[Script Info]
Title: 
[Events]
Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:07.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.63,0:00:19.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[music]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.80,0:00:21.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you hear what I hear?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.77,0:00:25.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[slow cello music]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.00,0:00:28.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you hear what I hear?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.97,0:00:31.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a universal question.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.30,0:00:34.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's also an ancient question.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.20,0:00:36.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.20,0:00:40.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's an exceedingly contemporary question.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.40,0:00:43.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It asks so much of us, \Ndoesn't it?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.17,0:00:48.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you feeling what I'm feeling? \NAm I alone in what I hear?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.43,0:00:50.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's listen to the question.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.70,0:00:55.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And let's listen to the way that technology \Nis constantly changing the answer.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.40,0:00:57.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.50,0:01:01.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As humans, we listen in groups, \Nand we always have.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.07,0:01:02.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.73,0:01:05.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We used to dwell in caves \Nand sit around the fire.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.73,0:01:10.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And likely we listened to a sort of--ooh!-- \N[light cello music]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.37,0:01:12.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grunting nightly newscast of the events of the day.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.00,0:01:18.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, big thunder.\NMany antelope.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.43,0:01:21.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Guy next door has new rock. \N[audience laughs]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.00,0:01:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[cello music continues]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.00,0:01:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We listen to each other's hopes and our dreams \Nand our experiences and our aspirations.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.00,0:01:34.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And our stories, real or imagined, \Nwith storytelling time.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.10,0:01:37.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Cause listening is sharing.\NWe shared these things.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.53,0:01:39.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Cello music stops]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.27,0:01:43.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It went on for a very long time, right? \NEons.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.63,0:01:45.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then we grew complex.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.47,0:01:47.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.20,0:01:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our stories grew very complex.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.00,0:01:53.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Time passed \Nand technology arrived.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.97,0:01:56.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The cave got nicer.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.43,0:01:59.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Cello music starts again]\NWe got some indoor plumbing.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.63,0:02:02.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we began to sit around \Nand listen to a thing called radio.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.70,0:02:04.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.30,0:02:08.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We listened to the news of the world \Nand the songs of the day
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.70,0:02:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we listened \Nto the speeches of Winston Churchill.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.00,0:02:14.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[cello music continues]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.57,0:02:20.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we kept on listening, \Nwith technology amplifying and broadcasting it all.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.90,0:02:28.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We listened together to teachers,\Npreachers, fascists, and popes.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.73,0:02:31.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We listened to operas \Nand rock stars.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.63,0:02:35.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We listened to people try to sell us soap \Nand cigarettes.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.20,0:02:39.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[silence]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.03,0:02:43.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fact is, we used to listen \Nto events as events.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.90,0:02:47.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know? The speech, the concert. \NYou had to be there.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.13,0:02:51.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then we found \Nthat we could record and play back.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.20,0:02:53.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's technology.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.43,0:02:56.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we found \Nthat sound could be openly accessible.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.50,0:02:59.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We could get it anywhere, anytime. \NAlone or apart.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.40,0:03:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.00,0:03:05.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the radio became the home stereo.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.20,0:03:09.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And listening got a little less big group-y \Nand a little more parlor, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.37,0:03:13.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We found that we could actually purchase \Na song or a sound.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.63,0:03:16.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you heard what I've heard? No? \NWell, come on over.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.63,0:03:17.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll play it for you.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.70,0:03:20.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.47,0:03:24.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, of course we don't always listen in groups.\NNo, no.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.40,0:03:27.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Often, frequently, we listen privately.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.87,0:03:29.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Private listening. It's a primal thing
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.70,0:03:31.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.17,0:03:34.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sound. Is. Primal.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.20,0:03:39.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It exists...in a pre-language realm. All right?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.47,0:03:44.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And unlike movies and television and computers, \Nwhich are always two dimensional,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.07,0:03:46.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sound is always three-dimensional. \N[High pitched music starts]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.50,0:03:49.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's around us; it's within us.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.13,0:03:55.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That phrase "in the beginning was the Word" \Ncan be understood as in the beginning was sound.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.60,0:03:57.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The sound of the word.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.77,0:04:00.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sound was the first thing ever.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.50,0:04:02.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this begins for us
