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(RUNNING WATER)
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DEAN KAMEN: Here's something
that should hurt your brain.
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We can empty
half of all the beds
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in all the hospitals
in the world
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by just giving people
clean water.
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So have you ever heard
of Dean Kamen?
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No.
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No?
No.
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Uh, I don't think so.
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I have not heard of
Dean Kamen.
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I've heard of
the Cayman Islands,
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but not Dean Kamen.
Okay.
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Do you know what
a Segway is?
Of course.
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Yes, I know what those are.
Little trolleys?
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The little things you ride
with two wheels? Yeah.
Mmm-hmm.
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So Dean Kamen's the guy
that invented the Segway.
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Oh, really?
Yeah.
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Oh, wait. Is that the dude
that, like,
drove a Segway off the cliff?
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He's... He's dead, isn't he?
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Didn't he
fall off one and die?
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A lot of people think
the inventor of the Segway
is dead.
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But they don't really know
who invented the Segway.
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KAMEN: This rumor
has been out that
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the Segway guy has died.
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One of the people
that hears this story
is my mother.
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So she, of course,
calls my cell phone
and gets no answer.
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There are so many messages.
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I call my mother and say,
"Mother, what's wrong?"
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"Now that I'm talking to you,
nothing!"
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Oh, did that really work?
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So what is that thing
actually for?
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All you're really
trying to do is
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see something
and hear something
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that you knew to be
contemporaneous.
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I was just trying
to make some noise
to confuse...
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(MEN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
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Oh, but that should
have information about
where in the system it is.
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MAN: It also has
the take and it has
the numbers...
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Okay, come back, come back!
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KAMEN: I must admit,
I do like technology.
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I like machines
and I like the efficiency
they deliver.
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I'm guilty.
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From a very early age,
I both wanted to know
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more and more about the rules
by which this universe
of ours operates.
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And, through the
world of engineering,
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I wanted to start
applying those rules
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to create inventions
that would give people
a better quality of life,
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if those inventions work.
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Most kids, when they grow up,
develop what's called
good judgment.
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That's what we
as adults call it.
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When we actually
lose our sense of fun,
our imagination,
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and a whole lot of things
that I didn't want to give up.
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When I was a kid, I thought,
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"I'm gonna have a house,
where I can
get up in the morning
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"and go downstairs
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"and open up
a giant glass wall
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"and take a helicopter
out of my house
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"and take off
right from my house
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"and go anyplace
I want to go."
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When I was a kid,
I thought it would be cool
to have secret passages.
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"I'm gonna put
secret passages in."
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Some people want
a classic piece of artwork
in their foyer.
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A Monet. A Rembrandt.
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In my foyer, I have
this old steam engine
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built well over 150 years ago.
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It actually ran a tugboat
called the HMS Oscar.
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I would be terrified
to have to get on a horse.
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Some great
big animal with teeth.
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I don't wanna go near
a pile of muscle that big.
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But I've never been afraid
of any machine.
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That engine,
it's a work of art,
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created by a different
kind of artist.
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It also represents
great achievements
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that took hundreds of years
to develop and understand.
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When I'm awake, I'm working.
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So I'm wearing
my work clothes.
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EVELYN KAMEN:
Dean just doesn't
know the difference
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between work and play.
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So he always wears his jeans.
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None of the kids like him.
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I have all the letters,
and this one
I got from Dean. 1964.
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"Dear Mommy and Daddy.
I want to come home."
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Exclamation.
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"If I can't come home,
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"please send the following
as soon as possible.
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"One accountant.
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"One marketing expert.
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"Three secretaries.
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"I'll try to write again soon,
but I have to go
to volleyball now.
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"Your willful
and outcast son, me."
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That was written then.
(LAUGHING)
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He wanted three secretaries.
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KAMEN: I remember very well
being a little kid.
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I'd think and I'd look
at the world
and I'd imagine things.
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Everything I saw
gave me questions
about everything.
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Why, when you bounce a ball,
each time it hits the ground,
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it bounces lower
on the next shot.
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How does it do that?
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You put a hot cup
on the table,
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it cools off.
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You put a cold cup
on the table,
it warms up.
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How?
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Why?
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Most of what the world does
is quite amazing.
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And you could be
very confident
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that it'll always
do the same thing
over and over again.
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But how does all that happen?
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There are a few people
that actually
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took little pieces of that
and made sense out of it.
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I asked my father for these
great scientists and thinkers.
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They're beautiful art.
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And they're done by my father.
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You start with Archimedes.
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Over 2,000 years later,
we still refer to
Archimedes' principle.
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Staggeringly,
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after Archimedes,
we had a few things,
which included the Dark Ages.
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We come out of them
with a guy like
Leonardo da Vinci.
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He was an artist
and an engineer,
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a scientist.
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I mean,
this guy was unbelievable.
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And then you only have to wait
a few hundred years
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to Galileo Galilei.
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Really,
the first modern scientist.
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He gave us
the scientific method.
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He dies in 1642,
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and we don't have
to wait very long,
because in the same year,
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Isaac Newton is born.
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And Isaac Newton developed
Newtonian mechanics.
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How masses move
and interact with each other.
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Then, 1860s, comes
James Clerk Maxwell
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and gives us
what are now known
as Maxwell's equations.
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Four statements that link
all of electricity,
magnetism,
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light,
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into a comprehensive,
well-understood system.
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And by 1905,
along comes Big Al.
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He sort of put us
where we are today.
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And I'm waiting for the next
big thing to happen.
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Between this guy in 200 BC,
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through this guy,
who was alive when I was born,
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you've got 2,200 years.
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And other than these six guys,
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not much happened.
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It's pretty humbling.
But it's, uh...
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It's pretty exciting
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to wonder about
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what will be the contribution
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of the next guy that deserves
a place on this wall?
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Or woman.
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Are you ready?
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My middle brother has
most of the fame in the family
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and he's known for Segway.
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But the reality is
he helped me solve a problem
we both used to say,
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"You don't wake up
in the morning and say,
'I got to invent something.'
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"You wake up in the morning
and you say,
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"'There's a problem
to be solved.'"
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I had just put a machine shop
in my parents' basement.
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And I started
building electronics
and selling it.
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And then my brother would
come home from med school.
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He was already working
on his basic research,
treating babies with leukemia.
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That was his specialty.
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But to deliver his new drugs
and new therapies,
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you couldn't use
all the standard
medical equipment,
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because even at
their lowest rates,
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they were 10 times
too high a rate for a baby.
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I said, "Bart, why don't you
leave the drug
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"in the syringe
that it came in
in the first place?"
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"And then we'll build you
a little device
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"with a precision loader
that delivers it
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"directly out of the syringe
into the baby."
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So he said,
"That would be great."
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But by giving him those
little drug delivery systems
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that were seen by
all the rest of the faculty
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when he was still a student
in med school,
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all these other physicians
and researchers
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saw these little things,
and said, "Wait a minute.
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"Since it's small
and battery operated,
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"I can slip it in the pocket
of some adult
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"and they can
leave the hospital
getting their drugs
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"with a portable system."
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Which didn't exist
in those days.
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And then I start
to ask these docs, like,
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"What do you plan to deliver?"
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"How about insulin?"
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We moved out of the basement,
we started making
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lots of different
pharmaceutical
delivery systems.
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Ended up building
a nice company around that.
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I like to work
on interesting problems,
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technical problems,
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that if they are solved, also,
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can be used
by a whole lot of people
to make their lives better.
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Which is why we spent
pretty much our whole career
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at DEKA
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building medical equipment.
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The wiring has to go
right through
the middle of it...
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Right, so there's
no rotation of
those components?
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KAMEN: I'm an inventor.
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What do inventors do?
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Inventors look at problems,
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the same problems
everybody else looks at,
but see them differently.
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We were working
on a way to make
home dialysis a possibility.
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Probably 20 years ago,
we said,
"We can take dialysis.
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"Let people do it at home.
Alone.
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"Life support
in your own bedroom."
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And most of the people
at Baxter said, "You're nuts."
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In fact, throughout my life,
I only start on projects,
typically,
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if enough credible people
tell me, "You're nuts."
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(LAUGHTER)
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'Cause then you know,
"This must be a big problem."
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Baxter had introduced the idea
of peritoneal dialysis.
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The bad news is
while the therapy worked,
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the machine,
that could, quote,
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"Safely push this fluid
through a patient"
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turned out to be this.
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They loaded a bag up here
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and you ran the tube
out of the bag,
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not up to there,
because the fluid
can't travel by itself...
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They couldn't pump it,
because if something
went wrong, you could...
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Then you pulled the tube out
and then you opened up
this little device...
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Down to the floor...
Made a weight scale
out of this
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and they weigh the fluid
as it's coming out...
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If the patient rolled over
and tugged on the tube,
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took the bags
that were hanging here...
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The patient had to
run all that stuff every day,
or the nurse.
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So we looked at this,
and said, "Baxter,
it's a great therapy.
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"You guys did
something unbelievable.
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"But the implementation
of the solution
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"is just too kludgy to fix.
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"We got a better idea."
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We said, "The problem isn't
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"your machine is noisy,
your machine is heavy,
or your machine is...
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"The problem is this patient
doesn't have
a functioning kidney."
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We decided we could
build a simple machine
that would allow patients
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to dialyze themselves at home
without having
to live in a hospital
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or a dialysis center
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every other day
for the rest of their lives.
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It was a completely different
approach to a problem.
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That machine needed
about five gallons
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of pure, medical grade
water to operate.
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If we could find a way to make
the purest water in the world
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out of the tap water
in your home,
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and turn it into
medical grade water,
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we could eliminate
the next problem
they were having.
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Shipping all this water
all over the country.
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We stared working on a machine
to turn tap water
into water for injection.
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It turned out
that unless you know
everything about the water,
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in the northeast, it has iron,
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in other places,
it has other problems.
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We decided that
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a simple filter,
or a membrane,
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or osmosis,
or activated charcoal
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is unlikely to meet the need.
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We decided we better go back
to the gold standard
that the medical community
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has used to make
medical grade water
for 100 years.
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That is, distill it.
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The problem is
the energy required
to distill water
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requires that you
take water in its liquid phase
at room temperature
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and not only get it hot enough
to boil, to get frothy,
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we need to get it all
to turn into steam.
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Nature does it,
because you got the sun.
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The biggest nuclear plant
we've ever seen
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sitting out there that could
boil all this water
out of the ocean.
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That's an enormous
amount of energy.
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We don't have a lot of energy.
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The magic of a vapor
compression distiller,
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particularly the little one
that we've made,
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is that the water comes in,
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it gets boiled,
it gets condensed,
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and it comes
out of the machine
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just a tad warmer
than it went in,
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'cause we took all the energy
back out of it.
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And by recycling
all of that energy,
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we reduced the requirements
of this machine
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from 25,000 watts,
which is about 20 houses
worth of power,
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to less power than
a hand-held hair dryer.
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So now you take our machine
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and you plug it into
any normal outlet
in a typical home
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and it uses
a little bit of power.
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But it just keeps
recycling that energy
over and over and over again,
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so that it's no big deal.
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KAMEN: I am
a very slow learner.
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I'm very flattered that
you think I'm a real genius.
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But if I'm a genius,
all I can tell you
is I am the slowest,
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dumbest genius
you'll ever meet.
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You just gotta read it
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and read it again,
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and read it again.
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Think about it,
and think about it again,
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and then, all of a sudden,
it all starts to make sense.
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EVELYN: While in third grade,
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when Mrs. Pfeffer said,
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"Evelyn, I can't understand,
he is so bright.
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"But he's not producing
as he should."
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KAMEN:
I was having, as a little kid,
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a lot of trouble
learning to read.
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If I would see letters
out of context,
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or words that could
be "pots" and "stop"
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and "saw" and "was,"
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I couldn't tell them apart.
