Waching daily May 31 2018

- I think part of it comes down to when you think

about people often times there's the ability to

get lost in data either in kind of the analysis of data

or certain subsets of people that get lost

through just the type of information

you're potentially trying to extract from

one data set.

So for me, it's in part thinking about the

bigger picture and where we're going.

And to relate this back I guess to some extent,

AI consumes data and fundamental abilities

as we start to think about Artificial Intelligence

it's data is to Artificial Intelligence

as food is to people and so, giving you kind of this

additional layer of context by bringing together

disparate data sets I think that you have a better

capability to not leave people behind in that way

and to kind of really get to the crux of

what the data's saying as opposed to

taking one individual data set and saying that

that is the defacto truth.

This way you can kind of add to your

contextual layers as you bring in additional

sets of data along the way.

For more infomation >> Data is to AI as Food is to People - Duration: 1:23.

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China is Ready to Fight Trade War With US - Duration: 1:03.

For more infomation >> China is Ready to Fight Trade War With US - Duration: 1:03.

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What Is Our Story Now? - Charles Eisenstein - Duration: 1:39.

- The story that a culture holds

is the organizing principle of that culture

and the story gives meaning to the things

that the people in that culture do

and orients them toward a collective aim

and a collective purpose.

I think that right now the dominant civilization

of this planet is in a crisis of its story.

So, the question, what is our story now?

In a way, you could say there isn't one.

We had one that still has a lot of power,

the story of humanity rising above nature

to become the lords and masters of the material realm

using all other beings and materials of nature

for our purposes in this glorious enterprise

of transcendence and domination, that was the story.

But today, that story is dying

because we don't resonate with it anymore

and it's not working.

The paradise that it was supposed to bring us

has not come to fruition.

So we are in a crisis of meaning,

a crisis of our systems that are all built on the stories

and nearing a point where we are ready for a new story.

For more infomation >> What Is Our Story Now? - Charles Eisenstein - Duration: 1:39.

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Our Liberation is Bound Together - Duration: 0:51.

- We can't actually have

a working world without interdependence,

and interdependence requires

that we be in service to one another,

that I share this quote often times,

by indigenous activist Lilla Watson that says,

"If you've come to help me, do not come

"but if you've come because your liberation

"is bound up with mine, let us work together."

And so, our liberation is bound up together.

Our freedom, our expansive higher selves is connected,

and so when I am in service to you,

I'm actually also in service to myself,

I'm in service to a world that works for all of us.

For more infomation >> Our Liberation is Bound Together - Duration: 0:51.

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How the EHF Programme is Different - Duration: 2:02.

- So the thing that sets

the Edmund Hillary Fellowship program apart, in my opinion,

is having at the core this idea of impact.

So it's not just an accelerator of programs or projects

or companies, but it's companies that feel

that they can make this world a better place.

So that itself is, I've had moments of that,

like I've been at Singularity University, for example,

where it's about how can you use technologies

for exponential change, for grand challenges in the world,

but again that one is like how technology

can solve the problem.

Whereas here it's about how people

and the connectedness of people as a community

can help solve problems.

That is another distinguishing difference I've felt

in this experience here that other accelerators don't have.

And bringing in that Maori connection where there is,

you know, incantations, there is reverence,

I feel awakens consciousness

that is very necessary,

because if not you just go at that mental level

and say "Bam bam, you need this and that and that."

Having an environment where people can actually

reflect and think and absorb, you know,

hopefully raises the level of consciousness a little higher

so that when people are talking it's about common purpose.

The conversation that was had yesterday by Pekaira

was about gifting, koha, right,

again a concept that is very common in a lot of cultures,

but in a lot of modern cultures it's not there

because it's all about take and not give.

So I think these are some of the elements,

the impact, the sense of unity, the sense of consciousness

and the sense of giving back

would be some of the key elements, I think,

that is different about this program.