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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I want to do today is to spend
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.00,0:00:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some time talking about some stuff that's
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.00,0:00:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sort of giving me a little bit of
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.00,0:00:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,existential angst, for lack of a better word,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.00,0:00:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over the past couple of years, and
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.00,0:00:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,basically, these three quotes
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.00,0:00:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tell what's going on.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.00,0:00:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"When God made the color purple,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.00,0:00:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God was just showing off," Alice Walker
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.00,0:00:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wrote in "The Color Purple," and
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.00,0:00:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Zora Neale Hurston wrote in
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.00,0:00:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Dust Tracks On A Road,"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.00,0:00:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Research is a formalized curiosity.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.00,0:00:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's poking and prying with a purpose."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.00,0:00:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then finally,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.00,0:00:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I think about the near future,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.00,0:00:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, we have this attitude, well,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.00,0:00:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whatever happens, happens. Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.00,0:00:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that goes along with the Chesire Cat
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.00,0:00:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,saying, "If you don't care much
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.00,0:00:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you want to get to,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.00,0:00:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it doesn't much matter which way you go."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.00,0:00:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I think it does matter
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.00,0:00:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which way we go, and what road we take,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.00,0:00:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because when I think about design in the
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.00,0:00:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,near future, what I think are the most
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.00,0:00:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,important issues, what's really
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.00,0:00:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,crucial and vital is that we need
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.00,0:01:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to revitalize the arts and sciences
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.00,0:01:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right now in 2002.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.00,0:01:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.00,0:01:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we describe the near future
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.00,0:01:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as 10, 20, 15 years from now,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.00,0:01:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that means that what we do today
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.00,0:01:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is going to be critically important,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.00,0:01:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because in the year 2015,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.00,0:01:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the year 2020, 2025, the world
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.00,0:01:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our society is going to be building on,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.00,0:01:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the basic knowledge and abstract ideas,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.00,0:01:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the discoveries that we came up with today,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.00,0:01:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just as all these wonderful things we're
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.00,0:01:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hearing about here at the TED conference
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.00,0:01:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we take for granted in the world
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.00,0:01:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right now, were really knowledge
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.00,0:01:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ideas that came up
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.00,0:01:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the '50s, the '60s, and the '70s.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.00,0:01:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the substrate that we're exploiting
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.00,0:01:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,today, whether it's the internet,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.00,0:01:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,genetic engineering, laser scanners,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.00,0:01:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,guided missiles, fiber optics, high-definition
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.00,0:01:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,television, sensing, remote-sensing
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.00,0:01:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from space and the wonderful
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.00,0:01:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,remote-sensing photos that we see in
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.00,0:01:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,3D weaving, TV programs like Tracker,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.00,0:02:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Enterprise, CD rewrite drives,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.00,0:02:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,flatscreen, Alvin Ailey's Suite Otis,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.00,0:02:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or Sarah Jones' "Your Revolution Will Not
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.00,0:02:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be Between These Thighs," which
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.00,0:02:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the way was banned by the FCC,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.00,0:02:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or ska, all of these things
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.00,0:02:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without question, almost without exception,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.00,0:02:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are really based on ideas
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.00,0:02:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and abstract and creativity
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.00,0:02:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from years before,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.00,0:02:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we have to ask ourselves,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.00,0:02:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what are we contributing to that legacy
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.00,0:02:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right now? And when I think about it,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.00,0:02:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm really worried. To be quite frank,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.00,0:02:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm concerned. I'm skeptical
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.00,0:02:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we're doing very much of anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.00,0:02:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're, in a sense, failing to act
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.00,0:02:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the future. We're purposefully,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.00,0:02:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,consciously being laggards.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.00,0:02:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're lagging behind.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.00,0:02:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Frantz Fanon, who was a psychiatrist
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.00,0:02:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from Martinique, said, "Each generation
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.00,0:02:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,must, out of relative obscurity,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.00,0:02:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,discover its mission, and fulfill or betray it."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.00,0:02:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is our mission? What do we have
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.00,0:02:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to do? I think our mission is
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.00,0:03:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to reconcile, to reintegrate
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.00,0:03:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,science and the arts, because right now
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.00,0:03:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's a schism that exists
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.00,0:03:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in popular culture. You know,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.00,0:03:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people have this idea that science
