What I'd like to talk about today is what I call the re-decentralized web. The concept here is to talk about not what impact Bitcoin will have in general, but specifically what impact Bitcoin will have on the internet and the web more specifically. Even more focused on content creators, people who create music, art, video content, writers, authors, publishers, people who create content on the internet. How many people in this room are involved in some kind of content creation? Quite a few. Good. Well, it looks like this is a good topic to go on. Back in the days, when I was still young, the web was decentralized. If you wanted to put content on the web, you installed a web server, and you ran that web server, and you put your content on that web server, and then nobody could find your content, because search engines didn't exist yet. Then we had search engines, and people could find their content. The web at the time was very decentralized, but it was also not a very good place to do publishing. It was very difficult to publish content. If you were a small artist or a musician, you don't have the public eye yet, and actually getting people to find your content was very difficult. Gradually, we started solving that problem, so we had peer-to-peer technology, such as Napster and search engines, that made it easier for people to find content online. But then there was another really important problem, because when people found the content, they couldn't buy it. They couldn't pay for it. The reason for that is that independent artists can't easily become merchants to sell things by credit card. The credit card system was never developed or designed to be used online. If you're a content creator, you can put your content online, and people can download it. People can now find it online, and that's great, but no one can pay you. You either have to give out your content for free, or what we saw happening was the centralization of the web. Companies started building platforms, and these platforms grew up around the ability to concentrate payments. This really pernicious effect of payments, the fact that credit cards are broken, they're never designed to work on the internet, to provide an online mechanism.  Five cents? Maybe? One cent? Maybe? Half a cent? Great. The minimum purchase you can do is $3. Also, you have to enter your billing address into a form in order to do that. You're not going to go and do that if every time you have to buy something online, you have to enter your billing address and give your information out. Then you give a credit card that, in itself, poses the risk of identity theft and fraudulent charges. You're not going to do that for something that is worth half a penny to you, which is the playing of one song. The only way to really make the web of content work was to get very large audiences together, on a single platform where they would give their billing address and credit card, and they could get charged once, $3 or more, in order to buy content that is available from a very large library that makes it justifiable to pay that much money. Or, instead, you take the personal information that your customers gave you, and you sell it to advertisers at which point your customers are no longer customers, they are the product. We become the product. I've said before that on the internet we already have a micropayments economy. The only problem is that that economy is an economy of advertising that is driven by micro violations of your privacy. Anytime you consume content that is not valuable enough to pay for directly, you are paying for it by giving up your information. You are paying for it by violating your privacy through a platform, and at that point you have become the product. The web started out decentralized, and then it gradually became more and more centralized. The reason it became centralized was because payments act the way a grain of sand works in an oyster, and it gradually gathers material around it, or the way a small density fluctuation creates gravity that pulls more matter in, that pulls more matter in, until you have Apple iTunes. One of the shittiest pieces of software ever written that can drive billion-dollar industry. At this point, I will ask everyone to please accept the terms and conditions of Apple software, because I mentioned them three minutes from now. I'm going to ask you to accept the terms and conditions again, just for fun. This is the Apple way. So the bottom line is we see this enormous concentration around these platforms, and the reason is because you have to bring this enormous library of content to this enormous audience of people just to justify the single middleman visa, MasterCard, the credit card system. In order to make their business model work, we have to disrupt the link between creators and their audience, and introduce in between a platform that is actually selling the record labels to advertisers, and the audience, they're part of the product now. And the artists, they make nothing, and they're invisible. You've broken the link, introduced behemoth corporations in between, and separated the most important thing, the artist, from their audience, and it doesn't have to be that way. The reason the web has become centralized is very much related to payments. If you think about that for a second, you might start seeing this pattern pop up everywhere. What exactly does Uber do? I mean, they don't have any cars, and they don't have any drivers, and they don't really find passengers. Passengers find them. They're a peer-to-peer taxi service. Well, they're a peer-to-goldman tax-to-peer taxi service, because they're not peer-to-peer. Uber sits in the middle, and Uber is the Goldman Sachs with wheels. In fact, they recently did a billion-dollar deal with Goldman Sachs to sell subprime loans to their own drivers that lock them in to driving only for Uber. Yeah? Talk about evil vampire squid. So, here you have this company. What exactly do they do? What have they done with the billions of billions of dollars of funding that they raised? Lawsuits? How many people here think that they put all of that money into building the best possible ride-sharing application ever? No one? I see you've used Uber. The app stocks, the drivers are upset, they're getting fleeced, right? And it's miraculous. Don't get me wrong, it's miraculous. And the reason it's miraculous is because we're comparing them to the alternative, which is the regulated taxi license system, which is atrocious, right? So, if you can do atrocious minus a bit, you get miraculous. And that is the business model of Uber. What is the purpose of this company in the middle? They are payments intermediary. You might think that what they're doing is also providing insurance. But that's only because the insurance companies are also payments intermediary. You can see this pattern again and again. If it's becoming obvious to you now, start thinking about Airbnb. What does Airbnb do? Somebody's house, not theirs. Someone's staying, not theirs. 20% cut. Wow, brilliant, right? Why can't I pay the person because they can't take credit cards? Why can't I pay my driver because they can't take credit cards? Why can't I pay the driver and an insurance company on the basis of a four minute ride to ensure me for those four minutes while I'm in that car? Because I have to put a credit card in the middle. And the credit card pops out again and again and again as this massive centralizing force. The banking system is no longer a system where people pay people. It is a system where people pay corporations that pay corporations that pay people maybe, right? We have actually accepted this as normal. The only places where people pay people nowadays is when they tip with cash. And that is the tiny exception. And that is gradually disappearing. Under most circumstances, you cannot easily pay another person without inviting a corporation into your little dance, right? They're the third wheel.  