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From the simplest version in nature, one branch, my engineering collaborator, Ron Fearing, at Berkeley, had made the first synthetic version.

So, this is a quick tale I'm going to tell. This is the Furby tale.

So James Surowieki has this idea of the wisdom of crowds, that says that a whole bunch of people are smarter than any individual.

I found that any culture has its irreconcilable contradictions.

And 20 years later, miraculously, we collaborated with a company from Mali, the Sogolon Marionette Troupe of Bamako, where we made a piece about a tall giraffe.

So we worked with a company that specializes in camera surveillance, and we asked them to develop a piece of software with us, using a camera that could look at people in the room, track them and replace one person with the background, rendering them invisible.

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This is a joint effort between me and French artist JR.

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And we started bouncing around ideas to make a collaborative music video project.

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They would come together, compare notes.

(Fergus) When I was in the SAS, we used to do joint operations with the US.

But now I'm excited that there's more chance than ever before possible of sharing this music.

He'll pour a honeyed potion in your ear... and you'll wake up one day and all you'll say is, Republic.

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And the collaboration you're doing with Los Altos, how did that come about?

But that's not the whole picture.

My own ideas of how I would like to work, are given more importance.

Even make phone calls straight from Gmail.

So with everybody making so much amazing stuff and actually understanding what it was they were working on,

Then bringing us into the present day is a fellow collaborator of mine and cymatics expert, John Stewart Reed.

We don't have institutions that are good at bringing our talents to bear, at working with us in this kind of open and collaborative way.

We don't know, but it's possible that Neanderthals didn't do this.

These are the communication codes we'll use for the joint operation.

And I worked with Mehta Vihar who creates virtual simulations for the army for tactical practice.

Good bye. Hey!

Cold, isn't it?

I'm in Kobe 10 days each month.

I shall endure! How terrible!

Goodness, so much money.

I curse it! What is it?

I'll eat later. It isn't lunch.

If I must I'll go to Mama! One moment, Sir.

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Good luck with finding the right partners for your TEDx.

Good luck with calculating your TEDx event.

It says A Mark Zuckerberg production.

TED dance. Okay. Here it comes.

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