 What an amazing group of people to be joining. It's like a swingers party for data sexuals. I'll let you sit with that So I'm gonna be talking a little bit about my life and What led me to being the world's most connected person in the world. I've got some visuals. Hopefully they were kind of That a sea that was behind me, but ultimately I my story is more about What I learned and what it was mean what it meant to be connected to so many different things As you can tell I've spent a lot of time in the news recently I'm not someone who's used to being in the news or on television or in magazines My family liked it but for me it was terrifying because this privacy We all worried about suddenly was very real for me and I learned it wasn't about privacy. It was about security I've been called a lot of things The BBC Guardian other organizations have called me the world's most connected human which is better than a year ago when I was the world's most surveilled person Just recently in Times Square someone was listening to me speak and he texted his daughter and his daughter said Oh my god, you know Chris Dancy. He's like a robot from the future And I thought wow if a if a college person thinks you're like a robot from the future You might be doing something right at least they'll treat you well when you're old But for me it was really about deciding in 2008. What it would be like to never go offline What would it be like to constantly be in the internet and to be the internet? Being the internet is a lot of work Because you got to understand a bunch of things about your life Some of them are related to your health some of them are related to Your identity because so much of what we do is online with our social networks some of it's related to Just the nuances you don't even consider every time you swipe a credit card. You're talking to the internet For me sorry if can we go back a couple slides because we're not syncing here guys Thanks Perfect one more This is what you get for hanging out upstairs with the AV guys they get to mess with you for me It was about working with my physician my doctor his name Doctor, I'll just say dr. Will he knew a lot about me, but he wasn't ever spending any time with me and I thought this was kind of telling Dr. Alfred would come in spend a few seconds with me and then leave So I started making notes every time I saw him and when I'd go back in I'd look up and say Hey, you know a few months ago. I was chatting with you and you said this or two years ago You said this he goes, how do you know that? I'm like you've got charts. I'm just looking at my phone in the notes I took by 2010 I was going on to WebMD and searching for all the diseases. I was developing in real time I'm one of those people that look up the side effects of the medication as I'm taking it so I can develop them in real time I Have palpitations just speaking to the pharmacist And then in 2011 I took all of my medical records and I had them scanned and something the mechanical Turk and had them typed out Had all my lab results for 20 years put in spreadsheets bring a pivot chart to your doctor and he'll fire you It's real It's unfortunate, but it's real and then you know Google has these great think-of flu trends. I also got into things like off The worried well so the worried well is this community that literally spends all their time online talking about the things They might end up with It's better than Real Housewives of Atlanta And they share the symptoms they're developing and what their friends think and then you find other crowd-sourced sites And then you've got all these people now wearing wearable technology Which is even more and picing because wearable technology allows you to put all these things on your body and for them forget about your body So just like your phone lets you put everyone you've ever known in your phone and then forget they existed and your address and how to drive Wearables that you put everything on your body and forget about your body You know and that's really profound the way that we've outsourced our ability to be aware of our bodies to these wearable devices And if you notice that the newer Walgreens look a lot like a genius bar There's more hardware and software and then in lab tests and doctors and Technology in a Walgreens and there aren't an Apple store. So healthcare is completely online and probably most Importantly the one thing I wanted to understand was fundamentally at a genetic level was there's something I could change about my own life By understanding my own information. So and that next had to go and study my identity How many of you remember I dream of Jeannie? I'm 47 and I look damn good But I dream of Jeannie she hated going to her bottle But once she got in there she was completely comfortable and if you think about our mobile devices are a lot like Jeannie's bottle We know we shouldn't look but just get in there and then we're like, oh, I'm in my bottle. It's you know major Nelson It's okay. I'll be out in an hour But what is it about our devices and our identity that is so linked together? So I went through and I looked at all the different systems hundreds and hundreds of systems and map them from my devices To the information that gave me about myself and learned this is impossible to find who I am I Then started taking photos and seeing how much information I could compress in a single photo without doing a lot of work So in 2011 I took my first Instagram photo that had a bunch of information laid in it the weather the songs I was interested to but you can see last month in Vienna. I was from pressing a lot of information It's like the atomic weight of that one photo is really heavy, but people loved it It's because they could get everything in one small size bite. It's basically a photo tweet But one of the most profound things I took away from putting myself completely online was perspective you know Nintendo said at best everything not saved will be lost and When you went to pull out that cartridge this is a Japanese tsunami stone. They built it over 600 years ago But they built on top of it because there hadn't been tsunamis in 600 years So we don't need the information anymore and well they got a tsunami and found the stone and said we should have saved this You see some things when it comes to being digital require