 Well, welcome and good morning to you. If you're here in my part of the world here in California It's good evening to our science circle leader Chan in the Netherlands where I believe it's now about seven o'clock and getting dark and hello to Jess where it's very early in the Australian morning. I think it's about three o'clock or so Jess. It's amazing I'm so glad to see you here. I I propose this topic to Jess before the corona virus crisis and I'm happy how Lucky it turned out to be timely Maybe this was a very good time to look forward above and beyond the current news So let us step out of the present for a moment and look to the future Say 20 years from now from our 2020 perspective Our current times are transitional for sure A year from now it may be a fading memory of yet another tragedy And these may also be transformational times rapidly fulfilling patterns already set in social reforms and scientific innovation and In my particular field of education and we're going to be turning to national intelligence officers who Since 1979 have been making predictions 20 years into the future It's a coalition of government academic and private sector senior experts on a range of regional and functional issues and they talk about technological paradoxes and paradoxically some of the innovations that have the most promise for our benefit may also be a detrimental means to our harm And while we might have abundant and cheap energy, which is a game changer for sure And inexpensive access to universal information and health care and quality living We may also face threats of privacy intrusions and technological failures as well as technological divides And these are issues I have been following a number of years as an educator and as a journalist And also as a soldier worker I'm one of those road-running adjuncts For some 20 years now Designing and teaching on ground and online classes specializing in transcultural methods Serving international programs and students and I currently teach for several universities and programs They are right now each one of them closed Having closed their campuses and are making a mad dash to remote teaching And I've invited some guests from those universities today to check out what's happening not just in virtual education, but immersive Education and some may be here or at least watching the recording I remember how overwhelming your first days in a virtual world were Some of my guests are going to be feeling that as well. I sure need to remedy that Easier in Uh, perhaps a feature that projects them straight to a seat with full vision yet minimal interactivity is to make this a welcoming for our guests and Before I was an educator I was a journalist for national and international media and covered the fall of the soviet union and the And easy that was another transformational time. How often do we get to witness the fall of an empire? That looks like at least twice in a life And I also worked in community and international economic development for programs including us aid and unesco hit start And elsewhere always trying to stay current and forward thinking and I've published a number of journal articles on the future Of global learning and how to develop trans cultural distance learning Opportunities, I've got a link to my unesco article on the science to your right if you'd like And there's also links to these slides Go through we're gonna be looking at a number of slides. I've got about 110 of them all together So strap in hold on tight and let's get going I have been trying to stay current with the rush of daily news, especially as it relates to education And here are some of the more salient articles I've seen over the last few weeks An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education Says that out of this corona virus crisis may come some changes for the better Such as collaboration between campuses rather than competition for students and where students enroll in a network of learning Rather than one specific college or university Another article from inside higher education suggests we focus more on master classes In areas of high demand as a lower division gateway Also low residency options where students have more choices for online learning and Take on expanded off-campus projects and computed community-based learning Uh, and another of their articles said we should be engaging more international students through virtual Exchanges in global education platform such as what we're doing right here today With 1.4 billion children around the world now living with school clotures Well the Khan Academy founder he said on ns mbc that he's seeing new registrations for his program By parents. Well, they soared by a factor of 20 times what's normal And it's a free nonprofit site with extensive learning resources for children and adults It's been supported by the bill and melinda gates foundation If you have any kids at home that you're homeschooling you're really going to want to check this resource out I'll add another article. I enjoyed in the new york times People are now virtually visiting the world's top museums people who have may have never done so while they're I've heard about people taking their kids on virtual disneyland rides on youtube You can do this start to finish jiggling the kids on your lap And pretending like it's a roller coaster And also virtual cliff diving into hawaii and visiting virtual reality worlds such as this and How quickly we've adapted to current times people going on virtual vacations and safaris I've