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.00,0:03:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the arts are really separate.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.00,0:03:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We think of them as separate
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.00,0:03:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and different things, and this idea was
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.00,0:03:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,probably introduced centuries ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.00,0:03:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's really becoming critical now,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.00,0:03:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we're making decisions about our
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.00,0:03:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,society every day that,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.00,0:03:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we keep thinking that the arts
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.00,0:03:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are separate from the sciences,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.00,0:03:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we keep thinking it's cute to say,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.00,0:03:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I don't understand anything about this one,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.00,0:03:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't understand anything about the other
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.00,0:03:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one," then we're going to have problems.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.00,0:03:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I know no one here at TED
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.00,0:03:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thinks this. All of us, we already know
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.00,0:03:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they're very connected, but I'm going
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.00,0:03:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to let you know that some folks
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.00,0:03:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the outside world, believe it or not,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.00,0:03:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they think it's neat when they say,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.00,0:03:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You know, scientists and science is not
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.00,0:03:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,creative. Maybe scientists are ingenious,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.00,0:03:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they're not creative.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.00,0:03:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then we have this tendency, the career
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.00,0:03:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,counselors and various people say things
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.00,0:04:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like, "Artists are not analytical.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.00,0:04:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're ingenious, perhaps,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.00,0:04:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but not analytical," and
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.00,0:04:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when these concepts underly our teaching
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.00,0:04:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what we think about the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.00,0:04:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then we have a problem, because we
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.00,0:04:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stymie support for everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.00,0:04:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By accepting this dichotomy,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.00,0:04:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether it's tongue-in-cheek, when
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.00,0:04:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we attempt to accommodate it in our world,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.00,0:04:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we try to build our foundation
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.00,0:04:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the world, we're messing up the future,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.00,0:04:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because, who wants to be uncreative?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.00,0:04:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who wants to be illogical?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.00,0:04:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Talent would run from either of these fields
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.00,0:04:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you said you had to choose either.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.00,0:04:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then they're going to go to something
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.00,0:04:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where they think, "Well, I can be creative
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.00,0:04:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and logical at the same time."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.00,0:04:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I grew up in the '60s and I'll admit it,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.00,0:04:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually, my childhood spanned the '60s,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.00,0:04:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was a wannabe hippie and I always
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.00,0:04:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,resented the fact that I wasn't really
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.00,0:04:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,old enough to be a hippie.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.00,0:04:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I know there are people here, the
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.00,0:04:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,younger generation who want to be hippies,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.00,0:04:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but people talk about the '60s all the time,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.00,0:04:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they talk about the anarchy
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.00,0:05:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was there, but when I think about
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.00,0:05:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the '60s, what I took away from it was
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.00,0:05:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there was hope for the future.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.00,0:05:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We thought everyone could participate.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.00,0:05:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were wonderful, incredible ideas
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.00,0:05:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that were always percolating,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.00,0:05:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so much of what's cool or hot today
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.00,0:05:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is really based on some of those concepts,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.00,0:05:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether it's, you know, people trying to
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.00,0:05:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,use the prime directive from Star Trek
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.00,0:05:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being involved in things, or again that
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.00,0:05:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,three-dimensional weaving and
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.00,0:05:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fax machines that I read about in my
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.00,0:05:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,weekly readers that the technology
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.00,0:05:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and engineering was just getting started.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.00,0:05:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the '60s left me with a problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.00,0:05:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, I always assumed I would go
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.00,0:05:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into space, because I followed all of this,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.00,0:05:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I also loved the arts and sciences.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.00,0:05:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, when I was growing up as
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.00,0:05:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a little girl and as a teenager,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.00,0:05:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I loved designing and making dogs' clothes
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.00,0:05:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and wanting to be a fashion designer.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.00,0:05:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.00,0:05:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lola Falana. Alvin Ailey. Jerome Robbins.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.00,0:05:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I also avidly followed the Gemini
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.00,0:05:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the Apollo programs.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.00,0:06:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had science projects and tons of astronomy
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.00,0:06:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,books. I took calculus and philosophy.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.00,0:06:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wondered about the infinity