It's like, who invited him? And this is all has to do with the fact that we cannot make payments from person to person and we cannot make payments below two or three dollars unless we're making billions of them. And we cannot make payments for small things over small periods of time. Otherwise, I could pay my Uber driver and the insurance company for a four-minute ride done, walk out. Nobody needs to take a 20% cut. I could pay for my hotel room or my rental room directly to the owner without anyone taking a cut. I could pay for the song that I just listened to, a penny. And the artist would make 10 times more than they make when they pass that through a giant machine of intermediaries. And so I pay Spotify or Spotify serves me ads because I'm the product. Spotify pays the record label that pays the producers that pays the lawyers that pays the financiers that pay everybody to set up the accounts in such a way as to show a loss so they don't have to pay the actual artist. And this repeats in every form of content. So as a content creator, we're feeding all of these intermediaries, all of these vet prior squids that have found the flow of money, walked up to it, taken a straw and going, I have a business bomb and just suck profit out of other people's work. And the only reason they exist is because credit cards are broken because you can't email cash until 2009. And now we can email cash. And now we can make payments that are tiny and we can make payments for services that are tiny. We can make payments by the millisecond for video. We can make payments by the 1000th of a penny for services for content.   Because you now actually have to pay for the attention you're stealing. Money isn't just about income. It's not just about making livelihoods. Money is the most efficient way of discovering the true value of something through a marketplace. Money is the means of exchange, the system that lubricates economic activity, social activity, trading. And you can use it to express value even if that value doesn't really buy anything. But you multiply that by 10,000 people or 100,000 people and it suddenly starts being important. The network effect of money is gigantic. We now have the ability through our payment systems to remove that very nugget of centralization, the force that has been centralizing the web for the last 15 years. We can take that back with services that offer the ability for people to sell directly to people, get paid directly from people for their products and services. And we're beginning to see these things pop up. Open Bazaar is one example I talked about today, which I find quite exciting. There's a taxi service and my brain has frozen right now, so I can't remember what it's called. Oh, Arcade City, which is a competitor to Uber that does people to people direct access. And they use either cash or Bitcoin.  It's not a bad thing to live in a cash society. It's a society where people can pay people for products and services and keep it within a community rather than people paying corporations that pay corporations that refuse to pay people. And we can get that back. Bitcoin is not just a new currency. It is the seed that allows us to decentralize the web by removing the most powerful form of centralization that the web has and enabling content creators to be rewarded and recognized for their work. But more importantly, what you do by removing the intermediaries is you allow an audience to reconnect with the artist that they want to connect to. And that is huge. If you're a content creator, the most important thing that's taken away from you by these platforms is your ability to connect to the audience. Using a digital currency allows you to create a loyalty system, to create a connection with your audience, to have them directly provide feedback to you as to what they want, what you should be doing, or what they like or what they don't like. Maybe you don't care what they think you should be doing, you'll do it anyway, and then you'll just find out how many people like that specifically that you're doing. But you reconnect with that audience. Bitcoin and all of the other digital currencies that we're seeing merge down and the blockchains that are supporting them. It's more than just money. It's about the fact that money is a social activity. And by reconnecting audiences with creators, you can take out the intermediaries and re-engage that social activity. Thank you. Thank you Andrea. Do people have some questions? Let's sit down here and do it. Oh yeah sure. I can repeat questions. Anybody? Anybody? Anybody? Here we go. Thank you. Thanks for coming out today. In the past you spoke about infrastructure inversion, where disruptive technologies are forced to survive on infrastructure that it's not designed for. So you mentioned Uber and Airbnb and I get it, the vampire squid suckers. But aren't they really paving a way for this infrastructure inversion of peer-to-peer? I mean, still they get no way. Yes they are. Right, in terms of payments. I get the payment part, but the software that brings people together, is it not just the beginning steps towards a more decentralized marketplace where people can share these products? Absolutely.  And I use Uber and Lyft and Cabify and Hail, this and all of the taxi services and I use Airbnb as my permanent home, effectively. And so yes, absolutely, they're paving the way. Would it be better if they paved the way without locking their own people into subprime auto loans and exploiting them? Yes. Would it be better if they took a smaller cut and spent less money on the things they spend? Yes. We can do better. Just because we can do better doesn't mean that they're not good. It just means we can do better. And recognizing why these centralization tendencies exist is what I'm really up for. Chris, I want to know that. Wouldn't you say a lot of the money that Uber stands is on market making? Like billions of dollars goes to like me only paying two dollars to get from downtown San Monica today. They are just losing money to build the market. It's hard to do that in a decentralized way. Absolutely. Just to follow up on the Uber and Airbnb example, wouldn't it be in their interest the shareholders of Uber and Airbnb to enable Bitcoin payments because then they don't have to pay three percent to their to describe or bring to the credit card processor. That's the thing that puzzles me about both Uber and Airbnb. Especially Airbnb because they do so many transactions internationally. They have to pay so many fees, wiring fees, foreign exchange fees. Bitcoin would eliminate a lot of that. Honestly, it's not a big enough market yet. There aren't enough people with the ability to have Bitcoin or to earn Bitcoin or to convert into Bitcoin to make it worthwhile for any of these companies. I'm looking at this from a much longer perspective. It took 15 years to centralize the web and it will take another 15 to 20 to re-decentralize it. We have the potential to do that in the meantime. I don't expect them to start accepting Bitcoin anytime soon. For them, the risks and the difficulty they would face in adopting something like that probably outweigh any of the benefits. They might do it as a marketing giving, honestly. But it might start raising the question of what exactly we're paying 20% for. And I also heard sometimes people find you get lower conversion rate by putting the Bitcoin logo into the credit card like this. And they're like, ah, so they just hide it and only tell Bitcoin users that they take Bitcoin and don't put it on the main page. Well, I try to persuade drivers to take tips in Bitcoin. And my argument is you will ride around with this barcode on your dash for the next six months and no one will know what it is but then one day, dude's going to get it to your car and he's going to look at that barcode and he's going to be like, you want to take Bitcoin? And he's going to give you the biggest tip you've ever received because that's what the community is like. Imagine, you get into an Uber, you see a barcode for Bitcoin. First of all, you're going to be really excited. You're going to be discussing that for the rest of the ride. And when you leave, you're going to give them the bigger tips than you ever give them. I certainly would. So that's my sales pitch. Is the one in six months unicorn Bitcoin user who will make, who will pay back for the one sheet of paper you used to print that? Thanks, Andreas. Great job. So, and that decentralized future that you see, what will be the incentive or driver for innovation and what will be the monetization of business models for people who would design those services and products? Because I don't think that each artist or content developer will be able to set up their own full-node and set up whatever number of services to get to receive Bitcoins themselves. There will always be someone an intermediary or service or payment service that will facilitate that. So they're not always intermediaries. I mean, look at what's happened with OpenBazaar. The important thing to realize is that what's being created on these platforms