seen that And by the way, all these article links as well If you just click the pdf sign with the slides over to the side there You can get a copy of a pdf of these slides and all the links should actively And then one final plug Is uh, well the journal of distance learning administration the article is titled can global learning still save the world And the short answer is Yes, I believe so education is the so-called silver bullet to many problems in the world And that's my own uh article. I published two years ago by the University of west georgia and it might even more relevant now the slides will You know, I really love this quote. I'm not a big sports fan or a hockey fan, but This is saying we shouldn't base our vision of the future on our current mindset and position And as hockey superstar wing gritsky says a good hockey player is where the puck is A great hockey player is where the puck will be So as we look at a number of predictions and trends today Let's do it from a perspective of where the puck will be saved 20 years from now So we will be ready for the action ahead I love looking at the chat. I know that's where the fun stuff is But there was a there was a woman once in the audience at one of these and she said don't read the chat That's where the devil lives. I gotta tell you it can be so distracting So, uh, I'm sorry if I'm missing some of the great stuff or even a question or two. I'll try to catch Towards the One of the darkest points on the horizon I believe from our current day perspective is an evolving useless class of people That's what the guardian article calls them Uh, oh, thank you everybody. I'm so tolerant of me in the chat Um, and these are people who are not just unemployed but Unemployable because there simply won't be enough jobs. So what will then we do with them? Well, interestingly the article says they might be spending increasing amounts of time in 3d virtual reality worlds Which may provide them with the excitement and emotional engagement. They could be missing in the real world outside And speaking of useless, I think we're now seeing what really works out there in the world amazon delivery food delivery social media How effectively mass media uses streaming services isn't Those coming at Zoom and our own ability to isolate ourselves through extended practice I think we're also seeing who is truly essential to our survival It's the frontline workers. We so often discounted in our earlier times And it's not just a blue collar Uh factory workers on the chopping block Artificial intelligence is coming for just about everyone software publishing computer design Professional services such as legal and marketing and accounting And they say the best defense against getting cut is more education and diversity of skills to navigate all the ships And it may feel like the world has taken a get punch right now and we're on a downward spiral But if we look at the trends over the last two decades, we might see we're actually doing pretty good Uh over some 20 years extreme poverty has fallen several times over for those living on less than $2 a day Hunger has decreased by half or more in large country regions Uh child labor it hazardous work has decreased by 40 percent global life expectancy increased by six years Over a 25 year spread and we're now living twice as long as we did just two centuries ago A child deaths by age five have fallen by half over 30 years People around the world are shooting up in height. Look at that jump since the industrial revolution Christian and living standards Homicide rates have fallen around the world and stockpiles stockpiles of global nuclear weapons are declining More people around the world are living in democratic countries and more people are going to school longer solar power is getting cheaper And as we look at these different trends and technological developments Let's keep in mind that the slopes and cycles of hype Innovations they go through this as as do our own personal relationships Don't they we start out on a high of inflated expectations? and then we slip down into the trough of disillusionment and Recovering from that to climb back up a slope of enlightenment and wisdom and then achieving an informed plateau of productivity I know we've talked about this before and you can see How this hype cycle plays out for a number of emerging technologies. You can see 5g Just hitting the peak of hype right now and autonomous driving is already slipping into the trough of disillusionment So let's start right now a whirlwind tour. That's some pretty cool tech coming our way Starting with power, which is a big game changer as it becomes cheaper and more accessible for everyone Here's a good look. I love this. This is something that would look good in a backyard. It's a glass fear Solar harvester and that it concentrates both sunlight and moonlight by 10,000 times And collects as much output as a standard panel four times its size And we are developing fully transparent solar cells Which would allow any window on a building or our car windshields and even our smartphone screen to become a photovoltaic solar cell Here's another interesting project bill gates is backing a solar project that uses artificial intelligence to Concentrate sunlight to a single point and this creates temperatures hot enough to make some mint and steel Or local construction in remote places and they're going to generate their own power to do that And scientists At U mass in amherst have developed a thin film of protein nanowires That can create