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My older brother could read
enormously fast.
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And I always figured
it was practice
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or it was something
that I was doing wrong.
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We were very concerned.
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I don't know
that we broadcast it.
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Yeah, I mean, I don't know,
but we weren't ashamed.
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We took him for testing
to the local psychologist.
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He was a non-reader.
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KAMEN: I wish I could
find a way to not be dyslexic.
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But if somebody said,
"But here's the cost."
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If it took away
something else
that I'm good at,
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at this point in my life,
I'd probably say, "No,
I'll stay with what I got."
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Compared to other problems,
this one's not so bad.
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And maybe it was a catalyst
to help me do other things
particularly well.
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Once we realized we could
take everything out of water,
no matter what it is,
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organics, toxins, metals,
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we had a process
to turn anything
into pure water.
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Why is it only for the
special subset of people
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that have a dialysis machine
in their own bedroom?
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The scalability
of this solution
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is what is
attractive about it.
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The fact that it could be used
all over the world
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in all environments
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with all kinds of bad water.
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That was sort of an epiphany.
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We recognized that a huge
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potential opportunity existed
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for solving the world's
water problems
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with a vapor
compression distiller.
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That same machine
could be carried into villages
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and allow a few hundred
million people,
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or a few billion people,
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to have the purest water
in the world.
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I hadn't realized
how big the problem was.
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NEWSCASTER 1:
Analysis suggests
the world will face
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a 40% shortfall
of clean water by 2030.
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NEWSCASTER 2:
We live on a planet
70% covered by water,
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and we're fighting over
a half of a percent.
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NEWSCASTER 3:
As things change,
water conflict will escalate.
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NEWSCASTER 4:
Competition for water
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between Israel,
Jordan and Syria
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has turned
the once-mighty
Jordan River
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into a trickle.
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NEWSCASTER 5:
There's no way it's not
gonna effect everybody.
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NEWSCASTER 6:
In Central America,
the lack of drinking water,
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together with pollution,
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are having a huge impact
on children's health.
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NEWSCASTER 7:
Child mortality figures
are horrific in Afghanistan.
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One child out of five
dies under the age of five
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through drinking
polluted water.
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NEWSCASTER 8:
Almost 50 children are
reporting in every day
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with symptoms of
diarrhea and vomiting.
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Here, four children
are forced to share one bed.
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NEWSCASTER 9: A million people
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might die in Bangladesh
alone this year
from contaminated water.
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KAMEN: In the
underdeveloped world,
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the average amount of time
per day spent by women
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looking for water
that's safe for their kids
is four hours.
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And if it didn't turn out
to be the right stuff,
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they spend the next day or two
burying their babies.
359
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That shouldn't
be their choices.
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They shouldn't
have to go that far.
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They shouldn't have to
make the choice between
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drinking the kind of stuff
you wouldn't give to your dog,
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or not having anything at all.
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Everybody else that's working
on the global water problem
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is thinking of massive,
interconnected infrastructure.
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They don't understand
that the 21st-century problem
needs a 21st-century solution.
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There's a lot to be said for,
"Let's minimize risk.
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"Let's know what we're doing."
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But sometimes,
when the need is really big,
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and the currently
available solutions
are woefully inadequate,
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it is appropriate
to put a stake in the ground
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and say, "We're not doing it
the way we did it before.
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"We gotta find
a totally new approach.
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"It's time to change."
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MAN: Why do you take on
these impossible tasks?
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(LAUGHING)
377
00:21:19,312 --> 00:21:21,080
It's always, like,
the hardest thing.
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00:21:21,113 --> 00:21:24,116
What is... What compels you?
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Well, first of all,
believe it or not,
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I don't get up in the morning
and look in the mirror
and say,
381
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"Go after some
impossible problem.
382
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"And make sure
to frustrate yourself
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"beyond reasonable.
Again. Today.
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"You've been doing it
on water for 15 years,
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"just keep doing that."
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I do not go look,
every morning,
387
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for the most difficult problem
on which I can continue
to frustrate myself
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and all of my people and fail.
389
00:21:53,380 --> 00:21:55,214
That's not the goal.
390
00:21:55,247 --> 00:21:57,016
It's a consequence,
but not a goal.
391
00:22:00,853 --> 00:22:03,556
Ginger piques
nationwide interest.
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Will it just solve
world hunger?
393
00:22:06,025 --> 00:22:10,697
KAMEN: I went to my office
and there were
boom trucks with cameras.
394
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"What's going on?"
395
00:22:13,500 --> 00:22:15,902
And people were saying,
"Well, this is the
headquarters
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"of the place with
the great secret project
397
00:22:18,438 --> 00:22:20,306
"that's gonna
change the world."
398
00:22:20,339 --> 00:22:23,142
I didn't know about the leak,
399
00:22:23,175 --> 00:22:26,879
but it certainly wasn't,
as many people suspected,
400
00:22:26,913 --> 00:22:29,382
a marketing scheme.
401
00:22:30,783 --> 00:22:34,554
People were speculating,
it could beam you places,
402
00:22:34,587 --> 00:22:39,659
it was a transporter,
like in Star Trek.
403
00:22:39,692 --> 00:22:43,830
And I was worried
from that day forward
that no matter what we did,
404
00:22:43,863 --> 00:22:48,835
it would have the potential
of having people say,
"Really? That's all?
405
00:22:48,868 --> 00:22:51,738
"You turned lead into gold,
I was hoping for platinum."
406
00:22:52,371 --> 00:22:54,073
After months of hype,
407
00:22:54,106 --> 00:22:57,877
the wraps are coming off
that top-secret invention
codenamed "IT."
408
00:22:57,910 --> 00:23:00,012
I wanna know what "IT" is.
409
00:23:00,046 --> 00:23:02,782
What is "IT"?
What does "IT" do?
410
00:23:02,815 --> 00:23:06,018
And when will "IT"
be somewhere
where I can buy one?
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00:23:06,052 --> 00:23:07,587
NEWSCASTER 1:
We're about to unveil
the invention
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that's been the subject
of hundreds of media reports
413
00:23:09,789 --> 00:23:11,357
in the topic of a
global guessing game.
414
00:23:11,390 --> 00:23:12,725
NEWSCASTER 2:
Some say it will
change the world,
415
00:23:12,759 --> 00:23:15,027
some say that it's gonna be
as broad as the Internet.
416
00:23:15,061 --> 00:23:16,395
(CHEERING)
417
00:23:21,634 --> 00:23:23,536
DIANE SAWYER:
I'm tempted to say,
"That's it?"
418
00:23:23,570 --> 00:23:24,904
(LAUGHING)
419
00:23:25,738 --> 00:23:27,507
But that can't be it.
420
00:23:29,576 --> 00:23:31,110
(LAUGHTER)
421
00:23:32,244 --> 00:23:33,713
Hey, you know what
would be really cool?
422
00:23:33,746 --> 00:23:37,650
If it had four wheels
and a compartment
where people could sit inside.
423
00:23:37,684 --> 00:23:38,718
(LAUGHTER)
424
00:23:38,751 --> 00:23:40,419
(CLAPPING)
425
00:23:43,422 --> 00:23:47,159
Ginger is the evolution
of walking.
426
00:23:47,193 --> 00:23:49,095
First, we crawled
on all fours.
427
00:23:50,129 --> 00:23:53,165
No, first we climbed
out of the ocean.
428
00:23:53,199 --> 00:23:55,134
Then, we were
four-legged beasts.
429
00:23:56,335 --> 00:23:58,871
And then we learned
to walk erect.
430
00:23:59,772 --> 00:24:01,674
And now,
431
00:24:01,708 --> 00:24:03,476
We ginger.
432
00:24:03,510 --> 00:24:08,414
People that live in cities,
people that only wanna move
around a small community
433
00:24:08,447 --> 00:24:11,851
shouldn't be using
a 4,000-pound machine
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00:24:11,884 --> 00:24:14,654
to move their
150-pound ass around town.
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00:24:16,789 --> 00:24:18,925
MAN 1: What are these?
(MAN 2 SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
436
00:24:18,958 --> 00:24:20,527
MAN 1: Oh, good.
437
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:24,597
KAMEN: I like to work
on projects where
there's a discontinuity.
438
00:24:24,631 --> 00:24:27,333
Where you can't use
linear thinking
439
00:24:27,366 --> 00:24:30,269
to get from A to B to C
to where we are.
440
00:24:30,302 --> 00:24:33,072
You have to take
a big intellectual leap.
441
00:24:34,907 --> 00:24:35,975
(GASPS)
442
00:24:36,008 --> 00:24:38,044
Greetings, foot people.
443
00:24:38,077 --> 00:24:39,612
(LAUGHTER)
444
00:24:39,646 --> 00:24:41,948
How are things
back in the 20th century?
445
00:24:41,981 --> 00:24:43,716
Gentlemen, forward!
446
00:24:43,750 --> 00:24:46,152
(LAUGHING)
447
00:24:46,185 --> 00:24:48,054
WOMAN: The traditional Segway,
as far as I know,
448
00:24:48,087 --> 00:24:50,890
made a huge splash
when it came out
in 2002.
449
00:24:50,923 --> 00:24:53,225
But is it true
that it's only sold
about 50,000?
450
00:24:53,259 --> 00:24:54,994
What went wrong there?
451
00:24:55,027 --> 00:24:56,663
MAN: Well, I think
the problem for the Segway
was really the price.
452
00:24:56,696 --> 00:24:59,532
At about $5,000,
it's a pretty expensive toy.
453
00:25:01,267 --> 00:25:04,136
KAMEN: In retrospect,
there's probably lots of ways
454
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to go back and play the
coulda-woulda-shoulda-mighta.
455
00:25:07,707 --> 00:25:09,241
Could it have been cheaper?
456
00:25:09,275 --> 00:25:11,811
Could we have addressed
the market differently?
457
00:25:11,844 --> 00:25:14,246
But we didn't do
either of those.
458
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:17,784
And what difference
would that have made,
we'll never know.
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00:25:18,417 --> 00:25:20,286
MAN: Very smooth!
460
00:25:22,254 --> 00:25:25,658
KAMEN: I don't think
my perspective of the Segway
has changed very much.
461
00:25:25,692 --> 00:25:28,494
It really is that connection,
462
00:25:28,527 --> 00:25:31,764
that segway between
walking and cars.
463
00:25:33,532 --> 00:25:36,703
I don't know
what people will be doing
in 10 or 20 years
464
00:25:36,736 --> 00:25:39,739
when there's nine or ten
billion people on this planet,
465
00:25:39,772 --> 00:25:41,540
most of them living in cities.
466
00:25:41,574 --> 00:25:44,243
But I know one way
they won't be doing it.
467
00:25:44,276 --> 00:25:48,881
They won't be sitting
in 3,000-pound machines
called cars,
468
00:25:48,915 --> 00:25:52,218
creeping along, sucking up
each other's exhaust.
469
00:25:52,251 --> 00:25:53,786
That's insane.
470
00:25:57,123 --> 00:25:59,759
Are there three items
you can't live without?
471
00:25:59,792 --> 00:26:02,795
You mean that exist today,
or that I hope
will exist soon?
472
00:26:02,829 --> 00:26:04,697
Either one.
473
00:26:04,731 --> 00:26:06,699
Well, you know,
the one that, sadly,
474
00:26:06,733 --> 00:26:09,068
I don't think will
come about in my lifetime,
475
00:26:09,101 --> 00:26:11,570
the one I've always wanted
is a time machine.
476
00:26:11,604 --> 00:26:13,572
The only thing
that ever really scares me
477
00:26:13,606 --> 00:26:16,575
is the fact that life is short
478
00:26:16,609 --> 00:26:18,377
and you can't do everything.