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.00,0:06:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the Big Bang theory.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.00,0:06:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I was at Stanford,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.00,0:06:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I found myself, my senior year,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.00,0:06:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,chemical engineering major, half the folks
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.00,0:06:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thought I was a political science and
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.00,0:06:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,performing arts major, which was sort of
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.00,0:06:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,true because I was Black Student Union President
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.00,0:06:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I did major in some other things,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.00,0:06:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I found myself the last quarter juggling
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.00,0:06:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,chemical engineering separation processes,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.00,0:06:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,logic classes, nuclear magnetic resonance
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.00,0:06:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spectroscopy, and also producing
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.00,0:06:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and choreographing a dance production,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.00,0:06:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I had to do the lighting and the
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.00,0:06:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,design work, and I was trying to figure out,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.00,0:06:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do I go to New York City
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.00,0:06:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to try to become a professional dancer,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.00,0:06:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or do I go to medical school?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.00,0:06:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, my mother helped me figure
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.00,0:06:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that one out. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.00,0:06:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when I went into space,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.00,0:06:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I went into space I carried a number
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.00,0:06:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of things up with me. I carried a poster
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.00,0:06:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by Alvin Ailey, which you can figure out
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.00,0:06:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now, I love the dance company.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.00,0:07:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An Alvin Ailey poster of Judith Jamison
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.00,0:07:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,performing the dance "Cry," dedicated to all
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.00,0:07:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,black women everywhere. A Bundu statue,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.00,0:07:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was from the Women's Society
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.00,0:07:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Sierra Leone, and a certificate for the
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.00,0:07:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chicago Public School students to work to
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.00,0:07:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,improve their science and math,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.00,0:07:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and folks asked me,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.00,0:07:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Why did you take up what you took up?"
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.00,0:07:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I had to say,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.00,0:07:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Because it represents human creativity,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.00,0:07:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the creativity that allowed us, that we were
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.00,0:07:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,required to have to conceive and build
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.00,0:07:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and launch the space shuttle, springs from
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.00,0:07:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the same source as the imagination and
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.00,0:07:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,analysis it took to carve a Bundu statue,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.00,0:07:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the ingenuity it took to design,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.00,0:07:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,choreograph, and stage "Cry."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.00,0:07:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each one of them are different
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.00,0:07:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,manifestations, incarnations, of creativity,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.00,0:07:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,avatars of human creativity,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.00,0:07:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's what we have to reconcile
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.00,0:07:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our minds, how these things fit together.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.00,0:07:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The difference between arts and sciences
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.00,0:07:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not analytical versus intuitive, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.00,0:07:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,E=MC squared required
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.00,0:08:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an intuitive leap, and then you had
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.00,0:08:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to do the analysis afterwards.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.00,0:08:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Einstein said, in fact, "The most beautiful
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.00,0:08:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thing we can experience is the mysterious.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.00,0:08:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is the source of all true art and science."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.00,0:08:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dance requires us to express and want
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.00,0:08:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to express the jubilation in life, but then you
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.00,0:08:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have to figure out, exactly
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.00,0:08:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what movement do I do to make sure
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.00,0:08:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it comes across correctly?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.00,0:08:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The difference between arts and sciences
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.00,0:08:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is also not constructive versus
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.00,0:08:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,deconstructive, right? A lot of people
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.00,0:08:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,think of the sciences as deconstructive.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.00,0:08:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to pull things apart.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.00,0:08:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yeah, sub-atomic physics
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.00,0:08:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is deconstructive. You literally try to
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.00,0:08:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tear atoms apart to understand
Dialogue: 0,0:08:36.00,0:08:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what's inside of them. But sculpture, from
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.00,0:08:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what I understand from great sculptors,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.00,0:08:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is deconstructive, because you see a piece
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.00,0:08:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you remove what doesn't
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.00,0:08:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,need to be there.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.00,0:08:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Biotechnology is constructive.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.00,0:08:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Orchestral arranging is constructive.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.00,0:08:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in fact we use constructive and
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.00,0:08:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,deconstructive techniques in everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.00,0:08:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The difference between science
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.00,0:09:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the arts is not that they
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.00,0:09:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are different sides of the same coin, even,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.00,0:09:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or even different parts
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.00,0:09:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the same continuum, but rather
