Very similar to the movie minority report and have 3d images from cad and manipulate it. Here is an architect working on a 3d building and pulling out pieces and you could have somebody else collaborate with it and have remote assistance if you need to fix your washing machine or a jet engine or do surgery, you could have someone looking at what you are doing and help you walk you through that. It is hands free. When i think of the typewriter pd and the keys that the Washington Post folks use a lot and it is based on movable type and the mechanical typewriters didnt get stuck it is like punch cards connecting with technology. I think the future of using eye sight and using gestures is a big leap forward. There is some reports that say there is 120 billion Market Opportunity to change the way we interface with computers. So we created a headset where you could look at the world and interact with it and youve seen it rendered in movies like iron man and minority report and mission impossible. We are bringing it to the workplace and creating a tool not a toy. It is not based on gaming or entertainment, it is based on productivity. You said headset. So a lot of things we hear people saying this isnt practical, who will run out and get a headset and wear it around. Walk us there when we can so at m. I. T. I taught the first class on making apps for google glass for the professor and it is a headsup display and it doesnt track your hands, there is not a microsoft connect device that could see your hands and the heads up display with 2010 technology in 2013. I think it was great that google glass gave the hardware away but it was a Public Relations nightmare in terms of a. R. And oculus rift was bought by facebook and everybody is excited by Virtual Reality in which you are submersed in Digital Information. I think augment reality is three times bigger and society hasnt gotten the memo on it. And the device we created it has a 90 degree field of view. It is a equivalent of a fourcase screen. Instead of 90 feet away, a movie theater, nine feet away, a Television Three feet away, a smartphone, we want to eliminate screens and create an office place where you dont have monitors and you are not hunched overlooking at these metaphors on a smartphone. As a society, we are more disconnected even though were are hyper connected and having glasses like ray bans to look out and see Digital Information on the world is a gamechanger. Does that answer your question. Yes, it does. Because im very excited about this and could you preorder the device and it is shipping in quarter three. And it is reasonably priced. And it is a third less than the microsoft thing. And the other thing about this is companies are sitting on tons of Digital Information. And this is a tool to interact with it. And i think it could change health, design, manufacturing. Thank you. And journalism. You are training your brain to be connected to the internet 24 7. What sort of information are you getting in there and is it is it sensory overload, what is that doing to your brain or our brains . What will happen . So the fact of having internet in my head allows me to receive colors from other parts of the world. There is five people that have permission to send colors so they could send colors any time of the day or night. In the beginning it was confusing. Who are these people. Five friends. One in each continent. So it is an eye in each continent. So if there is a beautiful sunset in australia and he could send it to my head and i will be experiencing the sunset while im here. If they send colors at night it asks my dreams. So if someone sends violet while im asleep and i wake up and i realize i dreamt of a violet house but i know it was violet because of my friends. So my friends could intervene in my dreams an we could share dreams and senses and colors in this case. But my aim is to use the internet exclusively to receive colors from space. So we could use the innoceterne send it to space so instead of going to space, we could feel we are there without the struggle of physically going there. And when there are 3d pictures that could print our dna we could see ourselves in other planets and have a second body there and connect via the internet. So the use of the internet as a sensory extension to explore space is my main goal and in 2019 ill have the permanent connection to satellite. So well be sensory and explore space by sending our mind to space instead of physically going there and that is the beginning for myself. Im just connecting to nasa International Space station like two hours a day because im training my brain to get used to this disconnection between body and senses. You are connecting to the space station two hours a day and the space station is working with you on that . It is live stream. Anyone can do that. I see. There is live stream from nasa International Space station and i connect there and i try to connect longer and longer each day. But it will take at least two or three years to have 24 hours connection because i need training because it is overwhelming the colors from space are much wider in the spectrum than here. So it is overwhelming when i connect. And you are hearing that . Let me ask you a follow up to that. What are the implications of the human brain interacting with so much information in an immersive constant way . Well, um, one has to control it in some way because it could be information over load. But he does it in a good way. Not that you need my approval. But that you have the vibrations as you were mentioning so it is an extra sense without interfering with your normal hearing and so a big part of what your nervous system does, evolution made your nervous system do is actually compress the information so that you could use it efficiently. So there is a lot of discussion about the power of big data. But i actually think there is downsides on big data. It is overwhelming. It is like going to your College Classes simultaneously and having four professors talking to you, at some point you cant fence. Sow want so your retina for example, you have 100 million photo receptors so you are taking in