4. I don’t feel resentment over the years I was on speed
because I know I’m in good company. I’m a statistic in
America’s drug problem.
1 in 5 high school boys are diagnosed with ADHD
57 million anti-psychotic prescriptions filled (2011)
400 percent spike in antidepressant use (1990-now)
1 in 5 American women currently on an antidepressant
17. 700 million
one
How are the people around you doing?
..doing/being the thing they can’t not do/be.
remarkable
tech connects
everyday
18. 700 million
one
How are the people around you doing?
..doing/being the thing they can’t not do/be.
remarkable
tech connects
everyday
19. How to facilitate/crowdsource curiosities?
Perhaps by hastening the time between
finding what matters to you & finding your people.
closest to now possible
how to shrink/hasten/accelerate this time period. everyday.
23. Whoa.
That’s how
it works?
Could you
have your
band test it
out?
Cool jets. A connection is made in real life. App records it as a trail/node.
24. An app that would encourage/create/support:
1. People talking to themselves
daily, asking themselves if they
are doing what matters.
1. People connecting to people in
their city/community, a strategic
serendipity.
1. People’s mesh network, their
footprint or trail.
25. Julia, age 12, uses a donated/recycled laptop and the donated wifi from the wifi bank, to
voice record the following before she goes to bed:
I noticed a lot of my friends’ parents have cancer. They keep talking about early
detection. I asked my mom and she said if you find out early on, the cancer can usually
be cured, but that not enough people find out early. I also watched a video of a 17-
year-old that wrote a recipe to cure cancer and is now working at Stanford. I’m
dreaming about finding ways to improve early detection. I want to connect to people
who are experts at this and see what I can learn from them.
26. Vicki, age 25, uses her iphone and texts while waiting at the doctor’s office:
I just found out my mom has cancer. They told her they didn’t find it soon enough and
that it’s spreading too fast. I’ve got to research myself, find out some other answers for
her.
27. Tom, age 7, uses his mom’s ipad and his family’s wifi access, to record the following:
My mom has been doing this healing stuff my whole life. I’ve never believed in it
before. But she started doing it with me, because I have/had asthma, and now I
don’t have it anymore. I’m really interested in seeing if it can help people with
cancer.
28. The app connects them.
A mesh network created for each of these could have one small node representing their
intense curiosity and that’s it. Or, it could be the start of an offshoot node, as they advance
into the study of health and medicine. Either way, this cancer node could be detected by the
app in a couple weeks by someone else talking to themselves about the same things and then
they all receive notification of another potential connection.
29. 5 mill – ish: for tech,
while none of the ideas are new, combining them might be, being able to pay
experts [to write code, for an app to hasten the time between finding what matters
& finding your people…] and purchase resources [wifi, devices,..] will accelerate the
ability to make this equitable on a global scale.
[find more at redefineschool.com – search: betting on the sync]
part of – betting on the sync
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38. It is a fact today that 1 in 10,000 of us can make a
technological breakthrough capable of supporting
all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right
in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living.
We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea
that everybody has to be employed at some kind
of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-
Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to
exist.
– Bucky Fuller
39. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people
making instruments for inspectors to inspect
inspectors.
The true business of people should be to go back to
school and think about whatever it was they were
thinking about before somebody came along and
told them they had to earn a living.
– Bucky Fuller
42. German weekly Der Spiegel quoted
in its cover story on 2 February 2012
…the US American psychiatrist Leon Eisenberg, ..
the scientific father of ADHD
said at the age of 87, seven months before his
death in his last interview 2009…
ADHD is a prime example of a fictitious disease.