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.00,0:09:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're manifestations of the same thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.00,0:09:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Different quantum states of an atom?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.00,0:09:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or maybe if I want to be more 21st century
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.00,0:09:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could say that they are different harmonic
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.00,0:09:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,resonances of a superstring.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.00,0:09:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we'll leave that alone. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.00,0:09:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They spring from the same source.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.00,0:09:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The arts and sciences are avatars of
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.00,0:09:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,human creativity. It's our attempt
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.00,0:09:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as humans to build an understanding
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.00,0:09:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the universe, the world around us.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.00,0:09:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's our attempt to influence things,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.00,0:09:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the universe internal to ourselves
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.00,0:09:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and external to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.00,0:09:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The sciences, to me, are manifestations
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.00,0:09:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our attempt to express
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.00,0:09:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or share our understanding,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.00,0:09:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our experience, to influence the universe
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.00,0:09:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,external to ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.00,0:09:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't rely on us as individuals.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.00,0:09:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the universe, as experienced
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.00,0:09:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by everyone, and the arts manifest
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.00,0:09:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our desire, our attempt to share
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.00,0:09:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or influence others through experiences
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.00,0:10:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are peculiar to us as individuals.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.00,0:10:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me say it again another way:
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.00,0:10:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,science provides an understanding
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.00,0:10:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a universal experience, and
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.00,0:10:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,arts provides a universal understanding
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.00,0:10:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a personal experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.00,0:10:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what we have to think about,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.00,0:10:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they're all part of us, they're
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.00,0:10:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all part of a continuum.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.00,0:10:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not just the tools, it's not just
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.00,0:10:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the sciences, you know, the mathematics
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.00,0:10:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the numerical stuff and the statistics,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.00,0:10:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we heard, very much on this
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.00,0:10:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stage, people talked about music
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.00,0:10:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being mathematical. Right? Arts don't just
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.00,0:10:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,use clay, aren't the only ones that use clay,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.00,0:10:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,light and sound and movement.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.00,0:10:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They use analysis as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.00,0:10:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So people might say, well,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.00,0:10:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I still like that intuitive versus analytical
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.00,0:10:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thing, because everybody wants to do the
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.00,0:10:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right brain, left brain thing, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.00,0:10:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've all been accused of being
Dialogue: 0,0:10:50.00,0:10:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right-brained or left-brained at some point
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.00,0:10:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in time, depending on who
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.00,0:10:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we disagreed with. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.00,0:10:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, people say intuitive, you know
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.00,0:11:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's like you're in touch with nature,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.00,0:11:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in touch with yourself and relationships.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.00,0:11:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Analytical: you put your mind to work, and
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.00,0:11:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to tell you a little secret. You all
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.00,0:11:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,know this though, but sometimes people
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.00,0:11:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,use this analysis idea, that things are
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.00,0:11:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,outside of ourselves, to be, say, that this
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.00,0:11:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is what we're going to elevate
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.00,0:11:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the true, most important sciences, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.00,0:11:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then you have artists, and you all
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.00,0:11:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,know this is true as well,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.00,0:11:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,artists will say things about scientists
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.00,0:11:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they say they're too concrete,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.00,0:11:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're disconnected with the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.00,0:11:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, we've even had that here on stage,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.00,0:11:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so don't act like you don't know
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.00,0:11:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what I'm talking about. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.00,0:11:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We had folks talking about the Flat Earth
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.00,0:11:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Society and flower arrangers, so there's
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.00,0:11:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this whole dichotomy that we continue
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.00,0:11:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to carry along, even when we know better.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.00,0:11:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And folks say we need to choose either or.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.00,0:11:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it would really be foolish to choose
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.00,0:11:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,either one, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.00,0:11:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Intuitive versus analytical?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.00,0:11:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a foolish choice. It's foolish,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.00,0:11:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just like trying to choose between
Dialogue: 0,0:11:57.00,0:11:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being realistic or idealistic.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.00,0:12:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need both in life. Why do people
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.00,0:12:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do this? I'm just gonna quote
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.00,0:12:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a molecular biologist, Sydney Brenner,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:05.00,0:12:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who's 70 years old so he can say this. He said,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.00,0:12:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"It's always important to distinguish
Dialogue: 0,0:12:09.00,0:12:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between chastity and impotence."
