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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.71,0:00:02.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hey guys.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.04,0:00:03.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's funny, someone just mentioned MacGyver,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.81,0:00:05.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because that was, like, I loved it,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.75,0:00:11.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when I was seven, I taped a fork to a drill
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.07,0:00:13.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was like, "Hey, Mom, I'm going to Olive Garden."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.79,0:00:17.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And -- (Drilling noise) (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.94,0:00:20.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it worked really well there.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.88,0:00:24.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know, it had a profound effect on me.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.70,0:00:26.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It sounds silly, but I thought, okay,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.92,0:00:29.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way the world works can be changed,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.80,0:00:31.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it can be changed by me in these small ways.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.95,0:00:33.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And my relationship to
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.66,0:00:35.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially human-made objects
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.15,0:00:37.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which someone else said they work like this,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.04,0:00:40.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, I can say they work a different way, a little bit.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.19,0:00:42.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, about 20 years later,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.69,0:00:44.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't realize the full effect of this,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.19,0:00:45.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I went to Costa Rica
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.97,0:00:48.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I stayed with these Guaymí natives there,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.14,0:00:51.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they could pull leaves off of trees and make shingles out of them,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.64,0:00:54.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they could make beds out of trees,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.81,0:00:57.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they could -- I watched this woman for three days.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.04,0:01:00.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was there. She was peeling this palm frond apart,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.29,0:01:03.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these little threads off of it, and she'd roll the threads together
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.43,0:01:06.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and make little thicker threads, like strings,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.14,0:01:08.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she would weave the strings together,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.97,0:01:12.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as the materiality of this exact very bag
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.45,0:01:15.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,formed before my eyes over those three days,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.33,0:01:18.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the materiality of the way the world works,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.64,0:01:21.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of reality, kind of started to unravel in my mind,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.12,0:01:24.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I realized that this bag and these clothes
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.46,0:01:26.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the trampoline you have at home and the pencil sharpener,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.85,0:01:30.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everything you have is made out of either a tree or a rock
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.98,0:01:33.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or something we dug out of the ground and did some process to,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.32,0:01:37.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe a more complicated one, but still, everything was made that way.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.24,0:01:39.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I had to start studying,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.43,0:01:41.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who is it that's making these decisions?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.14,0:01:42.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who's making these things? How did they make them?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.95,0:01:44.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What stops us from making them?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.44,0:01:47.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because this is how reality is created.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.34,0:01:49.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I started right away. I was at MIT Media Lab,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.93,0:01:52.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was studying the maker movement
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.48,0:01:54.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and makers and creativity.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.03,0:01:56.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I started in nature, because I saw these Guaymís
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.16,0:01:59.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doing it in nature, and there just seems to be less barriers.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.20,0:02:02.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I went to Vermont to Not Back to School Camp,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.55,0:02:05.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where there's unschoolers who are just kind of hanging out
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.80,0:02:07.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and willing to try anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.29,0:02:09.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I said, "Let's go into the woods near this stream
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.58,0:02:11.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just put stuff together, you know, make something,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.61,0:02:14.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't care, geometrical shapes, just grab some junk from around you.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.20,0:02:15.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We won't bring anything with us.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.84,0:02:18.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, like, within minutes, this is very easy for adults
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.36,0:02:19.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and teens to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.45,0:02:22.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's a triangle that was being formed underneath a flowing stream,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.59,0:02:25.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the shape of an oak leaf being made
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.17,0:02:28.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by other small oak leaves being put together.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.36,0:02:31.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A leaf tied to a stick with a blade of grass.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.10,0:02:33.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The materiality and fleshiness and meat of the mushroom
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.80,0:02:37.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being explored by how it can hold up different objects being stuck into it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.17,0:02:40.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And after about 45 minutes, you get really intricate projects
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.74,0:02:43.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like leaves sorted by hue, so you get a color fade
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.96,0:02:45.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and put in a circle like a wreath.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.81,0:02:48.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the creator of this, he said,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.42,0:02:50.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"This is fire. I call this fire."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.09,0:02:52.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And someone asked him, "How do you get those sticks
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.32,0:02:54.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to stay on that tree?"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.08,0:02:57.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he's like, "I don't know, but I can show you."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.19,0:02:58.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm like, "Wow, that's really amazing.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.82,0:03:00.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He doesn't know, but he can show you."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.20,0:03:02.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So his hands know and his intuition knows,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.78,0:03:05.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but sometimes what we know gets in the way
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.64,0:03:07.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what could be, especially