power right out of thin air and they do this by sucking up atmospheric Humidity. This is an interesting innovation there In australia. Hey Jess in australia scientists Are working on a method to convert energy from sunlight and water into fuel Using a naturally occurring protein to create hydrogen cheaply and safely And their entire towns in norway powered with tidal energy every day along a coast the tides come in the tides go out And creating a massive surge of energy easily tapped with simple spinning giant propellers And the global wind energy also using giant spinning propellers. Well, that should continue strong growth You can see miles and miles of them driving to las vegas through the california deserts Another benefit of wind turbines. Oh, did I go through that too quickly? I think it's double skipping here Um Oh, unfortunately that slide didn't come up. Well, one of the benefits of wind turbines It's found that they absorb the power of surface winds and they might actually diminish hurricane wind speeds and storm surge Surges by a substantial amount It's too bad. We don't And of course we are seeing more self-driving cars and no doubt Which we saw earlier is already slipping down into the trough of a disillusionment We got somebody speaking out there Uh, also we have This pretty little car Uh, it's missing as well. I wonder why some of my slides just didn't seem to be showing up. That's a shame Um We seem to have some reflecting audio out there One of the questions is uh, what are we going to do with all these oil possessing nations? Uh, uh, and uh, the oil producing regions around the world as we start going to other forms of power Already, uh, we are looking uh in the united arab emirates They see lots of flat and well-suited land for commercial spaceports and they're going to be investing in that Oh, we're hundreds of millions of dollars And for those of us still waiting for our jet to the flying car Bowling is still looking to design a flying car that only costs about as much as a luxury vehicle It's quiet and fuel efficient and easy to fly The bigger problem will be air traffic control Maybe a giant net if someone gets out of line like one of those roadrunner cartoons grab them right out And here's the prototype of an aircraft. We may be flying come 2040. It's basically a flying wing reducing drag Uh and powered with electric fans This evening looks like they're really going to be packing in a lot of passengers I don't think that's going to be very comfortable from what I see of the diagram here We're also going to be seeing more magnetics uh in propulsion The world's first magnetic levitation train in china scoots along at 270 miles an hour That's about 430 kilometers per hour. That's a pretty fast ride, but Elon Musk's hyper tube train would still beat that at 800 miles per hour Traveling between los angeles and san francisco in just 30 minutes Housing uh is also going to benefit from newer and cleaner technologies Such as these cost and energy efficient solar floating homes Uh, they're gonna be 1000 square feet. Well, that's a good living space about 12 meters in diameter High with a roof topped by solar collectors. That looks pretty good living to me We're also going to be uh Printing homes here are some samples of 3d printed houses created right on site using local clay and Putting out zero waste product several homes can be printed at once using multiple Crane printers that looks very promising And for those of us who would like A life at sea i'm a sea captain myself I wouldn't mind floating on a city at sea and here are some floating cities that could become a reality Even here in the 2020s and helping to resolve resolve problems such as overpopulation and rising sea levels Here are construction plans in china for a prefabricated self-sufficient island Designed to be zero carbon energy efficient and producing its own food with vertical farms and fish hatcheries And this city is called noa's ark. It's a self-sustaining city designed for a post apocalyptic world It's got terraced agricultural fields that collect water And from japan, uh, here are plans for green float. It's a floating Ecotopia designed to house 1 million people with vertical farms and living spaces And here's a plan for Haiti. It's a collection of artificial islands called harvest city and the center of the floating city is dedicated to urban functions housing and office space and education while the outer areas are made of agricultural lands And here's a floating city that actually goes places as many as 10 000 people living and working and traveling together May be a while before this starts sounding good again And medical care will continue with some amazing breakthroughs robotic a deep field surgery Art and pain operations with a doctor may be in tokyo and patient is Village somewhere across the world And robots are proving perfect for eye surgery those of us that may be apprehensive about it Well, uh with a surgeon's hand even the pulse of blood In the surgeon's thumb is enough to hurt the act of a cat. So we'll be doing much much better with robotic Robotic baristas they're maybe making our coffee perfectly, which is bad news for starbucks 95 000 Paced by a machine that never beeps and doesn't require health insurance And of course, uh, robots will they've been replacing human workers for decades Robot workers robot Rescuers and now we even have robots for children. It's a touch sensitive robot horse that will customize For this happy little girl And we're even going to have a hotel