479
00:26:18,410 --> 00:26:22,615
I work as much as I can,
as hard as I can,
but you can't do everything.
480
00:26:30,990 --> 00:26:34,560
KAMEN: The only thing we have
that we can't make any more of
481
00:26:34,593 --> 00:26:35,795
is time.
482
00:26:39,298 --> 00:26:42,001
There's an eternity behind me,
483
00:26:42,034 --> 00:26:44,003
and I will never
get to experience that.
484
00:26:44,036 --> 00:26:47,740
I won't see the big bang,
I won't know how it happened.
485
00:26:47,774 --> 00:26:49,776
I won't even be able to see
486
00:26:49,809 --> 00:26:52,078
things of a mere 100 or 200
or 300 years ago.
487
00:26:52,111 --> 00:26:53,412
I will not be able to see
488
00:26:53,445 --> 00:26:56,115
Lincoln deliver
the Gettysburg Address.
489
00:26:57,784 --> 00:27:00,486
There's a long timeline,
then I was born.
490
00:27:01,654 --> 00:27:04,023
And then in a
relatively short time,
491
00:27:04,056 --> 00:27:06,358
a dot along that line,
I'm gone.
492
00:27:08,227 --> 00:27:11,263
And there'll be
a very long future out there.
493
00:27:11,297 --> 00:27:12,999
I won't be
part of that, either.
494
00:27:13,032 --> 00:27:17,469
So in that very short segment
of this nearly infinite line,
495
00:27:17,503 --> 00:27:23,375
where I have the capacity
to see the world
and understand and do things,
496
00:27:23,409 --> 00:27:25,311
I don't intend
to waste any of it.
497
00:27:29,048 --> 00:27:32,618
Why is everybody saying
that there's a looming
water shortage?
498
00:27:32,651 --> 00:27:34,787
Okay? Why?
499
00:27:34,821 --> 00:27:37,356
Well, how about 50%
500
00:27:37,389 --> 00:27:40,126
of all human disease
on this planet today
501
00:27:40,159 --> 00:27:41,994
is a result of
water-borne pathogens.
502
00:27:42,028 --> 00:27:44,030
So people drink the water,
the disease is in it,
503
00:27:44,063 --> 00:27:45,965
and then they get sick?
50%.
504
00:27:45,998 --> 00:27:48,234
How about...
Stop drinking water.
That's my point.
505
00:27:48,267 --> 00:27:50,169
(LAUGHING)
506
00:27:50,202 --> 00:27:54,140
Most organizations,
when they want to clean water,
507
00:27:54,173 --> 00:27:57,076
first say,
"What's wrong
with the water?"
508
00:27:57,109 --> 00:28:01,313
And if it's ocean water,
they say, "Let's use
osmosis membranes."
509
00:28:01,347 --> 00:28:03,916
If it's water that's got
heavy metals in it,
510
00:28:03,950 --> 00:28:06,218
they put charcoal filters
in front of it.
511
00:28:06,252 --> 00:28:09,021
If it's water that's got
bioburden in it,
512
00:28:09,055 --> 00:28:12,691
they say, "Let's use
antibiotics or chlorine
513
00:28:12,725 --> 00:28:15,061
"or something to kill
the bioburden."
514
00:28:15,094 --> 00:28:18,931
But you had to know
which of those
processes to use
515
00:28:18,965 --> 00:28:21,500
for any particular problem
with the water,
516
00:28:21,533 --> 00:28:25,104
and you had to have access
to that particular solution.
517
00:28:25,137 --> 00:28:28,007
"No, no, no. We'll just
use chlorine tablets."
518
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:29,275
Well, that's great.
519
00:28:29,308 --> 00:28:31,177
As long as you can run down
to the local 7-Eleven
520
00:28:31,210 --> 00:28:33,612
to buy the tablets,
pretest the water.
521
00:28:33,645 --> 00:28:35,214
Oh, wait a minute, you can't.
522
00:28:35,247 --> 00:28:36,548
They don't even have roads.
523
00:28:37,817 --> 00:28:40,086
You can't imagine
that in these little villages,
524
00:28:40,119 --> 00:28:41,553
they have, oh,
525
00:28:41,587 --> 00:28:43,589
an epidemiologist,
a microbiologist,
526
00:28:43,622 --> 00:28:47,026
an organic chemist,
somebody to...
527
00:28:47,059 --> 00:28:50,229
So I decided, you gotta take
a different approach
to the problem.
528
00:28:50,262 --> 00:28:52,031
We've seen
in the last generation,
529
00:28:52,064 --> 00:28:54,066
we went from Ma Bell,
530
00:28:54,100 --> 00:28:56,602
big, centralized systems
to cellphones.
531
00:28:56,635 --> 00:29:01,874
We went from big,
mainframe computers
to personal computing.
532
00:29:01,908 --> 00:29:05,044
Why can't we go
in the same way
533
00:29:05,077 --> 00:29:07,579
in the developing world
to point of use generation
534
00:29:07,613 --> 00:29:09,248
of pure, clean water
out of anything,
535
00:29:10,249 --> 00:29:11,818
instantly where you need it?
536
00:29:13,953 --> 00:29:17,489
You have to build a box,
maybe the size of this,
537
00:29:17,523 --> 00:29:21,593
that is a simple to operate
water utility.
538
00:29:31,437 --> 00:29:34,240
KAMEN: This is
an early version
of my black box.
539
00:29:34,273 --> 00:29:38,077
We made it black,
we want it rugged
to sit outside.
540
00:29:38,110 --> 00:29:41,914
If you touch it, it feels
like the bed liner
of a Chevy truck.
541
00:29:41,948 --> 00:29:43,415
People ask me
what it's made out of.
542
00:29:43,449 --> 00:29:45,852
It's actually made out
of the bed liner
of a Chevy truck.
543
00:29:45,885 --> 00:29:47,586
(AUDIENCE LAUGHS)
544
00:29:47,619 --> 00:29:51,423
Because I wanted it rugged
and I figured those guys
know how to do that.
545
00:29:51,457 --> 00:29:53,292
You've got
an incredible invention here.
546
00:29:53,325 --> 00:29:55,995
Um, tell me what this does.
(KAMEN CLEARS THROAT)
547
00:29:56,028 --> 00:29:58,931
That box
is a vapor compression
distiller
548
00:29:58,965 --> 00:30:02,501
with no filters, no membranes,
no chemicals.
549
00:30:02,534 --> 00:30:05,437
You can stick one hose
that comes out of it,
which I'll show you,
550
00:30:05,471 --> 00:30:07,506
into any source of water...
So this thing right here?
551
00:30:07,539 --> 00:30:09,541
This is the dirty water?
Over here?
That's dirty water.
552
00:30:09,575 --> 00:30:11,477
KAMEN: You stick a hose
into anything that looks wet,
553
00:30:11,510 --> 00:30:13,179
KAMEN: anywhere
in the world...
STEPHEN COLBERT: A puddle?
554
00:30:13,212 --> 00:30:14,546
KAMEN: A puddle, the ocean.
COLBERT: The ocean.
555
00:30:14,580 --> 00:30:15,882
A chemical waste site.
556
00:30:15,915 --> 00:30:18,384
A latrine.
50 gallon drum of urine.
557
00:30:18,417 --> 00:30:21,053
A 50 gallon drum of urine.
Okay.
558
00:30:21,087 --> 00:30:25,291
And it comes
through this machine
and it comes out here
559
00:30:25,324 --> 00:30:27,994
as perfect, distilled water.
560
00:30:30,529 --> 00:30:33,065
KAMEN: We said,
"What if we make a system
561
00:30:33,099 --> 00:30:36,168
"that might have
a sophisticated
technology inside,
562
00:30:36,202 --> 00:30:39,638
"but the use of it is simpler
than all the others?"
563
00:30:39,671 --> 00:30:43,542
So no substance put in there,
except the water,
564
00:30:43,575 --> 00:30:45,711
will actually end up
in the water over there?
565
00:30:45,744 --> 00:30:47,479
That's correct.
I'm gonna put that
to the test right now.
566
00:30:47,513 --> 00:30:49,048
WOMAN: Whoo!
567
00:30:49,081 --> 00:30:51,217
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
568
00:30:51,250 --> 00:30:52,851
Let me help you.
All right.
569
00:30:52,885 --> 00:30:54,053
I guarantee you,
570
00:30:54,954 --> 00:30:56,588
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
571
00:30:56,622 --> 00:30:57,689
that water's gonna be
572
00:30:57,723 --> 00:30:59,892
sweet, spicy
and chili flavored.
573
00:30:59,926 --> 00:31:02,494
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING
AND CLAPPING)
574
00:31:02,528 --> 00:31:03,862
MAN: Thank you, sir.
575
00:31:04,863 --> 00:31:06,432
(MAN LAUGHS)
576
00:31:06,465 --> 00:31:09,001
Dean's now
the official clapper.
577
00:31:09,035 --> 00:31:11,170
MAN:
You are, you are...
I'm gonna put a credit.
578
00:31:11,203 --> 00:31:13,272
I need a credit for that.
(MAN LAUGHS)
579
00:31:16,375 --> 00:31:18,945
KAMEN: Truth is transient.
580
00:31:18,978 --> 00:31:21,813
And there's no place
where the truth
is more transient
581
00:31:22,548 --> 00:31:24,050
than in technology.
582
00:31:24,083 --> 00:31:27,686
What was true
when you were a kid
about technology
583
00:31:27,719 --> 00:31:30,756
is probably not true anymore.
584
00:31:30,789 --> 00:31:33,692
The idea that somebody
in a little village
585
00:31:33,725 --> 00:31:36,295
in Ghana, or in Bangladesh,
586
00:31:36,328 --> 00:31:38,264
that has no electricity today,
587
00:31:38,297 --> 00:31:40,766
or has no tap water today,
the idea that
588
00:31:40,799 --> 00:31:42,134
tomorrow morning
589
00:31:42,168 --> 00:31:44,603
somebody there
is gonna wake up,
"Oh, look,
590
00:31:44,636 --> 00:31:46,638
"transmission line,
switch gear,
591
00:31:46,672 --> 00:31:49,075
"high voltage, low voltage,
transformers."
592
00:31:49,108 --> 00:31:52,744
The idea that that's
suddenly gonna appear
out of nowhere
593
00:31:52,778 --> 00:31:54,080
is ridiculous.
594
00:31:55,581 --> 00:31:57,216
KAMEN: If you want
a good example
595
00:31:57,249 --> 00:32:01,320
of where technology
helped transform
the developing world,
596
00:32:01,353 --> 00:32:03,655
think of the difference
between
597
00:32:03,689 --> 00:32:06,392
big, centralized phone systems
598
00:32:06,425 --> 00:32:08,827
and cell phones.
599
00:32:08,860 --> 00:32:11,930
There are 400 million
cell phones in Africa.
600
00:32:11,964 --> 00:32:15,301
There are a billion
cell phones in India.
601
00:32:17,269 --> 00:32:19,071
Global organizations,
602
00:32:19,105 --> 00:32:23,909
they work on top-down
government-to-government
big programs,
603
00:32:23,942 --> 00:32:26,278
and we're working on bottom-up
604
00:32:26,312 --> 00:32:29,115
point of use generation
of water.
605
00:32:36,288 --> 00:32:40,926
I was told
a very long time ago,
when I started my business,
606
00:32:40,959 --> 00:32:45,631
that I'd never get anywhere
without partners
and without a tie.
607
00:32:45,664 --> 00:32:47,599
So I figured I'd kill
two birds with one stone.
608
00:32:47,633 --> 00:32:50,102
I had a tie made out of denim
609
00:32:50,136 --> 00:32:52,171
and I gave it to my partner.
