Generation
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So our millennial
generation
is built differently.
Now, I'm older, and my youthful looks might belie that, but I'm not in the millennial
generation.
The millennial
generation
is completely comfortable with online technology.
But what if we embraced technology, embraced the millennial
generation'
s natural predilections, and really think about creating these online technologies, blend them into their lives.
So the story begins over 50 years ago with the launch of the first
generation
of U.S. government photo reconnaissance satellites.
And a new
generation
of engineers and scientists, mostly out of universities, began launching these very small, breadbox-sized satellites called CubeSats.
So instead, we turned to a new
generation
of video sensors, originally created for use in night vision goggles.
This, in fact, more generally was the story of the first
generation
of the Internet economy.
Luo, like so many in his generation, left home at a young age to look for work in a major city.
You're part of a
generation
that grew up with the Internet, and it seems as if you become offended at almost a visceral level when you see something done that you think will harm the Internet.
These are things that all people believe, and it's up to all of us to protect them, and to people who have seen and enjoyed a free and open Internet, it's up to us to preserve that liberty for the next
generation
to enjoy, and if we don't change things, if we don't stand up to make the changes we need to do to keep the Internet safe, not just for us but for everyone, we're going to lose that, and that would be a tremendous loss, not just for us, but for the world.
I mean, my generation, I grew up not just thinking about the Internet, but I grew up in the Internet, and although I never expected to have the chance to defend it in such a direct and practical manner and to embody it in this unusual, almost avatar manner, I think there's something poetic about the fact that one of the sons of the Internet has actually become close to the Internet as a result of their political expression.
And in fact, one of the next steps for us is collecting and preserving microbes from healthy people around the world so that they can be kept as cultural assets for those groups to potentially protect them as they adapt to modern society, and to protect future generations who are currently growing up to have increased risk of these diseases with every
generation.
Because every
generation
thinks we are the final one.
But isn't human anecdote also an evolution of sorts, the idea that there's a kernel of truth thought to be important, passed down from
generation
to generation, so that it actually ends up shaping human behavior?
It galvanized a whole
generation
of human beings to realize that we're on Spaceship Earth, fragile and finite as it is, and that we need to take care of it.
And the reason is because in certain individuals, they can actually have genetic changes or mutations that are not passed down from the mother or from the father, but actually start brand new in them, mutations that are present in the egg or the sperm at the time of conception but have not been passed down
generation
through
generation
within the family.
I cite those statistics around corporate board diversity because they are real, and I stand here today talking about this issue of racial discrimination because I believe it threatens to rob another
generation
of all the opportunities that all of us want for all of our children, no matter what their color or where they come from.
Now, I also think that this is very important so that the next
generation
really understands that this progress will help them, because they're expecting us to be great role models.
So if we come all the way up to the present day now, the cultural tour de force that is Miley Cyrus, she reinterprets "La Di Da Di" completely for her generation, and we'll take a listen to the Slick Rick part and then see how she sort of flipped it.
(Music: "La Di Da Di" by Slick Rick & Doug E. Fresh) (Music: "We Can't Stop" by Miley Cyrus) So Miley Cyrus, who wasn't even born yet when "La Di Da Di" was made, and neither were any of the co-writers on the song, has found this song that somehow etched its way into the collective consciousness of pop music, and now, with its timeless playfulness of the original, has kind of translated to a whole new
generation
who will probably co-opt it as their own.
These adults only live a few weeks, and now they're single-mindedly focused on sex, that is, on propelling their genes into the next firefly
generation.
We discovered that females use male flash signals to try to predict which males have the biggest gifts to offer, because this bling helps the female lay more eggs and ultimately launch more of her own offspring into the next
generation.
Now the reason why we think it's a good time to do that now is, in the last couple of years, there's been a remarkable plummeting in the cost to do this type of analysis, this type of data generation, to where it actually costs less to do the data
generation
and analysis than it does to do the sample processing and the collection.
What is this technology worth to a Commander Hadfield or a Neil deGrasse Tyson trying to inspire a
generation
of children to think more about space and science instead of quarterly reports and Kardashians?
G.E. is using 3D printing to make the next
generation
LEAP engine that will save fuel to the tune of about 15 percent and cost for an airline of about 14 million dollars.
And this is what the young
generation
says.
I want you to write a narrative, a narrative from the future of your city, and you can date it, set it out one year from now, five years from now, a decade from now, a
generation
from now, and write it as a case study looking back, looking back at the change that you wanted in your city, looking back at the cause that you were championing, and describing the ways that that change and that cause came, in fact, to succeed.
Freeman Dyson, in a TED Talk, foresaw that children will design and create new organisms just as routinely as his
generation
played with chemistry sets.
That understanding today leads to innovative medicine after innovative medicine, and although there's still so much work to do, we're already surrounded by people who have been cured of cancers that were considered untreatable a
generation
ago.
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