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Digital Detox | Angela Wiselyn & Stephen Setiawan | TEDxUPH


oh sorry so good evening everyone
everything good time so far good so
today I would like to you know do a
casual talk you know prosthesis mainly
on my story on how I survived because I
survived from the digital digital
indication sorry okay so I’m Stephen
some I’m from Samara is a small severely
he said in Indonesia and back in the day
in 2003 we do not have any internets
there I mean we do have dial-up but that
it’s barely an Internet at all because
it’s only in like 1 or 2 KB per seconds
and that is almost you know nothing but
during the era of that time I was I was
keep before bedtime you know I read a
lot of books mostly comics and then I
play a lot of fun sauce you know pretend
oh I play it fortunately then during
during that times there is a rising of
the cable aligned cables you know we
call it Mexia and this time of day or
Nexus in the back in the interstates you
know it give me hook so quickly and I
you know I almost spend most of my time
on my real time in what we call warmoth
in Indonesia so I guess so but even
though the time at the time in the cost
is so much higher than
now in Indonesia I still you know
willing to pay and willing to play the
games so in 2004 I’m fortunate enough to
travel to States and boy those internet
stairs is very very fast and then the
game online online game very is very
updated you know like you know you say
well Warcraft you say F requires you say
feels worse everything is there
available and darn cheap for the student
and you know because we have a computer
labs and those interns at very quick
cheap accessible 24 hours so yeah that’s
good but I think that’s the beginning of
the demise of my time there you know I
pretty much grew up my my first freshman
year my GPA is 2.2 which is you know in
calculation a lot of my friends have
like three point one three point five
two point seven because in states
apparently education is much easier in
the freshman year during platter than in
Indonesia so I pretty much disappoint my
dad and my mom and I am doing the risk
of being deported by there so yeah sorry
so but the thing you just cannot get up
you know okay I stopped playing him so
you cannot just do that you just can’t
you know because there’s so much thing
that you have to do you have to level up
you have to gain experience you have to
you know Manning up and you know be
someone in the future overall that’s the
pressure that I have every day at the
time and then it’s ruined my life pretty
much died out that the way that you know
I turned I gave a talk and if you see my
face here is still flickering
you know it’s mainly because I stare too
much at the light on our monitor at that
time so something that I cannot fix up
until these days but then during 2004 I
am fortunate enough to met a friends of
mine who also you know study in the
States
they brought me to church praise God for
that and then I get you know more active
they call it actively which mean that we
going out to the real world and then so
it keeps me a little bit of you know a
good time you know about a month or two
months you know you see you know the
newborn Christians Bruce Lee is on fire
everyone you know what this this this
this I want no Peter Peter but again the
the time when everything is all about
games at that time you know Internet’s
the TVs well that’s why you see the news
it’s always about gaming you know and
then the community around you the
student they talk about games in a class
they play games nothing okay I believe
so and then it kept me hooked up again
so I just kind of like you know they
asked me to do mr. Frese in the church
and I said well because I’m stealing the
duty in my experience overall so I
cannot do that
and then there’s one guy it’s called
Jason he’s a good friend of mine and I
said I can contact as the contact him
you know in some periods hear you say
that you know do that’s enough I mean
you know it’s just cannot do it this way
I mean your life is will be ruined
your life will be miserable you know I
think you can after his father’s
finished then he called me a little game
called Catan
I think most of you are getting of the
games and then I say this is interesting
all I know but forgive is you say but
you do one of only have those things
only that I know from Indonesia
seriously
so why I play so so big Singapore games
it gives me like you know and it’s
something like I thought it was only can
be achieving their fish or both you know
the sense of competitiveness the sense
of adventure is the sense of fun it can
be done in four games I say this is
amazing and then I just say my school
buy some more obviously and then
this and then they say let’s go to the
hobby store and I say there’s a puppy
story it was a very primitive yes
there’s a Hopi story and even I came
there I see thousands of games displayed
so I say I see one by one and I say wow
there’s a Star Wars pork in there is
some work for games and then you can
easily meet transition from the future
world to the real world so that’s pretty
much how I be you know how I can even in
a detox process I start losing my friend
from Fisher world but gaining more
friends in the real world I give me more
activity in the church my GPA is you
