Digits (2016): Season 1, Episode 1 - Connecting to the Future - full transcript
Go into the physical heart of the Internet and learn about the very first message sent by UCLA professor Leonard Kleinrock.
It's been the case throughout the history of the internet
Constantly been surprised
Well
When we look at the internet
And where it came from and where it's arrived
Damn where it's headed
I think it's quite clear
The engineers didn't really realize
Just how much this was going to change things
People are crazy
In the series
Will Journey Through the past
Present and future about Revolution we call the internet
Will go inside the hidden places practices and people who make it hum
And ask
Why do we all love it so much
This is the internet
Really
Right here
We usually think of it as invisible somewhere in the cloud
This is where the invisible becomes visible
Where the intangible becomes concrete
I'm Derek Muller
And I'm in
An internet Exchange
Point one of hundreds of places around the world
Where computers networks all linked up to form the global internet
What's happening in here
Is that countless routers and switches are receiving data from one network
And they're passing it over to another Network by a real physical cable
So it's a network
Of networks all interconnected
Which is why we call it the internet
And here you can actually reach out and physically touch
Everything we've ever recorded or for that matter ever written texted or Tumblr passes through the
These Global Internet exchange points the likes of which neither Newton Tesla
Einstein could ever have fathomed
All of it traveling at the speed of light
I spend most of my working life
Here on the internet
I know that may sound a little bit nerdy but
I actually really enjoy it
I create and host an online science channel called veritasium
Meaning the element of Truth
It is my dream job because I'm passionate about science and
Now I can investigate topics I've always wondered about that cool and bring my world of science to a massive
International audience
I capitalize on the reach of the web
For example after uploading this video called
Be surprising application of the Magnus effect
It has now been viewed by more than 50 million people from around the world
Not bad for a film about a fluid dynamical effect
As a species we have an inbuilt need
To connect with others
To communicate
And share our stories
To create community
Innocence
And the internet empowers us to do that in ways we never before imagined
In 1969 the same year that a man stepped on the moon
Leonard kleinrock headed up
Team of computer scientist
Later hailed as the fathers of the
And it all started in a room like this one
The interesting thing is that
If none of us have been born
We still have an internet
It was in the air
It was going to happen
The inspiration to create a brand new network came from a branch of the defense department called
Arpa
The advanced research projects agency
Well
Oper
Was formed as a response
The 1957
Sputnik launched
By the Russians
Soviet headquarters
Pants down
Will behind in technology
At the time computers were very large very expense
And separated by great disc
So a single user wishing to use multiple programs
What happened travel to different location
Computers to talk to each other
And there was no way in which they were able to do so efficiently
At the time
Here was the problem
If you were trying to send files or messages over a network you have to put them in one at a time
So each message have to wait it's
Turn
And if one of the messages were really big
It would take a long time to go through
Dissolution Leonard kleinrock and his fellow internet Pioneers came up with
Do lies at the heart of the internet today
It's called packets
In which all the messages are cut up into
Pictures of the same size
Call back
Then the packets can travel separately through the network
Making the best use of every available space
Small messages
Well they can squeeze into the gaps between packet from the large messages avoiding the long wait
Once those packets have reached their destination
They can be reassembled into their original messages
To do all that chopping and reassembling a special device we connect computers to the net
This is the very first piece of Internet
Equipment
This is where the intern
Began
It's the interface message processor
It's made out of a military hardened machine
The Department of Defense
Inside you notice
It is so ugly it's cute
It's my friend
As unique odor
And it's really old equipment
But this is where the end
Anti-internet
Right here
The year is 1969
Richard Nixon is inaugurated as our 37th president
More than a million people gathered at Woodstock to celebrate sex drugs and rock and roll
And on October 29th
UCLA logged into a computer at the Stanford Research Institute
Not to make sure this work
But this was the first time the two house computers
Let somebody login to remotely
Where to telephone connection
Just to be sure
Now to login you have to type l o g
Jolly
Icln acceptability
Patio
Prodigy
Crash
The system
The first message
Internet was
Low
As in
Lo and behold
Samuel Morse
Depress
Immediately
Alexander Graham Bell
Come here Watson I need
Neil Armstrong
Giant leap for mankind
Turns out
The message we sent
What about a short
Is prophetic is powerful as you can imagine
No
By accident
A vision in those early days was
Machine-to-machine or persons the machine
But I missed totally
Was that this was not about computer store
Was about people communicating with each other
By the end of 1969
There were just a few computers connected to the arpanet
But the network grew steadily during the 1970s
Multiplied it became more difficult for them to integrate into a worldwide system
And the desire for access to each other's data was enormous
Back in the 1970s there was no single global internet as we know it
Today
Instead there were a lot of different networks like the government's big arpanet to satellite Networks
And little Community operation
But they all had their own different format and they connected to each other in different ways
Cooking short if you weren't already on a network there was no way to get to it
It was like the biblical Tower of Babel
We needed a Common Language
Standard set of protocols that would allow all these networks to talk to each other
The internet got
The common language it needed
Thanks to two pioneering scientists
And this
Nondescript delivery
Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn work for years
To solve the problem
Conductivity
Bomb showed up in my office
Stanford
We have a problem
My reaction is
Faces while I'm trying to get these nuts to interconnect
I don't know
How we should do that
Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn outfitted this vehicle with
High-end
Computer hardware and radio transmission gear and then they drove it through the streets of the Bay Area
On November 22nd 1977 the team at this console was able to transmit a message to LA
Los Angeles
100 miles
They used
Three networks to do it
The two men developed a way for all the computer networks to communicate
It's been described as the handshake that introduces computers to each other
They also came up with a new word for what they were doing
Don't, and I wrote this first paper describing
A protocol for packet Network intercommunication
And so internet working
Was
The term that was used but it was so clumsy
Popcaan called the project internetting
And eventually we started to refer to the object that we were building his
The internet
Computers were still large
Roughly the size of industrial
Refrigeration unit
The only people who could afford them
Where large corporations universities and Military
They were manufactured to be smaller and smaller personal computers began to take off and so did the inch
Internet for the user at home
Probably 1981
Florida
PC
And tried to
Getting hooked up to
A modem and it was
Really complicated really difficult
But there still was something Magic
The idea that I was
Computer connecting to people
And ideas all over the world
The standard speed of connection was 56 kilobits per second
Soap uploading a video or even a photo
Took a ridiculously long time
People were complaining
What's too slow
And we're going to fix that
With the cable model
Jim Phillips was an executive at Motorola in the mid-1990s when it develops a way to speed things up
Now
We looked at all these cable company
And they had this
Way of communicating via hybrid fiber coax
Back in the in those days it called a TV wire
What that gave us was really
High speed
Data
Which we haven't experienced before no more phone line
Someone you could download audio
Download
Video
Even
Connected you could also join Discussion Group
Send send email
Hyundai webservice Rose to the top
AOL
America online
You got mail
It took millions of Americans online
The first time
The mission of air on the early days was to create a service that was easy to use useful fun in a portal
I was driving us we really believe the internet could be as important
In people's lives
The telephone or the television
But even provide more value
To attract new customers
AOL used a brilliant marketing strategy
The new AOL
Here CDs
AOL just gave them away so people could load up the software
And connect to the net
Millions
Signed up
At one point in the 1990s half of all the CDs produced on Earth or from AOL
End-users discovered new ways to find each other
Prosecco Community with everything is hot how do we
Create a hole
Sweet
Tools
Ahsoka Star with email and also was message boards and forums things like that we also thought The real-time communication
Initially we watch people connections
Chat rooms
And we create an instant messaging
AOL provided a Gathering Place
Four groups of people with shared interest
Bakersfield the traffic of so many
Communities coming on lunch weather was I village with women or Blackberry Creek
With young children or
Is it called the 2/3 real more than two-thirds of their traffic was people just talking to each other and their platforms and it