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.27,0:04:07.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a dark, warm,\Nvery comfortable place
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.10,0:04:08.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,known as the womb.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.37,0:04:10.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Music continues]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.53,0:04:15.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Inside the womb, we begin to hear \Nfar before we begin to see.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.10,0:04:19.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the first thing that we ever hear \Nis this steady, four-four pounding
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.77,0:04:22.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,known as mother's heartbeat.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.47,0:04:28.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the first and most important sound of our lives. \NAnd it stays with us.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.93,0:04:34.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you ever wondered why later in life,\Nwe go to dark, warm, dance clubs?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.50,0:04:39.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On a liquid diet and we kinda bop around \Nto that same four-four pounding beat?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.10,0:04:40.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Audience laughs]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.27,0:04:45.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah. That's technology recreating the best place \Nin the whole world, the womb.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.63,0:04:46.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Audience laughs]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.87,0:04:52.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We get together and we gather to listen to it. \NIt's fantastic.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.17,0:04:53.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[sighs]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.87,0:04:57.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now later, outside of the womb,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.53,0:05:00.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we discover \Nthat sound is truly wonderful.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.37,0:05:00.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,awh ...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.00,0:05:03.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It defines us. \NIt amazes us.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.53,0:05:04.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.97,0:05:08.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It touches us so deeply.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.07,0:05:10.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you remember, as a child,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.00,0:05:17.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,laying in the backseat of the car\Non a rainy night on the way home,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.87,0:05:22.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,falling asleep to your parents' voices, \Nvery low talking,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.27,0:05:24.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,windshield wipers keeping time, \Nand you're listening
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.40,0:05:26.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.60,0:05:27.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the passing cars
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.77,0:05:29.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.47,0:05:33.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the sound of tires \Non the wet pavement.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.47,0:05:36.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.10,0:05:39.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[imitates engine noise \Nand sound of splashing water]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.07,0:05:41.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.47,0:05:45.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You remember the first time \Nyou discovered zippers?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.23,0:05:51.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[imitates zipper sound]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.47,0:05:55.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wow! \N[audience laughs]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.07,0:05:57.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We wanted to share that. \N"Mommy, listen to this!"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.57,0:05:59.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[imitates zipper sound]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.10,0:06:00.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[audience laughs]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.63,0:06:05.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The truth is that private listening \Nalways leads to that need to share.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.27,0:06:07.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's at that age \Nthat we begin to ask ourselves,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.00,0:06:11.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Do you hear what I hear?"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.77,0:06:16.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The song, "Do You Hear What I Hear?" \Nwas written in the late sixties,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.80,0:06:20.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the time of the Cuban missile crisis. \NUm, about the same time,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.40,0:06:22.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.17,0:06:27.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,headphone technology was leaving the battlefield \Nwhere it had been for decades.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.07,0:06:28.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was beginning \Nto enter the home.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.00,0:06:31.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.03,0:06:33.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Headphones
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.57,0:06:36.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made listening more private, more personal.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.13,0:06:42.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They cut us off from one another in exchange \Nfor a more powerful private listening experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.47,0:06:44.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.17,0:06:48.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just a decade later, \Nthe Walkman arrived,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.07,0:06:53.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is a portable listening device, right? \NAnd it untethered us from the home stereo.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.67,0:06:59.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we were free to walk around the planet, \Nyou know, listening privately.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.43,0:07:03.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Carrying, slugging \Nthese backpacks full of cassettes. Remember?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.10,0:07:04.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Audience laughs]
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.97,0:07:09.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sound attached itself to us, \Nand we began to carry it around.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.53,0:07:15.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And somehow private listening \Nbecame more fashionable than group listening.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.30,0:07:18.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Recall this? \NWell, headphones, they were amazing.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.37,0:07:22.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Total aural immersion. \NAnd yet, total loneliness.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.97,0:07:27.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The sound was great, \Nbut it was hard to share.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.20,0:07:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We tried to counter that loneliness \Nwith something called the mix tape.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.00,0:07:38.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[audience laughs]
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.90,0:07:44.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was this love letter sound object \Nmade up of the sounds and songs