610
00:32:52,204 --> 00:32:55,907
So I've had this guy
in my office now
for 30 years.
611
00:32:56,742 --> 00:32:58,944
We've never had an argument.
612
00:32:58,977 --> 00:33:01,447
Uh, he's always supportive.
613
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:03,449
He's my partner,
my silent partner,
614
00:33:03,482 --> 00:33:06,185
and, uh,
he's good to have
in the office.
615
00:33:07,519 --> 00:33:09,121
BILL CLINTON:
...saw, my friend,
Dean Kamen,
616
00:33:09,155 --> 00:33:11,157
whom I have known
for more than 20 years.
617
00:33:11,190 --> 00:33:14,593
I saw the Segway
before most people knew
what it was.
618
00:33:16,195 --> 00:33:19,065
And a few years ago,
we were out in Colorado
together, and he said,
619
00:33:19,098 --> 00:33:22,534
"I've got this
water purification deal
620
00:33:22,568 --> 00:33:25,504
"and it can
revolutionize the world.
621
00:33:25,537 --> 00:33:27,806
"And here's how it works."
622
00:33:27,839 --> 00:33:30,576
He never made me
ride the Segway.
623
00:33:30,609 --> 00:33:32,811
He never made me get up
in that
624
00:33:32,844 --> 00:33:35,581
wheelchair that climbs up
the stairs.
625
00:33:35,614 --> 00:33:38,917
I never had to take any risks
to brag on Dean Kamen.
626
00:33:38,950 --> 00:33:43,422
He pours this awful
fetid water
into this machine
627
00:33:43,455 --> 00:33:45,591
and it drips down,
and he says,
628
00:33:45,624 --> 00:33:47,059
"Now drink it."
629
00:33:47,093 --> 00:33:48,860
(AUDIENCE LAUGHS)
630
00:33:50,796 --> 00:33:52,831
And so... (LAUGHS)
631
00:33:52,864 --> 00:33:55,334
I did.
(AUDIENCE LAUGHS)
632
00:33:55,367 --> 00:33:56,902
And I'm still here,
it works.
(AUDIENCE LAUGHS)
633
00:33:59,638 --> 00:34:04,410
KAMEN: So this is a machine
we built in 2006.
634
00:34:04,443 --> 00:34:08,046
We'll lift
the insulating case off
and show you what's inside.
635
00:34:09,748 --> 00:34:11,850
The very first units we built,
636
00:34:11,883 --> 00:34:13,852
which required a few years,
637
00:34:13,885 --> 00:34:16,422
times a few dozen engineers,
638
00:34:16,455 --> 00:34:19,691
cost literally
millions of dollars apiece.
639
00:34:19,725 --> 00:34:22,361
This is made out of,
as you know, expensium.
640
00:34:22,394 --> 00:34:25,597
Where's the unobtainium?
Most of what's in here is
641
00:34:25,631 --> 00:34:27,699
made out of unobtainium.
642
00:34:27,733 --> 00:34:31,237
We do have
all the unreliabilium
in here.
643
00:34:31,803 --> 00:34:34,740
Um... And, uh,
644
00:34:34,773 --> 00:34:37,075
the icantmaketwoathem
is in here.
645
00:34:38,644 --> 00:34:40,011
Um...
646
00:34:42,814 --> 00:34:44,750
(LAUGHING)
647
00:34:50,756 --> 00:34:52,991
KAMEN: My father had one mood.
648
00:34:53,925 --> 00:34:55,227
He was happy.
649
00:34:55,261 --> 00:34:56,662
(LAUGHING)
650
00:34:56,695 --> 00:34:58,397
He loved what he did.
651
00:34:58,430 --> 00:35:01,533
And he wanted to sit
and do art.
652
00:35:03,169 --> 00:35:05,937
You got me in there?
MAN: Oh, you're in.
653
00:35:05,971 --> 00:35:08,807
One of the tales
Dean would tell,
654
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:11,076
somebody asked him
about his father's work
655
00:35:11,109 --> 00:35:14,146
and he says, "You know,
I don't think my father
ever slept."
656
00:35:14,180 --> 00:35:16,248
He said,
"I'd wake up in the morning
657
00:35:16,282 --> 00:35:18,317
"and my dad was
at the drawing board.
658
00:35:18,350 --> 00:35:22,754
"And I'd go to sleep at night,
and my dad was sitting
at the drawing board."
659
00:35:22,788 --> 00:35:25,090
I work about eight
to 10 hours a day.
660
00:35:25,123 --> 00:35:26,692
MAN: Still?
Yeah.
661
00:35:27,793 --> 00:35:29,761
KAMEN: My father was not
one of those
662
00:35:29,795 --> 00:35:32,097
Leave It to Beaver fathers.
663
00:35:32,130 --> 00:35:34,933
After dinner,
all the other kids
664
00:35:34,966 --> 00:35:38,270
and the fathers would go out
and play ball on the streets.
665
00:35:38,304 --> 00:35:39,771
My father would finish dinner
666
00:35:39,805 --> 00:35:42,608
and go upstairs
to where he had
his second studio
667
00:35:42,641 --> 00:35:44,343
and he would be working.
668
00:35:44,376 --> 00:35:46,945
And I would sit there
watching him.
669
00:35:46,978 --> 00:35:48,547
And I basically said to him,
670
00:35:48,580 --> 00:35:50,782
"Dad, you know,
I feel badly for you,
671
00:35:50,816 --> 00:35:53,118
"'cause all the other fathers
come home from work
672
00:35:53,151 --> 00:35:55,120
"and they get to play
with their kids.
673
00:35:55,153 --> 00:35:57,356
"But you have to go back
to work."
674
00:35:57,389 --> 00:35:59,191
He put down his brush
675
00:35:59,225 --> 00:36:03,229
and he said, "Dean,
don't ever feel sorry for me.
676
00:36:03,262 --> 00:36:05,964
"I love what I do.
I'm an artist.
677
00:36:05,997 --> 00:36:08,834
"I get to do something I love
all the time.
678
00:36:10,502 --> 00:36:13,605
"You need to find something
that you love to do.
679
00:36:14,706 --> 00:36:17,175
"And then you'll be
the lucky guy."
680
00:36:19,010 --> 00:36:20,546
I'm the luckiest guy
in the world.
681
00:36:20,579 --> 00:36:24,149
I get up every day
knowing that there's
important things
682
00:36:24,182 --> 00:36:27,586
that I really
wanna accomplish.
683
00:36:27,619 --> 00:36:31,790
I tell every kid I meet,
"Figure out something
you really love to do,
684
00:36:33,124 --> 00:36:35,394
"get so good at it
685
00:36:35,427 --> 00:36:38,230
"that you can make a living
doing it.
686
00:36:38,264 --> 00:36:39,865
"If you don't do that,
687
00:36:39,898 --> 00:36:43,535
"you're cheating yourself
out of a happy,
meaningful life."
688
00:36:45,404 --> 00:36:46,705
Now, jump.
689
00:36:49,207 --> 00:36:51,310
What do you think?
GIRL: Good.
690
00:36:52,911 --> 00:36:55,080
WOMAN OVER PA: May I have
your attention, please.
691
00:36:55,113 --> 00:36:57,115
KAMEN: After we had
refurbished them,
692
00:36:57,148 --> 00:37:00,586
I took the first floor
of one of my old mills
693
00:37:00,619 --> 00:37:03,054
and built it into
a hands-on science center
694
00:37:03,088 --> 00:37:05,424
that I donated
to the community.
695
00:37:06,792 --> 00:37:10,362
One morning, I walked
into the little science center
696
00:37:10,396 --> 00:37:12,598
and I noticed that almost
every kid in the place
697
00:37:12,631 --> 00:37:15,033
was wearing a sweatshirt
or a jersey
698
00:37:15,066 --> 00:37:18,404
that was about the Patriots,
or the Bruins.
699
00:37:18,437 --> 00:37:21,273
And I happened to stop
and say to one of them
wearing one of these jerseys,
700
00:37:21,307 --> 00:37:25,311
"Can you tell me the name
of a famous living engineer?"
701
00:37:26,578 --> 00:37:27,946
No, I can't.
702
00:37:29,448 --> 00:37:32,250
You know, we gotta fix that.
703
00:37:32,284 --> 00:37:35,621
KAMEN: And I just went around
to every kid and say,
"Could you tell me
704
00:37:35,654 --> 00:37:39,591
"the name of some role model,
scientist, engineer,
inventor?"
705
00:37:39,625 --> 00:37:42,227
And not a single one could.
706
00:37:42,260 --> 00:37:44,763
One of the adults finally
said to me,
707
00:37:45,864 --> 00:37:48,300
"Einstein,
but I think he's dead."
708
00:37:49,935 --> 00:37:53,104
There's nothing wrong
with having
great superheroes
709
00:37:53,138 --> 00:37:56,575
from the world of sports,
and entertainment,
and the arts,
710
00:37:56,608 --> 00:37:59,077
but you'd think
there'd be room for
711
00:37:59,110 --> 00:38:02,247
a few people that
contribute to society
by curing disease,
712
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:05,751
or creating cell phone
technology, or...
713
00:38:05,784 --> 00:38:08,320
You just look at what we take
for granted
714
00:38:08,354 --> 00:38:11,790
and nobody has any idea
how it got here.
715
00:38:12,791 --> 00:38:14,926
But somehow we think
it's remarkable
716
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:19,164
that this guy
can get the ball in the hoop
717
00:38:19,197 --> 00:38:22,934
at a slightly
higher percentage
than somebody else.
718
00:38:22,968 --> 00:38:24,670
It's just amazing.
719
00:38:26,304 --> 00:38:29,274
Anyway, I walked out of there
720
00:38:29,307 --> 00:38:32,210
and decided I'm gonna build
an organization,
721
00:38:32,243 --> 00:38:35,113
the purpose of which is
722
00:38:35,146 --> 00:38:36,782
to change the culture
of the United States.
723
00:38:36,815 --> 00:38:40,819
ANNOUNCER: People, get ready,
the robots are coming.
724
00:38:40,852 --> 00:38:42,588
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
725
00:38:51,897 --> 00:38:55,333
KAMEN: FIRST
is an organization
whose sole goal
726
00:38:55,367 --> 00:38:57,803
is to convince a generation
of kids
727
00:38:57,836 --> 00:39:00,806
that science and technology
and engineering
728
00:39:00,839 --> 00:39:03,008
actually is fun
729
00:39:03,041 --> 00:39:06,978
and accessible, and rewarding,
and important.
730
00:39:07,012 --> 00:39:09,715
They already feel that way
about sports.
731
00:39:09,748 --> 00:39:11,182
So we said,
732
00:39:11,216 --> 00:39:15,387
"Let's package science,
technology,
engineering and math
733
00:39:15,421 --> 00:39:18,023
"into a
sporting competition."
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
734
00:39:18,056 --> 00:39:22,193
The kids working with
world-class scientists
and engineers
735
00:39:22,227 --> 00:39:24,095
build a robot
736
00:39:24,129 --> 00:39:28,033
that's gonna compete with,
literally at this point,
thousands of other robots.
737
00:39:29,635 --> 00:39:32,003
FIRST was set up
on the premise
738
00:39:32,037 --> 00:39:35,507
that we don't have
an education problem
in this country,
739
00:39:35,541 --> 00:39:37,876
we have a culture problem.
740
00:39:37,909 --> 00:39:41,012
The only difference
between this sport
and all the others
741
00:39:41,046 --> 00:39:45,751
is every kid
on our teams can turn pro.
742
00:39:45,784 --> 00:39:49,020
There's a job out there
for every one of these kids.
743
00:39:49,054 --> 00:39:50,456
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
744
00:39:50,489 --> 00:39:51,723
Thank you.
