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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chris Anderson: So I guess\Nwhat we're going to do is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're going to talk about your life,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and using some pictures\Nthat you shared with me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think we should start\Nright here with this one.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay, now who is this?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Martine Rothblatt: This is me
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with our oldest son Eli.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was about age five.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is taken in Nigeria
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right after having taken\Nthe Washington, DC bar exam.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CA: Okay. But this doesn't\Nreally look like a Martine.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MR: Right. That was myself as a male,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way I was brought up,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before I transitioned
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from male to female and Martin to Martine.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CA: You were brought up Martin Rothblatt.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MR: Correct.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CA: And about a year after this picture,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you married a beautiful woman.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Was this love at first sight?\NWhat happened there?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MR: It was love at the first sight.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw Bina at a discotheque\Nin Los Angeles,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we later began living together,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the moment I saw her,\NI saw just an aura of energy around her.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I asked her to dance.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She said she saw an aura\Nof energy around me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was a single male parent.\NShe was a single female parent.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We showed each other\Nour kids' pictures,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we've been happily married\Nfor a third of a century now.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CA: And at the time, you were\Nkind of this hotshot entrepreneur,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,working with satellites.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think you had two successful companies,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then you started\Naddressing this problem
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of how could you use satellites
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to revolutionize radio.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tell us about that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MR: Right. I always\Nloved space technology,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and satellites, to me, are sort of\Nlike the canoes that our ancestors
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,first pushed out into the water.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it was exciting for me\Nto be part of the navigation
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the oceans of the sky,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as I developed different types\Nof satellite communication systems,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the main thing I did was to launch
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bigger and more powerful satellites,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the consequence was that\Nthe receiving antennas
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could be smaller and smaller,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and after going through\Ndirect television broadcasting,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had the idea that if we could make
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a more powerful satellite,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the receiving dish could be so small
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it would just be a section\Nof a parabolic dish,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a flap of a plate embedded\Ninto the roof of an automobile,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it would be possible to have\Nnationwide satellite radio,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's SiriusXM today.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CA: Wow. So who here has used Sirius?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MR: Thank you for\Nyour monthly subscriptions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CA: So that succeeded despite\Nall predictions at the time.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a huge commercial success,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but soon after this, in the early 1990s,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there was this big transition in your life
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you became Martine.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MR: Correct.\NCA: So tell me, how did that happen?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MR: It happened in consultation with Bina
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our four beautiful children,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I discussed with each of them
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I felt my soul was always female,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as a woman,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I was afraid people would laugh at me
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if I expressed it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I always kept it bottled up
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just showed my male side.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And each of them\Nhad a different take on this.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bina said that I love your soul
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and whether the outside\Nis Martin and Martine,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it doesn't it matter to me,\NI love your soul.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My son said, if you become a woman,\Nwill you still be my father?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I said yes,\NI'll always be your father,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm still his father today.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My youngest daughter did an absolutely\Nbrilliant five-year old thing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She told people, "I love my dad\Nand she loves me."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So she had no problem\Nwith a gender blending whatsoever.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CA: And a couple years after this,\Nyou published this book:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Apartheid of Sex.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What was your thesis in this book?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MR: My thesis in this book is that there\Nare seven billion people in the world,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and actually, seven billion unique ways\Nto express one's gender.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And while people may have\Nthe genitals of a male or a female,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the genitals don't determine your gender
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or even really your sexual identity.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's just a matter of anatomy
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and reproductive tracts,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and people could choose\Nwhatever gender they want
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if they weren't forced by society
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into categories of either male or female
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way South Africa used to force people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into categories of black or white.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know from anthropological science
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that race is fiction,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even though racism is very, very real,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we now know from cultural studies
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that separate male or female genders
