this is the deck i opened mlove.com 2011 confestival with - enjoy :)

1. last time here, I spoke about world
changing traits we could adopt

2. this time, it’s a message
about something we
already have

3. but let’s start at the beginning

4. we are here to discuss and discover,
our passions and inspirations,
enabled by mobilised technology

5. we will be challenged, as will the
technology we rely on for delivery of
our ideas

6. we will challenge
ourselves

7. our experiences, social
influences, and decision
making processes, will all be
working over-time
under the surface, our brains
are operating many conflicting
systems, all arguing and
collaborating in real-time, like
a silent committee

8. we will
challenge
technology

9. throughout the history of MLOVE, the
thinking shared has tended to require
mobilised technology to behave in a
more human way

10. however, as David Eagelmen recently said
in Wired, technology tends to be composed
of dictatorial hierarchies, specialised
systems that are too polite to argue

11. it is unlike our democratic architecture,
the 'team of rivals' we have in our brain

12. so, we will face challenges within
ourselves due to internal conflict, and
challenges with technology, due to it’s
lack of conflict

13. now, something core to
every single one of us

14. Martin Nowak,
talks about how
a particular
behaviour is
fundamental in
the development
of mankind

15. cooperation
cooperation is the process of
working or acting together, which
can be accomplished by both
intentional and non-intentional
agents
in its simplest form it involves
things working in harmony, side by
side, while in its more complicated
forms, it can involve something as
complex as the inner workings of a
human being or even the social
patterns of a nation
it is the alternative to working
separately in competition

16. Nowak shows that evolution is dependent
on a high degree of selflessness
as Edith Wharton said, “you can either be
the candle, or the mirror that reflects it”

17. to some, Darwin's realisations of “the
survival of fittest”, could be interpreted
as a proxy for un-cooperative
behaviour, but actually the “fittest”
part is now proven to be “fitness in
cooperating successfully”

18. we are literally built to be
super cooperators

19. as humans, our survival is critically
dependent on our appetite for
cooperation

20. the question is, will we cooperate,
or will we destroy ourselves by
failing to do so?

21. the opportunity here, is to use
our in-built human capability, in
harmony with each other, and
with cooperative technology

22. that’s what MLOVE
means to me

23. hence my passion picture is
tattooed on my arm. harmony.

24. I have faith we can
inspire each other
here, to work and
play together
productively, and I
challenge us all to
harmoniously
cooperate

25. after the last plane has left, the castle is
empty, and the fire has gone out, I urge you
all to continue cooperating, and to spread the
behaviour to everyone you can

26. "The only thing
that will redeem
mankind is
cooperation"
Bertrand Russell

27. namaste