745
00:39:52,390 --> 00:39:54,760
Lots of people ask me
746
00:39:54,793 --> 00:39:57,696
why I put so much
of my own energy into FIRST.
747
00:39:57,729 --> 00:40:00,832
Oh, you're the sophomore?
We got you for three years.
Okay.
748
00:40:01,633 --> 00:40:03,034
Go to a FIRST event,
749
00:40:03,068 --> 00:40:05,904
walk through the pits,
talk to the kids.
750
00:40:05,937 --> 00:40:09,541
I am very confident
that in those stands
is some kid
751
00:40:09,575 --> 00:40:13,645
that's gonna win a Nobel Prize
for curing a major disease,
752
00:40:13,679 --> 00:40:15,581
or creating a new technology.
753
00:40:17,115 --> 00:40:20,586
FIRST is another one of my
almost overnight successes.
754
00:40:21,252 --> 00:40:23,722
It's only been 21 years.
755
00:40:23,755 --> 00:40:26,592
And it's gonna be an
overnight success, I'm sure,
this coming season.
756
00:40:28,093 --> 00:40:30,662
I'm still waiting
to where I can say
757
00:40:31,930 --> 00:40:35,634
FIRST is where it
should be, which is
758
00:40:35,667 --> 00:40:37,936
in every school
in the country.
759
00:40:38,804 --> 00:40:41,607
I've been accused of being
760
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:44,843
too aggressive
about the need for FIRST.
761
00:40:44,876 --> 00:40:48,446
So I've decided to be
the new gentler Dean.
762
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:53,018
I no longer say,
"We need FIRST in every school
in the country."
763
00:40:53,051 --> 00:40:56,988
We only need FIRST
in the schools
where you care about the kids.
764
00:41:00,859 --> 00:41:05,296
He'd be a good father.
He'd be a tremendous father.
765
00:41:07,633 --> 00:41:08,967
But, uh...
766
00:41:12,738 --> 00:41:16,675
EVELYN:
As a matter of fact,
several years ago, I said,
767
00:41:16,708 --> 00:41:18,877
"I promise,
I'll take care
of the baby
768
00:41:18,910 --> 00:41:21,813
"until the baby
is housebroken."
(LAUGHING)
769
00:41:29,487 --> 00:41:33,992
KAMEN: Of the many decisions
I've made in my life,
770
00:41:34,025 --> 00:41:37,062
one that I am
totally confident
was the right one
771
00:41:38,897 --> 00:41:40,832
was not to have children.
772
00:41:43,535 --> 00:41:45,537
Am I willing to devote
773
00:41:46,271 --> 00:41:48,540
virtually my whole life
774
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:51,743
to my children?
775
00:41:51,777 --> 00:41:54,546
Could I do that
without being resentful?
776
00:41:56,582 --> 00:41:58,817
I doubt it.
777
00:41:58,850 --> 00:42:03,021
EVELYN: The funny thing is,
every child that comes
into the building
778
00:42:03,722 --> 00:42:06,491
always runs to Uncle Dean.
779
00:42:06,524 --> 00:42:08,927
He picks them up,
plays with them.
780
00:42:09,728 --> 00:42:10,896
Every one of them.
781
00:42:12,263 --> 00:42:14,532
KAMEN: Every decision you make
782
00:42:15,300 --> 00:42:17,268
is a set of compromises.
783
00:42:19,404 --> 00:42:22,774
The only thing we have
a finite amount
of is our time.
784
00:42:23,775 --> 00:42:25,543
I'm not a Superman,
785
00:42:25,577 --> 00:42:27,779
and I couldn't
786
00:42:29,748 --> 00:42:34,019
be as good a parent
as my parents were to me
787
00:42:34,052 --> 00:42:38,089
and still do
all the other things
that I feel compelled to do.
788
00:42:39,557 --> 00:42:44,930
So I will live with the fact
that I had great parents
789
00:42:46,564 --> 00:42:49,701
and I tried to do things
for the world and other kids
790
00:42:49,735 --> 00:42:54,740
that in some ways
are a testament
to what my parents did for me.
791
00:42:56,608 --> 00:42:59,244
But I don't need to
go down that road.
792
00:43:07,418 --> 00:43:10,756
Inventions really are,
I think,
a lot like children.
793
00:43:12,190 --> 00:43:15,060
You make them, and generally,
794
00:43:15,093 --> 00:43:19,064
you're surprised
by what you did,
(AUDIENCE LAUGHS)
795
00:43:19,097 --> 00:43:20,598
but after 17 or 20 years,
796
00:43:20,632 --> 00:43:23,935
they both sort of
go off to the world,
and never look back.
797
00:43:23,969 --> 00:43:25,837
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
798
00:43:28,707 --> 00:43:31,076
KAMEN:
As currently envisioned,
the SlingShot
799
00:43:31,109 --> 00:43:35,446
will produce 1,000 liters
of pure water every day
800
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:38,183
from any kind of impure water.
801
00:43:38,216 --> 00:43:41,252
A thousand liters
of water a day
802
00:43:41,286 --> 00:43:46,124
is enough for a hundred people
to all have plenty
of water to drink,
803
00:43:46,858 --> 00:43:49,861
to cook, and for hygiene.
804
00:43:49,895 --> 00:43:53,464
And the goal is that machine
will continue to do that
805
00:43:53,498 --> 00:43:57,703
without much maintenance
or overhaul
for at least three years,
806
00:43:57,736 --> 00:44:01,272
by which time
it will have produced
a million liters
807
00:44:01,306 --> 00:44:03,374
of clean water per machine.
808
00:44:05,143 --> 00:44:09,180
We worked on the machine
with the mental model
of sooner or later
809
00:44:09,214 --> 00:44:12,951
it'll reach the time
when we have
to try it somewhere
810
00:44:12,984 --> 00:44:15,386
outside of our own lab.
811
00:44:15,420 --> 00:44:17,622
And, uh, you know,
812
00:44:17,655 --> 00:44:19,791
I would've liked
a little more time,
but as they say,
813
00:44:19,825 --> 00:44:22,828
"The safest place for a ship
is in the harbor.
814
00:44:22,861 --> 00:44:25,196
"It just doesn't
do you any good there."
815
00:44:25,230 --> 00:44:27,465
We needed to send
this thing out
816
00:44:27,498 --> 00:44:31,036
and we needed to
get real feedback.
817
00:44:31,069 --> 00:44:35,741
So I decide
we gotta test these machines.
818
00:44:35,774 --> 00:44:38,076
So I took some
of my engineers.
819
00:44:38,109 --> 00:44:41,012
They're not exactly
international travelers,
but what the hell?
820
00:44:41,046 --> 00:44:44,916
And we supported the trial
just to see whether
the technology
821
00:44:44,950 --> 00:44:49,120
would be accepted
into those environments
and perform as we expected.
822
00:44:49,687 --> 00:44:51,022
(CHEERING)
823
00:44:55,026 --> 00:44:56,394
(SCREAMING)
824
00:44:56,427 --> 00:44:59,430
At the time
we sent machines to Honduras,
825
00:44:59,464 --> 00:45:03,835
I was sort of,
but maybe not completely,
ready to let them go.
826
00:45:03,869 --> 00:45:08,006
I knew that that machine was
delicate, fragile,
827
00:45:08,039 --> 00:45:10,075
very, very handmade.
828
00:45:10,809 --> 00:45:12,443
This is crazy.
829
00:45:12,878 --> 00:45:14,445
But Hector says,
830
00:45:14,479 --> 00:45:16,748
"No problema." (LAUGHS)
831
00:45:16,782 --> 00:45:18,216
WOMAN: Lord help us.
832
00:45:19,550 --> 00:45:21,519
KAMEN: But I also knew,
833
00:45:21,552 --> 00:45:24,689
sooner or later,
you've gotta run the risk
834
00:45:24,722 --> 00:45:27,192
of letting people
really use something.
835
00:45:27,225 --> 00:45:29,394
And we had reached that point.
836
00:45:32,563 --> 00:45:34,332
MAN: Okay, here it is.
837
00:45:35,233 --> 00:45:39,437
June 3rd,
at about 1:30
in the afternoon,
838
00:45:39,470 --> 00:45:42,107
we're starting to fill
the product bag.
839
00:45:43,308 --> 00:45:44,442
Water's going in.
840
00:45:45,944 --> 00:45:48,213
KAMEN: We just put it
in this little town
841
00:45:48,246 --> 00:45:50,715
and said any kid
on the way to school
842
00:45:50,748 --> 00:45:53,618
can come and get
a 20 liter jug of water.
843
00:45:53,651 --> 00:45:55,386
The first week,
it was all boys,
844
00:45:55,420 --> 00:45:57,923
'cause as we all know,
there's no reason
for girls to go to school.
845
00:45:57,956 --> 00:45:59,757
But after about a week,
846
00:45:59,791 --> 00:46:02,593
we noticed
something really surprising.
847
00:46:02,627 --> 00:46:06,965
Suddenly, all the families
decided the girls ought
to go to school, too.
848
00:46:08,499 --> 00:46:10,936
That was a pretty nice,
unplanned
849
00:46:10,969 --> 00:46:13,604
side effect or benefit
of this program.
850
00:46:16,975 --> 00:46:20,078
We proved our machine
does what we said it would do
851
00:46:20,111 --> 00:46:22,814
with the locally
available water,
852
00:46:22,848 --> 00:46:26,852
and that the community
saw the value of it.
853
00:46:26,885 --> 00:46:29,320
The bad news is we noticed
that most people
854
00:46:29,354 --> 00:46:34,025
would transfer it into a bowl
or a pot, or something
that was not clean,
855
00:46:34,059 --> 00:46:36,594
and they'd have
their hands in it.
856
00:46:36,627 --> 00:46:40,798
And we realized
they didn't understand that
just because we made it clean,
857
00:46:40,832 --> 00:46:42,667
it's not gonna magically
stay that way.
858
00:46:44,235 --> 00:46:47,138
Clearly, we needed
to give them better ways
859
00:46:47,172 --> 00:46:50,475
to move it and to store it,
and we needed
to give them education
860
00:46:50,508 --> 00:46:53,611
about what to do
and not to do with the water.
861
00:46:53,644 --> 00:46:55,046
And DEKA
862
00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:58,816
is a small R&D company
in Manchester, New Hampshire.
863
00:46:58,850 --> 00:47:01,386
We have not only
no global reach,
864
00:47:01,419 --> 00:47:04,789
we have no marketing,
no sales,
no distribution.
865
00:47:04,822 --> 00:47:07,926
The experience in Honduras
made it really clear
866
00:47:08,826 --> 00:47:10,996
that just delivering
the machine
867
00:47:11,029 --> 00:47:12,563
is not gonna
solve the problem.
868
00:47:14,699 --> 00:47:17,903
People accept new ideas
very slowly.
869
00:47:17,936 --> 00:47:21,639
In the 1840s
and '50s and '60s,
870
00:47:21,672 --> 00:47:23,408
the telegraph had come along.
871
00:47:23,441 --> 00:47:24,976
Click, click, click,
872
00:47:25,010 --> 00:47:27,012
and a telegram
could go anywhere.
873
00:47:28,179 --> 00:47:32,317
Alexander Bell realizes,
instead of
clicking a switch,
874
00:47:32,350 --> 00:47:33,851
it could use
the same infrastructure
875
00:47:33,885 --> 00:47:35,921
that Western Union
put in place.
876
00:47:35,954 --> 00:47:40,658
But instead of sending
a telegraph key signal,
you could send voice.
877
00:47:40,691 --> 00:47:42,760
Watson? Come here, I want you.
878
00:47:42,793 --> 00:47:45,997
KAMEN: Alexander Bell
was, of course,
all excited about this.
879
00:47:46,031 --> 00:47:50,168
He goes to the biggest
company out there,
as the story goes.
