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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.55,0:00:02.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was in New York during Hurricane Sandy,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.79,0:00:05.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this little white dog called Maui
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.03,0:00:06.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was staying with me.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.92,0:00:09.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Half the city was dark because of a power cut,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.39,0:00:11.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was living on the dark side.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.61,0:00:13.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, Maui was terrified of the dark,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.72,0:00:15.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I had to carry him up the stairs,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.83,0:00:18.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually down the stairs first, for his walk,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.92,0:00:20.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then bring him back up.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.80,0:00:23.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was also hauling gallons of bottles of water
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.78,0:00:25.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,up to the seventh floor every day.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.88,0:00:27.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And through all of this,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.46,0:00:29.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had to hold a torch between my teeth.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.76,0:00:32.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The stores nearby were out of flashlights
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.40,0:00:35.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and batteries and bread.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.34,0:00:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For a shower, I walked 40 blocks
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.00,0:00:39.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a branch of my gym.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.98,0:00:43.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But these were not the major preoccupations of my day.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.06,0:00:46.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was just as critical for me to be the first person in
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.36,0:00:49.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at a cafe nearby with extension cords and chargers
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.65,0:00:51.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to juice my multiple devices.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.50,0:00:54.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started to prospect under the benches of bakeries
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.22,0:00:57.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the entrances of pastry shops for plug points.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.85,0:00:59.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wasn't the only one.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.42,0:01:03.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even in the rain, people stood between Madison and 5th Avenue
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.18,0:01:05.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under their umbrellas charging their cell phones
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.65,0:01:07.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from outlets on the street.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.68,0:01:09.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nature had just reminded us
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.94,0:01:12.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it was stronger than all our technology,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.26,0:01:15.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yet here we were, obsessed about being wired.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.52,0:01:17.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think there's nothing like a crisis
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.40,0:01:20.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to tell you what's really important and what's not,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.59,0:01:24.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Sandy made me realize that our devices
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.15,0:01:26.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and their connectivity matter to us
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.42,0:01:30.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right up there with food and shelter.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.94,0:01:34.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The self as we once knew it no longer exists,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.25,0:01:36.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think that an abstract, digital universe
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.74,0:01:39.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has become a part of our identity,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.27,0:01:43.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I want to talk to you about what I think that means.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.52,0:01:46.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm a novelist, and I'm interested in the self
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.36,0:01:48.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the self and fiction have a lot in common.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.83,0:01:52.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're both stories, interpretations.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.15,0:01:54.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You and I can experience things without a story.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.60,0:01:56.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We might run up the stairs too quickly
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.69,0:01:58.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we might get breathless.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.37,0:02:00.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the larger sense that we have of our lives,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.90,0:02:04.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the slightly more abstract one, is indirect.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.26,0:02:07.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our story of our life is based on direct experience,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.38,0:02:09.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's embellished.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.28,0:02:12.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A novel needs scene after scene to build,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.12,0:02:15.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the story of our life needs an arc as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.27,0:02:17.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It needs months and years.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.96,0:02:20.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Discrete moments from our lives are its chapters.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.98,0:02:23.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the story is not about these chapters.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.57,0:02:25.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the whole book.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.52,0:02:28.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not only about the heartbreak and the happiness,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.86,0:02:31.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the victories and the disappointments,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.04,0:02:33.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's because how because of these,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.24,0:02:36.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sometimes, more importantly, in spite of these,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.40,0:02:38.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we find our place in the world
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.49,0:02:41.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we change it and we change ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.57,0:02:44.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our story, therefore, needs two dimensions of time:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.96,0:02:47.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a long arc of time that is our lifespan,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.98,0:02:50.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the timeframe of direct experience
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.48,0:02:51.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is the moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.94,0:02:54.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now the self that experiences directly
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.07,0:02:55.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can only exist in the moment,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.97,0:02:58.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the one that narrates needs several moments,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.73,0:03:00.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a whole sequence of them,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.84,0:03:03.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's why our full sense of self
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.09,0:03:06.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,needs both immersive experience
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.02,0:03:08.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the flow of time.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.46,0:03:11.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, the flow of time is embedded in everything,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.61,0:03:14.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the erosion of a grain of sand,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.18,0:03:17.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the budding of a little bud into a rose.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.97,0:03:20.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without it, we would have no music.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.51,0:03:22.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our own emotions and state of mind
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.55,0:03:24.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,often encode time,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.66,0:03:27.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,regret or nostalgia about the past,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.22,0:03:30.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hope or dread about the future.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.72,0:03:34.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that technology has altered that flow of time.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.66,0:03:37.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The overall time that we have for our narrative,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.19,0:03:39.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our lifespan, has been increasing,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.36,0:03:42.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the smallest measure, the moment, has shrunk.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.48,0:03:44.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has shrunk because our instruments enable us
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.81,0:03:48.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in part to measure smaller and smaller units of time,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.07,0:03:51.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this in turn has given us a more granular understanding
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.34,0:03:53.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the material world,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.22,0:03:54.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this granular understanding
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.65,0:03:56.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has generated reams of data
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.96,0:03:59.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that our brains can no longer comprehend