staffed by Robots and here's one of my favorite things. Oh man. I'm sorry. We have just been jumping over a lot of slides I Let me check my content real quick that is a sad state of affairs. I don't know what happened to the slides in here You know, if there's any kind of adjustment in the player it might mess it up Yeah, I do love that multi directional turbo lift 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17. Yeah, they're all showing up here for some reason the players do that Okay Um, I'm going to take just a little pause here. Unfortunately. It seems like uh, this slide projector here is uh swallowing up slides I have no idea why that happened. It shouldn't have happened I'm going to go ahead and delete this one and put out another one and get caught up Um, uh, I am recording this. I'm going to use this as a demonstration for Some of my universities that I teach for to show them one of the biggest advantages. I think uh Of this is going to be Doing in world presentation. So I'll be able to edit out this little bit here new set of slides Bear with me Um, I am going to well I would love to take a moment here and try to catch up with all the chat comments But I'm not going to do that right now I would ask a jess or chan or anybody else out there if you see a really good question go by or a comment and I miss it Please do uh Maybe send it to me in a message some way that I'll be able to But here we are and I'm going to put out a new Set of slides This is not the kind of thing you want to be able to do on the run if Possible, but I'm going to go ahead and give them my best shot anyway Thank you for bearing with me everybody. That is one of the uh adventures of live performance is dealing with glitches as they happen And trying to get everything where you want it to be I look well in a frame If there is anybody out there uh from one of my uh invited universities Uh, let me assure you this is fairly standard There's always going to be some kind of glitch that you have to work through what I think you're going to find though Are the people uh in these uh Uh learning environments are very very forgiving and tolerant and patient with this sort of thing Let me go ahead then and I'm just going to quickly Go through the slides that we've already seen We may have to run just a little bit long today. I hope you're going to bear with me This is timed out to about an hour long presentation. We looked at this This is the national intelligence officers and some of their predictions. I've been in media government work This one's also missing some of the slides. I just don't know why that happened I really don't I put them all in maybe uh It's just a little too much. I'm asking of it I put a hundred and some odd slides in this little uh screen here Let me just let it catch up. We looked at the slopes Electricity from thin air. There we go title power. We talked about wind power Flying cars. I'd really like to have one of those flying cars maglev hyper tube floating homes Printed homes floating cities surgical robots Robotic baristas. There we go robots for children And again, it just seems to have Skipped right over a number of slides Uh, the turbo lift that's where we finished It is like something out of star trek, isn't it? And then the 3d printers we're to the point now we're pretty much we can print Whatever we want we can print Organs we can print dental work and dresses and houses and guns So we can do this right from our desktop 3d printer This guy he printed himself a home dinner Including a piece of pizza. Look at that in the shape of italy And even the plates and forks he used to eat it. He printed those as well We're going to be able to print organs and skin and faces customized and forever young And here's some developments in 3d lasers instead of printing they actually cut away The stuff we don't need rather than print it And we are pretty much at the point right now if we can think of it, we can make it Do you need a usb ported coca-cola cooler? Well, they can make that Or here's a wood stove. I love this. It generates power with a usb charging port For your smart phone or tablet I am sorry. I am getting a sidetracked looking at the comments. I just love this stuff. That's where the fun is I know that's where the fun is Other than being here trying as hard as I can to keep it moving. It's so much fun. More fun just sitting in the audience Or how about this? This is a desolinator and I love the spelling on that. A desolinator That produces some 15 liters of water daily And it runs only on some power with no moving parts and lasts up to 20 years And 1 billion people around the world are lacking in access to clean drinking water And this right here is some life-saving technology. It may even ease a few wars And then there's just some of the fun stuff. What a great idea this is It's an app that shows what different brands and colors of makeup might look like on you without the musts and the fuss And then let's talk about some of the developments in computers and the internet Well, we've come a long way very very fast It was still in my lifetime the internet first sparked to life short email between the original nodes of uc la ucsb stanford and the university of Utah whizzing along at 50 bod if anybody remembers what dial up was like and that promptly bashed the first internet And now the web has quickly become sort of an occasion to record and conceivably logging every word and image ever created by his human And it keeps getting faster and faster quantum computing using