880
00:47:50,201 --> 00:47:52,770
The board of directors
of Western Union
881
00:47:52,803 --> 00:47:55,373
basically said,
"You've done a beautiful job
882
00:47:55,406 --> 00:48:00,078
"of making this novelty
that you've just
demonstrated to us,
883
00:48:00,111 --> 00:48:04,715
"but of what use would this be
in a serious business?"
884
00:48:04,749 --> 00:48:09,554
It didn't take very long
before he became
essentially Bell Telephone,
885
00:48:10,055 --> 00:48:11,856
AT&T.
886
00:48:11,889 --> 00:48:14,859
And Western Union
scrambled for years
887
00:48:14,892 --> 00:48:17,295
to try to go back
and buy those patents,
888
00:48:17,328 --> 00:48:20,398
to catch up, because they had
all that infrastructure.
889
00:48:20,431 --> 00:48:22,167
But they never did.
890
00:48:24,502 --> 00:48:28,273
You gotta be an optimist,
if you try to do this stuff.
891
00:48:28,306 --> 00:48:32,443
If you asked me 15 years ago
how long
did I think it would take?
892
00:48:32,477 --> 00:48:35,947
I would've said,
"I don't know, a year or two."
893
00:48:35,981 --> 00:48:38,649
And I would've believed
that I can make this
894
00:48:38,683 --> 00:48:39,951
and then I'll show it
to people,
895
00:48:39,985 --> 00:48:41,652
and then the light bulb
will go on in their head
896
00:48:41,686 --> 00:48:45,957
and they'll see
the opportunity and
success will be imminent.
897
00:48:48,459 --> 00:48:51,963
I think the reason
that the SlingShot problem
898
00:48:51,997 --> 00:48:55,066
turned out to be so long
899
00:48:55,100 --> 00:48:59,637
is because it isn't just
a technology problem.
900
00:48:59,670 --> 00:49:03,041
How are you gonna get
these machines to the people
that need them?
901
00:49:04,275 --> 00:49:06,244
And we started to worry.
902
00:49:06,277 --> 00:49:08,813
How are we gonna
make that happen?
903
00:49:08,846 --> 00:49:10,948
Why isn't this a success?
I made it work,
904
00:49:10,982 --> 00:49:13,451
it technically does the job,
it takes less than a kilowatt.
905
00:49:13,484 --> 00:49:15,086
Why doesn't it work?
906
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:19,057
Well, I decided,
"It's the distribution,
stupid."
907
00:49:20,825 --> 00:49:22,960
I'm pretty stupid.
908
00:49:22,994 --> 00:49:26,364
We realized
that without a partner
909
00:49:26,397 --> 00:49:30,268
that has an efficient,
effective means
910
00:49:30,301 --> 00:49:32,137
of delivering these machines
911
00:49:32,170 --> 00:49:36,974
and the associated information
and knowledge
and education about them,
912
00:49:38,143 --> 00:49:41,012
we'd never be able
to turn this thing
913
00:49:41,046 --> 00:49:43,948
from the science fair project
that it was
914
00:49:43,981 --> 00:49:47,418
into an innovation that could
spread around the world.
915
00:49:49,587 --> 00:49:51,656
What do you want
to do with this?
916
00:49:51,689 --> 00:49:54,025
Well,
since 1.1 billion people,
917
00:49:54,059 --> 00:49:57,895
20% of the world's population,
goes to bed every night
sick or thirsty,
918
00:49:57,928 --> 00:50:00,698
because they don't have access
to water, clean water,
919
00:50:00,731 --> 00:50:02,400
we thought we'd put
these in production,
920
00:50:02,433 --> 00:50:04,669
figure out how to get them
placed around the world
921
00:50:04,702 --> 00:50:07,638
and we'd wipe out
50% of human disease.
922
00:50:07,672 --> 00:50:09,407
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDS)
923
00:50:15,012 --> 00:50:17,548
I made a machine
that I thought would help
people with healthcare.
924
00:50:17,582 --> 00:50:18,983
That's my day job.
925
00:50:19,016 --> 00:50:22,720
So I went to my
medical company clients.
They can help.
926
00:50:22,753 --> 00:50:25,356
They pretty much said,
"We can't help you.
927
00:50:25,390 --> 00:50:27,225
"We'd love to support it.
We'll help you with money.
928
00:50:27,258 --> 00:50:30,995
"But, Dean, we can't
get this stuff
to these places, either."
929
00:50:31,028 --> 00:50:32,563
We'll see what we can do.
930
00:50:34,465 --> 00:50:36,000
I went to governments.
931
00:50:36,033 --> 00:50:38,369
Maybe that's what they're for.
932
00:50:38,403 --> 00:50:40,205
When capitalism doesn't work,
933
00:50:40,238 --> 00:50:43,174
aid organizations, NGOs.
934
00:50:43,208 --> 00:50:46,511
Well, they like to deal
with big-scale stuff.
935
00:50:46,544 --> 00:50:49,080
They also might help
with funding, they told me,
936
00:50:49,114 --> 00:50:51,682
but these big organizations
don't have
937
00:50:51,716 --> 00:50:54,185
people that go out
to these little villages.
938
00:50:54,219 --> 00:50:56,321
They don't have an efficient
distribution channel.
939
00:50:58,089 --> 00:51:02,527
I went
to the United Nations,
said, "I've got this box.
940
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:04,695
"Let's figure out
how to help get it out there."
941
00:51:04,729 --> 00:51:08,466
Their basic answer was,
"Good for you,
we're rooting for you.
942
00:51:08,499 --> 00:51:12,303
"But we don't do that.
We don't distribute products
943
00:51:12,337 --> 00:51:16,040
"We don't build sustainable
micro-economic systems.
944
00:51:16,073 --> 00:51:19,210
"We don't lend people money,
we don't make entrepreneurs.
945
00:51:19,244 --> 00:51:21,246
"That's not what we do."
946
00:51:22,180 --> 00:51:25,283
I was somewhat disappointed.
947
00:51:25,316 --> 00:51:31,156
I believe all of these
global organizations
want us to succeed.
948
00:51:31,189 --> 00:51:35,726
But it's a different way
of thinking
that we're delivering to them.
949
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:40,064
Otherwise,
they're going to a place
that they haven't been before.
950
00:51:40,097 --> 00:51:43,901
And getting people to do that
is very hard.
951
00:51:43,934 --> 00:51:48,873
Innovation
is a very difficult,
frustrating process.
952
00:51:54,779 --> 00:51:56,381
I was probably...
953
00:51:57,148 --> 00:51:59,284
I don't remember, but young.
954
00:52:00,851 --> 00:52:02,787
Probably eight or nine,
955
00:52:03,788 --> 00:52:06,824
when I had just gotten
a new bicycle.
956
00:52:08,293 --> 00:52:11,629
I was just riding it
around and around the block.
957
00:52:13,130 --> 00:52:15,266
Then this kid jumped out,
958
00:52:15,300 --> 00:52:17,968
grabbed the bike,
pushed me off it,
959
00:52:19,136 --> 00:52:22,473
and told me
he didn't want to see
960
00:52:23,474 --> 00:52:27,712
this Jew riding
around the block.
961
00:52:30,181 --> 00:52:33,518
And I was lying there,
and I knew
962
00:52:33,551 --> 00:52:36,521
that if I didn't ride around
the block again,
963
00:52:37,655 --> 00:52:40,358
I would just feel like
I'd been defeated.
964
00:52:41,992 --> 00:52:45,230
And to this day
I remember looking up
at this guy
965
00:52:45,263 --> 00:52:47,365
and saying,
966
00:52:47,398 --> 00:52:49,834
"I'm not gonna fight
with you now.
967
00:52:50,501 --> 00:52:52,637
"That would be stupid.
968
00:52:52,670 --> 00:52:56,341
"I'm quite sure
you could easily beat me up.
969
00:52:57,542 --> 00:52:59,210
"But I'm gonna get
on my bicycle
970
00:52:59,244 --> 00:53:02,547
"and I'm gonna ride around
this block again,
971
00:53:02,580 --> 00:53:06,050
"and if you stop me,
you better be prepared
to kill me."
972
00:53:09,787 --> 00:53:12,423
And I just looked him
right in the eye,
973
00:53:13,391 --> 00:53:15,360
and he just walked away.
974
00:53:16,727 --> 00:53:20,665
And I got back on the bicycle
and I rode around the block
975
00:53:20,698 --> 00:53:23,668
again, and again, and again
976
00:53:23,701 --> 00:53:26,337
until it started getting dark.
977
00:53:26,371 --> 00:53:28,373
And he never, ever
978
00:53:29,874 --> 00:53:31,542
bothered me again.
979
00:53:38,549 --> 00:53:40,818
One of my all-time
favorite quotes,
980
00:53:41,952 --> 00:53:43,588
not by an inventor, per se,
981
00:53:43,621 --> 00:53:46,056
but a guy dealing
with some really big problems,
982
00:53:46,090 --> 00:53:47,925
Douglas MacArthur,
983
00:53:47,958 --> 00:53:49,394
who said,
984
00:53:49,427 --> 00:53:54,799
"In war,
as in every other
human endeavor,
985
00:53:54,832 --> 00:53:57,602
"failure can be summed up
in two words.
986
00:53:58,803 --> 00:54:00,305
"'Too late.'"
987
00:54:03,674 --> 00:54:07,545
I don't wanna be too late
delivering water.
988
00:54:07,578 --> 00:54:12,283
Every year that we wait,
another couple
of million people die,
989
00:54:12,317 --> 00:54:13,984
most of them kids.
990
00:54:16,186 --> 00:54:19,424
On the one hand,
I am the entrepreneur in heat,
991
00:54:19,457 --> 00:54:21,926
who always thinks
everything takes too long.
992
00:54:21,959 --> 00:54:25,095
Every project I've ever done,
it takes too long.
993
00:54:25,129 --> 00:54:26,263
On the other hand,
994
00:54:26,297 --> 00:54:28,899
that's another
few million people dying,
995
00:54:28,933 --> 00:54:31,369
because we started
production late.
996
00:54:32,102 --> 00:54:33,804
We gotta get going.
997
00:54:45,816 --> 00:54:47,952
This is a really,
really big day.
998
00:54:53,691 --> 00:54:54,925
I've been given
the opportunity
999
00:54:54,959 --> 00:54:56,961
to talk to the entire
board of directors
1000
00:54:56,994 --> 00:54:58,796
of the Coca-Cola Company
1001
00:54:58,829 --> 00:55:02,933
about using our
vapor compression distiller
1002
00:55:02,967 --> 00:55:06,036
to solve the major
global health problem,
1003
00:55:06,671 --> 00:55:08,005
bad water.
1004
00:55:23,153 --> 00:55:24,389
(MAN CHATTERING OVER RADIO)
1005
00:55:24,422 --> 00:55:25,790
We're flying to Atlanta,
1006
00:55:25,823 --> 00:55:28,125
we're currently
at 40,000 feet.
1007
00:55:28,158 --> 00:55:31,362
We're flying
at about 433 knots,
1008
00:55:31,396 --> 00:55:33,498
a little over 500 miles
an hour.
1009
00:55:33,531 --> 00:55:36,467
MAN: (OVER RADIO) 12-3, 653.
1010
00:55:36,501 --> 00:55:39,169
KAMEN: Lots of people
have asked me,
"Why Coke?"
1011
00:55:42,006 --> 00:55:43,474
It's called FIRST.
1012
00:55:43,508 --> 00:55:44,709
ANNOUNCER: And a goal!
1013
00:55:44,742 --> 00:55:47,978
Final 4, Round 2 has begun!
1014
00:55:48,012 --> 00:55:50,815
KAMEN: It grew so big,
it had so many teams
from around the country
1015
00:55:50,848 --> 00:55:54,018
that it outgrew any venue
in the state.
