thank you so let’s just do nothing where
we just keep quiet for a moment just
breathe and allow yourself for just one
all together everybody so we do that one
more time and good afternoon
that was my conversation starter which
is just connect with yourself for a
moment and when I heard Lindsey speak
and Nick and Winston I kind of thought I
just might go home now because it’s all
been nicely brought together
so today I’ve courted the star or the
Wonder a few people asked me earlier on
what I do
well my name is Ben and I saw Darcy know
and I am particularly interested in how
humans interact with themselves their
world and technology meaning digital
technology which we can see how
fantastic it works sometimes and my work
involves literally going out to speak to
people get into their heads understand
how we can make technology work for them
with them as opposed to just chucking
things are then and it would mean that I
just enjoy observing people I do that
for a living and guess what I’m
observing you right now and it’s
exciting with all we’ve heard and how I
feel right now what if I say to you but
at the end of this presentation and at
the end of this event today you will
feel really happy you feel a buzz you
feel awakened would that be because I’m
awesome
or without because you’re also awesome
and you here to gain something today so
take you on a little journey and I’ll
tell you a story
who likes gifts Christmas gifts birthday
gifts you’re gonna have to put up your
hand now if you do excellent so I got a
better get a Christmas gift about 11:33
on Christmas Day let’s see I’ve got that
beautiful bundle of everything fantastic
who can guess his name who knows his
name we call him baby Jesus and I can I
can tell you everything about him but I
won’t because we’re gonna be here all
day before baby Jesus arrived I got that
present as well for him which is a
little rocker and I looked at it I
wondered there’s all these little
hanging dangling bits on it how long
would it be before he got bored of them
and I really was keen to see how he
would interact with these things then I
particularly noticed something there
which maybe this is working right there
is a star that one it has a smiley face
on it’s a saucer I was interested to see
how my son would what my son would do
with this star so put Jesus in the
little rocker which has this massage
functionality that he likes and he will
just sit there and gaze at the star
literally gaze and observe it and wonder
what is this so one of those days I was
also observing him observing this star
and he just came in my head
twinkle twinkle little star how I wonder
what you were let’s do that together go
twinkle twinkle little star how I wonder
what you are
up
the world so high like a diamond in the
sky beautiful thank you there he is now
and I’ll tell you everything he’s doing
with that stuff so he used to wonder
just sit down
look at this star wonder which is a bit
like what our relationship with
technology was the pre-1950 are know
that when there was no formal
feasibility so to speak man technology
was just a novelty
you’ll be literally shoved at you and
you had to accept it so we had all those
clunky big massive TVs it was all
utility focused wasn’t it it had to do
something and then as baby Jesus grieved
well before this stage he started he
could reach that star because he’d grown
up a bit more before he couldn’t reach
it but he just didn’t touch it
so I would get the start an example in
front of him dangled in front and then
he would play with it and interact with
it which is more like where we are today
with technology isn’t it because now
there is something called user centered
design which is what I do and I’m not
going to tell you all the details about
that because it’s not a technical
presentation is it
however because now people actually care
about what the user wants to achieve
with what they’re doing
could could make life easier with the
use I enjoy using that app is he gonna
crush every two minutes all sorts of
things you know and then to wait for it
today
guess what he does with the star he acts
about he just throws around plastic in
his mouth and then sometimes he
completely ignores the star and starts
exploring or a dangling bits around the
rocker and I thought that must be sort
of what happens or the future we’re
going to see with the technologies so
let’s take a little peek
at our future and explore that for a
second so come with me on this journey
we’re no longer in 2018 is 2025 okay and
Forbes puts it in quite a nice so which
we’ll talk about today so let’s say it’s
a Monday morning you wake up and your
bathroom mirror is got all sorts of
things displayed on it because your car
is taking your some health check of you
and send the data to your bathroom
mirror to remind you to take that
vitamin today and that one and that one
and that Phrygia smart fridge no the
milk is is gone and not only did it let
you know that the milk is gone is
actually reordered it Joe the robot and
guess who receives it what shall we call
him Bob the hassled robot that does all
your house chores so literally have
nothing to do about just to be right so
this is sort of our near future and a
lot of these things exist today some are
at a very high level of research others
are production radiance of like that so
we’re talking about the future that is
so connected and where things like this