transmons and entanglement for some Subatomic weirdness where we can now perform a highly complex calculation in just 30 minutes That would have taken earlier computers 10,000 years to complete and boy, don't they just look so cool And we want the web to work faster to it's a There's a collaboration now working to reduce web page load times from five to 10 seconds per page Down to a near instant few milliseconds per page. We're not waiting five 10 seconds for a page to load anymore It's going to be near instantaneous and of course users Will have less of a time investment in their loaded page So we may have to work harder to keep them here with better content And now we're also digging into immersive technologies and those that give us a sense of place Along with the global interactions that come so easy now Regardless of where we might be in the world We want to walk and fly and play and touch And of course once students discover how much fun there is to be had here It becomes harder to keep them focused on learning. We know about that There are more virtual world platforms than ever before and more will be coming no doubt UCLA has just built a full-scale campus on the Minecraft server just in time for the virus shutdown of the campus A sansar is making headway is a 3d immersive platform with some interesting educational possibilities And of course for 15 years here in second life I have been designing educational resources and you get a few landmarks In the sign over there You're a meteorite And Right now we're looking at there's a race for the interfaces with the virtual world gear we'll wear The battle is Underway for the head gear and what it might look like now that we can lighten it up a little bit and chop off the cables And even possibly this will be replacing our smartphones and pads In the year If you haven't seen it, this is what it looks like from the other end. This is what a 3d camera looks like Taking a complete range of directional video and then stitching it together in a full world panorama And something to keep in mind with all this shiny new tech that may be rapidly immersive and coming down in price We need to remember that much of the world is still using much simpler and slower technology Of the 6 billion mobile phones in use worldwide 5 billion of those are in developing countries and uh used as a primary online access to agriculture health financial service government employment and education And uh keeping that in mind we need to ensure That our online social and educational services are formatted for that large population Accessible on a cell phone with as many resources as possible Here's a course I designed in customer service for the sailor academy It uses text and read along audio and video clips in its lessons all formatted for Smartphones and it's a free course if you'd like to take it or refer a student you might even get college credit for it And the link is on the pdf slide file if you copy of that And we also need to consider that technology just for the sake of technology It's not only always a good thing When computers were given to cod epoxy men and ecuador for agriculture use Instead the men started accessing porn and scorning their traditional ways And when the women of the Wapashana and makushi tribes in Guyana Began successfully selling hammocks on the internet and making a little bit of money. Well, they were ostracized By the jealous men of the tribe Technology is not always necessarily a plus Globalization you're right is not always necessarily Getting a lot of offers here. I will try to catch those later In a duke, uh, university study They found that after giving one million disadvantaged middle school kids networked home computers That over five years there was actually a persistent drop In reading and math scores as the students use the computers for games and social media rather than studies another example there of technology actually taking us Down there is one of the dichotomies one of the paradoxes of technology. We were talking about clear And of course now we're used to cameras everywhere Perhaps more per square foot in las vegas than anywhere else in the world where every movement and facial expression Is observed and analyzed all part of skynet's plan Says my shot now see this is why I love the comments so much. That's where the best laughs are And uh speeding tickets. Well now you get speeding tickets by camera. They're more common Complete with a shot of your license plate and the smiling driver perhaps talking on her cell phone And their punishable offense happened to a And the google glass story. Well, that may have played out But it was interesting to see what threats they posed the google glasses by the sorts of places that were banning them which were bars and casinos and schools and Of course rules against watching porn in public. We don't want to see that do we? And it may be facial recognition Features that pose the greatest privacy threat Facebook's deep face program now has an accuracy for recognizing faces that's just as good as our own human ability And our governments may well take advantage of that the jannis program run by the u.s. Director of national intelligence It's collecting photographs of people's faces in this vast database using powerful algorithms to pair those photos with existing Biometric profiles That just turns you off. Well, here are some tips if you want to thwart facial recognition Take technology first of all create an off balanced asymmetry between the left and right sides of your face