is new open ecosystems, right? So first of all, as soon as OpenBazaar started, immediately you had people advertising hosting services to run the service for you, right? Marketing services. A couple of search engines popped up within the first couple of months, and these search engines use the API to basically index and crawl through the peer-to-peer network all of the stores that give you a web searchable interface. No one at OpenBazaar built that. That was third-party services that built it separately. Now they're building additional services on top of that. All of these APIs opening up means that now you're not looking at a single company or single platform. You're looking at an open system where people can offer layers and layers and layers of additional services, and you have a thriving marketplace for these services. So I think instead what you see is an explosion of innovation. Right now, no one has access to the data really at Uber or Airbnb or any of these services. The reason for that is because once again, who's the product? You are. In many cases, you'll see that I think over the next few years we'll see that a lot of these services are going to make more money selling data about where you went and when you went and who you visited and what you typed into the search engine and whether you typed the name of a business and visited that business and how long you were there. The same thing with Airbnb. They're going to make more money off the data about you than the cost of the ride. And once again, you're the product. So I don't see that as innovation. It's not innovative to turn people into a product. It's evil, but it's not ever innovative. I mean, it's been done. How do we get away from being the product and being the solution? Take control of your money and actually pay for the services you consume instead of getting free services for which you have to provide information. A good guide is whether a service is really offering you a service or if you're the product is whether you can use that anonymously. If you can use it anonymously, you're not the product. If you can't, you are the product. And it's not easy to do at this time. We all have entanglements with various platforms and services we use. And even if you try really, really hard, your data is going to get harvested somewhere down the road by several players. But we can gradually start to change that. The question is, you know, what kind of web are we going to give to the next generation? Is it going to be a web like the one we started on? Or is it going to be something completely different? Going back to your example with Airbnb and Uber, one of the things they do is provide standards, you know, standard experience, certain level of experience, and also sort of identity reputation. So how can you get decentralized payments with Bitcoin but then you also have this other problem of, you know, identity and rating and consistency of the experience and standards for either the Uber or how do you combine those two things together? Well, we're already seeing some very interesting experiments in that particular area. We're seeing experiments with using escrow services and moderators, for example, to provide escrow services between seller and buyer. And that's a voluntary involvement of the third party that you can select. We can see that building to arbitration and aviation systems that are built through smart contracts. And the other thing to realize is that one of the things that they saw through their reputation systems is civil attacks.  That's a problem. Well, here's a system to solve civil attacks. It's called proof of work. And then we use it to Bitcoin. And now we're seeing the development of proof of stakes as this is solved, civil attacks, where you can stake money against the reputation without it being identified, an anonymous reputation, but with money staked behind it that does not allow you to easily just switch out of it so that if you damage that reputation, it has to write financial cost to you. This is the innovation that is being created out of the, well, how can we do this without using identity? How can we do this while still remaining anonymous? How can we do this without exploiting the data of individuals? And the answers are, well, if only we had programmable money. Oh, wait, we have programmable money. Most of us in the room have programmable money. Some of us don't need it. Yeah, very few of us have programmable money. It's on the poll earlier. Let's wait for the microphone because it's not going to get caught in the recording. I'll hear you, but nobody else will. I wanted to see what are your thoughts on the government being an intermediary, or do you think that the government should be out of the equation in the next 10 or 20 years? I don't think government is going to be out of the equation, both from a practical perspective, because I don't think that's realistic. I'm also not a hardcore libertarian that says no government is appropriate. There is a role for government. Government is just us making decisions altogether. The question is, what is the government doing? Preventing outright violence between individuals, maybe? Building roads, not in this country, if you've seen the roads. You have to perhaps re-envision what government is. I think we have a model of government today, which is an 18th century model of government, and it's now the 21st century. See, it's time for a refresh. I don't know what it's going to turn out to be. I'm terrified about the possibilities, but at the same time, I do know that the existing model is certainly becoming less and less effective at the things that government's supposed to do. Thanks. A couple of questions. First is about centralization of mining. We know that around 80% of solar power is on channel, and so how do you see this centralization problem can get solved? The second question is about before Bitcoin, another cryptocurrency to evolve in scale, so some level of change is needed. Both hard and soft forks have their problems, as opposed to with Ethereum hard forks. So how do you see this problem can get solved? Okay, let me try taking those two. The first one, mining centralization. I think I've talked about this many times before, and in my mind, I think mining centralization is the result of this very, very rapid acceleration in the hashing power and going from CPU-based mining to ASIC mining and straight up to catch up with Moore's law, the front-end of Moore's law. And I think we're going to see the equation change a lot now that we've reached the front-end of Moore's law, and now that the increases you can get are maybe 2x, not 10,000x in a year. That may change things. But one of the reasons this is happening in China, I think we need to be aware of this is not some kind of communist conspiracy to take over Bitcoin by the government of China. It's important to realize that one of the things that's driving mining centralization in China is that it's better for mining to be in China, and the reason it's better for mining is because China has experienced this enormous growth in its electricity generation over the past 20 years. At some point, I remember the statistic vaguely in 2012, they were turning on a new coal-fired plant every 16 hours. Every 16 hours, they were turning on a new electricity factory, a big one. And it was projected that that would not keep up with the demand for electricity because it was growing even faster than that. That's really quite astonishing. So what happens when you build a lot of generation capacity, but no distribution network? You end up with a situation that is very unlike what we have in the United States. In the United States, there are basically two distribution networks. There's a grid connects the vast majority of the continents with U.S. together, whereby electricity can be sent from Connecticut to Pennsylvania if there's excess capacity in all places and excess demand in your mother. Then there's a second distribution network that serves Texas because Texas, they're like, you have a distribution network? Oh, fuck, y'all, we're going to make our own. And so they have to. And so that was a terrible text match. Half British, half Greek, recently Americanized, that was terrible. Anybody who's a bit Indian, maybe? So what happens in the U.S. is if you have excess capacity for a factory and you have demand somewhere else, you just ship it across the distribution network. And in China, you don't. You just waste it. You don't have anything to do with that electricity. If