know increasing and increasing as you
progress because I’m getting more
attention to the school my eyes is not
tired when I go to the school because
you know I play board games and then I
sleep enough you know when you when you
play online games you cannot sleep well
because your eyes is been you know
strain to the level that you just always
completely so yeah so it happens so it’s
giving better for me then I finished
graduate school it doesn’t say back home
in the nation and then I say let’s go to
hangout places what is happening in
addition I’ve spins away for seven years
I do not know what happening in the
business or now it’s I mean I go to
Starbucks you know coffee beans
sorry shoot and then I was there and
then I see a lot of you know I don’t
think they call it family time they call
it hangout they call it a star like Chad
and then when you sit there you end up
having a top and a chat with your own
ketchup at the time is a smartphone
blackberry or next time so I’m really
happy to see that fancy technology in
Indonesia finally but on the other hand
I saw and I only happen in you know it’s
a family there’s a death you know
playing against maybe some works maybe
some news that they read the moms
playing you know my son or you know just
say cha-cha and I mean laughing for
whatever reason they just stop there and
then the kids at the today’s an iPad the
kids play what you know temple Russ
temple run candy crush whatever they
played out there just to keep the kids
silent so that’s not reality that I
imagined I will live one especially that
by building my family now in Indonesia
under something that I don’t think it’s
good for my kids whose for my friends
and specific good for other people that
I care about so then I it reflects me
that the experience that I have in the
States
the way I get hooked up online is
because the shop that I have from no
internet Stu
god speed internet and like two hours of
two days of flight so the same thing
happened in Indonesia because back there
we don’t have anything suddenly boom 3G
4G now is occurring in five years so
everyone becomes so like now everyone is
so accessible to Internet’s so
applications now getting cheaper and
cheaper people are getting apps people
are giving you know hook up to the
online world and easier
like in every part of the Indonesian
right now so I’m saying that I think
that should be way to stop it I mean you
know a way to alleviate the problem and
then he says why don’t we just for kids
you know I’ve been cured by four tips
I’ve been safe technically by poor
claims my time in my school at least and
then I said plus two four games so at
the times I was in I was working in into
five job official and then I said I
talked to my parents I am I saying I
think I want to do business because you
know trained from the kids that I have
to be successful in business rather than
being professional where are all the
pets it pushed me to do business I do
construction mining there you know I
don’t think I can do that because I
would never cheat I like to read of
course selling book is not an option
here
so so yes I then I said let’s make a
profit let’s make perfect let’s make a
feat nice nice easy you know everyone
makes cafe these days but makes it
different let’s make a protein cafe and
we discuss it and then I say my
experience to him and there is a mess –
it has to be I think one does have to be
done before and in – it’s very sweet
we did
what can prevail in that example and it
surprises me that the reception is well
you know that I was I was because you
know being a poor game they saw him
gentle or very old school rather than to
digital and then when I open that anyone
says that wow this is this is something
I have typed in my family in mouth and I
can drop my kids here has to go to the
ball that happens here so so that’s
that’s impressed me you know like what I
can do what my experience in my life how
can i my digital publications
I’m really really ruining it you know
I’m at the level until I get paid to
play and attempt series night I’m
grading reasons in a razor shirt my
shirts
but I lost my life at the time I lost my
reality at the time and then I play
board games I catch spec mirela P now
that I’ve been Indonesia really really
dreaming that sometime in the future
that we should be able to decide what
kind of life that we would go for what
kind of family happy for you so digital
is something that you cannot avoid and
when you know now people cannot live
without their iPhones or anyways for
sure that’s for sure but that’s not
something that you can dip you can
choose not to addicted to because up
talking people in Instagram you can stop
chanting people for no reason so just do
something that is necessary in your
kitchen and be real with what I thought
you have if we all right your real
friend your real family
and then your real community so by doing
that of course you can expect people
from a nerd background suddenly become
an athlete do sports so but board games
like I said it’s something that you can
an option to and then you can look
because if I can find a solution for me
support you maybe you guys have also
have something else in order to cure
your digital toxication
yeah thank you for listening
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