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.68,0:03:10.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when it comes to the human-made, human-built world.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.60,0:03:12.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We think we already know how something works,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.90,0:03:15.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we can't imagine how it could work.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.04,0:03:16.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know how it's supposed to work,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.39,0:03:19.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we can't suppose all the things that could be possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.80,0:03:23.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So kids don't have as hard of a time with this,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.64,0:03:26.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I saw in my own son, I gave him this book.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.93,0:03:29.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm a good hippie dad, so I'm like,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.14,0:03:31.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Okay, you're going to learn to love the moon.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.32,0:03:33.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to give you some building blocks
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.65,0:03:36.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're nonrectilinear cactus building blocks,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.80,0:03:38.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so it's totally legit."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.61,0:03:40.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he doesn't really know what to do with these.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.89,0:03:42.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't show him.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.46,0:03:43.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so he's like, "Okay, I'll just mess around with this."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.97,0:03:47.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is no different than the sticks are to the teens in the forest.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.87,0:03:50.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just going to try to put them in shapes
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.34,0:03:52.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and push on them and stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.12,0:03:54.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And before long, he's kind of got this mechanism
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.78,0:03:58.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you can almost launch and catapult objects around,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.45,0:04:00.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he enlists us in helping him.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.72,0:04:02.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at this point, I'm starting to wonder,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.65,0:04:05.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what kind of tools can we give people,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.45,0:04:08.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially adults, who know too much,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.41,0:04:10.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that they can see the world as malleable,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.70,0:04:12.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so they see themselves as agents of change
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.17,0:04:13.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in their everyday lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.64,0:04:16.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the most advanced scientists are really
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.12,0:04:18.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just kind of pushing the way the world itself works,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.85,0:04:20.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pushing what matter can do,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.03,0:04:22.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the most advanced artists are just pushing the medium,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.81,0:04:24.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and any sufficiently complicated task,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.76,0:04:27.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether you're a cook or a carpenter or you're raising a child --
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.68,0:04:29.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anything that's complicated --
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.37,0:04:31.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,comes up with problems that aren't solved in the middle of it,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.90,0:04:35.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you can't do a good job getting it done unless you can say,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.22,0:04:37.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Okay, well we're just going to have to refigure this.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.35,0:04:40.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't care that pencils are supposed to be for writing.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.03,0:04:42.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to use them a different way."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.21,0:04:47.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let me show you a little demo.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.01,0:04:51.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a little piano circuit right in here,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.58,0:04:53.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is an ordinary paintbrush
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.67,0:04:56.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I smashed it together with. (Beeping)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.66,0:04:58.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, with some ketchup,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.52,0:05:01.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,— (musical notes) —
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.100,0:05:03.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then I can kind of
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.29,0:05:09.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,— (musical notes) —
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.78,0:05:11.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter) (Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.74,0:05:14.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's awesome, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.46,0:05:15.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But this is not what's awesome.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.77,0:05:17.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's awesome is what happens
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.34,0:05:20.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you give the piano circuit to people.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.76,0:05:22.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A pencil is not just a pencil.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.14,0:05:23.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look what it has in the middle of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.81,0:05:26.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a wire running down the middle,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.56,0:05:27.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not only is it a wire,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.100,0:05:30.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you take that piano circuit, you can thumbtack
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.36,0:05:32.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the middle of a pencil,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.30,0:05:35.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you can lay out wire on the page, too,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.22,0:05:37.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and get electrical current to run through it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.64,0:05:39.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so you can kind of hack a pencil,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.52,0:05:45.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just by thumbtacking into it with a little piano electrical circuit.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.04,0:05:46.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the electricity runs through your body too.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.98,0:05:50.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then you can take the little piano circuit off the pencil.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.33,0:05:53.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can make one of these brushes just on the fly.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.78,0:05:55.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All you do is connect to the bristles,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.59,0:05:57.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the bristles are wet, so they conduct,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.58,0:06:00.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the person's body conducts,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.15,0:06:02.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and leather is great to paint on,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.15,0:06:04.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then you can start hooking to everything,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.85,0:06:05.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even the kitchen sink.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.85,0:06:07.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The metal in the sink is conductive.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.77,0:06:11.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Flowing water acts like a theremin or a violin.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.32,0:06:16.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Musical notes)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.30,0:06:17.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you can even hook to the trees.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.56,0:06:20.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anything in the world is either conductive or not conductive,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.95,0:06:22.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you can use those together.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.73,0:06:24.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So — (Laughter) —
