Name: Zeitgeist Day 2013: Federico Pistono | "Freedom from Work & Social Evolution" [Part 5 of 11]
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Zeitgeist Day 2013 - Los Angeles CA Federico Pistono

Basic passive voice

What I'm about to tell you involves the way information is spread.

And it will look like I'm talking about myself, but I'm not.

Unfortunately that's the way ideas are passed through,

So bear in mind that everything I'm about to tell you

So today I'd like to tell you a story. It's a story of a movement,

a story of an idea actually, a simple yet powerful, unstoppable idea.

And we have to thank some people for this,

among which The Zeitgeist Movement, of course,

the Free and Open Source community, the hackers, the makers,

the industrious inventors who are shaping our future.

a group of people begins to challenge the assumption

that labor is a necessary requirement for survival in the 21st century.

They claim that automation and the ability of machines to work

is increasing rapidly, and soon we could replace most jobs,

potentially destabilizing the whole system irreversibly.

But, I mean, these are just a fringe minority, a group of extremists.

Most people believe this to be just bollocks, nonsense.

But then ... you keep seeing headlines like this:

'U.S. Unemployment: Our Long Economic Nightmare Continues'

and 'Euro Zone Unemployment Rises To Record.'

And then I have what I call the Kodak story, or the Kodak moment,

the once undisputed giant of the photography industry:

2012: Net worth of negative $1 billion dollars when it went bankrupt.

Why? Because they failed to predict the power of exponential trends

when it comes to technology. The same year 2012,

13 employees, acquired by Facebook for a billion dollars.

because Kodak fricking invented digital photography in 1975!

They came out with the first commercially available .01 megapixel digital camera,

but at the time they thought it was a toy, right?

It was like a stamp-size thing. It's like, it's never going to work.

They failed to predict exponential trends.

And exponential trends are going faster and faster.

Foxconn is already beginning to replace its workers with robots.

because I already gave talks about this. You can check it out on YouTube.

The point is, that a year and a half ago, I decided to quit my job

and dedicate my life, well my time up to now, to writing a book

that I hoped would inspire people to change their mind about this issue,

and bring the idea into the public spotlight.

So how did it go? Well, the book came out on November 5th.

And then I gave talks in some like 20 countries, whatever, I ... some coverage of that:

and then TED Vienna. The video now has more than 200K views.

It's thanks to the amazing Linguistic Team

The Linguistic Team, they are translating videos in all major languages.

Let's give them a round of applause guys.

So, then the topic started to pick up in the mainstream.

I'll just give you a couple of examples: Paul Krugman,

Nobel Prize in Economics, Op-Ed Columnist for The New York Times.

Here are some of the articles he wrote: 'Robots and Robber Barons' and then

'The Rise of the Robots' just a month later.

And then here: Jeremy Warner, Assistant Editor of The Daily Telegragh,

one of Britain's leading business and economics commentators,

'Our robotic revolution is just beginning to gather steam.'

Next, Cory Doctorow, Co-Editor of 'Boing Boing,'

'Robots are taking your job and mine: deal with it.'

And finally, here's my book 'Robots Will Steal Your Job, but that's OK,'

and here’s two months later, Wired magazine cover

'Robots will take your job, and you'll be glad they did.'

Now, some have suggested that Wired magazine copied my book and the cover.

You know what? Frankly, I don't know and I don't care, OK?

That's not the point. The point is that you shouldn't get attached to your stuff

It's ideas, OK? Once they are out there, they are not yours.

Ideas are spreading, that's what matters.

And why do I think that? Because ideas speak loudly.

They speak louder than myself, louder than any single one of you,

louder than anyone else because you see, and I quote

"Beneath this mask there is more than flesh.

Beneath this mask, there is an idea, and ideas are bulletproof."

Some of you know I graduated from Singularity University

at the NASA Ames Research Park last summer,

and I studied how exponential technologies can help improve

the lives of a billion people or more in less than a decade.

And I've been asked many times if I spoke with gentlemen such as

and if I exposed the ideas of a Resource-Based Economy to them,

and what was their response, if they changed their mind in some way.

So here's what Peter H. Diamandis, Founder and CEO of The X Prize,

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