would happen right no more mobile phones
because augmented reality lets you put
it just project it there you don’t need
to carry anything around I mean who
would have thought that a telephone
would fit into the pocket right
self-driving cars there so not only
would would your fridge reorder things
for you but your cars downloaded updates
automatically and charged wirelessly
through the night and when you’re ready
it comes up for you because you don’t
need to drive it right it drives itself
and the machines are more like humans
a man called Ellen mask ever heard of
okay great
so he’s got his neural lace theory which
is all about brain computing where you
just need to think about it and it will
happen so sometime in future we’re gonna
be like cyborgs or something like that
prosthetics will give us superpowers
Christine Black Panther the movie riced
do you remember the villain that had a
prosthetic hand and he was also a gun
okay now imagine that with prosthetics
you can do literally anything because
it’s advanced technology and of course
we’ve got the drones which are being
already tested doing deliveries you can
get bored of everyone here jet off to
Mars or some somewhere on a spaceship
and this is the near future we’re
looking at did you know that by 2050
there would be about nine point six
billion of us which is a 30% increase
from where we are today from 7 billion
to about nine point six billion
staggering and we’re gonna be living
much longer because medical advancements
will ensure that so I mean my great
grandmother is not alive now but I’m
sure Jesus is children’s children
possibly might see me Jesus been my son
done for that by 2015 natural resources
would deplete because there’s so many of
us so maybe we’re not gonna be eating
normal food anymore
what tablet will be all your calorie
requirement for the day or whatever I
don’t know maybe right and by that time
things like computers would be so I
would be everywhere just 100 1000 times
fast and really cheap as well and
everything we’re too connected because
machines are becoming more like humans
and with all these things going maybe
would have some humans that are not
but one thing I know is that it is
absolutely exciting interesting and an
awakening to what or where the position
of the user is gonna be at this time so
we started from where it was the
technology was the Wonder and the user
just want that so they give you whatever
who was very excited the very first time
they got their very first mobile phones
yeah I’m getting some notes here and
then we are where we are working hand in
hand with technology and we are going to
where we will be the Wonder because the
technology would literally figure out
what needs to happen recreate itself so
it’s no longer gonna be utility centered
to user centered we probably now moving
to intelligent centered or artificial
intelligence centered where even we as
humans already expect I mean have you
put your postcode or something on the
sat-nav and you just expected it to know
exactly where you’re going and you got
pissed off if it didn’t take you there
right and that’s because we’re edging
slowly to that point okay where we
expect the machine to work it out and it
will work it out at that point now what
happens to you to me to the humans
my son is had an awakening now that he
can even ignore that star and focus on
other things he’s discovering more and
there are I mean someone said that
everything that can be created is
already been created so had Edison or
Tesla or any of them had I mean anyone
else had what they had a thousand years
before them the electric Bob would have
been created would have been made so in
essence they didn’t really create
anything because everything is just
negative manifested so to speak so would
we start to harmonize better are we
gonna get more mindful and we’re gonna
seek more meaning are we gonna kind of
access different levels of consciousness
are we gonna just leave that technology
bed and wonder about other things did
that be where we’re going it’s been said
as well that people like Niels Bohr who
invented they found out what things were
we have in the atom he saw it in a dream
Mozart I’m a classical musician and I
know how complexes his works are he
actually had a full hour of symphony in
his mind in a dream before he wrote a
single note we know about Plato we know
about ice time we know about many of
them and one of the common things that
unifies their experience and what we
know about them is the fact that they
seem to access something that we don’t
know about or that seemed a bit strange
alien to a normal person and I’m
wondering when technology is no longer a
distraction
are we going to become Einsteins
monsters of some sort
Linsey said something earlier about the
importance of teaching kids something
else in school that is beyond just
additional subtraction and stuff like
that I also think that schools should
start doing mindfulness teaching
students to just be quiet for a moment
what are we we are human beings we not
human doings so we should at least get
to the point where we really just be
certain there is a duality concept for
reality where is said that 1% and 99%
and the 1% being the physical world we
have here now some call it the dark
world just because in this world you
have the headaches the migraines the
deaths the taxes the school run you have
all sorts right the deadlines almost