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.18,0:06:27.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I took this to those same teens, because those teens are
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.34,0:06:29.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really awesome, and they'll try things that I won't try.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.80,0:06:32.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't even have access to a facial piercing if I wanted to.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.78,0:06:36.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this young woman, she made what she called a hula-looper,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.80,0:06:39.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as the hula hoop traveled around her body,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.21,0:06:41.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she has a circuit taped to her shirt right there.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.98,0:06:44.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can see her pointing to it in the picture.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.02,0:06:46.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And every time the hula hoop would smush against her body,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.44,0:06:48.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it would connect two little pieces of copper tape,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.62,0:06:50.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it would make a sound, and the next sound,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.36,0:06:52.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it would loop the same sounds over and over again.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.90,0:06:54.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I ran these workshops everywhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.82,0:06:57.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Taiwan, at an art museum, this 12-year-old girl
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.83,0:07:01.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made a mushroom organ out of some mushrooms that were from Taiwan
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.50,0:07:03.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and some electrical tape and hot glue.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.28,0:07:05.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And professional designers were making artifacts
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.36,0:07:07.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with this thing strapped onto it.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.14,0:07:09.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And big companies like Intel
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.35,0:07:13.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or smaller design firms like Ideo or startups like Bump,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.01,0:07:14.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were inviting me to give workshops,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.56,0:07:16.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just to practice this idea of smashing electronics
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.95,0:07:18.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and everyday objects together.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.79,0:07:21.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then we came up with this idea
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.45,0:07:23.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to not just use electronics,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.24,0:07:26.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but let's just smash computers with everyday objects
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.21,0:07:28.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and see how that goes over.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.77,0:07:32.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I just want to do a quick demo.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.37,0:07:34.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is the MaKey MaKey circuit,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.99,0:07:37.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm just going to set it up from the beginning in front of you.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.89,0:07:41.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I'll just plug it in, and now it's on by USB.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.92,0:07:44.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'll just hook up the forward arrow.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.56,0:07:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You guys are facing that way, so I'll hook it to this one.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.00,0:07:51.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'll just hook up a little ground wire to it.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.65,0:07:54.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now, if I touch this piece of pizza,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.17,0:07:57.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the slides that I showed you before should go forward.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.24,0:08:00.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now if I hook up this wire just by connecting it
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.67,0:08:03.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the left arrow, I'm kind of programming it by where I hook it up,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.94,0:08:06.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now I have a left arrow and a right arrow,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.96,0:08:09.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I should be able to go forwards and backwards
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.16,0:08:12.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and forwards and backwards. Awesome.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.26,0:08:14.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so we're like, "We gotta put a video out about this."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.81,0:08:17.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because no one really believed that this was important
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.38,0:08:20.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or meaningful except me and, like, one other guy.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.36,0:08:22.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we made a video to prove that
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.04,0:08:23.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's lots of stuff you can do.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.58,0:08:25.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can kind of sketch with Play-Doh
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.61,0:08:29.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just Google for game controllers.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.55,0:08:32.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just ordinary Play-Doh, nothing special.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.23,0:08:33.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you can literally draw joysticks
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.93,0:08:41.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just find Pacman on your computer and then just hook it up. (Video game noises)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.06,0:08:44.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know the little plastic drawers you can get at Target?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.56,0:08:46.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, if you take those out, they hold water great,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.77,0:08:48.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you can totally cut your toes,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.90,0:08:51.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so yeah, just be careful.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.59,0:08:54.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know the Happiness Project, where the experts
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.46,0:08:57.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are setting up the piano stairs, and how cool that is?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.22,0:08:58.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I think it's cool,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.43,0:09:00.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we should be doing that stuff ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.78,0:09:03.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It shouldn't be a set of experts engineering the way the world works.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.86,0:09:05.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We should all be participating
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.83,0:09:07.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in changing the way the world works together.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.75,0:09:09.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aluminum foil. Everybody has a cat.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.94,0:09:13.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Get a bowl of water. This is just Photo Booth on your Mac OS.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.12,0:09:15.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hover the mouse over the "take a photo" button,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.18,0:09:16.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you've got a little cat photo booth.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.76,0:09:19.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so we needed hundreds of people to buy this.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.45,0:09:22.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If hundreds of people didn't buy this, we couldn't put it on the market.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.54,0:09:25.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so we put it up on Kickstarter,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.44,0:09:28.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and hundreds of people bought it in the first day.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.43,0:09:29.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then 30 days later,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.46,0:09:32.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,11,000 people had backed the project.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.72,0:09:34.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then what the best part is, we started getting