essentially every pixel on your computer monitor and then the circuitry gets compresses it and gets rid of the stuff you dont need and holds on to what you do need so you could maneuver. So i could get up on this stage before and never been here before and seen you before and get up and walk through and not crash into people and that is because of the simple way in a sense. So our braiif simplifying in a sense. It has to learn how to simplify it, which is what neil was saying he has to do in stages. Thats right. Each person will have its own time of adapting to a new sense or a new organ. Your body needs to either accept or reject the body part, like the material, and your brain might reject the new sense. Theres two cases of possible rejections. Thats what attention mechanisms do for you also. It allows you to Pay Attention to one thing rather than another thing, so evolution built a way for you to control what youre taking in. John, let me swing back to augmented r augment augmented reality. There are still people who think of it as entertainment. You can just walk us through a little bit about how this can help us in our every day lives, function better, produce better, health care. Any examples that you have that it is not just about a game. Sure. So its great to be on the panel with these pioneers. Neil, youre a visionary artist finding ways to use new senses. Cuttingedge research. We have created a tool. The founder and ceo is listed as a real thought leader for wanting to create an operating system thats much more connected with how the brain works. We have been in some ways held hostage to operating systems that are based on rectangles and the technology that weve used. And we want to create a device that we can manipulate 3d hologra holograms. If someone is going to do a c e coccoc cochlear implant for your child imaging to create a tool that can be an extension of the body. Neil is an artist. We want to tap artists and other thought leaders to help us use this device. What would have thought solitaire helped get windows going. Im excited to help facilitate partnerships with the design community, the manufacturing community, the Journalism Community to figure out how to use this technology thats coming. I love the media lab. Ive worked there for a number of years, but i have decided im going to help create this tool that can really impact society. And i think the internet was big in 2000. Mobile phones was big in 2010. Apple just had their first negative growth year of their smartphone. Theres indications that weve reached a saturation point. I think the 2020s is going to be augmented reality. A lot of fortune 100s are going to have to figure out strategies, like in the 1990s whats our chinese strategy. Im going to ask neil one more question. Then id like to come to the audience. Neil, why was it important for you to be recognized as a cyborg . It wasnt. I had an issue with the u. K. Passport office. They didnt allow me to renew my passport. They said electronic equipment is not allowed on passport photos. They thought i was something electronic. I said this is a body part and i feel like im a cyborg. I explained to them that i felt cyborg. In the end, they said yes. They allowed me to appear in the passport with the antenna. This allows me to travel because airports dont really like technology. If you are technology is it on your passport . Does it say you can have the antenna . Does it say youre a cyborg . The picture on the passport has the antenna. They have to accept it is an image that is part of me. It is you. I wasnt seeking for this. I was just renewing my passport. There you go. That tells us how to deal with passport offices. Im now applying for swedish citizenship because the material in my head is swedish. If you have a sensory organ thats from that country and youve had it for several years why cant you be from that country . Because part of my body is swedish. Im in conversations with the swedi swedi swedish government now. I love it. Are there other cyborg people . Are there others that are out there . Is there a community . We had a discussion or presentation from the lgbt community. This is not a community that weve heard much about. Im sure there must be some discrimination. Can you talk a little bit about that side of it . Yes, so we are a minority group. People who voluntarily have decided to add technology into their body to extend their senses. Theres two types of cyborgs. There are cyborgs for medical reasons, regenerating preexisting body parts. My case is creating a new body part and a new sense. This is a minority now, but theres a woman who has a seismic sense. Whenever there is an earthquake in the world, she feels it in her body. Shes used to feeling the earthquakes in the world on the richter scale. Theres one sense. Theres the north sense. You can be implanted. You feel the magnetic north. Its senses that other species have, but humans dont have. We have a stage in history where you can design what species we want to be. I consider myself to be a trans species. You can add many more senses that other species have and organs that other species have. Well start seeing these in the 20s. It is growing. It is happening underground. There are many surgeons willing to do the surgery anonymously in the same way in the 50s and 60s transgender surgeries were being done underground. Cyborg surgeries should be allowed for everyone who wants to extend their perception of reality. It is great to be at the Washington Post. I dont know if people realize, but journalism is trying to find a Business Model that works. These are interesting times. I think we need editorial of the times more than ever. I think figuring out how new technology can help us interact with information is really important and what the future of the knowledge worker is. I think this community has heard a lot about internet of things, but i think it is internet of thinking things or internet of the brain. If we fastforward 100 years, maybe people will be able to connect through esp. What are the tools that are going to help us be a collective community . I think often when people have