always never meeting them an illusion
that keeps moving and then there’s the
99 percent where you have the peace the
love the joy the ecstasy the beauty the
creativity the inspiration the intuition
all those things who would like to be
there I surely would like to be there
because what we see at the minute feels
like a dream so if you’re in a dream you
have this beautiful experience you
create everything is in details you even
have a physical body in the dream you
can go to a country you’ve never been to
and see people and everything but it’s a
dream is real only to you at that time
when you wake up it goes what if you are
living a dream what if the 99% was the
reality what if we could control what we
do from another level different
religions talk about it give it
different names and I’m not all about
names right now I’m all about an
experience because one day the only
thing that’s gonna matter is you so
would you give yourself an opportunity a
moment to just be acknowledged as Nick
said that what is happening is happening
I’m in a dream this is not me who are
you remember this your consciousness in
it
of being an immortal spirit having a
human experience because you never
really died one day the flesh will die
this that thing about you mean someone
says to me how do you know I’m the all I
asked is what causes the ear to hear
what causes the eyes to see what causes
your breath to rise and fall is that one
thing called consciousness that thing
that makes you alive and all you have to
do sometimes it’s realized I am NOT my
experience I am NOT my fears I am NOT my
hopes and I’m not my pain my hurt our
instant nicely pointed out I just
[Music]
because you’re this beautiful perfection
in a state of being
so shall we do that one more time feel
free to shut your eyes and just reach
deep within and connect with the real
you the you that never dies the you that
can do everything the you that is alive
just be forgetting everything else this
moment I’m pretty easy deep just enjoys
life is a gift life is beautiful and we
can really live it is it the star or is
it the wonder you choose so I think that
it would be a good point for us to just
together go again twinkle twinkle little
star like a minute now I wonder what you
are up above the world so high like a
diamond in the sky
we’re gonna do it one more time but
before that just look around and when
you look around to people around you
just wonder what they are just look
around for a second do you see how
beautiful everyone suddenly seems
because it is all really amazing so
twinkle twinkle little star how I wonder
what you are up above the world so high
like a diamond in the sky give yourself
permission just to be thank you very much
we just keep quiet for a moment just
breathe and allow yourself for just one
all together everybody so we do that one
more time and good afternoon
that was my conversation starter which
is just connect with yourself for a
moment and when I heard Lindsey speak
and Nick and Winston I kind of thought I
just might go home now because it’s all
been nicely brought together
so today I’ve courted the star or the
Wonder a few people asked me earlier on
what I do
well my name is Ben and I saw Darcy know
and I am particularly interested in how
humans interact with themselves their
world and technology meaning digital
technology which we can see how
fantastic it works sometimes and my work
involves literally going out to speak to
people get into their heads understand
how we can make technology work for them
with them as opposed to just chucking
things are then and it would mean that I
just enjoy observing people I do that
for a living and guess what I’m
observing you right now and it’s
exciting with all we’ve heard and how I
feel right now what if I say to you but
at the end of this presentation and at
the end of this event today you will
feel really happy you feel a buzz you
feel awakened would that be because I’m
awesome
or without because you’re also awesome
and you here to gain something today so
take you on a little journey and I’ll
tell you a story
who likes gifts Christmas gifts birthday
gifts you’re gonna have to put up your
hand now if you do excellent so I got a
better get a Christmas gift about 11:33
on Christmas Day let’s see I’ve got that
beautiful bundle of everything fantastic
who can guess his name who knows his
name we call him baby Jesus and I can I
can tell you everything about him but I
won’t because we’re gonna be here all
day before baby Jesus arrived I got that
present as well for him which is a
little rocker and I looked at it I
wondered there’s all these little
hanging dangling bits on it how long
would it be before he got bored of them
and I really was keen to see how he
would interact with these things then I
particularly noticed something there
which maybe this is working right there
is a star that one it has a smiley face
on it’s a saucer I was interested to see
how my son would what my son would do
with this star so put Jesus in the
little rocker which has this massage
functionality that he likes and he will
just sit there and gaze at the star
literally gaze and observe it and wonder
what is this so one of those days I was
also observing him observing this star
and he just came in my head
twinkle twinkle little star how I wonder
what you were let’s do that together go
twinkle twinkle little star how I wonder
what you are
up
the world so high like a diamond in the