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.53,0:07:46.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we would offer to others.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.93,0:07:49.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Here, listen to this. \NHear what I hear.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.77,0:07:52.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Feel what I feel \Nwhen I listen to this."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.27,0:07:54.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.87,0:07:59.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you know, technology. Our finger's constantly \Non the fast-forward button, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.80,0:08:03.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That Walkman quickly became the CD player, \Nthe MP3 player, the iPod, the iPhone, Anyphone.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.77,0:08:06.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.90,0:08:09.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.83,0:08:14.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The backpack full of cassettes \Ncollapsed itself into the technology.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.20,0:08:17.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the device got smaller, smaller,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.27,0:08:21.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lighter, nearly invisible.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.10,0:08:25.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That little button called shuffle
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.33,0:08:28.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,killed the mix tape.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.57,0:08:33.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember the little segues we used to make, to make it just the perfect song to song?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.37,0:08:35.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.20,0:08:38.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That vanished, \Nand the randomness of streaming arrived.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.13,0:08:40.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.20,0:08:44.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Robots called algorithms \Nbegan to "know us."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.33,0:08:46.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.53,0:08:49.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And not only would they play the songs \Nwe wanted to hear,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.07,0:08:54.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they would suggest other songs \Nthat we might want to hear, or even purchase.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.90,0:08:58.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.63,0:09:00.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the cave where we used to listen
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.63,0:09:06.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was suddenly becoming \Nthis isolated private space.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.57,0:09:09.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And maybe the sound wasn't so good, after all.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.37,0:09:14.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's kind of thin and tinny \Nand compressed and plastic.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.43,0:09:20.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the fast food of sonic culture \Nand it's not very nutrient.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.13,0:09:24.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right? \NPrivate listening has engulfed us.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.67,0:09:27.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As if the world was too noisy
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.63,0:09:33.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now we carry this little iWomb around \Nto keep us sonically safe.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.53,0:09:35.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.83,0:09:38.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right, I know \Nthat the Internet and telephone technology
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.93,0:09:42.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,probably have us more connected \Nthan we ever have been before.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.67,0:09:46.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, I don't argue that. \NBut in our listening, we're so alone.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.83,0:09:50.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So private. \NSo isolated.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.93,0:09:52.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sad.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.33,0:09:53.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.83,0:09:57.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's getting pretty dark. Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.07,0:09:59.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where are we going with this?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.77,0:10:05.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Zombie hordes of earbud slaves. \N[audience laughs]
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.07,0:10:08.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're wandering randomly and disconnected.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.50,0:10:11.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s an Orwellian nightmare.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.30,0:10:13.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dude!
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.30,0:10:18.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the end of humanity, it's--\Nsurely, it's the end of days.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.07,0:10:20.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, maybe. \NBut maybe not.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.63,0:10:22.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.43,0:10:25.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Technology did not get us into this mess.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.63,0:10:28.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We did. \NOur neurotic culture did.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.53,0:10:33.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And cultures evolve, we hope. \NAnd so does the technology.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.03,0:10:35.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.60,0:10:38.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe it’s not so scary.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.63,0:10:39.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.80,0:10:41.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.63,0:10:46.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sonic culture is beginning to join \Nwith the global network.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.43,0:10:50.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And group listening and private listening \Nare beginning to merge again.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:50.33,0:10:54.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That tinny and tiny earbud \Nis passing away
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.73,0:11:00.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in favor of these new, like, fashionably hip \Nand really cool and great-sounding headphones.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.80,0:11:02.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've seen 'em.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.53,0:11:04.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And their days are numbered, as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.63,0:11:08.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have new technology, \Nsomething known as Bone Conduction.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.47,0:11:11.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love saying "bone conduction.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.37,0:11:17.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what it does is it stimulates \Nthe, uh, auditory canals using soundwaves.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.10,0:11:19.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what this does is frees us from headphones.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.23,0:11:21.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're listening here instead of here.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.90,0:11:27.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that allows us, for the first time ever, \Nto listen normally to our friends at the restaurant,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.27,0:11:29.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if we want to, listen to some playback \Nat the same time.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.50,0:11:33.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.27,0:11:38.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Uh, it was only a few months ago, \Nthe first man implanted little sonic magnets
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.03,0:11:40.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into a fleshy part of his ear here.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:40.53,0:11:42.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He doesn't need any headphones at all. \NiPhone.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.00,0:11:45.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.07,0:11:48.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a new kind of broadcasting \Nknown as “bluecasting.”
