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Save It to Your Desktop! | Alan Resnick | TED
Save It to Your Desktop! | Alan Resnick | TED
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0:04
So I recently just completed a short film about computers,
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and I'm very excited to be able to premiere it right now at TED.
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(Cheers)
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Let's take a look. Thank you.
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(Soothing music)
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(Screaming)
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(Laughter)
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Did that scare you?
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(Laughter)
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I think that's because computers actually are kind of scary, aren't they?
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Hi, my name is Alan Resnick,
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and if you don’t know me, I’m a bit of a “tech-head.”
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What does that mean?
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It means an average day for me is spent surfing the web,
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checking my emails and just clicking on links.
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That's sort of me in a nutshell.
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And when I'm not doing that,
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I tour the country, and I teach people how to use computers.
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And the number one thing I've noticed all over
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is that people are afraid of computers.
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They're scared.
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And don't get me started on the internet, you guys.
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Has anyone here ever been online?
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(Laughter)
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Two, three hands.
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You guys gotta get online.
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It's incre --
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I'm telling you,
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there's some crazy stuff online, you guys.
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I don't have time to get into it right now,
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but they have photos and videos of people online,
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and they're performing a kind of love that I am not comfortable with.
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OK?
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(Laughter)
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And they have your data.
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They do. These sick people have your data.
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Are you comfortable with that? I'm not.
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But I have a question for you guys, and it is a real question.
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How do you use your computer?
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How do you guys use your computers?
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Just curious.
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Can we get her a mic?
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How do you use your computer?
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Audience Member: Well, I usually use
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my computer for work.
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So emails and, you know, sending messages to folks.
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Alan Resnick: No, stop. OK. Shut up. No.
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OK. This is wrong.
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(Laughter)
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This is incorrect. I hate to say this, but you're using your computer wrong.
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You know, not "use." I don't love that word "use."
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We don't "use" computers, do we?
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No. I think of computers a little like grandparents, actually.
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You wouldn't use your grandmother, right?
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(Laughter)
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But your grandmother can make your life easier
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if you use her properly.
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So what is the proper way to use a computer?
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Tonight I'm going to share with you my one simple trick
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that's going to make your life a lot easier,
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it's going to protect your data and it's going to calm you down.
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OK, here it is.
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(Clears throat)
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(Whispers) Desktops.
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Desktops.
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What is he saying?
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(Whispers) Desktop.
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I can't hear him. What are you saying? I'm saying save it to your desktop!
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It's as simple as that. Save it to your desktop.
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OK? Yeah, we can clap for that.
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That's pretty cool. That is pretty cool.
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You're going, "Alan, it can't be that easy."
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It is.
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But before we can talk about desktops,
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we have to talk about something else.
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Look at this. Check this out. This is pretty cool.
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Look at that. You see this?
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My skin. Look at --
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Whoa!
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My skin is vibrating.
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But it's vibrating -- it's very hard to tell.
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It's hard to see. Here. This is vibrating, too.
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But I think you'll be able to see this. Can you see that?
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Light vibrates too.
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Are you -- I need a response.
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Can you see that? You can? OK.
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(Laughter)
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That's because of the eye-brain system.
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The visible spectrum. Rods and cones. Rods and cones.
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Rods and cones.
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But my skin is vibrating, too.
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But it vibrates at a rate that you can't see or perceive,
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but dogs and pets can actually hear.
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They hear our skin.
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So I know you like to touch a little dog's head.
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(Imitates barking)
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But that passive action is actually causing them extreme inner ear pain,
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so you shouldn't touch dogs.
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(Laughter)
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But here's what you didn't know.
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My computer vibrates too.
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Did you know that? Computers vibrate.
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And they happen to vibrate at the exact opposite rate as human skin.
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That's amazing.
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So when you're working with a computer, those vibrations are phasing.
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And when you touch a computer, you have a vibration rate of zero.
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There is only one moment in every person's life
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when they have a vibration rate of zero,
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and that is on their fifth birthday, when they blow out the candle.
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So you go on, "Alan, you convinced me."
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If working with computers feels even half as good
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as a little boy's birthday,
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then sign me up.
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The glove is off and we're ready to change our lives forever.
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But how?
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(Whispers) Desktops.
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I already told you, desktops.
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Save it to your desktop! I already said that.
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Save it to your desktop. OK.
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(Laughter)
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I think you're ready.
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Do you guys want to see my desktop?
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Audience: Yes. Show me your desktop.
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AR: I can’t hear you.
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Do you guys want to see my desktop?
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Come on! OK, let's do it!
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Here we go. Let's get it booted up.