it's generated and it's not used on the spot by the local area where you can distribute it, it's wasted. So there's this very big difference between what's being generated and what's being used. And what can you do with the excess capacity? What do you do with the electricity that would otherwise get wasted? That would otherwise simply get wasted. Well, one thing you can do is you can turn off the power, right, and turn off the plant. The problem is that some of these plants, you know, it takes six hours to turn it off and eight hours to turn it back on. So if you're going to have a law in demand for four hours, it's not enough time to turn it off and on again. So you just leave it on, wasted energy. Other plants, you can't turn them off at all. I was reading about this mining farm that has located itself in this tiny village in China where there's nothing, except for a hydroelectric plant that was built as part of these development projects. And they have a hydroelectric plant that generates way too much electricity that they're not actually using and it was getting wasted. So some enterprising person went there and said, hey, Bitcoin mining. I'm like, what? What's that? Free money from electricity. I'm like, oh, we'll take some of that. So now they're doing 50 or 60 megawatts of Bitcoin mining out of these completely ramshackle, warehousing buildings that we'll put up overnight. And you can think that's wasteful or it's concentration of mining in China. What they're doing is they're solving a problem. They have electricity that's being produced. They can't turn it off. They don't want to disinvest in electricity because eventually they're going to catch up with that level of capacity. And they found a creative way to turn that into money. Bitcoin is a battery. It's a battery that stores energy in the form of Bitcoin that they can then use to buy electricity in the future or to buy oil or to buy other forms of energy. It's an energy storage mechanism. And I think that's brilliant. I'm not worried about centralization of mining in China because the incentives are so high to keep it going. And the only way to keep it going is by playing by the rules of consensus. So the problem is that if a highfalutin official went in there and said, we're going to ban Bitcoin, everybody in that village would be questioned here. All of our income comes from that building. What are you going to give us if you turn it off? What are they going to do?  Great. Good luck finding a police officer who's going to do that. They're all getting paid by the mining equipment. And see the problem is that there is a big disparity between political power and electrical power. So I'm not worried about centralization of mining in China because centralization in mining in China is representing the best of entrepreneurial capitalism in a very destructive way in a country that desperately needs the best of entrepreneurial capitalism. We should be applauding it. And honestly, we wouldn't be having this discussion if it was mining centralization in Sweden. Everybody would be going, yeah, another terrible accident. So I'm not worried about that. I think it's going to change and I think it's not a problem while it doesn't change. I think hard forks are a bit of a difficult topic. It's very esoteric for most of the audience here. So I'm going to take that one offline. But what I do want to say is that in the very first five, six days of the Ethereum hard fork, I was wrong. Like totally wrong. I said, oh, this seems to be going very well. It went off without a hitch. So lesson learned. Take them more overweight. And technologically, the Ethereum fork went off without a hitch. Politically, it went off with a big hitch. And now we have two Ethereums, Ethereum and Ethereum Classic. And Classic isn't going anywhere. It's simply not going anywhere. And the ideal solution would have been perhaps for those who wanted it for hard fork to be nice and clean. The second fork just disappears, done. That didn't happen. It looked like it was going to happen for the first five days. And then things changed very rapidly. And I'm now revising my opinion based on the presence of new data. And it poses some very interesting questions. I think it becomes a warning to Bitcoin that even if the technology of a hard fork in Bitcoin is easy, which it is not, it is much harder than Ethereum, you have to think of things like replay attacks and being able to do a clean break for the past so that the two chains are not compatible to avoid attacks against the exchanges, replay attacks, confusion for users and all the other things. And you need a lot of planning because I can guarantee you that if we do a hard fork in Bitcoin and it's pulled off without a hitch technologically, politically, the next day we will have two Bitcoins. There are plenty of people who will go for the non-hard forked Bitcoin and will hold forever and will probably mine it. So if that's what we want, maybe we can do it. If not, we also need to find other ways to scale. All right, let me take another question because we're a bit long. Thanks for coming out and talking to us. I've seen a few of your talks. You've been around the world talking about Bitcoin. What city most impressed you as far as startups or community go? And one more question. Do you think apps like Satoshi Dice that use the Bitcoin blockchain as a database almost is a good or bad idea? Is it spamming the network? Or is it just what do you think is apps like Facebook? So I have to say that on the first question, the Bitcoin communities that have influenced me the most are the Bitcoin communities in the developing world. I visited Brazil and Argentina are probably foremost in terms of the impact they have on my thinking because they showed me what it means to have a very clear understanding of why government money is a bad idea. It may have something to do with whether your government was throwing people out of airplanes in the last couple of decades, like recently. That encourages people to think more openly about alternative currencies. Being in a society, I grew up in Greece. I saw currency shocks three times when I was growing up. I remember bank loans, long lines, destroyed fortunes. So that was an experience that I've always had with me. But seeing it play again and again recently in Argentina and Brazil to a certain extent, that made me understand why Bitcoin matters everywhere else. And I've talked about that a lot, this concept of the other six billion, why it matters much more for the places where, just like in the US, there's no difference between corporation, bank, and government. They're all one thing now. But in this particular case, they're also homicidal maniacs. And so if that's the government corporation bank you're stuck with, you're much more motivated to seek a separation of states of money. Those communities influenced me a lot. Your second question is, is subsidized good or bad? Oh, yes. I've talked about this as well before. The idea that there's no such thing as a spam transaction. There's no such thing as a good and bad transaction. That is a normative judgment that no one in Bitcoin is authorized to make. Bitcoin is a system without normative judgment. The question you ask about the transaction is simple. One, does it validate according to the current consensus rules? And the answer is clear. It's either true or false. And two, did it have sufficient fee to be prioritized and included into a block by the miners who are guided by their own self-interest and still validate according to the consensus rules? If it did, it was a valid transaction. It's valid to someone. It was valid enough to pay a fee, therefore it is valid. The whole point of Bitcoin is we don't make judgments on transactions other than the intrinsic validity of the transaction according to the consensus rules, and we let the market decide if someone is willing to have their transaction carried, it is worth something to them. If what is worth to them is a fee that makes it worth to a miner, then it is worthy of being included in the blockchain. It's a very simple system of decision-making because it removes all of the possibilities for problems. The problem is the moment you introduce a normative judgment, you also introduce a judge. So, if the question is, what is a valid Bitcoin transaction according to a normative judgment, then the second question is, who gets to decide that? And that's where things get difficult very, very quickly, as we've seen in the traditional banking industry.