long-term thinking the oldest Cave writings are 30,000 years old stone tablets 2,000 years old books papyrus 2,500 years old we only have 1% of that but that's a remarkable amount of information Because if you think about the technology we're using today Floppy's if you can find a floppy drive only last about 15 years and the average web page has changed every 100 days 100 days that information has changed so the information we're creating digitally isn't lasting And if you think about the services we're using as they get acquired we talked about some of the acquisitions earlier They get more and more expensive, but the interesting thing is the information gets more and more temporary If you can create a service whose information actually dissolves in front of you you will make billions of dollars Right because we only care about what we can't keep a lot of my friends are posting photos online And then they're posting their activity Literally they are having to prove they exist Because there's no record of it past that moment In some ways, we're dissolving right in front of our own eyes. We're the first Time in human history. We're creating information that won't last Even if you want it to I'm not the world's most connected person. I'm the world's most documented So what does that mean for us? Well, it means understanding that if you're kind of find anything important about your life You might want to start thinking about how you live it digitally because you don't want to end up like the Ark of the Covenant Ultimately, it's privilege. I Spent ten thousand dollars last year on devices to adorn myself with I Spent twenty thousand dollars putting things all over my home so I could keep track of everything in it But the amazing thing about this thirty thousand dollars It wasn't for the devices it was for the premium services to buy me back You can own a Fitbit that's in a hundred bucks, but the data service for the premium is a hundred dollars more So every time you buy a little trinket from Apple Remember there's tens of thousands of dollars worth of information. They'll sell back to you in the future So how did I do this? Why does it mind my life to fall into three categories soft data anything? I can construct about myself. Yeah, I'm doing great. Look at this picture of me in some fancy location Hard data my heart's beating really fast. I didn't sleep well. I'm thirsty. I'm hungry Can't lie about some of those things sensors will know this room is cold in certain areas. It's really bright right here It's really not probably over there and then core data genetics I Then took that information and created a low friction data collection routine to take ten areas of my life everything from health Entertainment anything I listen to all the music they've been playing and it's getting recorded on my phone And pump all that information into a system seamlessly in the background I then used a Google calendar to show me my life in real time so I can Google my life at any point flat files Spreadsheets and deep learning engine from Stanford to understand where the information was going and what it could possibly mean And I learned some really important things about my life The first thing is something that Douglas Rushkoff said he said when the only value left in life is a time everything becomes a clock Well, your life is really full of information And you're actually really blessed, but you just can't see it You can't see all the things you're involved with you can document the hell out of them But you'll never see them So if you could see it, what could you learn? But it's not just in Documentation because if you notice we're losing time on A lot of social media to have throwback Friday or flashback Thursday, you know all these memes If we're forgetting the day of the week and the year we have a bigger problem than dissolving information The new iPhone takes a photo, but it's got three different ways to Change the time on the photo you can speed it up slow it down or make a video or a panorama What is it with time? Why are we so obsessed with this? E-cigarettes are amazing if you're a smoker, but they don't end if you want e-cigarettes to be hit make them last seven minutes People don't smoke for nicotine. They smoke for time We're living in the relentless now. Do you ever feel like you can't keep up? Always busy hurts so much. You just want to stop People say do you ever take a digital detoxification if you have enough money to go to an island without internet? You've got too much money not too much information So this information is interesting because it can be seen in two different ways people turn it into something ugly and people turn It into something kind For me, I often thought oh, I'm not sleeping well There must be something wrong with me, but as soon as I had enough information. I understood. It's not me I'm waking up when there's noise in the room. I'm waking up when there's light in the room I wasn't broken. The world was and I needed to see that needed to understand that Even my driving habits and this feedback doesn't have to be judgmental or negative for me It was very very profound and positive. I lost 120 pounds So what I did was I took three years worth of information and I said days that are over 3500 calories have these people place things music Behavior and days that are under 3300 calories have these people places things behavior So I'm going to come 200 calories different now make my house act like those days That are 200 calories difference make the lights the temperature send me messages hide email from people literally remove everything and Guide me toward a world that adapts to make me a better me That's what why your information is worth so much money Because it's yours. It can get you better But this this this is a very very dangerous knowledge because people They're not machines, but in every situation we're given a choice. They will behave like machines and you've seen this You know, some of you might remember Tom Hanks. So you've got mail You know, that was a great relationship about two people who met online over email And then we've got you know, maybe a decade or so later Joaquin Phoenix and her and that was a relationship that met in his ear and then talked to him He fell in love with her and she was having a polyamorous relationship with everyone out Sorry