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What Matters Now?

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Welcome.

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MarcusDonald People/

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What?

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Beers & Ideas

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Big year.

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You.

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Taverner.

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Agenda.

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Dichotomous

consciousness

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Your pint is

half full.

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But only ‘cos someone

pissed in it.

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Every one over-

indulged.

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Two years after sub-

prime debt…

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…the bankers have

their donuts.

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And I have two plasma

tellies.

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Facebook is a verb.

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And “I’m tweeting it

out…” is

common vocabulary.

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But really…

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Does Jamie give a shit

if you cannot cook his

30 minute meal in 30

minutes?

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Of course he does.

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Tellie equals youtube equals twitter equals

book sales equals luvvly jubbly.

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I have 3 or 4 laptops, an iPad, an iPhone and

some shitty HTC thingy.

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And I’m living the dream.

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“I love the smell of data in the

morning.”

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Apparently my books are in the cloud.

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As is my bank, my mates, my health records, my credit rating, my entertainment…

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I have apps on all my devices to make me more productive…

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And more importantly, connected.

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And I worked out I spend about 4 weeks

of my life per year doing it.

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#1.Being ‘networked’ 30 days#2. Being on holiday 25 days#3. On facebook 20 days

#4. Doing sport 6 days

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So…

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What Matters Now?

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My mortality .

Ref: Tom ‘Sonic’ Hopkins and the fear of death.

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My girls.

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And that they grow up properly.

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Eating fruit.

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And buying Apple.

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Knowing that in fact the world people like

me are designing is the one they will live

in.

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A world where we designed-in some

kinda social anxiety such that they’ll spend

more time logged in than out.

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What Matters Now?

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The person next to me.

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And if they feel OK.

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Try it.

Give something away.

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These people gave us their time and bright

ideas.

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We care but we don’t Know what to do about it.

We care and we will do something about it.

We don’t give a shit and we wont do anythingabout it.

We don’t care enoughTo do anything about it.

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The right to live one's life, in privacy and freedom, in

whatever way one wants, so long as others are not harmed,

should be a sacred principle in a democracy.

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The experience of the race shows that we get our most

important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by

nothing else.

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Internet journalism is not a world we know

very well at all. It’s conducted on screens more than it is in

bars which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one

another.

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Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the

thrill of creative effort.

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Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family:

Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

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Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do

today's jobs with yesterday's tools .

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Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our

thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of

yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the

thoughts of today take you.

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Let us not be satisfied with just giving money.

Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your

hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere

you go.

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We are drowning in information but starved

for knowledge.

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Instead of a bottom-line based on money and power,

we need a new bottom-line that defines productivity

and creativity as where corporations, governments,

schools, public institutions, and social practices are

judged as efficient, rational and productive not only

to the extent they maximize money and power, but to

the extent they maximize love and caring, ethical and

ecological sensitivity, and our capacities to respond with

awe and wonder at the grandeur of creation.

We care but we don’t Know what to do about it.

We care and we will do something about it.

We don’t give a shit and we wont do anythingabout it.

We don’t care enoughTo do anything about it.

What Matters Now?

Beers.

Thanks to all the speakers. (Clap)

Thanks to our kind sponsor. (Clap)

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