and you're building on one another's ideas. I agree with what you said here, but here's what I think. Bouncing the ideas off of each other, not just listening, but really being in a conversation and sharing your ideas, okay? That's what we want to move towards as we talk about, like having a rich conversation. We're going to take about 10 minutes. I want each of you to kind of share your voice where you think Claudette is at. And then you're going to jot down each other's ideas on the backside of your paper so that you have three down. You'll kind of share yours and then take from your other, your classmates. But don't focus just on getting the ideas down. Have a rich conversation. Yes, Eric? How many minutes did you say we were going to get to talk about it? A rich conversation? Close to 10. Might be more like eight now, but... All right? Ready? Okay, please begin.