and apply makeup in usual tones And also conceal Your nose bridge if you can't and that's a key facial marker right brand of hair Pick his phone doesn't even recognize his own face and a mask Uh, Mike doesn't think he's going to be able to pull that look off. Uh, Mike, uh, don't underestimate your I think you might do it. Do it. Just fine Uh, here's another technology that might be an unwelcome intrusion into our lives A commercial drones may soon be delivering our new toys and our dinners Uh, and here in southern california. We recently had our first arrest By drone, uh, they hovered it in front of the fleeing suspect and gave orders over the speaker until they Could arrive and I imagine it won't be too long before these drones are actually tasing people into submission Lots of our current technology Originates in military use including the internet and silly putty and even the slinky Uh, this is a tactical high energy laser They can lock onto an incoming shell traveling at 1,000 miles an hour and explode it right in flight Greetings to our drone overlords is one of our audience It would be nice if a drone could administer a blood tip I think we're going to be seeing lots of that kind of that kind of stuff Uh, here's a look at the soldier of the future wired with tech that will make troops safer And more formidable out there on the battlefield As in the world declared peace during this virus outbreak I think I have an all-warring party sit down their weapon. Has anybody heard how that's going? Heard much about that one way or the other And uh, here is this gun Shooting robot that can fire 1000 rounds a minute even just a second of bullets that speed is going to do some substantial damage And with all the technological advancements, we still remember it's the simple things that might impress us the most Like the smart kid who found out he could hack the million spent on disc copy protection With just a 99 cent marker covering up an hour of crack Or this guy Who suggested instead of building a thousand cell phone towers Why not float a repeater a loft on a weather balloon? And that required only three balloons to cover every square mile of north dakota. What a savings that looks Or the Danes who invented the life straw that can filter out waterborne diseases such as typhoid and cholera dysentery and diarrhea that kill as many as 6000 children every day And these only cost three dollars each. I bought one myself just Or this clever invention it helps this young man roll about 100 pounds or 50 kilos of water back to his village And what a smart idea. You know just so so simple And these guys who suggested that as we dump our waste plastics around the world Why not form them into some useful shape such as well What may allow water bottles to snap together like construction toys to build air insulated houses And for sure it is The simple things that can do the most harm box cutters on a plain A bottle of paint thinner and a big lighter on a south korean subway Or just a tiny virus that can close down an entire planet And that is a whirlwind look at some technology I think one thing that may be made clear by looking at some of these new technologies That there should be plenty of stuff For everyone to live well Abundant energy comfortable housing high bandwidth access open education safe water Nutritious food 3d printing of our most everyday necessities And the problem as always is how do we distribute our abundance? And I know some of you in the audience today may be students somewhere in the world And I sometimes brag to my younger students that our older generation Develop cell phones and the internet and some cool games and of course some of the greatest music ever And now it gets passed on to you a new generation Your greater challenge is to be fair and just with all our abundance Albert Einstein once said it is easier to split the atom than to purify the human heart We may never achieve that purity But your challenge is to take us forward with clarity And no doubt once the dust settles and the sky is clear We will see a brighter way ahead And I thank you Okay, well, thank you everybody for bearing with that. Thank you Jess. Thank you everybody. I'm so sorry for that technical, uh glitch. I don't know Oh Uh possibly we can do this presentation again In the near future and I'll update it a little bit with hopefully some more good news I just think it's wonderful Uh that we can take a moment pause look at the good things on the horizon and hopefully get our head Out of this carot coronavirus cloud for just just a little bit Well, thank you everybody. Thank you so much. I'm going to try to take a quick look at some of the comments here See if uh missed any, uh question Thank you everybody for your comments on the presentation I think I'll just take a leisurely look um I'm going to go ahead and uh go ahead. It's my birthday today Thank you everybody for sharing my birthday morning with me here I've got a birthday breakfast waiting for me my wonderful Goddaughter is going to cook me up something tasty Thank you for the birthday wishes Uh, I will go ahead and uh call it an end then on this we've lost about 10 minutes worth of slides Oh, that just makes me that makes me very sad I've never had that once happen in a presentation. I'm sure there's a maximum limit In 110 slides stuck into a Viewer maybe about it Thank you so much. Very good to see you here. Look at all the uh, look at all that maybe a server issue I don't know I worked just fine. I came down and checked checked it all