1016
00:55:54,051 --> 00:55:57,221
We needed
a major sports arena,
1017
00:55:57,254 --> 00:56:02,660
and we realized we could
put it in the home of the
1996 Olympics.
1018
00:56:02,693 --> 00:56:05,830
The 70,000 seat Georgia Dome
in Atlanta.
1019
00:56:05,863 --> 00:56:07,932
And we're setting up
down there
at this big arena
1020
00:56:07,965 --> 00:56:09,534
and you look up
and what's the biggest,
1021
00:56:09,567 --> 00:56:12,136
most visible building
on the skyline?
1022
00:56:13,137 --> 00:56:15,272
And it suddenly hits me.
1023
00:56:15,305 --> 00:56:18,042
Is there some company
in the world
1024
00:56:18,075 --> 00:56:20,377
that gets its product
everywhere?
1025
00:56:20,411 --> 00:56:21,912
Every little village?
1026
00:56:21,946 --> 00:56:23,113
Yeah.
1027
00:56:24,449 --> 00:56:27,818
The Coca-Cola Company
has bottling operations
1028
00:56:28,453 --> 00:56:30,855
in 206 countries,
1029
00:56:30,888 --> 00:56:33,691
which is more
than the number of countries
1030
00:56:33,724 --> 00:56:36,561
that are admitted
into the United Nations.
1031
00:56:37,895 --> 00:56:39,897
It turned out,
1032
00:56:39,930 --> 00:56:41,932
fortunately for us,
1033
00:56:41,966 --> 00:56:44,101
that they had
some of their own problems.
1034
00:56:45,970 --> 00:56:50,107
They said to us,
"We haven't really updated
our fountain system
1035
00:56:50,741 --> 00:56:52,743
"in decades."
1036
00:56:52,777 --> 00:56:56,581
Do I have a passion
to get up in the morning
and work on that project?
1037
00:56:57,247 --> 00:56:59,149
Hmm, not so much.
1038
00:56:59,183 --> 00:57:00,651
But I said to them,
1039
00:57:00,685 --> 00:57:03,721
"I'll help you
with your machines,
you help me with mine."
1040
00:57:03,754 --> 00:57:06,256
And, literally,
we had a handshake
1041
00:57:06,290 --> 00:57:09,426
with their chairman
who said to me, "We'll try."
1042
00:57:11,261 --> 00:57:13,964
A couple of years
and a lot of effort later,
1043
00:57:13,998 --> 00:57:16,366
we delivered
and they introduced
1044
00:57:16,967 --> 00:57:18,969
their freestyle machine.
1045
00:57:19,003 --> 00:57:21,338
We went back
to Muhtar Kent and said,
1046
00:57:21,371 --> 00:57:23,240
"Now let's figure out
1047
00:57:23,273 --> 00:57:27,512
"how we can work together
on the other box,
my water machine."
1048
00:57:27,545 --> 00:57:28,913
MAN: (OVER RADIO)
...2-6 clear to land.
1049
00:57:28,946 --> 00:57:30,748
The wind's 210...
1050
00:57:30,781 --> 00:57:32,216
(TIRES SQUEALING)
1051
00:57:33,818 --> 00:57:35,986
KAMEN: If Coca-Cola decided
1052
00:57:36,020 --> 00:57:38,489
that it is
in their best interest,
1053
00:57:38,523 --> 00:57:40,791
it's in the
world's best interest
1054
00:57:40,825 --> 00:57:46,664
that we quickly deploy,
literally, hundreds of
thousands of these machines,
1055
00:57:46,697 --> 00:57:48,332
they could do it.
1056
00:57:59,309 --> 00:58:00,978
INTERVIEWER: What are you
gonna say to people
about Coke's
1057
00:58:01,011 --> 00:58:03,614
earlier troubles with water?
1058
00:58:03,648 --> 00:58:06,851
Well, I think we've now come
to live in a world
of sound bites,
1059
00:58:06,884 --> 00:58:10,287
where everybody wants a simple
1060
00:58:10,320 --> 00:58:13,891
one-sentence, or in some case,
one-word answer.
1061
00:58:13,924 --> 00:58:16,293
And in our culture,
we have people that think
1062
00:58:16,326 --> 00:58:18,629
businesses is the source
of all evil
1063
00:58:18,663 --> 00:58:21,899
and other people that
think the opposite.
1064
00:58:21,932 --> 00:58:26,503
All those simplistic answers
have the advantage
that they're simple.
1065
00:58:26,537 --> 00:58:29,540
They all have the disadvantage
that they're wrong.
1066
00:58:38,849 --> 00:58:40,184
CROWD: No Pepsi, no Cola!
1067
00:58:40,217 --> 00:58:41,819
We want drinking water!
1068
00:58:41,852 --> 00:58:43,220
No Pepsi, no Cola!
1069
00:58:43,253 --> 00:58:44,822
We want drinking water!
1070
00:58:44,855 --> 00:58:47,692
NARRATOR: For every liter
of soft drink
the company makes,
1071
00:58:47,725 --> 00:58:50,494
it has to extract three liters
of water.
1072
00:58:50,527 --> 00:58:52,496
And angry farmers
claim that Coke
1073
00:58:52,529 --> 00:58:55,733
is literally sucking the water
from beneath their feet.
1074
00:58:55,766 --> 00:58:59,536
Coca-Cola has been
asked to pay $47 million
in compensation
1075
00:58:59,570 --> 00:59:01,038
for alleged
environmental damage
1076
00:59:01,071 --> 00:59:03,574
caused at a bottling plant
in Southern India.
1077
00:59:03,608 --> 00:59:05,610
The plant,
one of its largest there,
1078
00:59:05,643 --> 00:59:10,514
was forced to close in 2005
after massive nationwide
protests against the company.
1079
00:59:10,547 --> 00:59:13,851
MAN: No Pepsi, no Cola.
ALL: We want drinking water.
1080
00:59:13,884 --> 00:59:17,855
KAMEN: Unbridled power
by anybody,
a government agency,
1081
00:59:17,888 --> 00:59:21,859
a corporation, is always
potentially dangerous.
1082
00:59:21,892 --> 00:59:25,562
But in the end,
most companies work hard
1083
00:59:25,596 --> 00:59:29,199
to earn the respect and trust
of their customers
1084
00:59:29,233 --> 00:59:32,236
because it's in their
enlightened best interest.
1085
00:59:39,176 --> 00:59:41,045
MUHTAR KENT: We all
have to conserve water
1086
00:59:41,078 --> 00:59:45,916
and therefore, Coca-Cola
has been the first business,
1087
00:59:45,950 --> 00:59:51,622
in a way,
that has declared a goal
of water neutrality by 2020.
1088
00:59:51,656 --> 00:59:54,659
Nobody treats water
with dignity in the world.
1089
00:59:54,692 --> 00:59:56,894
Everybody thinks it's free,
it's available,
1090
00:59:56,927 --> 00:59:58,829
and then we have said
that by 2020,
1091
00:59:58,863 --> 01:00:01,565
we are going to globally
become water neutral.
1092
01:00:01,598 --> 01:00:05,269
That means,
give back to the world
every liter of water
1093
01:00:05,302 --> 01:00:09,907
that we use in our beverages
and to make our beverages.
That you take.
1094
01:00:09,940 --> 01:00:12,643
KAMEN: I think
it's a waste of energy,
1095
01:00:12,677 --> 01:00:15,012
and it's a disservice
to ourselves
1096
01:00:15,045 --> 01:00:17,381
to look for
who we're gonna blame.
1097
01:00:18,282 --> 01:00:21,185
And I think,
if we can orchestrate
1098
01:00:21,218 --> 01:00:24,755
what government does well,
what NGOs do well,
1099
01:00:24,789 --> 01:00:26,490
what giant corporations
do well,
1100
01:00:26,523 --> 01:00:28,458
what little inventors do well,
1101
01:00:28,492 --> 01:00:32,462
the result of that
is we make the world
a better place.
1102
01:00:32,496 --> 01:00:34,431
By sitting around
trying to figure out
1103
01:00:34,464 --> 01:00:37,835
which one of those entities
is a bad guy,
1104
01:00:37,868 --> 01:00:39,469
we do nothing.
1105
01:00:46,844 --> 01:00:49,279
Wait a minute,
isn't it Sunday now?
1106
01:00:49,313 --> 01:00:52,683
So I get double overtime.
(MAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
1107
01:00:54,084 --> 01:00:56,486
So that's triple overtime.
1108
01:00:56,520 --> 01:00:58,956
Where's Jimmy Hoffa
when I need him?
1109
01:00:58,989 --> 01:01:01,291
(CROWD CHEERING)
1110
01:01:01,325 --> 01:01:04,228
My mother calls,
as all mothers do,
1111
01:01:04,261 --> 01:01:07,965
"I'm still worried, Dean,
you're working too hard,
you're running too far.
1112
01:01:07,998 --> 01:01:10,400
"You need to just slow down."
1113
01:01:10,434 --> 01:01:13,403
"Okay, Mother.
I agree with you."
1114
01:01:13,437 --> 01:01:17,574
"So should I
stop doing FIRST?" "No."
1115
01:01:17,607 --> 01:01:22,346
"Okay, I'll stop working on
that medical product." "No."
1116
01:01:22,379 --> 01:01:25,249
"Okay, I'll just stop working
on the water machine
1117
01:01:25,282 --> 01:01:28,418
"we hope to supply
to families around the world,
1118
01:01:28,452 --> 01:01:32,222
"so two million babies
will have clean water." "No."
1119
01:01:32,256 --> 01:01:37,361
"Okay, Mother, which of the
things I am working on
do you recommend I stop?
1120
01:01:38,028 --> 01:01:39,329
"Which ones?"
1121
01:01:39,363 --> 01:01:41,631
And there's never
a good answer.
1122
01:01:43,367 --> 01:01:45,102
So I keep going.
1123
01:01:49,539 --> 01:01:53,210
Some people like to play golf.
Let them go play golf.
1124
01:01:55,645 --> 01:01:57,447
We agreed with
the Coca-Cola Company
1125
01:01:57,481 --> 01:02:01,718
that we would go out
and build 15 machines
1126
01:02:01,752 --> 01:02:06,456
in this pilot production run
to be used in trials.
1127
01:02:06,490 --> 01:02:10,360
We were gonna be in five
different schools in Ghana
1128
01:02:10,394 --> 01:02:12,963
and then from there,
depending on
how those trials go,
1129
01:02:12,997 --> 01:02:16,834
we're moving to other places
around Africa
and Central America.
1130
01:02:25,109 --> 01:02:26,610
(SHEEP BLEATING)
1131
01:03:52,897 --> 01:03:54,531
(SCHOOL BELL DINGS)
1132
01:03:54,564 --> 01:03:56,533
(SCATTERED CHATTER)
1133
01:04:00,570 --> 01:04:02,406
Huh? Okay, it depends.
1134
01:04:30,200 --> 01:04:31,868
(CHILD SINGING)
1135
01:04:37,741 --> 01:04:40,244
(ALL SINGING)
1136
01:04:57,327 --> 01:05:00,797
KAMEN: There were so many
horror stories we had heard,
1137
01:05:00,830 --> 01:05:06,803
of attempts to do
something like bring
clean water to places,
1138
01:05:06,836 --> 01:05:10,274
that had ended in failure,
not for technical reasons,
1139
01:05:10,307 --> 01:05:14,378
but for social, economic,
financial, political reasons.
1140
01:05:14,411 --> 01:05:16,846
(SINGING CONTINUES)
1141
01:05:23,954 --> 01:05:26,390
I was afraid that, once again,
1142
01:05:26,423 --> 01:05:28,825
it's gonna be
a science fair project
1143
01:05:28,858 --> 01:05:31,461
and not an innovation
that spreads through
1144
01:05:31,495 --> 01:05:34,264
that community
in that part of the world.