The chatroom Message Board cetera
The mayor of the community
We ask a question in 2004
What is the most surprising thing about the growth of the internet
And they said the spread of the web itself
With what's done. Just that so many people had so much to say
A lot of cat videos in that a lot of cat pictures
How profound
Sharing the boxes behind me I'm going to change
No
One of the most famous to upload his life is John Green
John's best selling novel The Fault in Our Stars
Came a hit movie
Millions feel like they know him personally because for years he's run a YouTube channel
You're very great song
Including this one
Which is enormously popular with his brother Hank
From January 1st
December 31st 2007
John Green and his brother
Rent a video blog project
They called Brotherhood 2.0
Every day for the entire year the brothers sent each other videos don't you know the whole world gone and reserved
How many more
Could you sell I got to hang out with John and we reached out to hang
And good morning
Good morning happy Thursday May 5th is your birthday
Happy birthday
Call
I am
Like that
So
And tell me how you decided to
Put your first video
So late in 2006 my brother and I were talking on AOL into
And at home
We were talking about how we never saw each other
And we never talked on the
My phone
Are we only
Text Julie
And
We got this idea
Over instant messenger
Just stopped communicating texture
And only to communicate via videos that we made back in
To each other everyday
That was early
There was early days did you realize
What you were doing
No
I remember when Hank uploaded the first video and a couple days later we had 400
50 viewers
I remember thinking
Where did these foreign
People come
It just felt
Huge to me
It was astonishing that you can reach people
Also Direct
Off-topic but at the State Fair turkey legs are just so delicious I wonder Philosoraptor legs are good
If it's Tuesday today videos like nothing you ever bought at Ikea it comes to you and only
Two parts of the Green Brothers daily Vlogs began together a massive audio
And there's was one of the first big channels on YouTube
Leading the way to the birth
Of a YouTube Nation
I love you
I mean watch my channel the brothers also set up a relay race of memorable virtual moments
By the end of this song
Hi guys
First video blog
I guess I'll just
There was Clarity that we were living in a world where the internet was of the people
By the people
Everybody for the people who are working hard to make an awesome gear for other people
The year was 2014
Ebola was in the news daily and nearly three billion people were now on the internet
At that time the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge was traveling the web at warp speed
The online campaign went a little something
Nothing like this I am accepting the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge either you or someone you knew
Ford a cold bucket of water over your head you then made a donation to the ALS organization and
Also nominated someone else to then pour a bucket of water over their head I accept
The viral campaign was an effort to eradicate Lugia
Disease look at me and
Narcissistic culture that have begun to emerge online and more than 2 million people posted video
Videos of themselves accepting the challenge
The ice bucket challenge raised more than $115 in just 6 weeks
It was and still is the effects of using social media for a Cause
Every month
Almost 2 billion people log onto Facebook
Its founder Mark Zuckerberg grew impatient with the creation of an official Harvard webpage while he was a student
So he and his friends decided to take matters
Into their own hands
Is Zuckerberg lunch
Facemash for Harvard students only
And from there it spread to other colleges and then on February 4th 2004 the site
Facebook
Who is launch nationally
Just 4 years later
The company was valued at nearly four billion dollars
Hard to remember life
Before it when we actually smiled at someone when we like something I'm tagging was just a kids game
The online platform shifted our communication from emailing
Two broadcasting the content of Our Lives
And even if it went away tomorrow
It has forever changed the way we communicate
Facebook continue to experiment with ways users could webcast
So when Facebook live appears it enables users to go live with whatever they were doing from wherever they were
We're doing it with
The push of a button and through it
We've had front row seats to everything
Okay
From the viral sensation of Chewbacca mom
To The Other Extreme
The live cast of the Minnesota shooting
Come get it ID turn his driver's license
Oh my God please don't tell me he said please don't tell me my boyfriend just went like that
Diamond Reynolds broadcast the aftermath of the shooting of her partner
Registration
The Internet by a Facebook
Twitter Pinterest in so many more sites as
Become our go-to for just about everything
Breaking news
Social movements
Store by funny moment to break up an otherwise horrible day
These statistics shows in real time the sheer enormity of weather
Tivity at any moment
In the day
It is now true
Every second
6000 tweets are tweeted
And 41000 status update supposed
Facebook
And Google processes 100
Billion searches a month
I think it's fact I don't think it
Don't put a judgement on and I think we're heading towards the world
Where everything is being image
Teach my 4 year old kids now that
If they do something and it's viewed on Facebook if they are forever
So ultimately it's going to change society
Audience participation made the internet in normally powerful
But its reach accelerated with the juggernaut
Online gaming
It's nearly a 100 billion dollar worldwide industry
Four out of five households in the United States have gaming consoles
Translating into 155 million Americans playing games regularly
Alright Cooper
Game on
Dam on verot
What is a full time job
They play online and others pay to watch
I went one-on-one with game streamer Josh Peters
Who goes by koopatroopa787
I hate that
He's definitely out of my league
Tell me about the Journey from
You know doing gave me for fun to doing gaming for a living
After a week of doing it
Without even trying to monetize or make money from it within a week
Starting I was making more money
Then I was at my full-time job
For the first time in my life I felt like I could actually do something that I really enjoyed
But make a living
And I know sometimes I take that for granted
The very very big question but I mean do you feel like
The internet has made a life possible for you that
Was otherwise impossible
What what are your thoughts on it
I've had up to 57000 people at once watching me
Play a phone game
And there's no I mean that's the entire stadiums worth
Watching me play a game on my tablet
From my home
Office
That's that's not fast
Without without
Where are you dead
Respond to the ground
And he has no idea where most of these people are watching him from
Who they are
The audience
Lurks in the shadows
His fan base
Is completely anonymous
Capitalizing on the invisibility of anonymity
Apps like whisper and
And secret and Yik Yak
Begin to saturate the marketplace
You Jacquees created by college friends Tyler droll and Brooks Buffington
They wanted to create a more democratic social media Network where users didn't need a large number of followers to have
A virtual voice
So they allow people to post comments completely anonymously
You text 1.8 million faceless users share thousands of yaks per day
Started out innocently enough
With those things like the girl in the red sweater on the library steps looking real good
I hate when my phone says searching but when it does I hold it to my heart and Whisper me to
You phone me to good morning
Only launched last December but how quickly it took off
Child is using it to also be dangerous it's called
Tide quickly change to cringe-worthy end-of-course horribly offensive messages or BX
As they are known
Female students at the University of Mary Washington
Which threatened verbally with rape
And other kinds of abuse
Crime Alert out of Fredericksburg where police say a man has been arrested
For the murder of
College roommate was actually murdered
Her friends and family say it was partly due to the tension that began on the app
Funeral being held
There were incidents at dozens of colleges and universities
GTX Founder's
Say that they have made changes to address the complaints they received adding filters to flag offencive language
They've also built geofences
Around roughly 85% of the nation's high schools and middle
Total anonymity gives you Freedom perhaps to speak or to explore
Different sauce ideas
Shana possibilities
That might be out of the bounds of perhaps your normal social milieus or your physical setting or whatever
But how do you balance the need for an anonymity and in very real situations the political dissident the
Do you spell etc
Versus the growing trend of of just intolerant speech online
As social media connects more people than ever before
Its success depends on companies policing their site
Racist criminals and Bullies do not make their presence known
The really like mean-spirited
Things that people
People say it's just
Mindbody
Mindbody
Content moderators like Alex from Patrol the Cyber Frontier
Their full-time job is to remove offensive material from social networking sites
For Content moderators like Alex Instagram workday
And the burnout rate
Is high
You say something offencive to someone online you can't see their physical reaction in their face you can't see how
Hurt they feel
So there's no human aspect to it and you feel like
Fresno concert
For your action
It desensitizes us when we go online
We're not looking at each other
Iran Embassy is born in the Gaze in the eye contact
In the face
Sherry turkle has spent the last 30 years
Studying the psychology of people's relationships
Technology
Just been a 40% raw, young people on college students
In the capacity for empathy
In the last 20 years
With most of the change
Taking place in the past 10
Content moderation requires a human.
