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With no distinction left between the past, the present and the future, and the here or there, we are left with this moment everywhere, this moment that I'll call the digital now.
This digital now is not the present, because it's always a few seconds ahead, with Twitter streams that are already trending and news from other time zones.
Not just is the digital now far from the present, but it's in direct competition with it, and this is because not just am I absent from it, but so are you.
You and I know exactly what it means like to be truly present in a moment.
The present encapsulates the past and a promise for the future.
The present joins a flow of time from before and after.
My grandmother taught me that things happen in the time they take, that time can't be fought, and because it will pass and it will move, we owe the present moment our full attention.
If we didn't have this present moment, we wouldn't have any opportunity to do anything or experience anything, and this moment is a gift.
And what we can do is whatever life offers to you in that present moment.
Now that sounds absurd in Singapore to say that, because here shipping is so present that you stuck a ship on top of a hotel.
Even Hubble Space Telescope doesn't present a much better view.
And the other present was a photo of my grandmother, who committed suicide.
That difference between our ancestral past and our abundant present is the reason that Dr. Yoni Freedhoff of the University of Ottawa would like to take some of his patients back to a time when food was less available, and it's also the reason that changing the food environment is really going to be the most effective solution to obesity.
Some people say, I only believed in remembering the past, imagining the future, never the present.
Some people say happiness is right now; it's the quality of the freshness of the present moment.
So imagine the momentum we could achieve in advancing the health of women if we considered whether these sex differences were present at the very beginning of designing research.
That sort of likens it to the amount of strain to be at the service of the observer and present this piece of paper very delicately to the viewer in front of them.
It is seldom, if ever, extended to equally important arguments around the fragility of our present system of government, to the notion that honesty, accuracy and impartiality are fundamental to the process of building and embedding an informed, participatory democracy.
Everyone would carry it around and present it like a business card to verify if seduction can progress to reproduction.
["I believe he has ideas about becoming a scientist; on his present showing this is quite ridiculous."]
It's curious that the future is so much more predictable than the present.
That's one of the passions that has to be present in order for reason to go to work, and it's obviously present in all of us.
But it's been argued, and someone here in the audience has talked to a former NSA analyst who said metadata is actually much more invasive than the core data, because in the core data you present yourself as you want to be presented.
What quality of mind, as I leave this audience, has enabled you to think about the future and at the same time change the present?
But what we do know is that false confessions or admissions were present in approximately 25 percent of wrongful convictions of people later exonerated by DNA evidence.
In our research, most of the incarcerated teens that we interviewed reported experiencing high-pressure police interrogations without lawyers or parents present.
Few had ever asked for a parent or attorney to be present.
Over 90 percent of juveniles waive their Miranda rights and submit to police questioning without lawyers or parents present.
And from there, we were able to pinpoint two key characteristics: what patterns and shapes would present the wearer as hidden or hard to make out in the water, cryptic, and what patterns and shapes might provide the greatest contrast but provide the greatest breakup of profile so that that person wasn't confused for shark prey or shark food.
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.
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