yesterday one slide at a time everything was showing up I'm not quite sure what happened. We sure got a good crowd I'm going to continue taking some Some uh b-roll here. Let's see. There's one question why a lot of uh disadvantaged populations for income You require input dollar input Can you address progress in a capitalist world? Well Our capitalist world is certainly going through uh, I'm sorry. I'm getting some messages here Uh, capitalist world is certainly going through some transformation. Look at what we're talking about already Is guaranteed annual income, uh and such some of the more, uh, liberal Proposals that have been out there for years suddenly they're being spoken by everybody So I think we're gonna have to do a reassessment. Uh, how are we going to make sure that People get what they need I'm sorry. I getting a lot of messages coming at me here I think one of them may be Helping me deal with whatever issues I was dealing with here presentation screen Whoa I don't know what this is Somebody just gave me a presentation screen. Oh, okay Let me see if I can detach that for myself. Maybe it's a screen that works better than what I got Uh, I know uh, sometimes it it helps them to expand the screen to a huge size, uh When when I'm recording this for a presentation though, it looks uh, it looks out of a kilter out of balance Tiny little person standing next to a huge slide Uh, we'll Oh, I just love all these comments. I know there's some great stuff going by Less hopeful, uh, we'll give it up so easily Yeah, well there. I think we're in a bit of a death rattle here, aren't we? No, they're not going to give it up easily But on the other hand, sometimes we just don't have a choice Other than the rely on generosity of billionaires, we could just have a progressive tax system I think that's where it's going to have to be. I've written an interesting story about I mean the super wealthy with their Their art collections and jewelry collections. I read a story that their children don't want it. Their grandchildren Don't want it. They don't want the opulence. They don't want to feel As they're living so much differently so much better than everybody else And I think there may also be more tied in to what's happening out there in the world The children and the grandchildren of these super uber wealthy. So that could be the solution as well Uh, is uh, simply the kids are going to say we don't want to take it. Wouldn't that be wonderful? Take everybody's money until they two are poor. I think we're going to see there's plenty to go around really I think uh, cheap abundant energy production That's the number one cost and just about everything we consume is the amount of energy that goes into producing it Once we have cheap abundant Inabundant water Wide access to information education knowledge And this is where the world is heading. I think uh, and remember as well the Wayne Gretzky quote We shouldn't be looking at the future from our current eyes our current economic systems Distribution systems We need to be looking at the world through eyes of where the puck is going to be 20 years from now It gives me a more optimistic vision. I may be completely wrong Fusion power Yeah, I saw a question about that and I've always been hopeful for suit fusion power Humans do not seem to have developed increasing negotiation skills and ability to see the big picture until they are desperate Well, if that has changed anything in the 10,000 years of civilization Children of the 60s and 70s were also challenged. Yeah Many people well I wish there were easy answers What we can do I think though it's just once in a while stop and pause sniff the roses There are some beautiful things still in the world and there are still some beautiful rays of hope on the horizon I'm going to go ahead and uh grab some of my stuff. Thank you so much for the comments and the questions everybody How about a space tour Well, thank you everybody. I can do this all day long. I'm going to go ahead stand up Anybody who hasn't grabbed the uh pdf yet Then you want a collection of these slides in the pdf you're going to see at least a whole five or six of the slides that i'm for In my screen today, I'm going to go Where is the pdf if you just click? um On the slide it says slideshow pdf you can just see it right here. I'll move it over a little bit more towards me There it is right there slideshow pdf if you click on that it is a direct link to the uh To the pdf file boy, it's really a little laggy too Well, I got to tell you I've been doing presentations now in second life for 15 years apart from the slide glitch I got to say it looks like uh things are getting better audio is working everybody Seems to be moving okay when you get this many bodies in a sim quite often the lag Seems to block it that that seems to be working. I'm glad to see everybody here. I'm glad to see things working. Well Uh, stay safe stay healthy. Thank you and I am This is well, I'll leave this uh just chan anytime you want to just Delete this I'll leave it here for the interim if there's anything here somebody visiting could grab And I'm gonna wish you a very good day. Thank you. Jess. Thank you very much for getting up so early or staying up so late And uh coming the pdf has the other slides. Yes, it does. There were a number of slides missing I'm so sorry that happened. I'll try to figure out where the glitch was But if you grab the pdf you will see the slides and they're all pretty much self-explanant Thank you so much. You have a good day. Bye. Bye