No amount of programming norb algorithms can do this work
Especially when it comes to imagery
A lot of bee images
That come through
AR
Sexually
Explicit sometimes
Play violin
Or very
Gruesome
The constant stream of troubling words in pictures
Takes a toll
Average moderators last somewhere between three and six months
For quitting
Some have even reportedly developed post-traumatic stress
Disorder
You leave work at the end of the day
Feeling a little down a little depressed
You know
How lose your face
Inhumanity a little bit
My mantra for moderators is
Is moderate in moderation
If
We are doing it all day everyday
Whether it's images or content
Or videos
Or anything else
You'll feel like
The whole your whole world is
Negativity
This business is often kept in the shadows intentionally
Do large companies who hire content moderators
Don't advertise that reportedly half their Workforce is doing this
Type of work
They don't want the public to know that there is no need to police their sites
Most people don't know that there's a
Other side to the internet where there are people working really hard to
Prevent you from seeing someone
4 negative things that get posted online
A lot of
I don't think we'll ever get rid of kind of the dark corners of the internet were the CD people go to
Do what they'll always do
I think it's inevitable and it's just part of human nature
And
Going to be a part of the internet as long as the internet is around
Some governments have also taken action to gain control of the web
Take China for example
They feel once known as the great firewall
It's a sophisticated system of filters that blocks out anything the Chinese government deems undesirable
So if you're in China and you search for persecution you'll get a blank screen and says page not available
Results of the search for Independence websites like new
New York Times Time magazine YouTube
Facebook Twitter and most of Google are also blocked
There's no denying
If someone's always watching you
They also are implementing highly controversial surveillance
Which they call the Golden Shield Project
Using speech and face recognition
Closed circuit television
And other internet surveillance technology
The Chinese government hopes to create a gigantic online database of each and every one of its citizen
And several years ago China insisted that Yahoo turnover account information
Ended up helping the government track and imprison journalists
Two of which were then sentenced
10 years in prison
Attracted so much attention
The Congress held a hearing where an outrage congressman
Told Yahoo executives
While technologically and financially you are giants morally you are pygmies
Yahoo has since apologized
For the incident
Censorship has gone global
France and Germany have laws Banning Nazi propaganda
Any Australia there been a series of proposed laws to block pirated materials
And protect children
Now those
Are worthy goals
But it does make you wonder where this might lead
Increasingly what we see is that different forces political and economic are met
Making the internet less free
Then we had hoped the United States government and other governments are going to platforms like Twitter and Facebook
And ask him what are you going to do about this she had a speech what are you going to do to limit it and are you going to
Help us get rid of it
And for people who are connecting are you going to help us find out who's interested in this ideology
CNN breaking news breaking news this evening breaking news The Whistleblower reveal the 29 year-old
Lick those top-secret details of the government's sweeping surveillance program without come forward
Infamous Revelations set off a ripple effect that is still traveling throughout the digital world
Suggested the NSA was tapping directly
The public
Programs and policies are right or wrong
Snowden work for the National Security Agency
Delete thousands of classified documents that revealed the government was collecting
The communication records of
Perfectly average folks
People like you and me
In essence
Spying on millions of America
We caught up with him in Russia where he is in Exile
He says that we should consider how far the government will go
With that information
What are the common questions that
People have
When they think about the surveillance problem
It's been collected
By corporations and government why do people get so angry
When spies are doing it when the government is doing it when they say they're trying to do it to do it to save lives
The answer as far as we can tell today
Is that the participation with these private companies is largely Fallen
Harry dropping in to use Facebook you're signing up
You're agreeing to the terms of service on
Twitter
And there's also a
Difference in the level of power
But these different sets of actors can bring to bear
Google
Conspiring email
And serve you ads that they think are relevant to your interest
The government
Can put you in jail or drop the bomb on you
The revelations by Edward Snowden and continuing
Through the last
Several years frankly
I think have reshaped
The conversation in this country certainly in really around the world
We know that the internet and much of the digital world was an American invention
Globo
Batman to the rest of the world
Did the United
States with holding the keys to cyberspace
Snowden incident happened things began to change
Non-americans began not to trust us
They were concerned that big brother
Or rather Uncle Sam
Was watching
Americans also
Did not want to accept that their technological life
Had to, the price of pasta
Surveillance
As a result
Internet sovereignty is inching forward
Where we may become a world where the web literally splinters along Geographic boundaries
Also known as the
Splinter net
One of the most compelling threats to a truly global internet right now are the calls for data localization and and
In-country servers and
The application of
When countries laws over another
Right now we enjoy an Internet that is a Global Network
People and institutions
That we have come to rely on
It is open flexible and efficient becomes the Splinter net
It would become a rigid system with impenetrable borders in
Critics argue it would also lead to a system
Even more vulnerable to government abuse
Another online threat goes beyond invading your virtual space to actually invading your personal
Is called squatting
It is an internet prank where someone finds out your home address and calls nine-one-one to report a fake
Emergency
And just a few years ago when went down in a suburb of Atlanta
It began with this
911 call
I was at work
And I received a phone call from one of our caregivers
She said
Something
Strange is going on there's
Been some sort of nine-one-one call an emergency and there's all of these police officers here at the house
It was early January 2014
It was about 4
Twenty-something in the afternoon
My lieutenant came down the hallway and stuck his head in my door and gets hated you just hear that call
And he said yeah we got a person shot at least two shot
And
A hostage situation
I mean I really felt like know this
Can't really be happening but
But I could not
Reach anyone to get that reassurance
That's what really just
How your head starts thinking crazy things and
In what if there is some crazy person in my house
The end of my street have been barricaded
And there are helicopters
All everywhere in Neighbors lying to, suck something from a movie I couldn't even believe what I was driving up to
I literally just dropped my car and we'll be straight
And