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a constructed fiction.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reality is a gender fluidity
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that crosses the entire continuum\Nfrom male to female.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CA: You yourself don't always\Nfeel 100 percent female.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MR: Correct. I would say in some ways
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I change my gender about as often\Nas I change my hairstyle.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CA: (Laughs) Okay, now, this is\Nyour gorgeous daughter, Genesis.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I guess she was about this age
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when something pretty terrible happened.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MR: Yes, she was finding herself\Nunable to walk up the stairs
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our house to her bedroom,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and after several months of doctors,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she was diagnosed to have a rare,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,almost invariably fatal disease
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CA: So how did you respond to that?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MR: Well, we first tried to get her\Nto the best doctors we could.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We ended up at Children's\NNational Medical Center in Washington, DC.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The head of pediatric cardiology
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,told us that he was going to refer her\Nto get a lung transplant,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but not to hold out any hope,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there are\Nvery few lungs available,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially for children.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said that all people\Nwith this illness die,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if any of you have seen\Nthe film "Lorenzo's Oil,"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's a scene when the protagonist
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kind of rolls down the stairway\Ncrying and bemoaning the fate of his son,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's exactly\Nhow we felt about Genesis.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CA: But you didn't accept that\Nas the limit of what you could do.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You started trying to research
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and see if you could find a cure somehow.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MR: Correct. She was in intensive\Ncare ward for weeks at a time,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Bina and I would tag team\Nto stay at the hospital
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while the other watched\Nthe rest of the kids,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when I was in the hospital\Nand she was sleeping,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I went to the hospital library.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I read every article that I could find\Non pulmonary hypertension.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had not taken any biology,\Neven in college,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I had to go from a biology textbook
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a college-level textbook
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then medical textbook\Nand the journal articles, back and forth,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and eventually I knew enough to think\Nthat it might be possible
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that somebody could find a cure.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we started a nonprofit foundation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wrote a description
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,asking people to submit grants
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we would pay for medical research.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I became an expert on the condition.\NDoctors said to me, Martine,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we really appreciate all the funding\Nyou've provided us,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we are not going to be able\Nto find a cure in time
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to save your daughter.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, there is a medicine
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was developed at the\NBorroughs Wellcome Trust Company
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that could halt the progression\Nof the disease,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but Borroughs Wellcome has just\Nbeen acquired by Glaxo Wellcome.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They made a decision not to develop
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,any medicines for rare\Nand orphan diseases,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and maybe you could use your expertise\Nin satellite communications
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to develop this cure\Nfor pulmonary hypertension.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CA: So how on earth did you get\Naccess to this drug?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MR: I went to Glaxo Wellcome
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and after three times being rejected\Nand having the door slammed in my face
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they weren't going\Nto out-license the drug
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a satellite communications expert,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they weren't going to send the drug\Nout to anybody at all,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they thought\NI didn't have the expertise,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,finally I was able to persuade\Na small team of people to work with me
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and develop enough credibility.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wore down their resistance,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they had no hope this drug\Nwould even work, by the way,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they tried to tell me,\N"You're just wasting your time.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're sorry about your daughter."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But finally, for 25,000 dollars
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and agreement to pay 10 percent\Nof any revenues we might ever get,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they agreed to give me\Nworldwide rights to this drug.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CA: And so you put this drug on the market
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a really brilliant way,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by basically charging what it would take\Nto make the economics work.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MR: Oh yes, Chris, but this really wasn't\Na drug that I ended up,\N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after I wrote the check for 25,000,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I said, "Okay, where's\Nthe medicine for Genesis?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they said, "Oh, Martine,\Nthere's no medicine for Genesis.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is just something we tried in rats."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they gave me, like,\Na little plastic Ziploc bag
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a small amount of powder.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They said, "Don't give it to any human,"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they gave me a piece of paper\Nwhich said it was a patent,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and from that, we had to figure out\Na way to make this medicine.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A hundred chemists in the U.S.\Nat the top universities
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all swore that little patent\Ncould never be turned into a medicine.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If it was turned into a medicine,\Nit could never be delivered
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it had a half life\Nof only 45 minutes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CA: And yet, a year or two later,\Nyou were there with the medicine
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that worked for Genesis.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MR: Chris, the astonishing thing\Nis that this absolutely worthless