to ruin it for you, but if you think about relationships on our devices and online today Well, this iPhone will tell you everything if you text someone there's seven different ways to send them information about you or avoid them That's not communicating. That's hiding Why do we need seven ways to talk to someone in a text message if we weren't worried about not talking to someone? And I love some of these any moment that I don't have a notification on Twitter or Facebook is a failure Someone tweeted that I thought I've got to say that there's little dots It was a thing in the New York Times about people having this apnea. They're just to stop breathing waiting for someone to text message those little dots All right, this guy wanted to join elo, but he can't because he considers himself a brand In machines if you've been in the grocery store and you're scanning groceries and someone comes up behind you And you try not to make an error because you don't want to be judged by them or Worse yet, you don't want that person who's manning all six machines to come over and judge you Or held up your phone to take a selfie and just contorted your body Or or you're someplace where you can't get a signal and you suddenly become Lion King If you're contorting your body for a machine the robot takeover you fear happened in the past I love those ones my absolute favorite the card reader the gas pump won't read my cards And I must go inside and pay like a poor person. I don't know why we call automation We should just call it what it is human avoidance systems And why do we want to avoid humans It's real simple grocery scores scanners atm's gas pumps. They're consistently average humans inconsistently delightful Consistently average beats inconsistently delightful every time because it acts like the internet This guy on Tinder for a profile photo just has his bank balance I mean if you're gonna be a formation own it right when so we said this is a data sexual conference This guy a seven-year-old pause in the middle of a sentence thinking what to say hold on dad He's buffering Take away here is you you become what you bend into If you bend into it you become it. It's really simple paradigm in life. Then finally the on aided mind is overrated How many of you've been in a car where three people have a GPS running simultaneously so they can weaponize the directions That's not driver. I mean you want to if you want to get rid of distracted driving get rid of cars I mean there's nothing you can do anymore So perspective is really the power that we're gonna get from all this information a lot of these apps will start to give you some level perspective some of my favorites are time hop You know activity trackers people love these activity trackers and wristbands, but in essence They're just showing people who they are it's the first app that showed them themselves I love tiny Buddha. It sends me text messages throughout the day that says that say nice things It's like I'd rather tiny have tiny Buddha contact me didn't have any friends, but because it says slow down but The takeaway here is that resilience is really the act of perpetual perfection So what could you do with your information that have it fed back to you constantly or be available so you felt kind and calm? Implications of this are pretty groundbreaking Right now most people are focusing on social mobile analytical analytical and cloud to me I'm focusing on sensors environment algorithms and mesh if it can't operate outside the internet like my body stays online Even if my phones go offline. All right, so I'm an inner net All right advertisers can't get to me people can't get to me. Don't think dark ugly things. You would do it if you could Algorithms help you understand information get them to you more effectively and of course sensors answer all the questions that you think It's about things that are wrong with you that there's nothing wrong with you And it's not a phone that takes pictures. It's a camera that makes calls And what's about to happen with Apple and Google's gonna change a lot of things they both announced platforms for our home and our bodies Everyone who updated to the new iOS has health kit on their phone tracking all of their behavior Google has Google fit. So what does it mean now that we've moved computers onto our bodies into our homes? You know, it's the website for this event has this line on it says everyone will have a personal algorithm in the future All right, and I thought oh gosh someone's really thinking because in reality what we're talking about is not big brother, but big mother Because with the right information it's not surveillance It's kind and it's yours and it's always available. You should be your own Wikipedia But you're not Then last week jawbone push this update When you're sleeping now, it'll automatically adjust the temperature So you sleep better it'll talk to your thermostat you just became the interface for the house But it's gonna get creepier. I think I'm not real sure how people are gonna deal with this, but when they announced the iPhone They said there's three things we're announcing today touch screen iPod or revolutionary new phone and an amazing new way to browse the internet And we know they weren't three products It was one and when they announced the watch she said it's a fitness tracker It's an intimate new way to communicate you can actually send your heartbeat to someone you love Hey, do you feel me can you imagine someone you haven't sent me your heartbeat in an hour? Sorry. We've been cuddling. I couldn't I thought you could feel it Send it to me now Yes, it's really funny Within five years no one's gonna be buying apps that could be buying habits and environments It's real simple everything. I'm talking about is literally in the past and everything that's going to happen is already Somebody's already working on a billion dollar company to do it See it's not about the internet of things. It's about the personification of things We want to see the internet in everything and we want to be the internet everywhere we go We don't want to connect to it. We want to bring it here. Oh, and which is this panel thought it's really important to me But we need to stop solving our human problems with technology and we need to start solving our technology problems with our humanity Thank you