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.00,0:12:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now... (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.00,0:12:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to share with you
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.00,0:12:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a little equation, okay?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:20.00,0:12:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do understanding science
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.00,0:12:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the arts fit into our lives
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.00,0:12:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what's going on and the things
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.00,0:12:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we're talking about here
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.00,0:12:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the design conference, and this is
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.00,0:12:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a little thing I came up with, understanding
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.00,0:12:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our resources and our will
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.00,0:12:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cause us to have outcomes.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.00,0:12:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our understanding is our science, our arts,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:39.00,0:12:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our religion, how we see the universe
Dialogue: 0,0:12:41.00,0:12:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around us, our resources, our money,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.00,0:12:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our labor, our minerals, those things
Dialogue: 0,0:12:45.00,0:12:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are out there in the world we have
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.00,0:12:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to work with.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.00,0:12:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But more importantly, there's our will.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.00,0:12:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is our vision, our aspirations
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.00,0:12:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the future, our hopes, our dreams,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.00,0:12:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our struggles and our fears.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.00,0:12:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our successes and our failures influence
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.00,0:13:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what we do with all of those, and to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.00,0:13:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,design and engineering, craftsmanship and
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.00,0:13:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,skilled labor, are all the things that work on
Dialogue: 0,0:13:05.00,0:13:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this to have our outcome,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.00,0:13:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is our human quality of life.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.00,0:13:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where do we want the world to be?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.00,0:13:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And guess what?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:14.00,0:13:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Regardless of how we look at this, whether
Dialogue: 0,0:13:16.00,0:13:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we look at arts and sciences are separate
Dialogue: 0,0:13:18.00,0:13:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or different, they're both being influenced
Dialogue: 0,0:13:20.00,0:13:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now and they're both having problems.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.00,0:13:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did a project called S.E.E.ing the Future:
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.00,0:13:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Science, Engineering and Education, and
Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.00,0:13:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was looking at how to shed light on
Dialogue: 0,0:13:28.00,0:13:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most effective use of government funding.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:30.00,0:13:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We got a bunch of scientists in all stages
Dialogue: 0,0:13:32.00,0:13:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of their careers. They came to Dartmouth
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.00,0:13:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,College, where I was teaching, and they
Dialogue: 0,0:13:36.00,0:13:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,talked about with theologians and financiers,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:38.00,0:13:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what are some of the issues of public
Dialogue: 0,0:13:40.00,0:13:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,funding for science and engineering
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.00,0:13:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,research? What's most important about it?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.00,0:13:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are some ideas that emerged that
Dialogue: 0,0:13:46.00,0:13:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think have really powerful parallels
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.00,0:13:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the arts. The first thing they said was that
Dialogue: 0,0:13:50.00,0:13:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the circumstances that we find ourselves in
Dialogue: 0,0:13:52.00,0:13:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,today in the sciences and engineering that
Dialogue: 0,0:13:54.00,0:13:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made us world leaders is very different
Dialogue: 0,0:13:56.00,0:13:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than the '40s, the '50s, and the '60s
Dialogue: 0,0:13:59.00,0:14:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the '70s when we emerged
Dialogue: 0,0:14:01.00,0:14:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as world leaders, because we're no longer
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.00,0:14:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in competition with fascism, with
Dialogue: 0,0:14:05.00,0:14:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Soviet-style communism, and by the way
Dialogue: 0,0:14:07.00,0:14:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that competition wasn't just military,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:09.00,0:14:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it included social competition
Dialogue: 0,0:14:11.00,0:14:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and political competition as well,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:13.00,0:14:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that allowed us to look at space
Dialogue: 0,0:14:15.00,0:14:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as one of those platforms to prove
Dialogue: 0,0:14:17.00,0:14:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that our social system was better.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:20.00,0:14:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another thing they talked about was the
Dialogue: 0,0:14:22.00,0:14:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,infrastructure that supports the sciences
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.00,0:14:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is becoming obsolete. We look at
Dialogue: 0,0:14:26.00,0:14:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,universities and colleges, small, mid-sized
Dialogue: 0,0:14:29.00,0:14:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,community colleges across the country,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:31.00,0:14:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their laboratories are becoming obsolete,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:34.00,0:14:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is where we train most of our
Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.00,0:14:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,science workers and our researchers,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:38.00,0:14:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our teachers, by the way,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:40.00,0:14:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then that there's a media that doesn't
Dialogue: 0,0:14:42.00,0:14:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,support the dissemination of any more than
Dialogue: 0,0:14:44.00,0:14:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the most mundane and inane of information.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:46.00,0:14:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's pseudo-science, crop circles,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:48.00,0:14:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,alien autopsy, haunted houses,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:50.00,0:14:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or disasters. And that's what we see.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:53.00,0:14:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this isn't really the information
Dialogue: 0,0:14:55.00,0:14:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you need to operate in everyday life
Dialogue: 0,0:14:57.00,0:14:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and figure out how to participate in this
Dialogue: 0,0:14:59.00,0:15:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,democracy and determine what's going on.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:01.00,0:15:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They also said that there's a change
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.00,0:15:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the corporate mentality. Whereas
Dialogue: 0,0:15:05.00,0:15:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,government money had always been there
Dialogue: 0,0:15:07.00,0:15:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for basic science and engineering research,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:09.00,0:15:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we also counted on some companies to do
Dialogue: 0,0:15:11.00,0:15:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some basic research, but what's happened
Dialogue: 0,0:15:13.00,0:15:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now is companies put more energy into
Dialogue: 0,0:15:15.00,0:15:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,short-term product development
Dialogue: 0,0:15:17.00,0:15:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than they do in basic engineering
Dialogue: 0,0:15:19.00,0:15:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and science research.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:22.00,0:15:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And education is not keeping up.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:25.00,0:15:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In K through 12, people are taking out
Dialogue: 0,0:15:28.00,0:15:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wet labs. They think if we put a computer
Dialogue: 0,0:15:30.00,0:15:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the room it's going to take the place
Dialogue: 0,0:15:32.00,0:15:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of actually, we're mixing the acids,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:34.00,0:15:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're growing the potatoes.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:36.00,0:15:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And government funding is decreasing
Dialogue: 0,0:15:38.00,0:15:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in spending and then they're saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:40.00,0:15:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let's have corporations take over,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:42.00,0:15:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's not true. Government funding
Dialogue: 0,0:15:44.00,0:15:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,should at least do things like recognize
Dialogue: 0,0:15:46.00,0:15:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cost-benefits of basic science and
Dialogue: 0,0:15:48.00,0:15:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,engineering research. We have to know
Dialogue: 0,0:15:50.00,0:15:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we have a responsibility
Dialogue: 0,0:15:52.00,0:15:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as global citizens in this world.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:54.00,0:15:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to look at the education
Dialogue: 0,0:15:56.00,0:15:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of humans. We need to build our resources
Dialogue: 0,0:15:58.00,0:16:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,today to make sure that they're trained so
Dialogue: 0,0:16:00.00,0:16:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they understand the importance of
Dialogue: 0,0:16:02.00,0:16:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these things, and we have to support
Dialogue: 0,0:16:04.00,0:16:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the vitality of science, and that doesn't
Dialogue: 0,0:16:06.00,0:16:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mean that everything has to have one thing
Dialogue: 0,0:16:08.00,0:16:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's going to go on, or we know
Dialogue: 0,0:16:10.00,0:16:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exactly what's going to be the outcome of it,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:12.00,0:16:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that we support the vitality and the
Dialogue: 0,0:16:14.00,0:16:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,intellectual curiosity that goes along,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:16.00,0:16:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if you think about those parallels
Dialogue: 0,0:16:18.00,0:16:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the arts, the competition
Dialogue: 0,0:16:20.00,0:16:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the Bolshoi Ballet spurred
Dialogue: 0,0:16:22.00,0:16:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Joffrey and the New York City Ballet
Dialogue: 0,0:16:24.00,0:16:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to become better.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:26.00,0:16:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Infrastructure museums, theaters,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:28.00,0:16:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,movie houses across the country
Dialogue: 0,0:16:30.00,0:16:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are disappearing. We have more
Dialogue: 0,0:16:32.00,0:16:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,television stations with less to watch,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:34.00,0:16:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have more money spent on
Dialogue: 0,0:16:37.00,0:16:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rewrites to get old television programs
Dialogue: 0,0:16:40.00,0:16:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the movies.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:42.00,0:16:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have corporate funding now that,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:44.00,0:16:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when it goes to some company, when it
Dialogue: 0,0:16:46.00,0:16:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,goes to support the arts, it almost requires
Dialogue: 0,0:16:48.00,0:16:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the product be part of the picture
Dialogue: 0,0:16:50.00,0:16:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the artist draws, and we have
Dialogue: 0,0:16:53.00,0:16:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stadiums that are named over and over
Dialogue: 0,0:16:55.00,0:16:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,again by corporations.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:57.00,0:16:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Houston, we're trying to figure out
Dialogue: 0,0:16:59.00,0:17:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what to do with that Enron Stadium thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:01.00,0:17:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter) And fine arts and education
Dialogue: 0,0:17:03.00,0:17:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the schools is disappearing, and we have
Dialogue: 0,0:17:05.00,0:17:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a government that seems like it's gutting
Dialogue: 0,0:17:07.00,0:17:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the NEA and other programs,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:09.00,0:17:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we have to really stop and think,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:11.00,0:17:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what are we trying to do
Dialogue: 0,0:17:13.00,0:17:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the sciences and the arts?
