extraordinary we are life skills and i’m
sure i’ll share mine with that other
people in this room I know how to code
how to write software how to build
programs and I like to use my skills
sometime just because I can for example
when I was 15 I built this online game
it was bezan chess but you didn’t have
to wait for your opponent to move his
species in order to read yours so he
could play very fathom it all of his
pieces before I could move well I never
played the game and I didn’t care about
chess I just enjoyed building it just
because I could and looking back I think
it has always been the case for me I
don’t stay with what I see I like to go
beyond maybe it’s a way to feel that
there is no limits if something does not
exist maybe I can create it and what I
love that my work today is I get to do
the unexpected actual addition in the
company I work we have a huge community
of writers and readers that are writing
short story and sharing them it’s a
fantastic place for young artists to
write and share a work when two years
ago we had this idea we were having a
coffee Mac to this coffee machine this
one and we had this crazy idea it would
be great to have these stories from our
community come out of the vending
machine you know like little rows of
paper like this right in the vending
machine next to the snack bar or the
soda that you could get on your way to
work when you went for the bus with a
short story on it at first it was just a
joke but then we wanted to try it so I
couldn’t my Fernando he knows about
electronics and we go to a bunch of
electronic components and we built this
rough and dirty prototype I brought it
here so it’s just a box right where you
press a button and it’s going to pick a
story at random in the pool of story
from our community and it’s going to
print it on paper it’s a very short
story you can choose your reading time
with the three buttons at the one minute
three minutes of five minutes depending
on your mood it’s primitive and it was
useless to us we just had forbidding it
like the process of bending it but we
didn’t know at the time we were going to
have a much bigger impact because a few
weeks later this man he is the mayor of
a city grown up in the Alps different
shops it just happened to come to you to
our office and I we thought when he saw
the prototype he saw something else is
so a way to promote culture by making
people read more to make culture
accessible everywhere to everyone so we
wanted bigger ones for the city of
loanable and after amid we had no idea
how difficult this would be we started
we would be done in 12 weeks and it took
us 51 weeks to build the first 10
machines because we had a lot of
problems for example we’d press on a
button a bigger one will press on a
button the printer would be printing but
the paper would always get stuck
somewhere in the machine it was so
frustrating but we made it and then
other people got interested and they saw
something else in this machine that we
didn’t see at first the University of
Pennsylvania wants to promote reading to
their students by understanding those
friends the translation installed these
machines in the waiting areas of the
train station it’s a way for them to
promote a better user experience by
offering people a gift while the way to
the train now if you travel to France by
train you’ll be able to grab a short
story on the way even surprisingly the
government of dubai I’m selling those
machines in the city wants to make the
young people of dubai read more arabic
as they tend to read more english this
hit is this as a way to keep their
culture life and even more surprisingly
to us at first is the world famous movie
director Francis Ford Coppola the one
who directed the movie The Godfather got
one short story dispenser also for his
restaurant in San Francisco and it makes
sense because Coppola is a man of
literature he owns a publishing company
of only short stories and what he lacks
in the short story format is that you
read the story in one setting the same
way you watch a movie in one setting and
he loved the idea of this dispenser that
gives you art for free we build
something that was useless to us at
first just because we could just for the
fun of mixing two very different ideas
short stories and vending machines and
then become something bigger it became a
way of spreading culture everywhere to
everyone of learning new languages of
keeping some cultures alive of helping
young people young artists to write and
share their work it’s about giving
something to someone just because we can
we all have skills what skill do you
have can you build something useless
can you give something to someone just
because it’s fun just because you can
who knows maybe you are going to have a
much bigger impact than you think thank
you [Applause]
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