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Here it is. It's my desktop.
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Whoa!
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That's amazing.
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You're going, "Alan, I could never have something like that."
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If you follow my simple rule, save it to your desktop,
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you're not only going to have an awesome desktop,
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you're actually going to have a wicked, awesome life.
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Now check this out. This is cool.
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The desktop --
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is a little like my desk's top surface, right?
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So I have file folders on the computer.
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And guess what? I got them here too.
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What kind of things can you save to your desktop? Anything.
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You can have photos, emails, PDFs.
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Those are like packets.
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You can have movies, video games,
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key codes, MP3s, zip disks.
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These are all useful things that you can save to your desktop.
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So it's sort of an organizational technique.
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So I'll give you an example.
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Let's say your dad emails you some pics of the lawn.
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All you have to do is ...
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OK. Yeah, you got to just save them to the desktop.
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Just save those right to the desktop.
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(Laughter)
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And after you do that, you're going to want to print out a copy for yourself,
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which you're going to place on your desk's top.
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Can I get those photos? Where the heck are those photos?
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Oh, thank you so much.
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So --
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This is cool.
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So now you always know where everything is.
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You're not going to lose anything.
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I'll give you another example. I'm just going to pick a file at random.
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Let's just pick a random file.
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OK? Eeny meeny miny moe.
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Catch a tiger by the t --
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Oh.
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This is a little embarrassing.
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This is actually an old poem I wrote.
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Egg on my face. It says,
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"Why whisper when a yell can travel just as far?
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A whisper yelled is a whisper heard."
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Hmm.
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(Laughter)
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So where did I save that? Let's see. Where did I save that?
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It looks like I put that on...
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OK, that's C5, that's the bottom right corner of my desk.
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(Laughter)
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So it should be here.
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Oh, Goddamn it!
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Oh! Boom! Here it is!
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Wow! You can clap for that. That's cool!
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This is amazing. This is amazing.
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(Applause)
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Now I'm noticing there's a couple eagle-eyed viewers in the audience,
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and they're looking at my computer
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and they're going, "Something's up, something's up."
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You're going, "Alan, where the heck is your toolbar?"
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Or dock. Some people call it dock. I call it a toolbar.
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"Where's your toolbar?" Well, guess what.
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My computer doesn't have a toolbar.
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Why? I'm not addicted to my toolbar.
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You think America's got an obesity problem?
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You think we have a fentanyl problem? Folks, we have a toolbar problem.
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Stop using your toolbar.
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There is room for everything you need right here on the desktop.
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(Laughter)
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This is silly.
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This is my --
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My girlfriend,
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my ex-girlfriend, actually, made this for me.
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(Laughter)
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And, uh...
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I don't know, it's silly, but I like to look at it.
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It makes me happy to see this,
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so I --
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(Sighs)
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I keep it on my desk while I work.
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But, uh --
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Yeah.
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No, no, it's, um --
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It's not in the computer.
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Yet! But literally anything can be saved to your desktop.
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All you have to do is rig up a camera around a bucket at 90 degrees.
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You're going to want to fill the bucket with black water
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and paint your beloved object white.
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And here's what you do. It's really easy.
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You submerge the object in the water and film yourself as you pull it up,
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recording its topology through time.
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You're going to get the topology of every axis, axes, axi.
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And once you have the axis data, all you have to do is boolean the axis.
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You’re going to end up with an OBJ file that’s super high quality,
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you can render in an infinite quality of lighting conditions.
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And then there's only one thing left to do.
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What are we going to do?
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(Audience) Save it to your desktop.
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AR: Yes. Oh my God. Save it to your desktop!
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Yes! Woo! If you do this,
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you will always have the things you want and need and love,
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and you will know exactly where to find them.
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You never have to be lonely again.
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You will be happy and people will love you.
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Listen, if you don't have organizational skills and desktop skills,
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I'm sorry, folks, you're not going to get that job.
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Your data, it's going to be leaking on the floor.
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People are going to be slipping. They're going to be slipping on your data.
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You can say "bye-bye" to your kids.
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They're going to be living on their desktops.
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Mark my words, in one year's time, people will literally be,
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blah, blah, blah, blah, talking to their computers.
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Whoa. In two years, people are going to be walking around
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with glasses so powerful they're never going to need to come home.
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And in three years' time,
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computers will have gotten so small
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they will literally fit on a piece of breakable glass.
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(Groans)
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(Crack)
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Whew! OK. Thank you so much.
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My name is Alan Resnick.
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I really hope that helped. You've been incredible.
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I love you so much. Good night. Thank you, thank you.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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(Applause and cheers)
