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So I'm passionate about technology

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because I believe technology is an

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extension of human creativity, Today our

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host Jason Silva is giving a free talk

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at a local university, Here's the amazing

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thing about technology, but pay attention

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because while these people think they're

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here to see Jason give a presentation on

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technology, Technology evolves

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exponentially, they're actually the

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subject of a social experiment and

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you're about to see how far these people

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will go just to fit in with a crowd, The

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smartphone that you guys have in your

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pocket is actually a million times

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cheaper, a million times smaller, and a

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thousand times more powerful than what

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used to be sixty million dollars in half

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a building forty years ago, So far the

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crowd seems to be following the speech,

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So I want to switch gears for a minute

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and talk about something I think is

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really mind-blowing as well, Have you guys

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ever stop to think just about how a

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thought is an idea caught in the fangs

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of consciousness? Huh? Which is why you

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can put cats in hats, but not hats in cats,

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The soup is on so to speak, If it

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now sounds like Jason is speaking

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nonsense geometry, wisdom, tangerines, it

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all becomes possible,

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He is, So eat your soup, So how would you

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react? Dreamers among us dream about tangerines,

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Think this crowd will bail?

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E equals elephant, not the lizard, Or will

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conformity keep them in their seats? The

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nervous system marinating like the

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afterbirth, Let's just say the only thing

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more surprising than Jason's speech does that

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makes sense? Is seeing what these

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people do next, It's time to celebrate,

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Stick around, In essence, this is what

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true thought is all about, It's the

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disconnect it doesn't come from the

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knowledge that your mind predates time,

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That knowledge of time for days

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tangerines, We're conducting an

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experiment on conformity to see how this

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audience will react to someone who's

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clearly speaking complete gibberish,

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Which is why you can put cats in hats

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but not hats on cats so to speak, If you

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know what I mean? Are you following any

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of this? That is the elephant in the room, not

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the lizard, the elephant,

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It's reformadness, geometry, wisdom,

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tangerines, it all becomes possible, Okay

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this is getting weird,,,

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How would you react if you were in the

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audience? Silence? Would you get up and

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leave? That is all the time I have for

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today, thank you for listening you guys,

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[Applause] Thank you, Thank you,

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Polite applause is one thing, but these

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people are giving Jason a standing

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ovation for spewing complete nonsense, So

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what's going on here? Okay I'm going to

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let you in on a little secret, this my

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friends was an experiment in conformity

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to see if you'd give me a standing

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ovation even though the second half of

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my talk was complete gibberish and so

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you guys actually proved the point,

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Have you ever stood for an applause

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simply because everyone else is? You know

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he's talking about cats and hats and

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stuff like that now it's just like did

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what he really say merit a standing

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ovation? And he's right,

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but if Jason's speech didn't deserve

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such an ovation what made this audience

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stand up to applaud? It all started with

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two very enthusiastic audience members

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that we planted in the crowd for some

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added peer pressure,

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So I started seeing people standing

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up so okay, I'll stand up, There was a

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couple people that stood and were like

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really really enthused about standing,

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and everybody else started standing, so I

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figured it was definitely my fault, A

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standing ovation doesn't happen because

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everyone in the audience had the idea to

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stand up and applaud at the same time, it

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happens because a few people decided to

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stand and everyone else just went along

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with it, so it's not to be judged as

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uncaring or different, I felt like

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everybody who is going to be like you

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didn't get? It was so great, One

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incredibly fascinating aspect of mob

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mentality is how it only takes a few

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leaders to get the whole mob to follow,

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Well, almost the whole mob, Yeah they stood up, I was just like

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oh, have fun doing you, I'm

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gonna do me, I've always walked to the beat of

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my own drum that's how you survive, As

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you just witnessed, your brain tends to

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go along to get along with the crowd,