Dialogue: 0,0:17:15.00,0:17:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a need to revitalize them.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:17.00,0:17:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to pay attention to it. I just want
Dialogue: 0,0:17:19.00,0:17:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to tell you really quickly what I'm doing.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:21.00,0:17:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:17:27.00,0:17:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to tell you what I've been doing
Dialogue: 0,0:17:29.00,0:17:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a little bit since... I feel this need
Dialogue: 0,0:17:33.00,0:17:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to sort of integrate some of the ideas
Dialogue: 0,0:17:35.00,0:17:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I've had and run across over time.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:37.00,0:17:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the things that I found out
Dialogue: 0,0:17:40.00,0:17:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that there's a need to repair
Dialogue: 0,0:17:42.00,0:17:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the dichotomy between the mind and body
Dialogue: 0,0:17:44.00,0:17:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well. My mother always told me,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:46.00,0:17:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have to be observant, know what's
Dialogue: 0,0:17:48.00,0:17:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going on in your mind and your body,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:50.00,0:17:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as a dancer I had this tremendous
Dialogue: 0,0:17:52.00,0:17:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,faith in my ability to know my body,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:54.00,0:17:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just as I knew how to sense colors.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:56.00,0:17:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then I went to medical school, and I was
Dialogue: 0,0:17:58.00,0:18:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,supposed to just go on
Dialogue: 0,0:18:00.00,0:18:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what the machine said about bodies.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:02.00,0:18:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, you would ask patients
Dialogue: 0,0:18:04.00,0:18:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,questions and some people would tell you,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:06.00,0:18:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Don't, don't, don't listen to what
Dialogue: 0,0:18:08.00,0:18:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the patients said." We know that patients
Dialogue: 0,0:18:10.00,0:18:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,know and understand their bodies better,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:12.00,0:18:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but these days we're trying to divorce them
Dialogue: 0,0:18:14.00,0:18:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from that idea. We have to reconcile the
Dialogue: 0,0:18:16.00,0:18:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,patient's knowledge of their body
Dialogue: 0,0:18:18.00,0:18:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with physician's measurements.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:20.00,0:18:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We had someone talk about
Dialogue: 0,0:18:22.00,0:18:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,measuring emotions and getting machines
Dialogue: 0,0:18:24.00,0:18:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to figure out what, to keep us
Dialogue: 0,0:18:26.00,0:18:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from acting crazy. Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:18:28.00,0:18:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, we shouldn't measure,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:30.00,0:18:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we shouldn't use machines
Dialogue: 0,0:18:32.00,0:18:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to measure road rage and then do
Dialogue: 0,0:18:34.00,0:18:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something to keep us from engaging in it.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:36.00,0:18:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe we can have machines help us
Dialogue: 0,0:18:38.00,0:18:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to recognize that we have road rage and
Dialogue: 0,0:18:40.00,0:18:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then we need to know how to control that
Dialogue: 0,0:18:42.00,0:18:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without the machines. We even need to be
Dialogue: 0,0:18:44.00,0:18:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,able to recognize that without the machines.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:46.00,0:18:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I'm very concerned about
Dialogue: 0,0:18:48.00,0:18:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is how do we bolster our self-awareness
Dialogue: 0,0:18:50.00,0:18:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as humans, as biological organisms?