Ran to a police officer that was standing there blocking the street like this
This is my house and my children are there and I need to get her immediately
She is absolutely beside herself terrorized thinking someone has been to her home is basically wiped out an entire family
Winnie the Pooh
No stopping her before she ran up to the house
Remember feeling like I just
DIY kids my hands right now
After about a half hour or so some things just weren't adding up
By the time the media already picked it up
And all the sudden
Banana comes out and she's got
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:06,848
Basically
Naked children soaking wet
They were taking a bath time
Paw Patrol guys going in
In the clear the whole house
I come back out and it's like
Hey man nothing's going on here this is just a hoax
Their main goal is to try to elicit a large law enforcement response
Because even after it's done that can come back and say to the person hey I reached out and got you today I'll do it again
Tomorrow
Don't mess with me
Nationally the online World from the very beginning
The world of games
It was a boys club
And I think that
Combination of locker room anything goes Boys Club mores in the online
World combined with is nobody knows your name you can be anonymous in the
And since you're not Anonymous but you are the characterizes cyberbullying
Just a sick game so kind of a retaliatory action
I'm not sure exactly what causes it to reach to a level of where you get swatted
That was my understanding
It angered you to know that somebody did this as a joke and that you're somewhere They're laughing about that and they thought that was funny
There's no accountability it's like a
Wild wild west on the internet in every now and then the Marshall ride through town and bring some Law and Order
But then he leaves everything goes right back to the same way it was
It can seem chaotic and Lawless
But we can't really blame the internet for the malicious behavior of its users
That's the thing we brought with us all of our social values
Onto the internet
It's not the Flesh and it changed our social values
Petroflex
The global internet is
Infinitely accessible Bad actors can show up anywhere as for the technology itself
It's always been content neutral
The network never knew anything about what was being carried
So my car is going down the road
You don't know what's inside all you know is there's a road in the car and somebody
Check out this new app
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You know like if you're not in a relationship
But you want people
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Don't get the wrong idea I am very happy with my actual real life girlfriend
But I thought I should investigate this to see what the
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First new setup your own profile and then you get to
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Why would someone need a fake girlfriend
People aren't getting their emotional needs met online
They can find experiences elsewhere
But
You may not get ammo
There's this is real lack of
Empathy
And the world
Meet the inventors of invisible girlfriend
This all started out as a
A crazy idea at a hackathon
Throw away idea if I was stupid
Before the team thought it would be fun to work
What we wanted to do is just see if
Can we build something a weekend
How soon can we get that work
Always at Quest
The challenge was
How do we actually create
Boyfriend
Starting out with a chatbot
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Hundreds of thousands of people have signed up
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Of course I will I want to go out I miss you so much
Meet an invisible girl for
She's a text writer for hire
And she does her best to make a virtual room
Feel real
Actually
Several at once
Baby usually jumping between a few conversations
Have you seen those videos of those parents that put toothpaste in oreos and give them to Thursday
This user says where do you want to go to dinner tonight
And he says
When are we getting married
In a lot of ways for the user
It is a real relationship
Some of them
Don't realize that they're talking to more than
One person
It's true
The next text I get from
Can I see be written by a completely different person
I like the boyfriend because like
I know what women want
I am a woman
Like I know what a woman
Wants to hear
I'd be happy to know that I was
A girl
Sometimes these
Quote on quote relationship
Become a little complicated
Sometimes the users will try to take it
Newest texting
Level and you really have to deter them
It doesn't happen very often
I think they just want
Someone to be kind to them
These are said
Whataboutism
Tries but I'll give it to you tonight when I pick you up for
I love you baby
And I said I can't wait
I love you too darling you're too good to me how do I deserve you
The creators of invisible girlfriend
Never expected it would become so meaningful
We've been really intrigued by how you can have a deep connection with just messaging alone
In the future I think it's going to become normal
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Engage with characters that may not exist
The web connecting more people than ever before
Shouldn't we be able to have real human connection
But I guess that's the irony of the internet
The more connected we become
Technologically
The more isolated
A lot of us seem to feel in our actual day-to-day lives
That's kind of sad
I hope
But in the future we can still maintain those
Real
Person-to-person connections and we don't have to rely on
Computers
To be our partner
Technology mirrors and magnifies the good bad and ugly of everyday life
Show me technology changed communication
Horse
What is it
For the worst
I'm not convinced it all
Just different
And people learn how to move across these environments
And I'm confident they'll figure it out
I think we have to start thinking about what technology we're going to build neck
The internet is changing and all kinds of ways
There's still a long runway for the internet and the internet community and Civil Society 2
Realize the potential
Of the internet as the greatest
Microphone for the individual ever created
ICU virtual reality becoming a real thing fully immersive virtual environments haptic enough
Be back like you're there like
You're in Tokyo I'm in Miami we meet in a virtual space that is like The Matrix
Touch you again
Hang out with you
We can adjust the lighting of the sky
We can cue the music to play I mean literally
Rendered Dreamscapes Inception like dream world
That we can inhabit
Lucidly and navigate around and I mean literally
We all going to move into a cosmo zombie match
That type of immersion
It's going to change things
So fast and it's here
The goggles are here
The band was here the resolutions here
Let's just do a high five
Microsoft is developing A system that would make online interact
A lot more person
We call this technology
Multiplication
With holoportation
People will transmit live Holograms of themselves over the internet
You coming home
Has become the main way we interact with others
Real or imagined
Virtual or robotic
In the not-too-distant future
It could also transform how we
Interact with the Dead
It's not hard to imagine that our loved ones who have passed on
Could be reconstructed
By compiling there
Internet history
All their online activities are email photos
Facebook post
Most people in the past lived and died
With no record of their existence at all other than their birthday
And there.