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So I'd like to thank you all for coming today. I'm going to tell you about a technology that is revolutionizing biology and offers the potential to cure human genetic disease. So this story really starts with DNA. You probably know that DNA is the code of life that gives cells the ability to function, gives organisms the ability to develop. But when there are mutations in that code, it can also give rise to disease. And we know a lot about the sequences of DNA in cells right now, and we know about mutations. But up until now, it hasn't been possible to do much about those mutations. Imagine that we had a tool whereby we could actually fix individual mutations in DNA, much like you would do with a word processor to cut and paste and edit text. What if we had a text editor for DNA in cells? And it turns out that now we do, and this is a technology that came about through not a focused project, but actually through a curiosity-driven set of research experiments that were done to understand how bacteria fight off a viral infection. So this was an international collaboration between my lab at the University of California at Berkeley and the lab of Emmanuel Charpentier, who at the time was doing this research in Sweden at Umea University. That's the team. And we worked together to figure out how bacteria employ an enzyme, a protein called Cas9, that turns out to be a programmable protein. This is a protein that in nature is programmed by two separate molecules of RNA, one of which provides sequence information that allows this protein to recognize pieces of DNA that have a sequence matching the sequence of the RNA.  And once that happens, cells have ways of repairing double-stranded breaks by introducing small changes in the genome or sometimes whole new pieces of DNA that introduce new genetic information at the site of the break. So this is a precision tool that now allows us to take this protein RNA complex and introduce it into cells or tissues to correct mutations at sites where we know there's a deleterious change in the genetic code. So I wanted to show you an example of how this can be utilized. This protein complex can actually be injected directly into fertilized eggs of a mouse. And in the experiment, you'll see we're targeting a gene that is responsible for the black coat color in mice. And so normally, these mice have beautiful, glossy black coats. And once we make this targeted change, we then implant these edited eggs back into a female mouse and when she gives birth to pups, you'll see that the pups are now mostly white. And the remarkable thing about this experiment is that when these mouse mice grow up, you can test them and show that every cell in the body has this single genetic change that gives rise to the white coat color. But otherwise, they're absolutely normal. So they are normal mice, no mutations elsewhere in the genome. This is a type of experiment that used to take at least a year to create a mouse like this. And now it can be done in a few weeks and by people that don't have to have special expertise. So this is a technology that's been very exciting over the last two and a half years to see this technology taking off. These are publications. In the scientific literature, it's been sort of exponential growth of publications, people using this technology for all sorts of applications. And so some of these include making changes in targeted genetic changes in plants, in fungi, in animals that are important agriculturally, in animals that are important to us as pets. And also, in thinking about human health, also to do things like make changes in stem cells, which are cells that can give rise to new organs. Also to make changes in animals that are important as models of human disease, such as mice and monkeys. And we think within the not too distant future it will be possible to actually use this technology to make changes in humans so that we can actually cure diseases that have genetic causes, like cystic fibrosis and other such disorders. Thank you.


My name is Robert Tassen. I specialize in benign hematology at the John Thorough Cancer Center. I've been in private practice for 15 years and I've been working here at the John Thorough Cancer Center for five years. In the five years that I've been here, I've really been struck by the fantastic working relationship that we all have together. I speak to one of my colleagues or multiple of my colleagues multiple times a week. We have a wonderful community of doctors here who have spent decades of their lives training and dedicating themselves to becoming experts in specific fields. I know that when I speak with them, I'm speaking with someone who knows all of the latest information about whatever condition it is. And I don't know that that's something that's seen commonly in other practices or other cancer centers even. The benefit of having that ease of accessibility is really fantastic because it then will facilitate patient care further if I am not the right person for them to be seeing. In five minutes I'll be speaking with the person that they should be seeing and in a day they'll have an appointment with them. We're very good at accommodating our patients in a timely fashion. I very rarely have people need to wait more than a day or two to be seen in one location or another, which I think is also very important because when you have a diagnosis of anything, you wanna get treated as soon as you can. I think that's a strength of the John Thorpe Cancer Center that can not be.


Welcome back to another product review and today we're going to take a look at Star Trek the emotion picture inside the art and visual effects. That's right Star Trek and there's a lot to cover. Ah going from cover to cover. Anyway there's a ton of awesome stuff in there. Speaking of awesome that's kind of self-serving but I do have a channel that hopefully features awesome things and I do product reviews like these about books, animation books, filmmaking books. I have acting analysis clips, animation analysis, I have lectures and I have reviews all kinds of things. Feel free to browse around and check out if there's something that you like and if you do like it you can subscribe. That is it let's check out the book. Alright that is the book. Oh hefty front, top here, sides of the spine and of the back. Let's open this up here and I'm gonna take this off and you can see a beautiful cover. Big fan of this here. Let's take the whole thing off. That's for the paper around it and that is as you can see the book in all of its glory front and back and everything. Really neat. Sorry little enterprise you're gonna have to move around a little bit here. I need some room. Let's open up the book. This book contains a ton of information. I will go fairly quickly through and paging through the book. You got your front. You can see the contents. There's a ton to cover. If you look at the whole book here.  You got a forward and then a border launch plan of the Titans and Star Trek Phase 2. So as you go through the book you see a fantastic artwork. Early plans early sketches reminiscent of what they used for Star Trek Discovery and I will continue to page through and a massive massive Star Trek fans. So seeing this seeing the sketches and this really takes a look at the early stages and all the things you don't really know about. It's not heavy heavy on visual effects what ILM did and what other companies did. It has another focus on another company and it's mainly showcasing the artwork behind it which is super cool. I mean look at this. Come on. Lots of Ralph McRae sketches. I'll go a bit faster. You got your warp experiment and the cool thing is that it takes a look at all the work that Ablen Associates have done for the company which are kind of the unsung heroes. They don't really get mentioned too often and you can see here early texts. The artists are involved. Lots of behind the scenes photos. Chapter 2 refits Legend in Industry, Douglas Trumbull and John Dykstra going through their experiences. But I have to admit I actually did not read the whole thing. I just got the book. It came out yesterday on the first and I am here. Yes I left here with Spock Chapter 4. So this is how much I've read but from what I've looked at it's really really cool. Obviously if you're a Star Trek fan it's of massive value and you're going to be even more blown away but even if you're just a fan of model making you can see here all the details that it shows the sketches, the whole building. The early sketches with the painting. If you're just a fan of model making this is going to be absolutely something you will enjoy looking at. But it's just great to see a focus on the artists, the behind the scenes and just a really detailed look in terms of the creation of that movie. You can see here set design, big two-page photos and sometimes