Dialogue: 0,0:18:53.00,0:18:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Michael Moschen spoke of having to teach
Dialogue: 0,0:18:55.00,0:18:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and learn how to feel with my eyes,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:57.00,0:19:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to see with my hands.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:00.00,0:19:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have all kinds of possibilities to use
Dialogue: 0,0:19:03.00,0:19:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our senses by, and that's
Dialogue: 0,0:19:05.00,0:19:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what we have to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:07.00,0:19:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what I want to do, is to try to use
Dialogue: 0,0:19:09.00,0:19:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bioinstrumentation, those kind of things
Dialogue: 0,0:19:12.00,0:19:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to help our senses in what we do,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:14.00,0:19:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's the work I've been doing now as
Dialogue: 0,0:19:17.00,0:19:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a company called BioSentient Corporation.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:19.00,0:19:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I figured I'd have to do that ad, because
Dialogue: 0,0:19:21.00,0:19:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm an entrepreneur, because entrepreneur
Dialogue: 0,0:19:23.00,0:19:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,says that that's somebody who does what
Dialogue: 0,0:19:25.00,0:19:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they want to do because they're not broke
Dialogue: 0,0:19:27.00,0:19:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,enough that they have to get a real job.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:29.00,0:19:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter) But that's the work I'm doing
Dialogue: 0,0:19:31.00,0:19:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with BioSentient Corporation trying to figure
Dialogue: 0,0:19:33.00,0:19:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out how do we integrate these things?
Dialogue: 0,0:19:35.00,0:19:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me finish by saying that
Dialogue: 0,0:19:37.00,0:19:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my personal design issue for the future
Dialogue: 0,0:19:40.00,0:19:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is really about integrating, to think about
Dialogue: 0,0:19:42.00,0:19:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that intuitive and that analytical.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:45.00,0:19:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The arts and sciences are not separate.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:49.00,0:19:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,High school physics lesson before you
Dialogue: 0,0:19:51.00,0:19:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,leave. High school physics teacher used to
Dialogue: 0,0:19:53.00,0:19:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hold up a ball. She would say this ball
Dialogue: 0,0:19:55.00,0:19:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has potential energy, but nothing
Dialogue: 0,0:19:57.00,0:19:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will happen to it, it can't do any work
Dialogue: 0,0:19:59.00,0:20:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until I drop it and it changes states.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:01.00,0:20:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I like to think of ideas as potential energy.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:04.00,0:20:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're really wonderful, but nothing
Dialogue: 0,0:20:06.00,0:20:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will happen until we risk
Dialogue: 0,0:20:09.00,0:20:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,putting them into action.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:11.00,0:20:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This conference is filled
Dialogue: 0,0:20:13.00,0:20:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with wonderful ideas.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:15.00,0:20:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're going to share lots of things
Dialogue: 0,0:20:17.00,0:20:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with people, but nothing's going to happen
Dialogue: 0,0:20:19.00,0:20:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until we risk putting those ideas into action.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:22.00,0:20:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to revitalize the arts and sciences
Dialogue: 0,0:20:24.00,0:20:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of today, we need to take responsibility
Dialogue: 0,0:20:26.00,0:20:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the future. We can't hide behind saying
Dialogue: 0,0:20:28.00,0:20:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's just for company profits,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:31.00,0:20:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or it's just a business, or I'm an artist
Dialogue: 0,0:20:33.00,0:20:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or an academician.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:35.00,0:20:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's how you judge what you're doing.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:37.00,0:20:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I talked about that balance between
Dialogue: 0,0:20:39.00,0:20:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,intuitive, analytical.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:41.00,0:20:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fran Lebowitz, my favorite cynic,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:44.00,0:20:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she said the three questions
Dialogue: 0,0:20:46.00,0:20:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of greatest concern, now I'm going to
Dialogue: 0,0:20:48.00,0:20:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,add on to design, is,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:50.00,0:20:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Is it attractive?"
Dialogue: 0,0:20:52.00,0:20:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the intuitive.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:54.00,0:20:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Is it amusing?" The analytical.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:57.00,0:20:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And does it know its place?"
Dialogue: 0,0:20:59.00,0:21:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The balance. Thank you very much.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:02.00,0:21:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)