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,piece of powder
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that had the sparkle of a promise\Nof hope for Genesis
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not only keeping Genesis\Nand other people alive today,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but produces almost a billion\Nand a half dollars a year in revenue.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CA: So here you go.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you took this company public, right?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And made an absolute fortune.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And how much have you paid Glaxo,\Nby the way, after that 25,000?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MR: Yeah, well every year we pay them\N10 percent of 1.5 billion,,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,150 million dollars,\Nlast year a hundred million dollars.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The best return on an investment\Nthey ever received.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CA: And the best news of all, I guess,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is this.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mr: Yes. Genesis is an absolutely\Nbrilliant young lady.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's alive, healthy today at 30.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see me, Bina, and Genesis there.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's, the most amazing\Nthing about Genesis
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that while she could do\Nanything with her life,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and believe me, if you grew up\Nyour whole life with people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in your face saying\Nthat you've got a fatal disease,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would probably run to Tahiti and just\Nnot want to run into anybody again.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But instead she chooses to work\Nin United Therapeutics.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She says she wants to do all she can\Nto help other people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with orphan diseases get medicines,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and today, she's our project leader\Nfor all telepresence activities,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where she helps digitally unite\Nthe entire company to work together
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to find cures for pulmonary hypertension.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CA: But not everyone who has this disease\Nhas been so fortunate.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are still many people dying,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you are tackling that too. How?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MR: Exactly, Chris. There's some 3,000\Npeople a year in the United States alone,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,perhaps ten times that number worldwide,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who continue to die of this illness
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the medicines\Nslow down the progression
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they don't halt it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The only cure for pulmonary hypertension,\Npulmonary fibrosis,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cystic fibrosis, emphysema,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,COPD, what Leonard Nimoy just died of,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a lung transplant,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but sadly, there are only enough\Navailable lungs for 2,000 people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the U.S. a year\Nto get a young transplant,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whereas nearly a half\Nmillion people a year
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,die of end stage lung failure.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CA: So how can you address that?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MR: So I conceptualize the possibility
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that just like we keep cars and planes
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and buildings going forever
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with an unlimited supply\Nof building parts and machine parts,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why can't we create an unlimited supply\Nof transplantable organs
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to keep people living indefinitely,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and especially people with lung disease.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we've teamed up with the decoder\Nof the human genome, Craig Venter,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the company he founded
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with Peter Diamandis,\Nthe founder of the X-Prize,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to genetically modify
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the pig genome
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that the pig's organs will not\Nbe rejected by the human body
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and thereby to create an unlimited supply
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of transplantable organs.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We do this through our company,\NUnited Therapeutics.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CA: So you really believe that within,\Nwhat, a decade,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that this shortage of transplantable lungs\Nmaybe be cured, through these guys?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MR: Absolutely, Chris.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm as certain of that as I was\Nof the success that we've had
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with direct television\Nbroadcasting, SiriusXM.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's actually not rocket science.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's straightforward engineering away\None gene after another.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're so lucky to be born in the time\Nthat sequencing genome
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a routine activity,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the brilliant folks\Nat Synthetic Genomics
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are able to zero in on the pig genome,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,find exactly the genes\Nthat are problematic, and fix them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CA: But it's not just bodies that,\Nthough that is amazing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not just long-lasting bodies\Nthat are of interest to you now.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's long-lasting minds.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think, like,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this graph for you\Nsays something quite profound.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does this mean?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MR: What this graph means,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it comes from Ray Kurzweil,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that the rate of development\Nin computer processing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hardware, firmware, and software,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has been advancing along the curve
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such that by the 2020s, as we saw\Nin earlier presentations today,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there will be information technology
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that processes information\Nand the world around us
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the same rate as a human mind.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CA: And so that being so, you're actually\Ngetting ready for this world
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by believing that we will soon\Nbe able to, what,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually take the contents of our brains
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and somehow preserve them forever?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do you describe that?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MR: Well Chris, what we're working on\Nis creating a situation
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where people can create a mind file,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a mind file is the collection\Nof their mannerisms, personality,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recollection, feelings,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beliefs, attitudes and values,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everything that we've poured today\Ninto Google, into Amazon, into Facebook,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all of this information stored there