artwork. Oh look at that come on. This is absolutely that's where I left off. I'm very much at the early beginning here. Strange New Worlds. It talks about Vulcan worlds, the ships, the designs. Look at this so cool. Props? Yeah. Phasers, space stations. You got the dry dock here of the Enterprise. You got the shuttle with that massively long sequence which is still awesome. Love this here. Come on this is so cool. Love seeing all those alternate designs. Ships that you might not have seen too much highlighted. All of Veager which is not super visible in the original movie. For that you will have to go to the director's cut but it's really cool to see all those details. Yeah. Classic detail which Eagle Moss does a little version of that which is also really cool. Continuing on here. Lots of details. Oh yes. Creature design and masks. Absolutely fantastic. Inside Veager. This is Chapter 6. Seeing more details. Storyboards but also an inside look of a sequence that was not used. There's just too much to do, too much work, too expensive and just from a practical point of view just not doable but it's cool to have that highlighted here. Yeah look at that classic artwork. Oh look at that. As a friend of mine says and totally agree the Enterprise has never looked better in any other movie in terms of the lighting how it's designed. It still holds up so much. Chapter 7. Veager's Temple. You get more details into that. That's super cool to see. That will give any artist a headache in terms of how are we going to build this and design this but they did. Super cool. Let's continue here. More details for the Enterprise and Veager. Color storyboards. Blue screen elements. I love this. I love seeing the early production models to see how they're going to do this and then the full skill set. I love this. Chapter 8. Angle of the Attack. The Klingon sequence. There was also talk about bringing the Klingons back at the end. The ones that disappeared at the beginning. Spoiler but that was also scrapped for various reasons but make sure to get the book so you know what the reasons were. Let's continue here. Love this. Love the different designs. The Klingons definitely have gone through a huge change throughout the whole franchise here. Chapter 9. A good beginning. The continuing evolution of Star Trek. The motion picture and then it has also a chapter on the director's cut explaining why they have to continue. What they wanted to include. What was changing. You can see here some of the imagery of what they included in terms of the new scenes and sequences and there we go about the author acknowledgments and that's it. That is a very fast page through for the book and again with the paper cover here. You can see this here like that. So if you're a Star Trek fan I really highly recommend it. Just the early chapters that went through are really detailed. I know enough about Star Trek. I'm quite a fan as you can see it. There are a lot of making of some books that I've read and there's still always something new to discover or something new to learn about the production especially that first movie which is so different than all the other movies. Now the cool thing is as I'm going through this and you see the set designs you see some of the models and what they've gone through. It's cool to see this knowing something else. So there's another book that I highly recommend that you should read. It's much smaller. It's a really fun read and I just disappeared quickly but here it is. Chekhov's Enterprise. A personal journal of the making of Star Trek the motion picture by Walter Koenig. It's absolutely fantastic. It's tiny tiny tiny but very candid. Really funny. You can see how big this is. I highly recommend you get that one too. There's obviously other stuff that I would recommend. I got a big library full of Star Trek books but these are upcoming reviews but I wanted to highlight this brand new one because it is full of artwork that's absolutely amazing to see and especially if you're a fan of the first movie. So I'm going to leave it as here. These are the two that I highly recommend. Get this now. This is an older one that you can still get. Live long and prosper. You know how to do this. Anyway I'm going to put the link in the description of the book where you can get it. Feel free to check it out and if you have already and you got thoughts about the book comments are open. Leave me a note. I'm curious how many Star Trek fans there are of those who are subscribed to my channel. Nice segue. In case you're not subscribed, subscribe and hit the bell buttons. You don't miss any of my uploads like these reviews and the other things that I do. Other than that it's a short clip but still if you're still watching thank you for your patience. I do appreciate it and I'll see you in my next upload.


Spirit of Heaven's God, we are a circle, within a circle. We are a circle, within a circle, we give Him thanks to Him. Welcome to the First Unitarian Society of Madison. It is such a joy to see you all this morning. If you're visiting us today, welcome. This is a beautiful time to be with us as we highlight the joy and the beauty and the gifts of our choirs. If you're interested in more information about First Unitarian Society, please stop by the welcome table in the commons. It's located to my left, right next to the elevators. And now winter comes. Its labored breath, misting the morning, frost sparkling on the pier. Exposed now, the birds make no pretense of shyness, smothering the feeders, fueling against the cold. In March, I didn't welcome spring celebration, exploding from every limb's end. But today, I am not ready to batten down for winter. Give me another morning to stand coatless before the awakening dawn. But pine boughs have already been wreathed and bowed, and fir trees cut and limbed for countless living rooms. So let me breathe good fresh air and wrap my coat around me. Let our hearts warm to the smells and the smiles of winter. Let us hold hands in the cold and sing carols to season these days with merriment. With hopeful hearts, may we let winter be received. And I invite you now to rise in all the ways we do as we light our chalice. Let's sing our chalice greeting together today. Our traditional opening hymn for all music Sunday. Let Christmas come, number 220. Now raise your hands. How many of you enjoyed the snow on Friday? How many of you tried to drive in the snow on Friday? Right, the snow is beautiful. Trees, they look absolutely stunning. And the roads, my goodness, the roads. So winter does bring its beauty. It also brings its challenges, and we all meet those challenges in different ways. But our story today, some of you may remember this time way back when in the year of 1978. How many of you can remember 1978? There we are. Well, John Rocco was a child in that year, and a blizzard hit his town. Any guess of how much snow they got? 16, Ruby made, do you remember? Eight, some of our kiddos heard this yesterday at the Saturday service. They were prepped and ready for today. They had four feet of snow. So this is John's story. One day when I was a young boy, four feet of snow fell from the sky. This is my story. The first flake fell on Monday right before recess. It was followed by many, many more. The wind whipped up and school closed early. By the time my sister and I got home, the snow was already over our boots. What would you say if school closed early? Yeah! What would the teacher say if school closed early? Yeah! There they are. The snow continued to fall through the night, and I thought it would never stop. The next morning the snow drifts were so high we couldn't open our front door, so we went out the window instead. We laughed as we sank deep into the frozen powder, but walking was hard. It was like trying to move through white quicksand. Every few steps, I had to stop and rest. It was even too deep for our sled. We needed a sled dog. When we went back inside, we were cold, wet, and tired. We made camp by the wood stove, and our feet tingled as we sipped hot cocoa made with milk. On the third day, what are they up to? Wednesday. Dad shoveled the driveway so he could get the car out when the snow plows came. We dug tunnels and secret rooms under the snow and talked about igloos. By day four, the plows still hadn't come. I wondered if we would ever see grass again. Inside, as you can imagine, things got tense. Our food started to run out. How many parents just went, yep, I know those faces, right? I knew we couldn't survive much longer on cocoa made with water. We needed to get to the store, but we couldn't figure out how to get there. The roads weren't plowed, and we certainly couldn't walk through the snow. On day five, I realized it was up to me to take action. I was the only one who had memorized the survival guide. There he is, look at the Arctic survival guide. I was the only one who knew what