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.32,0:04:02.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for which we need more and more complicated computers.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.75,0:04:05.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of this to say that the gap
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.02,0:04:07.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between what we can perceive and what we can measure
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.61,0:04:09.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is only going to widen.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.53,0:04:12.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Science can do things with and in a picosecond,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.56,0:04:15.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you and I are never going to have the inner experience
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.27,0:04:18.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a millionth of a millionth of a second.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.45,0:04:22.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You and I answer only to nature's rhythm and flow,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.50,0:04:25.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the sun, the moon and the seasons,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.43,0:04:28.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is why we need that long arc of time
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.17,0:04:30.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the past, the present and the future
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.40,0:04:32.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to see things for what they are,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.17,0:04:34.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to separate signal from noise
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.01,0:04:36.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the self from sensations.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.57,0:04:40.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need time's arrow to understand cause and effect,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.18,0:04:41.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just in the material world,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.93,0:04:45.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in our own intentions and our motivations.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.22,0:04:49.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What happens when that arrow goes awry?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.21,0:04:52.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What happens when time warps?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.69,0:04:54.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So many of us today have the sensation
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.64,0:04:56.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that time's arrow is pointing everywhere
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.89,0:04:59.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and nowhere at once.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.15,0:05:01.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is because time doesn't flow in the digital world
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.84,0:05:05.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the same way that it does in the natural one.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.83,0:05:08.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all know that the Internet has shrunk space
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.53,0:05:09.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well as time.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.76,0:05:12.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Far away over there is now here.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.07,0:05:14.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,News from India is a stream on my smartphone app
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.80,0:05:17.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether I'm in New York or New Delhi.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.68,0:05:19.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's not all.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.11,0:05:21.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your last job, your dinner reservations from last year,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.58,0:05:24.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your former friends, lie on a flat plain with today's friends,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.86,0:05:26.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the Internet also archives,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.99,0:05:28.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it warps the past.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.79,0:05:30.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With no distinction left between the past,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.94,0:05:34.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the present and the future, and the here or there,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.21,0:05:38.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are left with this moment everywhere,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.03,0:05:40.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this moment that I'll call the digital now.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.45,0:05:42.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just how can we prioritize
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.62,0:05:44.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the landscape of the digital now?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.98,0:05:46.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This digital now is not the present,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.88,0:05:48.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's always a few seconds ahead,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.94,0:05:50.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with Twitter streams that are already trending
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.77,0:05:52.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and news from other time zones.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.74,0:05:55.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This isn't the now of a shooting pain in your foot
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.46,0:05:57.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the second that you bite into a pastry
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.94,0:06:01.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the three hours that you lose yourself in a great book.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.28,0:06:03.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This now bears very little physical
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.13,0:06:06.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or psychological reference to our own state.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.07,0:06:08.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Its focus, instead, is to distract us
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.33,0:06:10.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at every turn on the road.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.28,0:06:12.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every digital landmark is an invitation
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.45,0:06:14.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to leave what you are doing now to go somewhere else
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.87,0:06:16.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and do something else.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.49,0:06:18.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you reading an interview by an author?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.48,0:06:21.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why not buy his book? Tweet it. Share it.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.12,0:06:23.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like it. Find other books exactly like his.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.85,0:06:26.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Find other people reading those books.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.72,0:06:28.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Travel can be liberating,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.76,0:06:30.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but when it is incessant, we become
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.52,0:06:32.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,permanent exiles without repose.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.75,0:06:35.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Choice is freedom, but not when it's constantly
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.49,0:06:37.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for its own sake.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.54,0:06:40.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not just is the digital now far from the present,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.13,0:06:42.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's in direct competition with it,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.79,0:06:45.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is because not just am I absent from it,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.17,0:06:46.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but so are you.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.27,0:06:49.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not just are we absent from it, but so is everyone else.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.06,0:06:52.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And therein lies its greatest convenience and horror.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.75,0:06:55.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can order foreign language books in the middle of the night,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.58,0:06:57.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shop for Parisian macarons,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.37,0:06:59.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and leave video messages that get picked up later.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.83,0:07:01.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At all times, I can operate
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.81,0:07:04.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at a different rhythm and pace from you,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.04,0:07:05.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while I sustain the illusion
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.96,0:07:09.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I'm tapped into you in real time.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.49,0:07:11.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sandy was a reminder
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.10,0:07:13.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of how such an illusion can shatter.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.20,0:07:15.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were those with power and water,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.06,0:07:16.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and those without.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.56,0:07:18.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are those who went back to their lives,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.89,0:07:20.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and those who are still displaced
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.93,0:07:23.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after so many months.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.29,0:07:25.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For some reason, technology seems to perpetuate
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.99,0:07:29.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the illusion for those who have it that everyone does,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.43,0:07:32.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then, like an ironic slap in the face,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.06,0:07:34.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it makes it true.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.18,0:07:35.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example, it's said that there are more people
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.86,0:07:38.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in India with access to cell phones than toilets.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.99,0:07:41.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now if this rift, which is already so great