Technology Added to their biology, it doesnt fit. I know a lot of people who have lost limbs have prosthetics that they dont wear because theyre not comfortable. I think figuring out how to create technology that can work with us i think thats why neuroscience is so important. These are really exciting times to figure out what to do with some of the technology thats coming. Thank you. Do we have another question . Yes, right here in the front row. Id like to know [ inaudible ] on the pigs and how you tested what they saw once you implanted what you did, if i understood it correctly. What weve done is recreating causing the neurons to fire just like they normally do. You can have a completely blind retina. We jump over and driver the output cells to fire, just like i was showing you in that picture. The problem is it is hard to check this in an animal. Weve done this in mice. We can have them be blind mice like the song and they can track images. It is hard to do this in primates because there arent blind monkeys and i cannot bear to blind a monkey just to test it. So were just going to go if we get permission, well just go into humans. The beauty of working with patients is they are very motivated. If you meet a smart blind patient, you can work together. You can send the signals in, as long as it is safe, then we can get the feedback from them as to how well it is working. If were sending very close to the same signals they would normally get, they should be able to see this. Mice can track images. And we showed what it was like to reconstruct an image from the firing patterns of a totally blind retina and compared that to what happens with the use of standard prosthetic right now, whats available. It is much better. I have a ted talk on this if you want to see the actual pictures. I think Bloomberg News just did a story. It shows what it really looks like. We have time for one more. Is there there we go. Hello. Two questions, please. One would be why do you assume sensory is a bad thing . Because normally people use very little of their brain capacity. I understand thats because what if for some reason somebody was born to filter massive amounts of data, not understanding everything, but being able to connect the dots and put that information to useful ends . Again, why do you assume thats not possible . The other question would be do we really want to take evolution into our own hands . Its been working pretty well so far as it is. Thanks. Who would like to take that . The reason i say that is because if somebody could filter it, that would be amazing. Right now being able to function quickly as youre asking me a question, im listening to you. Everybody in this room is going into my retina, but ive ignored it so i can focus on what youre saying because it is very, very hard. When youre multitasking, think about when youre driving and you text. It is just dangerous. We have to figure out ways, like he does, to be able to make use of the information and filtering is essentially what i mean. Filter the information, so you take what you need and you can solve the problems that are in front of you. It would be the same with the augmented realities. Finding a way to utilize it, not getting into a slaclash with yo own brain. Were not totally built for it yet. I can take in 10 8th bandwidths per second. We need to do it in a way that we can be productive and cl collaborati collaborative. At the end of the day, human beings are a collaborative species. Unfortunately, thats all we have time for for, so thank you all very much. This was enlightening. [ applause ] if you google any one of these three people, there is a wealth of information on them. Now i will welcome my colleague Jeremy Gilbreath up. Good morning. Im jeremy gilbert, the Washington Post director of strategic initiatives. Im very pleased to welcome to the stage the director of the Defense Advanced Research projects agency, better known as darpa. They are credited with the invention of the internet, driverless cars, and much, much more. He founded the Technology Office and spent more than a decade as a leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist. Im also grateful to have gary king, who is a Harvard University professor. Gary is an elected fellow in eight honorary societies, has more than 150 journal articles, and 8 books. And what were here to talk about this morning is numbers tell the truth. New tools that help make meaning from big data. I want to start by asking our guests what it is they really think that means. I think both of us think big data is not actually about the data. The revolution is not that theres more data available. The revolution is we know what to do with it now. Thats really the amazing thing. If you take social media, today there were 650 million social media posts that were written by somebody and available to researchers to see what people think. Some people say it is the largest increase in the expressive capacity of the human race in the world. One person can write a post and potentially billions of other people read it, but how is any one person going to understand what billions of what other people say . The only way to understand for one day is to have automated methods that can understand this text, so the revolution is not about the data. Its about the analytics that we can come up with and that we now have to be able to understand what these data say. Gary is talking about, i think, one of the most interesting dimensions of the data explosion, which is the data that humans are generating as we express ourselves. The human race is my favorite species, so i like that kind of data for future, but i think data has become plentiful in many, many other areas as well. If i think about the work were doing in cybersecurity where the data is the ones and zeros and the code and the work were doing to understand the radio spectrum where the signal at each frequency and the wave form, thats the data, and i think about the work that were doing even to understand the signaling of the brain, thats a different kind of data. We are in an era in which were data rich. The opportunity space to Start Building