In the future will have a library of Souls
Now think of what you can do if you have the connection
You would have a library of souls by wish you can have a conversation with an Einstein
A conversation with Winston Churchill
Of course these figures died in the past
But in the future
The Einsteins and the Winston Churchill's their basic personalities will be preserved
And so you'll have a nice conversation with them
The future will lead us even deeper
Into virtual intimacy
Capitalizing
I'm giving the user access to all the senses and catapulting US beyond the simple transmission of
Words and sounds
Sensation of human touch there's already a virtual reality suit
Deliver a hug
And taking things a step further
Researchers have
Reportedly proven that
Simple thought can be sent across the web
India with a computer sensor attached to his scalp
Merely thought the words
Hola and Chow
5000 miles away in France another researcher also wired up received the brainwave
And found himself thinking the words
Hola
And Chow
There will come a time
When you don't actually have to tell anyone your feelings
They will be able to
Out of your head
And on the horizon the very essence of conductivity
The creation of a truly Global Village
Right now only 40% of the world's population even have access to the web
Look at how many devices are actually connect
The internet
And you see how many of us
Are still in digital Darkness
The barriers to connecting all of us
Are enormous
Money language infrastructure
Hotel room now okay
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg just recently launched what may be our biggest hope
Is it a Verizon with the testflight of Aquila
Aquila is a solar-powered drone
And once she is launched she should be able to fly for up two months at a time blanketing the most remote parts
The world with Wi-Fi
This is not the final frontier the mobile device you have will be supplanted by other things I'm certain
System of just be on all the time
Waiting for us to ask a question or to ask for an action to be taken
So the way to think about where the internet is going is not what's the future of the internet
What does the internet
Mutate into
Hand
What are all the reaction products
Echo spinning off in different directions
And it's only just started
Constantly been surprised
Well
When we look at the internet
And where it came from and where it's arrived
Damn where it's headed
I think it's quite clear
The engineers didn't really realize
Just how much this was going to change things
People are crazy
In the series
Will Journey Through the past
Present and future about Revolution we call the internet
Will go inside the hidden places practices and people who make it hum
And ask
Why do we all love it so much
This is the internet
Really
Right here
We usually think of it as invisible somewhere in the cloud
This is where the invisible becomes visible
Where the intangible becomes concrete
I'm Derek Muller
And I'm in
An internet Exchange
Point one of hundreds of places around the world
Where computers networks all linked up to form the global internet
What's happening in here
Is that countless routers and switches are receiving data from one network
And they're passing it over to another Network by a real physical cable
So it's a network
Of networks all interconnected
Which is why we call it the internet
And here you can actually reach out and physically touch
Everything we've ever recorded or for that matter ever written texted or Tumblr passes through the
These Global Internet exchange points the likes of which neither Newton Tesla
Einstein could ever have fathomed
All of it traveling at the speed of light
I spend most of my working life
Here on the internet
I know that may sound a little bit nerdy but
I actually really enjoy it
I create and host an online science channel called veritasium
Meaning the element of Truth
It is my dream job because I'm passionate about science and
Now I can investigate topics I've always wondered about that cool and bring my world of science to a massive
International audience
I capitalize on the reach of the web
For example after uploading this video called
Be surprising application of the Magnus effect
It has now been viewed by more than 50 million people from around the world
Not bad for a film about a fluid dynamical effect
As a species we have an inbuilt need
To connect with others
To communicate
And share our stories
To create community
Innocence
And the internet empowers us to do that in ways we never before imagined
In 1969 the same year that a man stepped on the moon
Leonard kleinrock headed up
Team of computer scientist
Later hailed as the fathers of the
And it all started in a room like this one
The interesting thing is that
If none of us have been born
We still have an internet
It was in the air
It was going to happen
The inspiration to create a brand new network came from a branch of the defense department called
Arpa
The advanced research projects agency
Well
Oper
Was formed as a response
The 1957
Sputnik launched
By the Russians
Soviet headquarters
Pants down
Will behind in technology
At the time computers were very large very expense
And separated by great disc
So a single user wishing to use multiple programs
What happened travel to different location
Computers to talk to each other
And there was no way in which they were able to do so efficiently
At the time
Here was the problem
If you were trying to send files or messages over a network you have to put them in one at a time
So each message have to wait it's
Turn
And if one of the messages were really big
It would take a long time to go through
Dissolution Leonard kleinrock and his fellow internet Pioneers came up with
Do lies at the heart of the internet today
It's called packets
In which all the messages are cut up into
Pictures of the same size
Call back
Then the packets can travel separately through the network
Making the best use of every available space
Small messages
Well they can squeeze into the gaps between packet from the large messages avoiding the long wait
Once those packets have reached their destination
They can be reassembled into their original messages
To do all that chopping and reassembling a special device we connect computers to the net
This is the very first piece of Internet
Equipment
This is where the intern
Began
It's the interface message processor
It's made out of a military hardened machine
The Department of Defense
Inside you notice
It is so ugly it's cute
It's my friend
As unique odor
And it's really old equipment
But this is where the end
Anti-internet
Right here
The year is 1969
Richard Nixon is inaugurated as our 37th president
More than a million people gathered at Woodstock to celebrate sex drugs and rock and roll
And on October 29th
UCLA logged into a computer at the Stanford Research Institute
Not to make sure this work
But this was the first time the two house computers
Let somebody login to remotely
Where to telephone connection
Just to be sure
Now to login you have to type l o g
Jolly
Icln acceptability
Patio
Prodigy
Crash
The system
The first message
Internet was
Low
As in
Lo and behold
Samuel Morse
Depress
Immediately
Alexander Graham Bell
Come here Watson I need
Neil Armstrong
Giant leap for mankind
Turns out
The message we sent
What about a short
Is prophetic is powerful as you can imagine
No
By accident
A vision in those early days was
Machine-to-machine or persons the machine
But I missed totally
Was that this was not about computer store
Was about people communicating with each other
By the end of 1969
There were just a few computers connected to the arpanet
But the network grew steadily during the 1970s
Multiplied it became more difficult for them to integrate into a worldwide system
And the desire for access to each other's data was enormous
Back in the 1970s there was no single global internet as we know it
Today
Instead there were a lot of different networks like the government's big arpanet to satellite Networks
And little Community operation
But they all had their own different format and they connected to each other in different ways
Cooking short if you weren't already on a network there was no way to get to it
It was like the biblical Tower of Babel
We needed a Common Language
Standard set of protocols that would allow all these networks to talk to each other
The internet got
The common language it needed
Thanks to two pioneering scientists
And this
Nondescript delivery
Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn work for years
To solve the problem
Conductivity
Bomb showed up in my office
Stanford
We have a problem
My reaction is
Faces while I'm trying to get these nuts to interconnect
I don't know
How we should do that
Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn outfitted this vehicle with
High-end
Computer hardware and radio transmission gear and then they drove it through the streets of the Bay Area
On November 22nd 1977 the team at this console was able to transmit a message to LA
Los Angeles
100 miles
They used
Three networks to do it
The two men developed a way for all the computer networks to communicate
It's been described as the handshake that introduces computers to each other
They also came up with a new word for what they were doing
Don't, and I wrote this first paper describing
A protocol for packet Network intercommunication
And so internet working
Was
The term that was used but it was so clumsy
Popcaan called the project internetting
And eventually we started to refer to the object that we were building his
The internet
Computers were still large
Roughly the size of industrial
Refrigeration unit
The only people who could afford them
Where large corporations universities and Military
They were manufactured to be smaller and smaller personal computers began to take off and so did the inch
Internet for the user at home
Probably 1981
Florida
PC
And tried to
Getting hooked up to
A modem and it was
Really complicated really difficult
But there still was something Magic
The idea that I was
Computer connecting to people
And ideas all over the world
The standard speed of connection was 56 kilobits per second
Soap uploading a video or even a photo
Took a ridiculously long time
People were complaining
What's too slow
And we're going to fix that
With the cable model
Jim Phillips was an executive at Motorola in the mid-1990s when it develops a way to speed things up
Now
We looked at all these cable company
And they had this
Way of communicating via hybrid fiber coax
Back in the in those days it called a TV wire
What that gave us was really
High speed
Data
Which we haven't experienced before no more phone line
Someone you could download audio
Download
Video
Even
Connected you could also join Discussion Group
Send send email
Hyundai webservice Rose to the top
AOL
America online
You got mail
It took millions of Americans online
The first time
The mission of air on the early days was to create a service that was easy to use useful fun in a portal
I was driving us we really believe the internet could be as important