sky beautiful thank you there he is now
and I’ll tell you everything he’s doing
with that stuff so he used to wonder
just sit down
look at this star wonder which is a bit
like what our relationship with
technology was the pre-1950 are know
that when there was no formal
feasibility so to speak man technology
was just a novelty
you’ll be literally shoved at you and
you had to accept it so we had all those
clunky big massive TVs it was all
utility focused wasn’t it it had to do
something and then as baby Jesus grieved
well before this stage he started he
could reach that star because he’d grown
up a bit more before he couldn’t reach
it but he just didn’t touch it
so I would get the start an example in
front of him dangled in front and then
he would play with it and interact with
it which is more like where we are today
with technology isn’t it because now
there is something called user centered
design which is what I do and I’m not
going to tell you all the details about
that because it’s not a technical
presentation is it
however because now people actually care
about what the user wants to achieve
with what they’re doing
could could make life easier with the
use I enjoy using that app is he gonna
crush every two minutes all sorts of
things you know and then to wait for it
today
guess what he does with the star he acts
about he just throws around plastic in
his mouth and then sometimes he
completely ignores the star and starts
exploring or a dangling bits around the
rocker and I thought that must be sort
of what happens or the future we’re
going to see with the technologies so
let’s take a little peek
at our future and explore that for a
second so come with me on this journey
we’re no longer in 2018 is 2025 okay and
Forbes puts it in quite a nice so which
we’ll talk about today so let’s say it’s
a Monday morning you wake up and your
bathroom mirror is got all sorts of
things displayed on it because your car
is taking your some health check of you
and send the data to your bathroom
mirror to remind you to take that
vitamin today and that one and that one
and that Phrygia smart fridge no the
milk is is gone and not only did it let
you know that the milk is gone is
actually reordered it Joe the robot and
guess who receives it what shall we call
him Bob the hassled robot that does all
your house chores so literally have
nothing to do about just to be right so
this is sort of our near future and a
lot of these things exist today some are
at a very high level of research others
are production radiance of like that so
we’re talking about the future that is
so connected and where things like this
would happen right no more mobile phones
because augmented reality lets you put
it just project it there you don’t need
to carry anything around I mean who
would have thought that a telephone
would fit into the pocket right
self-driving cars there so not only
would would your fridge reorder things
for you but your cars downloaded updates
automatically and charged wirelessly
through the night and when you’re ready
it comes up for you because you don’t
need to drive it right it drives itself
and the machines are more like humans
a man called Ellen mask ever heard of
okay great
so he’s got his neural lace theory which
is all about brain computing where you
just need to think about it and it will
happen so sometime in future we’re gonna
be like cyborgs or something like that
prosthetics will give us superpowers
Christine Black Panther the movie riced
do you remember the villain that had a
prosthetic hand and he was also a gun
okay now imagine that with prosthetics
you can do literally anything because
it’s advanced technology and of course
we’ve got the drones which are being
already tested doing deliveries you can
get bored of everyone here jet off to
Mars or some somewhere on a spaceship
and this is the near future we’re
looking at did you know that by 2050
there would be about nine point six
billion of us which is a 30% increase
from where we are today from 7 billion
to about nine point six billion
staggering and we’re gonna be living
much longer because medical advancements
will ensure that so I mean my great
grandmother is not alive now but I’m
sure Jesus is children’s children
possibly might see me Jesus been my son
done for that by 2015 natural resources
would deplete because there’s so many of
us so maybe we’re not gonna be eating
normal food anymore
what tablet will be all your calorie
requirement for the day or whatever I
don’t know maybe right and by that time
things like computers would be so I
would be everywhere just 100 1000 times
fast and really cheap as well and
everything we’re too connected because
machines are becoming more like humans
and with all these things going maybe
would have some humans that are not
but one thing I know is that it is
absolutely exciting interesting and an
awakening to what or where the position
of the user is gonna be at this time so
we started from where it was the
technology was the Wonder and the user
just want that so they give you whatever
who was very excited the very first time
they got their very first mobile phones
yeah I’m getting some notes here and
then we are where we are working hand in
hand with technology and we are going to
where we will be the Wonder because the
technology would literally figure out
what needs to happen recreate itself so
it’s no longer gonna be utility centered