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.84,0:09:38.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a flood of videos in of people doing crazy things with it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.91,0:09:41.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is "The Star-Spangled Banner" by eating lunch,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.57,0:09:43.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including drinking Listerine.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.65,0:09:45.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we actually sent this guy materials.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.11,0:09:46.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're like, "We're sponsoring you, man.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.60,0:09:48.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're, like, a pro maker."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.70,0:09:52.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay, just wait for this one. This is good.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.32,0:09:54.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.14,0:09:57.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.62,0:09:59.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And these guys at the exploratorium are
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.50,0:10:02.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,playing house plants as if they were drums.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.72,0:10:08.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And dads and daughters are completing circuits in special ways.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.30,0:10:10.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then this brother -- look at this diagram.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:10.65,0:10:11.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See where it says "sister"?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.94,0:10:14.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love when people put humans on the diagram.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.39,0:10:16.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I always add humans to any technical --
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.86,0:10:18.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you're drawing a technical diagram, put a human in it.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.99,0:10:23.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this kid is so sweet. He made this trampoline slideshow adventure for his sister
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.46,0:10:25.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that on her birthday, she could be the star of the show,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.54,0:10:28.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,jumping on the trampoline to advance the slides.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.28,0:10:31.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this guy rounded up his dogs and he made a dog piano.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.13,0:10:36.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is fun,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.58,0:10:39.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what could be more useful than feeling alive and fun?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.47,0:10:41.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's also very serious because
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.99,0:10:44.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all this accessibility stuff started coming up,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.15,0:10:47.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where people can't use computers, necessarily.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.11,0:10:49.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like this dad who wrote us, his son has cerebral palsy
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.80,0:10:51.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he can't use a normal keyboard.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.67,0:10:55.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so his dad couldn't necessarily afford
Dialogue: 0,0:10:55.24,0:10:57.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to buy all these custom controllers.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.09,0:10:58.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, with the MaKey MaKey, he planned to make
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.71,0:11:01.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these gloves to allow him to navigate the web.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.61,0:11:03.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And a huge eruption of discussion
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.77,0:11:06.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around accessibility came, and we're really excited about that.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.72,0:11:08.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We didn't plan for that at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.62,0:11:11.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then all these professional musicians started using it,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.43,0:11:13.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like at Coachella, just this weekend
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.56,0:11:16.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jurassic 5 was using this onstage,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.71,0:11:20.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this D.J. is just from Brooklyn, right around here,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.41,0:11:22.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he put this up last month.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.42,0:11:24.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I love the carrot on the turntable.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.53,0:11:31.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music: Massive Attack — "Teardrop")
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.36,0:11:34.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most people cannot play them that way. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.10,0:11:35.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when this started to get serious,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.52,0:11:38.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought, I'd better put a really serious warning label on the box that this comes in,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.95,0:11:40.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because otherwise people are going to be getting this
Dialogue: 0,0:11:40.65,0:11:42.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're going to be turning into agents of creative change,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:42.89,0:11:44.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and governments will be crumbling,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.18,0:11:46.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I wouldn't have told people, so I thought I'd better warn them.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.54,0:11:48.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I also put this little surprise. When you open the lid
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.87,0:11:51.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the box, it says, "The world is a construction kit."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.73,0:11:53.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as you start to mess around this way,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.58,0:11:56.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that, in some small ways, you do start to see
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.68,0:11:58.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the landscape of your everyday life
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.73,0:12:01.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a little bit more like something you could express yourself with,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.62,0:12:03.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a little bit more like you could participate
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.86,0:12:06.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in designing the future of the way the world works.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.32,0:12:10.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so next time you're on an escalator
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.11,0:12:11.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you drop an M&M by accident,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.79,0:12:14.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, maybe that's an M&M surfboard, not an escalator,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.95,0:12:16.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so don't pick it up right away.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.16,0:12:18.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe take some more stuff out of your pockets
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.34,0:12:21.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and throw it down, and maybe some chapstick, whatever.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.65,0:12:26.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I used to want to design a utopian society
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.62,0:12:28.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or a perfect world or something like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.99,0:12:30.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as I'm kind of getting older
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.44,0:12:32.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and kind of messing with all this stuff,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:32.02,0:12:34.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm realizing that my idea of a perfect world
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.78,0:12:36.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really can't be designed by one person
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.80,0:12:38.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or even by a million experts.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.36,0:12:41.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's really going to be seven billion pairs of hands,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:41.52,0:12:43.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,each following their own passions,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.93,0:12:46.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and each kind of like a mosaic coming up
Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.12,0:12:47.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and creating this world in their backyards
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.62,0:12:49.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in their kitchens.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.13,0:12:51.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's the world I really want to live in.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.70,0:12:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.08,0:12:58.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)