In people's lives
The telephone or the television
But even provide more value
To attract new customers
AOL used a brilliant marketing strategy
The new AOL
Here CDs
AOL just gave them away so people could load up the software
And connect to the net
Millions
Signed up
At one point in the 1990s half of all the CDs produced on Earth or from AOL
End-users discovered new ways to find each other
Prosecco Community with everything is hot how do we
Create a hole
Sweet
Tools
Ahsoka Star with email and also was message boards and forums things like that we also thought The real-time communication
Initially we watch people connections
Chat rooms
And we create an instant messaging
AOL provided a Gathering Place
Four groups of people with shared interest
Bakersfield the traffic of so many
Communities coming on lunch weather was I village with women or Blackberry Creek
With young children or
Is it called the 2/3 real more than two-thirds of their traffic was people just talking to each other and their platforms and it
The chatroom Message Board cetera
The mayor of the community
We ask a question in 2004
What is the most surprising thing about the growth of the internet
And they said the spread of the web itself
With what's done. Just that so many people had so much to say
A lot of cat videos in that a lot of cat pictures
How profound
Sharing the boxes behind me I'm going to change
No
One of the most famous to upload his life is John Green
John's best selling novel The Fault in Our Stars
Came a hit movie
Millions feel like they know him personally because for years he's run a YouTube channel
You're very great song
Including this one
Which is enormously popular with his brother Hank
From January 1st
December 31st 2007
John Green and his brother
Rent a video blog project
They called Brotherhood 2.0
Every day for the entire year the brothers sent each other videos don't you know the whole world gone and reserved
How many more
Could you sell I got to hang out with John and we reached out to hang
And good morning
Good morning happy Thursday May 5th is your birthday
Happy birthday
Call
I am
Like that
So
And tell me how you decided to
Put your first video
So late in 2006 my brother and I were talking on AOL into
And at home
We were talking about how we never saw each other
And we never talked on the
My phone
Are we only
Text Julie
And
We got this idea
Over instant messenger
Just stopped communicating texture
And only to communicate via videos that we made back in
To each other everyday
That was early
There was early days did you realize
What you were doing
No
I remember when Hank uploaded the first video and a couple days later we had 400
50 viewers
I remember thinking
Where did these foreign
People come
It just felt
Huge to me
It was astonishing that you can reach people
Also Direct
Off-topic but at the State Fair turkey legs are just so delicious I wonder Philosoraptor legs are good
If it's Tuesday today videos like nothing you ever bought at Ikea it comes to you and only
Two parts of the Green Brothers daily Vlogs began together a massive audio
And there's was one of the first big channels on YouTube
Leading the way to the birth
Of a YouTube Nation
I love you
I mean watch my channel the brothers also set up a relay race of memorable virtual moments
By the end of this song
Hi guys
First video blog
I guess I'll just
There was Clarity that we were living in a world where the internet was of the people
By the people
Everybody for the people who are working hard to make an awesome gear for other people
The year was 2014
Ebola was in the news daily and nearly three billion people were now on the internet
At that time the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge was traveling the web at warp speed
The online campaign went a little something
Nothing like this I am accepting the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge either you or someone you knew
Ford a cold bucket of water over your head you then made a donation to the ALS organization and
Also nominated someone else to then pour a bucket of water over their head I accept
The viral campaign was an effort to eradicate Lugia
Disease look at me and
Narcissistic culture that have begun to emerge online and more than 2 million people posted video
Videos of themselves accepting the challenge
The ice bucket challenge raised more than $115 in just 6 weeks
It was and still is the effects of using social media for a Cause
Every month
Almost 2 billion people log onto Facebook
Its founder Mark Zuckerberg grew impatient with the creation of an official Harvard webpage while he was a student
So he and his friends decided to take matters
Into their own hands
Is Zuckerberg lunch
Facemash for Harvard students only
And from there it spread to other colleges and then on February 4th 2004 the site
Who is launch nationally
Just 4 years later
The company was valued at nearly four billion dollars
Hard to remember life
Before it when we actually smiled at someone when we like something I'm tagging was just a kids game
The online platform shifted our communication from emailing
Two broadcasting the content of Our Lives
And even if it went away tomorrow
It has forever changed the way we communicate
Facebook continue to experiment with ways users could webcast
So when Facebook live appears it enables users to go live with whatever they were doing from wherever they were
We're doing it with
The push of a button and through it
We've had front row seats to everything
Okay
From the viral sensation of Chewbacca mom
To The Other Extreme
The live cast of the Minnesota shooting
Come get it ID turn his driver's license
Oh my God please don't tell me he said please don't tell me my boyfriend just went like that
Diamond Reynolds broadcast the aftermath of the shooting of her partner
Registration
The Internet by a Facebook
Twitter Pinterest in so many more sites as
Become our go-to for just about everything
Breaking news
Social movements
Store by funny moment to break up an otherwise horrible day
These statistics shows in real time the sheer enormity of weather
Tivity at any moment
In the day
It is now true
Every second
6000 tweets are tweeted
And 41000 status update supposed
And Google processes 100
Billion searches a month
I think it's fact I don't think it
Don't put a judgement on and I think we're heading towards the world
Where everything is being image
Teach my 4 year old kids now that
If they do something and it's viewed on Facebook if they are forever
So ultimately it's going to change society
Audience participation made the internet in normally powerful
But its reach accelerated with the juggernaut
Online gaming
It's nearly a 100 billion dollar worldwide industry
Four out of five households in the United States have gaming consoles
Translating into 155 million Americans playing games regularly
Alright Cooper
Game on
Dam on verot
What is a full time job
They play online and others pay to watch
I went one-on-one with game streamer Josh Peters
Who goes by koopatroopa787
I hate that
He's definitely out of my league
Tell me about the Journey from
You know doing gave me for fun to doing gaming for a living
After a week of doing it
Without even trying to monetize or make money from it within a week
Starting I was making more money
Then I was at my full-time job
For the first time in my life I felt like I could actually do something that I really enjoyed
But make a living
And I know sometimes I take that for granted
The very very big question but I mean do you feel like
The internet has made a life possible for you that
Was otherwise impossible
What what are your thoughts on it
I've had up to 57000 people at once watching me
Play a phone game
And there's no I mean that's the entire stadiums worth
Watching me play a game on my tablet
From my home
Office
That's that's not fast
Without without
Where are you dead
Respond to the ground
And he has no idea where most of these people are watching him from
Who they are
The audience
Lurks in the shadows
His fan base
Is completely anonymous
Capitalizing on the invisibility of anonymity
Apps like whisper and
And secret and Yik Yak
Begin to saturate the marketplace
You Jacquees created by college friends Tyler droll and Brooks Buffington
They wanted to create a more democratic social media Network where users didn't need a large number of followers to have
A virtual voice
So they allow people to post comments completely anonymously
You text 1.8 million faceless users share thousands of yaks per day
Started out innocently enough
With those things like the girl in the red sweater on the library steps looking real good
I hate when my phone says searching but when it does I hold it to my heart and Whisper me to
You phone me to good morning
Only launched last December but how quickly it took off
Child is using it to also be dangerous it's called
Tide quickly change to cringe-worthy end-of-course horribly offensive messages or BX
As they are known
Female students at the University of Mary Washington
Which threatened verbally with rape
And other kinds of abuse
Crime Alert out of Fredericksburg where police say a man has been arrested
For the murder of
College roommate was actually murdered
Her friends and family say it was partly due to the tension that began on the app
Funeral being held
There were incidents at dozens of colleges and universities
GTX Founder's
Say that they have made changes to address the complaints they received adding filters to flag offencive language
They've also built geofences
Around roughly 85% of the nation's high schools and middle
Total anonymity gives you Freedom perhaps to speak or to explore
Different sauce ideas
Shana possibilities
That might be out of the bounds of perhaps your normal social milieus or your physical setting or whatever
But how do you balance the need for an anonymity and in very real situations the political dissident the
Do you spell etc
Versus the growing trend of of just intolerant speech online
As social media connects more people than ever before
Its success depends on companies policing their site
Racist criminals and Bullies do not make their presence known
The really like mean-spirited
Things that people
People say it's just
Mindbody
Mindbody
Content moderators like Alex from Patrol the Cyber Frontier
Their full-time job is to remove offensive material from social networking sites
For Content moderators like Alex Instagram workday
And the burnout rate
Is high
You say something offencive to someone online you can't see their physical reaction in their face you can't see how
Hurt they feel
So there's no human aspect to it and you feel like
Fresno concert
For your action
It desensitizes us when we go online
We're not looking at each other
Iran Embassy is born in the Gaze in the eye contact
In the face
Sherry turkle has spent the last 30 years
Studying the psychology of people's relationships
Technology
Just been a 40% raw, young people on college students
In the capacity for empathy
In the last 20 years
With most of the change
Taking place in the past 10
Content moderation requires a human.
