Rough video from my talk in Iceland

Much better video to follow - this is what I shot with my Xacti E1 from a tripod in the back of the room!

Discussion here and HQ video and talk slides here.

Jul 06 2008 02:40 pm | Hexayurt and The Global Picture |

5 Responses to “Rough video from my talk in Iceland”

  1. on 06 Jul 2008 at 4:21 pm Jonathan

    Top stuff. The mobile phone stats - and the idea that, given an Android, squillions of people would be Googling for ‘clean water’ - is really powerful. Like, viewpoint-shifting. I’d be tempted to lead with that, then cover the causes of death, then cherry-pick a few example technologies to illustrate the wider point. But it’s top stuff as it is.

    It’s also good to see the dark-background slide trick at work - reasonable exposure on the room, and the slides are legible. It’s a great hack. :-)

  2. on 06 Jul 2008 at 6:20 pm lugon

    Well done. Add that systemic disruption has the potential to cause sudden poverty even in now-money-rich places, and dieing from it, and that’s about it. Distributed infrastructure == health insurance.

  3. on 06 Jul 2008 at 11:39 pm Vinay Gupta

    I’m really glad you liked the talk and, yes, I thought of your advice on getting the slides to work with the black background when I made them that way - you’re my video guru!

    I’m still burning off my pessimism. Like with the pandemic flu paper http://guptaoption.com/6.SPRS.php - the first version was apocalyptic, then it got less negative by degrees as I just got more comfortable with it all. I suspect the next version of the talk - the hour version - will be downright cheery :-)

    PS: Conor says hi!

  4. on 07 Jul 2008 at 5:28 pm allida

    Hey Vinay!

    You weren’t in London three days ago were you? I guess not. Looks like you’ve cut your hair from all these photos. I was told by one of the Alphabet Kids that you are in fact in Iceland, but it was so weird, b/c this guy looked like you from far away.

    This Hexayurt stuff (and your other projects) seem to really have taken off. I’ve watched a few of your videos on youtube too. Anyway, best of luck and talk to you soon.

  5. on 13 Jul 2008 at 11:22 pm Arto Bendiken

    Excellent presentation. This is the one I’ll be sending around.

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