equipment was required. Okay, what is he pulling out? Why tennis? Is he going to play tennis in the snow? What's he going to do with tennis racquets? Snow shoes. How many of you have ever used snow shoes? They're hard, aren't they? I think I made it a foot and I stopped. I was the only one light enough to walk on top of the snow. There he goes. On day six, I made a list. I prepared the sled and I set off. My usual landmarks were covered by snowdrifts, but I managed to check in with the neighbors on my long journey. They needed candles, cat food, coffee, and peanut butter. Along the way, I checked in with the neighbors. I helped build a snowman. I climbed a lookout. I went the wrong way. I made an angel, explored an igloo. I joined a snowball fight and then I made it to the store. At last, at the store, I was tired. I was hungry. I was chilled to the bone, but I couldn't think about myself. I was on a mission. I got all the supplies and told them I could carry it by myself on my sled. Mom called while I was there and they told her I was on my way home. On the return trip, I raced to drop off the groceries before the sun went down. Grateful smiles and cheers gave me the energy I needed to get back home. I slowly made my way up to the door. My family came out to greet me. I had done it and I was so very tired. That night, we all had hot cocoa made with milk and it had never tasted better. But there was something else. Does anybody know what else do they still need? What hasn't come yet? Snow plows! It looked as though we would see civilization again after all and we would have to go back to school tomorrow. And now look it. The kids are saying we have to go back to school boo. But look at the parents. Thanks, heaven. I was going stir crazy. We had survived the blizzard. Gray skies over my head.  Remind me to sit down and rest. Stars of winter, Orion's sash sparkling across the heavens. Remind me by your distance that compared to the infinity of the universe every single thing I struggle with on earth is small, hardly universal in scope. Great music of the season glowing with angel songs and filigree with great mysteries. Remind me that my own birth, like the births of all people in this room, was no less mysterious than that ancient and celebrated birth. No less brimming with wonder for all children that come into the world have lives as precious to them as that singular holy life. So now come, love greater than my longing, silence greater than the fatigue of tongues, and haul my heart away from the undue frenzy of this season and bestow it to rest in the haunting dark beauty of winter's long nights. For Christmas from Mary Alice says a country legend told every year, go to the barn on Christmas Eve and see what the creatures do is that long night tips over.  I went, wrapped to my eyes against the cold, I creaked back the barn door and peered in. From town the church bells spilled their midnight music and the beast listened, yet they lay in their stalls like stone. Oh, the heretics, not to remember Bethlehem or the star as bright as the sun or the child born on a bed of straw, to know only the dissolving now. Still they drowsed on, citizens of the pure, the physical worlds they loomed in the dark, powerful of body, peaceful of mind, innocent of history. Brothers, I whispered, it is Christmas and you are no heretics, but a miracle. Immaculate still is when you were thundered forth on the morning of creation. As for Bethlehem, that blazing star still sails the dark, but only looks for me. Caught in its light, listening again to its story, I curled against some sleepy beast who nuzzled my hair as though I were a child and warmed me the best it could all night. Hospital, the wind is blowing, there's no beside, so let the sapphire fire stop and church will be yours in the morning. Calling rivers and sapphire fields, you are the fire and we in the starry sky. I love the beauty of snow. I like to watch it through a window as it transforms familiar landscapes. I like to walk in it at night and absorb its soft glow. Snow brings wonder and magic. I love the quiet of snow. When I lived in Manhattan, a storm dropped over a foot of snow on the city. I woke up that morning to an unaccustomed sound. Silence. The traffic had stopped in the din of commerce and shouts from the street were gone. For a few hours, the city was a different place. I love the sense of community that snow brings. We come together in uncommonly good humor during a snowstorm. I don't think we ever talk quite so easily with friends and strangers as when it snows. I love the gift of time a good snowstorm brings. Meetings and classes are called off. We find ourselves with an unexpected day or evening to ourselves. Usually, I fill my life with plans. A snowed out night shows me that there is more to life than what I have covered. I don't like the weather people on television who fuss and grumble at the thought of snow and who like their weather only warm and sunny. To my mind, warm and sunny is overrated. It's nice for a change, but too much of it makes us dull and complacent. Besides, there's no thrill on a warm and sunny day of coming into a cozy house with a cup of hot chocolate, settling into a soft chair to read or dream or gaze through the windows as the world outside is transformed. I invite you into this time of giving and receiving where we give freely and generously to this offering which sustains and strengthens our community. This week specifically supports the FUS Music Program. There are multiple ways to share your gifts this morning. There are baskets at the entrances to the doors to this room and you will also see on the screen that you can donate directly from our website, FUSMadison.org. You'll see the text to give information there as well. We thank you for your generosity and your faith in this life we create together. Long ago, in the land of Israel, the shepherds pastured their flocks on many a hilltop and looked down into the fertile fields and the valleys and vineyards of the hillsides. The little villages, the winding roads, the paths over which their neighbors traveled. Imagine a hilltop at night with a silent watcher alert to guard the flock which was huddled together in sleep. The valleys fill with silvery mist until the hilltop is like a little island in an unbounded sea. But the atmosphere is clear above and the stars seem strangely near. Through the long hours of silent night, the shepherd watches the majestic movements of the heavenly bodies. The lonely watcher is rewarded by discovering the universe. There are no stars except for those who sit in the darkness. The light of day calls attention to the things of earth, but the night reveals the heavens. Many of the most majestic passages in scripture readings come from those who sat atop the hill and watched the stars. Their meditations gave them insights and they enriched our lives by their declarations. With the earth submerged in night, the glory of the heavens revealed, people gained new faith in life, in themselves, in what was possible. The strife and confusion of ordinary life fell away in such meditation. Peace and harmony were revealed in the heavens. Light and music and joy and hope stirred human hearts, which for a few hours of meditation turned from the temporary things to the eternal and rich was their discovery. It was to shepherds upon the hilltops that the Christmas message first came. The music which was above the discords of the world came to their ears. The light which was above the mist of earth came to their eyes. Of old it was said, they that sat in darkness have seen a great light. To them comes the revelation of the beauty and the order of the universe, for their ears is the message. Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace. Goodwill to all. Christmas is a discovery and it waits only for hearts that can respond to it. Winter, the world, and it is our guest of honor. Hugs the arriving logs that clatter in to take their place by the fire. Mows kiss the prickly branches of holly so elegant in green and red. The forest which we have called and asked to come travels long roads to get here. Finally she arrives tired but bursting with the energy of high mountain cascades and starry nights. She tumbles across the threshold to be fussed over until she is comfortably settled in the living room. Soon the whole house is filled with the world's presence and it is up to us now to make her feel at home. Let this be the year we fully welcome the world and treat her right and lift our glasses and a toast to her and thank her and keep our resolutions and mean it when we say joy to the world. Now let us rise in body and our spirit to sing our closing hymn. Number 226. People look east versus one and three. The angels is stilled. When the star in the sky is gone. When the kings and princes are home. When the shepherds are back with their flock. The work.


