Imagine, if you will, these two ideas together.

We need to be able to imagine going back and making a different choice, and then we need to be able to kind of spool this imaginary record forward and imagine how things would be playing out in our present.

So when you think about it, we're almost like a tourist visiting ourselves over there.

Now you can imagine what this knowledge did to the temperature in the room, the general atmosphere.

Let's think about some other domains, like maybe health.

And of course consider images that can be sensory patterns, visual, such as you're having right now in relation to the stage and me, or auditory images, as you are having now in relation to my words.

Insane idea, if you're a secularist person, like me.

Can you imagine? Seriously, can you imagine?

And so imagine one more thing that that software is able to ask both parties for mutual consents, Would you be willing to meet your third cousin?

I think it would be interesting to see what everyone did with a project like this.

Imagine if I had to feel even a hundred other people's suffering.

Okay, so, most people only wondered that occasionally, like today, in breaks from whatever normally preoccupied them.

Think about it.

Imagining Recession

If you ask how is power distributed in the world today, it's distributed much like a three dimensional chess game.

Now think about the following if China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times larger than it is now.

JA If you think about it, Ground Zero is unlike most any other tourist site in America.

So imagine your kid's algebra textbook in seventh grade.

We can hardly imagine our daily life without television.

And second of all, it requires imagination.

And you can get an intuitive appreciation for this if you imagine just the people at the perimeter of the network.

If you go out for dinner, like in a fish restaurant, where you can select which fish you want to eat, you can select which insects you would like to eat.

So as I did this, and as I think many of us do this, we kind of buy our distance, we kind of buy our right to go on with our day.

So if we wanted to build cities for another billion people, they would be dots like this.

But imagine that screen having lots of objects on it and the person has touched an object one of N like he did there, and then pushed on it.

And this, we just wanted to show you if we can get the video running on this, yeah just an example of a little video surveillance.

So I want you to go there.

Imagine that it's 4,000 years into the future.

So imagine how something like this could help revolutionize your field of work.

Now I see some puzzled looks like, Why are you asking us what's the right thing to do?

I would like to bring Costa on, if he's here, to show you the only one of its kind in the world.

Now try to imagine the sinking feeling you get when you've just sent out 2,000 volunteers and you can't prove it.

So, like Snoopy, we can't just lie there and think great thoughts about our neighbors.

But if you think about it, if you have a lily pad and it just divided every single day two, four, eight, 16 in 15 days you have 32,000.

We collect four gigabits per second of data, if you can imagine that kind of data stream coming down.

It's more difficult than you think.

I want to go down like that.

So, you can just imagine right.

Imagine what your life would be like if I were to stroke it with this feather, but your brain was telling you that this is what you are feeling and that is the experience of my patients with chronic pain.

So, as you can imagine, the inside of this aircraft doesn't look like any plane you would take on vacation.

If it didn t, the whole idea was toast, and I might as well move on to other things.

And we try to test whether actually assisting your imagination by looking at the face of your future self can change you investment behavior.

The best I can imagine.

It's just your imagination.

Imagine what the iPhone 8 will be able to do.