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.40,0:11:49.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.67,0:11:53.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is the use of bluetooth technology \Nto broadcast locally.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.53,0:11:56.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you can imagine going to a library \Nor a restaurant or a cafe
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.87,0:12:00.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or a...classroom or a museum \Nor even a dance club.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.20,0:12:01.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.77,0:12:06.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you can choose to hear music \Nif you want to, bopping around, rocking out.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.60,0:12:08.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or if you don't want to, click. \NIt is off.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.80,0:12:13.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's not bothering you. Imagine a dance floor full of people and no sound.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:13.43,0:12:16.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[audience laughs] \NRight?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.63,0:12:20.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's in development. \NThere are prototypes.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:20.30,0:12:25.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what is the podcast \Nif not a virtual mixtape, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.70,0:12:30.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a playlist, and it's our hopes \Nand our dreams and what I'm thinking today.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.20,0:12:32.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here, download...
Dialogue: 0,0:12:32.93,0:12:34.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.27,0:12:36.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hear what I hear.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.27,0:12:38.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.70,0:12:42.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's even this thing called the, uh, the TED \Ntalk,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.47,0:12:44.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.53,0:12:49.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where people gather in caves \Nand listen to this sort of grunting of ideas.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.70,0:12:51.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.80,0:12:56.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's very popular. \N[audience laughs]
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.20,0:13:01.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Live music is back; it's everywhere. \NUh, right now, our--
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.50,0:13:03.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are more vendors \Nthan there ever were before.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.73,0:13:09.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Um, we're listening \Nas if decades of recorded plastic playback
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.87,0:13:15.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has left us really hungry \Nfor live, real, actual sounds. All right?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.93,0:13:17.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're back in the concert hall. \NIt doesn't matter.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:17.57,0:13:20.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Classical, rock and roll, \Nbluegrass, electronica.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:20.97,0:13:24.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, yak mating music. \NWe're back in there, listening for it.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.43,0:13:27.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:27.07,0:13:32.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's very beautiful. \NNow, myself, I look at youth culture.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:32.03,0:13:35.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I look at the millenials. \NAnd they're down.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:35.17,0:13:38.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are listening again in groups. \NThey're sharing sound.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:38.50,0:13:39.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They call it file sharing.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.97,0:13:41.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:41.43,0:13:45.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they're also doing these things, \Nit's a group listening, turntable party.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:45.67,0:13:49.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And noise bands. \NAnd online gaming,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:49.83,0:13:51.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where they can talk to each other \N[electronic music starts]
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.10,0:13:53.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while they blow the zombies away. Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:53.73,0:13:57.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they're forming little subcultures \Nof group listening, like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:57.93,0:14:03.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's called “Decibel Drag Racing." \NAnd they jack up their cars.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.10,0:14:05.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they compete \Nto see how loud each other can be.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:05.90,0:14:08.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's group listening, all right?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.33,0:14:10.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not very good for the ears,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:10.67,0:14:12.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[music becomes louder and continues]
Dialogue: 0,0:14:13.00,0:14:16.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but my god, what enthusiasm!
Dialogue: 0,0:14:16.73,0:14:22.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[audience laughs]
Dialogue: 0,0:14:22.73,0:14:26.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Guys, it’s not about the technology at all, \Nand it never was.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:26.17,0:14:29.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s our need to share our sounds \Nand our stories.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:29.87,0:14:31.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:31.90,0:14:36.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the technology just supports that, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.20,0:14:39.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, we want to share our stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:39.63,0:14:41.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:41.07,0:14:46.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I believe, personally, I believe \Nthat our, the future of sonic culture
Dialogue: 0,0:14:46.23,0:14:49.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is actually quite bright. \NOr to join the millennials, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:49.30,0:14:51.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Cello music starts]\Nit's awesome, it's sweet, it's sick.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:51.80,0:14:54.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Cello music continues
Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.33,0:14:57.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think that eventually, \Nwe're all gonna hear each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:57.27,0:14:59.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to hear what you hear, \Nand you want to hear what I hear,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:59.63,0:15:02.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and together we can celebrate the sounds \Nof our lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:02.77,0:15:03.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[music continues]
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.57,0:15:06.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So listen up, listen well.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.60,0:15:08.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:08.07,0:15:26.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[applause]