I recently read that Disney Plus is raising its price to $10 a month. There will be an ad version though for like $7.99. It makes sense when you see the quality content they're putting out on Being Sarcastic. Speaking of which, let's talk about I Am Groot. I Am Groot is a- Wha- Oh, baby Groot's here, he's right down there. What's that bud? Oh, he's saying you should subscribe to Adam Does Movies so you don't miss any future episodes.  Oh my God! He's dead. I Am Groot stars that lovable tree Pokemon from the Guardians of the Galaxy films. This lovable scamp is voiced by Vin Diesel. That's right. Vin Diesel is still receiving checks for this character. Amazing. This series, I think, is five episodes. I say I think because I'm not actually sure if Disney's treating this as a series. IMDb listed as one, but when I fired up the app on my computer, they weren't listed as five episodes. I had to hunt down each one individually. There was no convenient way to play them all in a row, and one doesn't go to the next episode.  I didn't try it out on the TV, but as it stands, I Am Groot makes no sense anyway you dice him. There are five episodes, as I've stated. They are three minutes long. Each episode claims to be around five and a half minutes, but once you take away the 25 second intro and the minute and a half ending, you're left with just over three minutes and some change. I'll be the first to tell you I'm not good at math, but it seems like a show shouldn't have one third of its runtime be dedicated to the credits. That doesn't seem to add up. To summarize, Disney has spent the last couple of years marketing and advertising a TV show that is 15 minutes in length. And not only that, it's geared to six-year-olds. That's not a bad thing, right? Six-year-olds watch shows, they watch tons of stuff. In fact, they watch so much garbage. I wonder why this is the target audience. It's not like those kids went out inside the Guardians of the Galaxy. Probably shouldn't have at six.  My son probably saw the movie when he was six for all I remember. All I'm saying is this just seemed like a really odd decision to make. Five episodes all released at once, randomly scattered throughout the app. Almost as if Disney didn't care about the product, they just wanted to say, Hey, look, there's more content. We're coming out with stuff all the time. That's what the jaded part of me says. The other half of me that's also jaded. That's right. I'm a fully jaded individual at this point, but there's shades. There's degrees of jadedness. This is the less harsh one says this is pointless. As I stated, kids will watch literal trash as long as it's on a tablet.  I mean, one episode features Groot taking a bath. Another episode is him having a dance off with some weird blobby creature. None of them go anywhere. It looks perfectly nice. The animators VX department did a good job there. Again, though, like they could have used their talents elsewhere and made something that was actually a little bit more interesting to watch than Groot just saying his name a couple times and knocking over a shrub for three minutes. Show of hands class. Who remembers the Pixar short, Bernie? I do. I remember it. It was great. It's classic. It was exclusively a Blu-ray extra to go buy Wally like you needed a reason to buy that bad boy on Blu-ray. It's a beautiful film. Love it. I'm sure I don't know if it's on Disney Plus. I would guess it is. Check it out. It's actually really clever, especially if you recently watched Wally because Bernie directly plays off the movie in very clever ways. For instance, in the film, there's a scene where Wally's flying around dancing in space and one of the lights gets knocked loose. Bernie's job is to repair said light. So then we take it from his point of view as he's out there doing that and we as an audience can relate and say, oh, that's really clever and funny how they tied it directly into the movie. So while this is going on, that's going on. It just brings more life into the universe. Had the writers really thought this through or tried it all, they could have watched the first two Guardians films. I guess he has to be Baby Groot since that's what we went with. They could have watched the second movie and really played off of the character there, showed him doing things in between the moments of the movie. And again, three-minute episodes. This is so useless.  It's content. Subscribe for content. Thanks for watching the video. Since you're still here, maybe you really like my content. In which case, you can follow me on TikTok at Adam Does Movies. I'm solely trying to get my stuff on that platform, so it'd be nice to have some people following me. I'm also on Twitter. You can see some sarcastic comments once in a while there, some smartass commentary. It's a good time. If you really like what I'm doing, maybe go ahead and I am Groot that join button. If you didn't know what I said, I said smash that join button and join me here. Become a member or on Patreon at patreon.com such as Adam Does Movies.


Then there's Tennessee Titans you want to talk about a team that didn't know if they're gonna play don't know what's going on They're gonna be sharp enough with only one practice But here's what the Titans are believing in right now us against the world And that is a scary thing to go up against week after week Just a team you can tell is prepared for it all. We love all we love playing together. You just miss doing that Knocked him back the Broadway Touchdown You know, it was the epitome of next guy excited about where we're at being 4-0 And big opportunity this week with a division point in terms of time