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.41,0:07:42.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in many parts of the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.88,0:07:46.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between the lack of infrastructure and the spread of technology,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.23,0:07:47.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,isn't somehow bridged,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.81,0:07:49.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there will be ruptures between the digital
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.86,0:07:52.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the real.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.04,0:07:55.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For us as individuals who live in the digital now
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.68,0:07:58.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and spend most of our waking moments in it,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.16,0:08:00.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the challenge is to live in two streams of time
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.33,0:08:03.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are parallel and almost simultaneous.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.28,0:08:07.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How does one live inside distraction?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.38,0:08:09.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We might think that those younger than us,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.33,0:08:12.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those who are born into this, will adapt more naturally.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.94,0:08:16.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Possibly, but I remember my childhood.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.08,0:08:17.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember my grandfather revising
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.78,0:08:20.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the capitals of the world with me.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.04,0:08:22.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Buda and Pest were separated by the Danube,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.79,0:08:25.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Vienna had a Spanish riding school.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.57,0:08:28.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I were a child today, I could easily learn this information
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.47,0:08:30.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with apps and hyperlinks,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.63,0:08:32.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it really wouldn't be the same,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.54,0:08:34.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because much later, I went to Vienna,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.82,0:08:36.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I went to the Spanish riding school,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:36.79,0:08:40.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I could feel my grandfather right beside me.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.16,0:08:42.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Night after night, he took me up on the terrace,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.73,0:08:45.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on his shoulders, and pointed out Jupiter
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.50,0:08:48.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Saturn and the Great Bear to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.73,0:08:51.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And even here, when I look at the Great Bear,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.43,0:08:54.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I get back that feeling of being a child,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.18,0:08:56.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hanging onto his head and trying to balance myself
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.56,0:08:58.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on his shoulder,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.78,0:09:01.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I can get back that feeling of being a child again.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.98,0:09:04.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I had with my grandfather was wrapped
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.45,0:09:07.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so often in information and knowledge and fact,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.69,0:09:09.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it was about so much more
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.72,0:09:13.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than information or knowledge or fact.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.50,0:09:15.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Time-warping technology challenges
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.63,0:09:17.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our deepest core,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.58,0:09:21.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we are able to archive the past
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.35,0:09:24.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and some of it becomes hard to forget,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.59,0:09:27.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even as the current moment
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.19,0:09:29.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is increasingly unmemorable.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.81,0:09:32.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We want to clutch, and we are left instead
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.55,0:09:35.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,clutching at a series of static moments.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.02,0:09:37.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're like soap bubbles that disappear when we touch them.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.72,0:09:40.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By archiving everything, we think that we can store it,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.51,0:09:42.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but time is not data.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.48,0:09:44.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It cannot be stored.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.61,0:09:46.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You and I know exactly what it means like
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.63,0:09:48.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be truly present in a moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.53,0:09:49.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It might have happened while we were
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.75,0:09:51.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,playing an instrument,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.51,0:09:53.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or looking into the eyes of someone we've known
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.36,0:09:55.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a very long time.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.54,0:09:58.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At such moments, our selves are complete.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.57,0:10:00.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The self that lives in the long narrative arc
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.64,0:10:02.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the self that experiences the moment
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.72,0:10:04.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,become one.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.11,0:10:06.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The present encapsulates the past
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.06,0:10:08.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a promise for the future.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.49,0:10:10.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The present joins a flow of time
Dialogue: 0,0:10:10.46,0:10:12.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from before and after.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.70,0:10:16.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I first experienced these feelings with my grandmother.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.26,0:10:18.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to learn to skip, and she found an old rope
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.59,0:10:19.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she tucked up her sari
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.95,0:10:21.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she jumped over it.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.67,0:10:24.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to learn to cook, and she kept me in the kitchen,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.33,0:10:28.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cutting, cubing and chopping for a whole month.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.44,0:10:30.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My grandmother taught me that things happen
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.84,0:10:34.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the time they take, that time can't be fought,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.56,0:10:36.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and because it will pass and it will move,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.40,0:10:39.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we owe the present moment our full attention.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.51,0:10:42.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Attention is time.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.16,0:10:44.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of my yoga instructors once said
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.34,0:10:46.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that love is attention,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.58,0:10:48.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and definitely from my grandmother,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.42,0:10:52.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,love and attention were one and the same thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.74,0:10:55.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The digital world cannibalizes time,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:55.32,0:10:58.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in doing so, I want to suggest
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.70,0:11:00.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that what it threatens
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.38,0:11:02.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the completeness of ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.81,0:11:05.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It threatens the flow of love.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.17,0:11:07.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we don't need to let it.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:07.19,0:11:08.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can choose otherwise.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.66,0:11:10.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've seen again and again
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.73,0:11:12.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just how creative technology can be,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.96,0:11:15.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in our lives and in our actions,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.20,0:11:19.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can choose those solutions and those innovations
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.19,0:11:22.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and those moments that restore the flow of time
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.30,0:11:25.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead of fragmenting it.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.92,0:11:28.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can slow down and we can tune in
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.50,0:11:31.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the ebb and flow of time.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.17,0:11:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can choose to take time back.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.12,0:11:37.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.32,0:11:41.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)