No amount of programming norb algorithms can do this work
Especially when it comes to imagery
A lot of bee images
That come through
AR
Sexually
Explicit sometimes
Play violin
Or very
Gruesome
The constant stream of troubling words in pictures
Takes a toll
Average moderators last somewhere between three and six months
For quitting
Some have even reportedly developed post-traumatic stress
Disorder
You leave work at the end of the day
Feeling a little down a little depressed
You know
How lose your face
Inhumanity a little bit
My mantra for moderators is
Is moderate in moderation
If
We are doing it all day everyday
Whether it's images or content
Or videos
Or anything else
You'll feel like
The whole your whole world is
Negativity
This business is often kept in the shadows intentionally
Do large companies who hire content moderators
Don't advertise that reportedly half their Workforce is doing this
Type of work
They don't want the public to know that there is no need to police their sites
Most people don't know that there's a
Other side to the internet where there are people working really hard to
Prevent you from seeing someone
4 negative things that get posted online
A lot of
I don't think we'll ever get rid of kind of the dark corners of the internet were the CD people go to
Do what they'll always do
I think it's inevitable and it's just part of human nature
And
Going to be a part of the internet as long as the internet is around
Some governments have also taken action to gain control of the web
Take China for example
They feel once known as the great firewall
It's a sophisticated system of filters that blocks out anything the Chinese government deems undesirable
So if you're in China and you search for persecution you'll get a blank screen and says page not available
Results of the search for Independence websites like new
New York Times Time magazine YouTube
Facebook Twitter and most of Google are also blocked
There's no denying
If someone's always watching you
They also are implementing highly controversial surveillance
Which they call the Golden Shield Project
Using speech and face recognition
Closed circuit television
And other internet surveillance technology
The Chinese government hopes to create a gigantic online database of each and every one of its citizen
And several years ago China insisted that Yahoo turnover account information
Ended up helping the government track and imprison journalists
Two of which were then sentenced
10 years in prison
Attracted so much attention
The Congress held a hearing where an outrage congressman
Told Yahoo executives
While technologically and financially you are giants morally you are pygmies
Yahoo has since apologized
For the incident
Censorship has gone global
France and Germany have laws Banning Nazi propaganda
Any Australia there been a series of proposed laws to block pirated materials
And protect children
Now those
Are worthy goals
But it does make you wonder where this might lead
Increasingly what we see is that different forces political and economic are met
Making the internet less free
Then we had hoped the United States government and other governments are going to platforms like Twitter and Facebook
And ask him what are you going to do about this she had a speech what are you going to do to limit it and are you going to
Help us get rid of it
And for people who are connecting are you going to help us find out who's interested in this ideology
CNN breaking news breaking news this evening breaking news The Whistleblower reveal the 29 year-old
Lick those top-secret details of the government's sweeping surveillance program without come forward
Infamous Revelations set off a ripple effect that is still traveling throughout the digital world
Suggested the NSA was tapping directly
The public
Programs and policies are right or wrong
Snowden work for the National Security Agency
Delete thousands of classified documents that revealed the government was collecting
The communication records of
Perfectly average folks
People like you and me
In essence
Spying on millions of America
We caught up with him in Russia where he is in Exile
He says that we should consider how far the government will go
With that information
What are the common questions that
People have
When they think about the surveillance problem
It's been collected
By corporations and government why do people get so angry
When spies are doing it when the government is doing it when they say they're trying to do it to do it to save lives
The answer as far as we can tell today
Is that the participation with these private companies is largely Fallen
Harry dropping in to use Facebook you're signing up
You're agreeing to the terms of service on
And there's also a
Difference in the level of power
But these different sets of actors can bring to bear
Conspiring email
And serve you ads that they think are relevant to your interest
The government
Can put you in jail or drop the bomb on you
The revelations by Edward Snowden and continuing
Through the last
Several years frankly
I think have reshaped
The conversation in this country certainly in really around the world
We know that the internet and much of the digital world was an American invention
Globo
Batman to the rest of the world
Did the United
States with holding the keys to cyberspace
Snowden incident happened things began to change
Non-americans began not to trust us
They were concerned that big brother
Or rather Uncle Sam
Was watching
Americans also
Did not want to accept that their technological life
Had to, the price of pasta
Surveillance
As a result
Internet sovereignty is inching forward
Where we may become a world where the web literally splinters along Geographic boundaries
Also known as the
Splinter net
One of the most compelling threats to a truly global internet right now are the calls for data localization and and
In-country servers and
The application of
When countries laws over another
Right now we enjoy an Internet that is a Global Network
People and institutions
That we have come to rely on
It is open flexible and efficient becomes the Splinter net
It would become a rigid system with impenetrable borders in
Critics argue it would also lead to a system
Even more vulnerable to government abuse
Another online threat goes beyond invading your virtual space to actually invading your personal
Is called squatting
It is an internet prank where someone finds out your home address and calls nine-one-one to report a fake
Emergency
And just a few years ago when went down in a suburb of Atlanta
It began with this
911 call
I was at work
And I received a phone call from one of our caregivers
She said
Something
Strange is going on there's
Been some sort of nine-one-one call an emergency and there's all of these police officers here at the house
It was early January 2014
It was about 4
Twenty-something in the afternoon
My lieutenant came down the hallway and stuck his head in my door and gets hated you just hear that call
And he said yeah we got a person shot at least two shot
And
A hostage situation
I mean I really felt like know this
Can't really be happening but
But I could not
Reach anyone to get that reassurance
That's what really just
How your head starts thinking crazy things and
In what if there is some crazy person in my house
The end of my street have been barricaded
And there are helicopters
All everywhere in Neighbors lying to, suck something from a movie I couldn't even believe what I was driving up to
I literally just dropped my car and we'll be straight
And
Ran to a police officer that was standing there blocking the street like this
This is my house and my children are there and I need to get her immediately
She is absolutely beside herself terrorized thinking someone has been to her home is basically wiped out an entire family
Winnie the Pooh
No stopping her before she ran up to the house
Remember feeling like I just
DIY kids my hands right now
After about a half hour or so some things just weren't adding up
By the time the media already picked it up
And all the sudden
Banana comes out and she's got
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Basically
Naked children soaking wet
They were taking a bath time
Paw Patrol guys going in
In the clear the whole house
I come back out and it's like
Hey man nothing's going on here this is just a hoax
Their main goal is to try to elicit a large law enforcement response
Because even after it's done that can come back and say to the person hey I reached out and got you today I'll do it again
Tomorrow
Don't mess with me
Nationally the online World from the very beginning
The world of games
It was a boys club
And I think that
Combination of locker room anything goes Boys Club mores in the online
World combined with is nobody knows your name you can be anonymous in the
And since you're not Anonymous but you are the characterizes cyberbullying
Just a sick game so kind of a retaliatory action