to user centered we probably now moving
to intelligent centered or artificial
intelligence centered where even we as
humans already expect I mean have you
put your postcode or something on the
sat-nav and you just expected it to know
exactly where you’re going and you got
pissed off if it didn’t take you there
right and that’s because we’re edging
slowly to that point okay where we
expect the machine to work it out and it
will work it out at that point now what
happens to you to me to the humans
my son is had an awakening now that he
can even ignore that star and focus on
other things he’s discovering more and
there are I mean someone said that
everything that can be created is
already been created so had Edison or
Tesla or any of them had I mean anyone
else had what they had a thousand years
before them the electric Bob would have
been created would have been made so in
essence they didn’t really create
anything because everything is just
negative manifested so to speak so would
we start to harmonize better are we
gonna get more mindful and we’re gonna
seek more meaning are we gonna kind of
access different levels of consciousness
are we gonna just leave that technology
bed and wonder about other things did
that be where we’re going it’s been said
as well that people like Niels Bohr who
invented they found out what things were
we have in the atom he saw it in a dream
Mozart I’m a classical musician and I
know how complexes his works are he
actually had a full hour of symphony in
his mind in a dream before he wrote a
single note we know about Plato we know
about ice time we know about many of
them and one of the common things that
unifies their experience and what we
know about them is the fact that they
seem to access something that we don’t
know about or that seemed a bit strange
alien to a normal person and I’m
wondering when technology is no longer a
distraction
are we going to become Einsteins
monsters of some sort
Linsey said something earlier about the
importance of teaching kids something
else in school that is beyond just
additional subtraction and stuff like
that I also think that schools should
start doing mindfulness teaching
students to just be quiet for a moment
what are we we are human beings we not
human doings so we should at least get
to the point where we really just be
certain there is a duality concept for
reality where is said that 1% and 99%
and the 1% being the physical world we
have here now some call it the dark
world just because in this world you
have the headaches the migraines the
deaths the taxes the school run you have
all sorts right the deadlines almost
always never meeting them an illusion
that keeps moving and then there’s the
99 percent where you have the peace the
love the joy the ecstasy the beauty the
creativity the inspiration the intuition
all those things who would like to be
there I surely would like to be there
because what we see at the minute feels
like a dream so if you’re in a dream you
have this beautiful experience you
create everything is in details you even
have a physical body in the dream you
can go to a country you’ve never been to
and see people and everything but it’s a
dream is real only to you at that time
when you wake up it goes what if you are
living a dream what if the 99% was the
reality what if we could control what we
do from another level different
religions talk about it give it
different names and I’m not all about
names right now I’m all about an
experience because one day the only
thing that’s gonna matter is you so
would you give yourself an opportunity a
moment to just be acknowledged as Nick
said that what is happening is happening
I’m in a dream this is not me who are
you remember this your consciousness in
it
of being an immortal spirit having a
human experience because you never
really died one day the flesh will die
this that thing about you mean someone
says to me how do you know I’m the all I
asked is what causes the ear to hear
what causes the eyes to see what causes
your breath to rise and fall is that one
thing called consciousness that thing
that makes you alive and all you have to
do sometimes it’s realized I am NOT my
experience I am NOT my fears I am NOT my
hopes and I’m not my pain my hurt our
instant nicely pointed out I just
[Music]
because you’re this beautiful perfection
in a state of being
so shall we do that one more time feel
free to shut your eyes and just reach
deep within and connect with the real
you the you that never dies the you that
can do everything the you that is alive
just be forgetting everything else this
moment I’m pretty easy deep just enjoys
life is a gift life is beautiful and we
can really live it is it the star or is
it the wonder you choose so I think that
it would be a good point for us to just
together go again twinkle twinkle little
star like a minute now I wonder what you
are up above the world so high like a
diamond in the sky
we’re gonna do it one more time but
before that just look around and when
you look around to people around you
just wonder what they are just look
around for a second do you see how
beautiful everyone suddenly seems
because it is all really amazing so
twinkle twinkle little star how I wonder
what you are up above the world so high
like a diamond in the sky give yourself
permission just to be thank you very much
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