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will be able, in the next couple decades,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,once software is able\Nto recapitulate consciousness,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be able to revive the consciousness
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is imminent in our mind file.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CA: Now you're not just\Nmessing around with this.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're serious. I mean, who is this?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MR: This is a robot version of\Nmy beloved spice, Bina.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we call her Bina 48.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was programmed\Nby Hanson Robotics out of Texas.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's the centerfold\Nfrom National Geographic Magazine
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with one of her caregivers,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she roams the web
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and has hundreds of hours\Nof Bina's mannerisms, personalities.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's kind of like a 2-year old kid,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but she says things\Nthat blows people away,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,best expressed by perhaps
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a New York Times Pulitzer-Prize\Nwinning journalist Amy Harmon
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who says her answers\Nare often frustrating,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but other times as compelling\Nas any flesh person she's interviewed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CA: And this is your thinking here,\Npart of your hope here, is that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this version of Bina can in a sense\Nlive on forever, or some future upgrade
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to this version can live on forever?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MR: Yes. Not just Bina, but everybody.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, it costs us virtually nothing\Nto store our mind files
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on Facebook, Instagram, what-have-you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Social media is I think one of the most\Nextraordinary inventions of our time,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as apps become available\Nthat will allow us
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to out-Siri Siri, better and better,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and develop consciousness\Noperating systems,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everybody in the world,\Nbillions of people,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will be able to develop\Nmind clones of themselves
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that will have their own life on the web.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CA: So the thing is, Martine,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that in any normal conversation,\Nthis would sound stark-staring mad,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in the context of your life,\Nwhat you've done,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some of the things we've heard this week,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the constructed realities\Nthat our minds get,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, you wouldn't bet against it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MR: Well, I think it's really nothing\Ncoming from me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If anything, I'm perhaps a bit\Nof a communicator of activities
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are being undertaken\Nby the greatest companies
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in China, Japan, India, the U.S., Europe.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are tens of millions of people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,working on writing code
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that expresses more and more aspects\Nof our human consciousness,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you don't have to be a genius\Nto see that all these threads
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are going to come together\Nand ultimately create human consciousness,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's something we'll value.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are so many things\Nto do in this life,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if we could have a simulacra,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a digital doppelgänger of ourselves
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that helps us process books, do shopping,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be our best friends,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe our mind clones,\Nthese digital versions of ourselves,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will ultimately be our best friends,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for me personally and Bina personally,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we love each other like crazy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each day, we are always saying, like,\Nwow, I love you even more
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than 30 years ago.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so for us, the prospect of mind clones
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and regenerated bodies
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that our love affair, Chris,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can go on forever.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we never get bored of each other.\NI'm sure we never will.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CA: I think Bina's here, right?\NMR: She is.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CA: Would it be too much, I don't know,\Ndo we have a handheld mic?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bina, could we invite you to the stage?\NI just have to ask you one question.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Besides, we need to see you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you, thank you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Come and join Martine here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, look, when you got married,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if someone had told you that,\Nin a few years time,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the man you were marrying\Nwould become a woman,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a few years after that,\Nyou would become a robot
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-- (Laughter) --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how has this gone? How has it been?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bina Rothblatt: It's been really\Nan exciting journey,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I would have never\Nthought the at the time,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we started making goals\Nand setting those goals
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and accomplishing things,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and before you knew it,\Nwe just keep going up and up
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we're still not stopping,\Nso it's great.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CA: Martine told me something\Nreally beautiful,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on Skype before this,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was that he wanted\Nto live for hundreds of years
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a mind file,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but not if it wasn't with you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,BR: That's right,\Nwe want to do it together.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We want cryogenics as well,\Nand we want to wake up together.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CA: So just so as you know,\Nfrom my point of view,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this isn't only one of the most\Nastonishing lives I have heard,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's one of the most astonishing\Nlove stories I've ever heard.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just a delight to have you\Nboth here at TED.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you so much.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MR: Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)