I'm not sure exactly what causes it to reach to a level of where you get swatted
That was my understanding
It angered you to know that somebody did this as a joke and that you're somewhere They're laughing about that and they thought that was funny
There's no accountability it's like a
Wild wild west on the internet in every now and then the Marshall ride through town and bring some Law and Order
But then he leaves everything goes right back to the same way it was
It can seem chaotic and Lawless
But we can't really blame the internet for the malicious behavior of its users
That's the thing we brought with us all of our social values
Onto the internet
It's not the Flesh and it changed our social values
Petroflex
The global internet is
Infinitely accessible Bad actors can show up anywhere as for the technology itself
It's always been content neutral
The network never knew anything about what was being carried
So my car is going down the road
You don't know what's inside all you know is there's a road in the car and somebody
Check out this new app
It's called invisible girlfriend and it allows you to
Build
Your ideal
Partner
Virtual
As the site says it offers
Social proof
You know like if you're not in a relationship
But you want people
I think you are
Don't get the wrong idea I am very happy with my actual real life girlfriend
But I thought I should investigate this to see what the
The future
May hold
First new setup your own profile and then you get to
Pick her traits
Her name
Let's go with
Katie
Now what is she like personality traits
How about
Lovingly nerdy
And what sort of stuff is she into
On second thought let's not do chest
How about fashion
Cooking
And sports
Where do we meet
Camping
Theater
Endust
Finish it up here
I now have an invisible girlfriend
What code is
My new
Invisible girlfriend Katie
Why would someone need a fake girlfriend
People aren't getting their emotional needs met online
They can find experiences elsewhere
But
You may not get ammo
There's this is real lack of
Empathy
And the world
Meet the inventors of invisible girlfriend
This all started out as a
A crazy idea at a hackathon
Throw away idea if I was stupid
Before the team thought it would be fun to work
What we wanted to do is just see if
Can we build something a weekend
How soon can we get that work
Always at Quest
The challenge was
How do we actually create
Boyfriend
Starting out with a chatbot
And then ended up going to real humans
So we built a very very simple service
That simple service
Took off okay
Right
Refreshing
Mm
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That is awesome
Hundreds of thousands of people have signed up
Oh you're too sweet to me what are you planning on buying me
Of course I will I want to go out I miss you so much
Meet an invisible girl for
She's a text writer for hire
And she does her best to make a virtual room
Feel real
Actually
Several at once
Baby usually jumping between a few conversations
Have you seen those videos of those parents that put toothpaste in oreos and give them to Thursday
This user says where do you want to go to dinner tonight
And he says
When are we getting married
In a lot of ways for the user
It is a real relationship
Some of them
Don't realize that they're talking to more than
One person
It's true
The next text I get from
Can I see be written by a completely different person
I like the boyfriend because like
I know what women want
I am a woman
Like I know what a woman
Wants to hear
I'd be happy to know that I was
A girl
Sometimes these
Quote on quote relationship
Become a little complicated
Sometimes the users will try to take it
Newest texting
Level and you really have to deter them
It doesn't happen very often
I think they just want
Someone to be kind to them
These are said
Whataboutism
Tries but I'll give it to you tonight when I pick you up for
I love you baby
And I said I can't wait
I love you too darling you're too good to me how do I deserve you
The creators of invisible girlfriend
Never expected it would become so meaningful
We've been really intrigued by how you can have a deep connection with just messaging alone
In the future I think it's going to become normal
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Engage with characters that may not exist
The web connecting more people than ever before
Shouldn't we be able to have real human connection
But I guess that's the irony of the internet
The more connected we become
Technologically
The more isolated
A lot of us seem to feel in our actual day-to-day lives
That's kind of sad
I hope
But in the future we can still maintain those
Real
Person-to-person connections and we don't have to rely on
Computers
To be our partner
Technology mirrors and magnifies the good bad and ugly of everyday life
Show me technology changed communication
Horse
What is it
For the worst
I'm not convinced it all
Just different
And people learn how to move across these environments
And I'm confident they'll figure it out
I think we have to start thinking about what technology we're going to build neck
The internet is changing and all kinds of ways
There's still a long runway for the internet and the internet community and Civil Society 2
Realize the potential
Of the internet as the greatest
Microphone for the individual ever created
ICU virtual reality becoming a real thing fully immersive virtual environments haptic enough
Be back like you're there like
You're in Tokyo I'm in Miami we meet in a virtual space that is like The Matrix
Touch you again
Hang out with you
We can adjust the lighting of the sky
We can cue the music to play I mean literally
Rendered Dreamscapes Inception like dream world
That we can inhabit
Lucidly and navigate around and I mean literally
We all going to move into a cosmo zombie match
That type of immersion
It's going to change things
So fast and it's here
The goggles are here
The band was here the resolutions here
Let's just do a high five
Microsoft is developing A system that would make online interact
A lot more person
We call this technology
Multiplication
With holoportation
People will transmit live Holograms of themselves over the internet
You coming home
Has become the main way we interact with others
Real or imagined
Virtual or robotic
In the not-too-distant future
It could also transform how we
Interact with the Dead
It's not hard to imagine that our loved ones who have passed on
Could be reconstructed
By compiling there
Internet history
All their online activities are email photos
Facebook post
Most people in the past lived and died
With no record of their existence at all other than their birthday
And there.
In the future will have a library of Souls
Now think of what you can do if you have the connection
You would have a library of souls by wish you can have a conversation with an Einstein
A conversation with Winston Churchill
Of course these figures died in the past
But in the future
The Einsteins and the Winston Churchill's their basic personalities will be preserved
And so you'll have a nice conversation with them
The future will lead us even deeper
Into virtual intimacy
Capitalizing
I'm giving the user access to all the senses and catapulting US beyond the simple transmission of
Words and sounds
Sensation of human touch there's already a virtual reality suit
Deliver a hug
And taking things a step further
Researchers have
Reportedly proven that
Simple thought can be sent across the web
India with a computer sensor attached to his scalp
Merely thought the words
Hola and Chow
5000 miles away in France another researcher also wired up received the brainwave
And found himself thinking the words
Hola
And Chow
There will come a time
When you don't actually have to tell anyone your feelings
They will be able to
Out of your head
And on the horizon the very essence of conductivity
The creation of a truly Global Village
Right now only 40% of the world's population even have access to the web
Look at how many devices are actually connect
The internet
And you see how many of us
Are still in digital Darkness
The barriers to connecting all of us
Are enormous
Money language infrastructure
Hotel room now okay
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg just recently launched what may be our biggest hope
Is it a Verizon with the testflight of Aquila
Aquila is a solar-powered drone
And once she is launched she should be able to fly for up two months at a time blanketing the most remote parts
The world with Wi-Fi
This is not the final frontier the mobile device you have will be supplanted by other things I'm certain
System of just be on all the time
Waiting for us to ask a question or to ask for an action to be taken
So the way to think about where the internet is going is not what's the future of the internet
What does the internet
Mutate into
Hand
What are all the reaction products
Echo spinning off in different directions
And it's only just started