1145
01:05:43,040 --> 01:05:45,609
Going, going, going, going...
1146
01:05:45,642 --> 01:05:47,177
Gone.
(CHEERING)
1147
01:05:58,989 --> 01:06:00,490
(ALL SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
1148
01:06:19,476 --> 01:06:21,778
KAMEN: When the first
images came back
1149
01:06:21,811 --> 01:06:25,815
and we saw
a crowd of excited kids
1150
01:06:25,849 --> 01:06:29,619
smiling and laughing,
and watching these kids
just guzzle this water down,
1151
01:06:29,653 --> 01:06:31,655
(CHILDREN SPEAKING
INDISTINCTLY)
1152
01:06:31,688 --> 01:06:37,527
everybody realized that
our ideas are one step closer
to reality.
1153
01:06:48,205 --> 01:06:51,808
So, as all of you know,
probably, only too well,
1154
01:06:51,841 --> 01:06:56,213
I am a big believer
that the last thing
you ever want to do
1155
01:06:57,247 --> 01:06:59,816
is relax,
1156
01:06:59,849 --> 01:07:02,152
go take a nap
on that bear skin rug,
1157
01:07:02,186 --> 01:07:04,821
before you're sure
you shot the bear. (CHUCKLES)
1158
01:07:04,854 --> 01:07:07,891
This bear ain't dead yet.
1159
01:07:07,924 --> 01:07:12,196
But even I think
sometimes it's nice
to take a little bit of time
1160
01:07:12,796 --> 01:07:14,298
to celebrate.
1161
01:07:15,799 --> 01:07:17,667
Couple of weeks ago,
1162
01:07:17,701 --> 01:07:21,538
we finally got in writing
with signatures on it,
the deal.
1163
01:07:21,571 --> 01:07:25,075
We are partners now
with the Coca-Cola Company.
1164
01:07:25,109 --> 01:07:30,380
We've gotta deliver
no less than
50 working machines
1165
01:07:31,115 --> 01:07:33,083
of the next generation,
1166
01:07:33,117 --> 01:07:36,220
half the weight
and half the size,
1167
01:07:36,253 --> 01:07:38,755
deliverable by
the end of this year.
1168
01:07:40,257 --> 01:07:43,993
You know, if it works,
and we supply water,
1169
01:07:45,795 --> 01:07:50,767
we will have potentially
supplied more healthcare
through this project,
1170
01:07:50,800 --> 01:07:54,838
than the sum total
of all the projects
we've done in 30 years.
1171
01:07:57,474 --> 01:07:58,908
So, Jim,
1172
01:08:00,810 --> 01:08:02,045
don't screw it up.
1173
01:08:02,078 --> 01:08:03,580
(ALL LAUGHING)
1174
01:08:05,615 --> 01:08:06,983
Cheers!
1175
01:08:07,016 --> 01:08:08,418
(APPLAUDING)
1176
01:08:09,353 --> 01:08:10,754
To all of you!
1177
01:08:13,590 --> 01:08:14,924
(LAUGHING)
1178
01:08:16,693 --> 01:08:18,295
Stewart, Stewart...
(STEWART SPEAKING
INDISTINCTLY)
1179
01:08:18,328 --> 01:08:19,663
Have some pizza, will you?
1180
01:08:19,696 --> 01:08:23,233
These people are way too smart
not to be scared.
1181
01:08:23,267 --> 01:08:24,434
(ALL LAUGHING)
1182
01:08:27,337 --> 01:08:29,839
Now, eat the pizza.
(ALL AGREEING)
1183
01:08:30,707 --> 01:08:33,076
And drink the beer.
1184
01:08:33,109 --> 01:08:34,578
And then get back to work.
1185
01:08:34,611 --> 01:08:35,945
(LAUGHTER)
1186
01:08:39,283 --> 01:08:42,085
KAMEN: A long time ago,
in a faraway place,
1187
01:08:42,118 --> 01:08:45,088
I, literally,
designed the circuit boards.
1188
01:08:45,121 --> 01:08:49,559
I etched them in the
ferric chloride dish
in my mother's oven.
1189
01:08:51,228 --> 01:08:54,964
These days, I have
400 extraordinary people,
1190
01:08:54,998 --> 01:08:57,834
and each has some specialty
1191
01:08:57,867 --> 01:09:00,770
that is in a different
zip code of capability
1192
01:09:00,804 --> 01:09:03,139
in their specialty
than I ever was.
1193
01:09:04,140 --> 01:09:06,376
Well, let's do that again.
(ALL LAUGHING)
1194
01:09:09,513 --> 01:09:12,148
You hit me in the nose,
you're dead.
(CHUCKLES)
1195
01:09:14,484 --> 01:09:18,121
Dennis, I got good news
and bad news.
DENNIS: What's that?
1196
01:09:18,154 --> 01:09:20,790
These things are working...
1197
01:09:20,824 --> 01:09:25,128
KAMEN: To make one more
of the models of the machine
you've seen,
1198
01:09:25,161 --> 01:09:28,164
I say to the 20 people
in there,
1199
01:09:28,198 --> 01:09:31,635
"You make the compressor wheel
out of that block of aluminum.
1200
01:09:31,668 --> 01:09:34,571
"You make this part
out of steel."
1201
01:09:34,604 --> 01:09:37,974
You add up the cost
of all those people
and all those resources,
1202
01:09:38,007 --> 01:09:41,411
and it turns out,
it costs hundreds
of thousands of dollars
1203
01:09:41,445 --> 01:09:43,680
to put another model
out there.
1204
01:09:45,449 --> 01:09:48,252
(CHILDREN SINGING)
1205
01:09:48,285 --> 01:09:51,187
In five out of five
locations in Ghana,
1206
01:09:51,221 --> 01:09:54,258
we met every
expectation we had
1207
01:09:54,291 --> 01:09:56,493
for performance
and acceptance,
1208
01:09:56,526 --> 01:09:58,495
and we sadly confirmed,
1209
01:09:58,528 --> 01:10:02,332
yup, the basic machine is
too heavy to bring to scale,
1210
01:10:02,366 --> 01:10:04,401
it's too expensive
to bring to scale,
1211
01:10:04,434 --> 01:10:06,670
and it was too hard to set up
1212
01:10:06,703 --> 01:10:11,375
and deal with
the sometimes erratic
access to electricity.
1213
01:10:14,210 --> 01:10:17,514
And as a result
of that experiment,
1214
01:10:17,547 --> 01:10:22,752
we said, "Let's figure out
how to make them more
cost-effective to manufacture,
1215
01:10:22,786 --> 01:10:27,891
"smaller and lighter,
and let's do the next round."
1216
01:10:27,924 --> 01:10:31,561
So I know we're going
with the plastic housing,
instead of the aluminum,
1217
01:10:31,595 --> 01:10:33,630
but that aluminum rotor,
1218
01:10:33,663 --> 01:10:35,765
and all that machining
was obviously...
1219
01:10:35,799 --> 01:10:37,233
Costly.
Right.
1220
01:10:37,267 --> 01:10:41,237
How are we doing that?
So we're gonna go to an
injection-molded rotor,
1221
01:10:41,271 --> 01:10:42,939
just like we did
with the housings.
1222
01:10:42,972 --> 01:10:44,608
Right, so there's your rotor.
1223
01:10:44,641 --> 01:10:45,675
KAMEN: So...
1224
01:10:46,476 --> 01:10:48,378
Plastic rotor.
Yep.
1225
01:10:48,412 --> 01:10:50,314
(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
1226
01:10:52,416 --> 01:10:56,320
KAMEN: Our trials would be
one, two, three machines.
1227
01:10:57,787 --> 01:10:59,956
What we're calling
the "Alpha Build,"
1228
01:10:59,989 --> 01:11:03,960
will be between 50
and 100 identical machines.
1229
01:11:03,993 --> 01:11:07,163
In a real factory,
in a period of a month,
1230
01:11:07,196 --> 01:11:10,534
you could stamp out
10,000 machines,
1231
01:11:11,100 --> 01:11:13,437
not one.
1232
01:11:13,470 --> 01:11:18,141
The labor cost associated
with that 10,000 machines
is almost nothing.
1233
01:11:20,677 --> 01:11:24,914
To make one more
machine then, is the
cost of these finished parts,
1234
01:11:24,948 --> 01:11:28,652
which we will get down to
a few thousand dollars
per machine.
1235
01:11:29,653 --> 01:11:33,022
This device will be less
than half the size,
1236
01:11:33,056 --> 01:11:35,625
less than half the weight
of the machines
1237
01:11:35,659 --> 01:11:37,661
that we used
for the Ghana trials.
1238
01:11:37,694 --> 01:11:42,532
And the goal is
to have them all finished
for the next level of testing
1239
01:11:42,566 --> 01:11:46,102
in Central America
and in Africa.
1240
01:11:46,135 --> 01:11:49,005
And if that project
goes as we hope,
1241
01:11:49,038 --> 01:11:54,711
the next round of development
should be relatively
high-volume production
1242
01:11:54,744 --> 01:12:00,584
to start the serious project
of giving water
to a few billion people.
1243
01:12:07,557 --> 01:12:11,728
KAMEN: I think somebody
that's a really big person
1244
01:12:11,761 --> 01:12:18,067
is somebody that doesn't mind
helping everybody else
around them.
1245
01:12:18,101 --> 01:12:24,140
A really big person
helps everybody else
be big,
1246
01:12:24,173 --> 01:12:28,745
and doesn't use
their bigness to keep
everybody else small.
1247
01:12:33,417 --> 01:12:35,351
My brother was a big person.
1248
01:12:39,222 --> 01:12:42,225
Libby, my niece, is here.
1249
01:12:42,258 --> 01:12:45,194
She's been with FIRST
her whole life.
1250
01:12:45,228 --> 01:12:46,596
She lost a dad.
1251
01:12:48,632 --> 01:12:50,233
I lost a brother.
1252
01:12:52,869 --> 01:12:54,103
My mom
1253
01:12:56,640 --> 01:12:58,141
lost her son.
1254
01:13:00,810 --> 01:13:02,979
The whole FIRST community
1255
01:13:03,747 --> 01:13:07,216
lost a great resource.
1256
01:13:08,384 --> 01:13:11,254
He was a mentor,
he was a volunteer,
1257
01:13:12,456 --> 01:13:15,191
he was a judge.
1258
01:13:15,224 --> 01:13:18,895
He was somebody
everybody could
aspire to be like.
1259
01:13:21,898 --> 01:13:25,234
What I admired about Bart
1260
01:13:25,268 --> 01:13:29,272
was he had a little bit
of my father in him
that I don't have.
1261
01:13:29,305 --> 01:13:32,041
That he was so easy-going.
1262
01:13:32,075 --> 01:13:36,646
And he was always conscious
of making everybody around him
feel comfortable,
1263
01:13:37,747 --> 01:13:39,415
which was an incredible asset,
1264
01:13:39,449 --> 01:13:42,552
since the people around him,
most of the time,
were little kids,
1265
01:13:42,586 --> 01:13:45,121
that would otherwise
be scared to death
because
1266
01:13:46,189 --> 01:13:47,323
they have cancer.
1267
01:13:47,356 --> 01:13:48,792
Mmm.
1268
01:13:50,093 --> 01:13:51,761
(WOMAN CHUCKLES)
Patrick.
1269
01:13:52,962 --> 01:13:54,731
WOMAN: Just a month ago. Yeah.
Thank you.
1270
01:13:54,764 --> 01:13:56,933
(KISSES)
You stay very, very healthy.
1271
01:13:59,268 --> 01:14:01,805
KAMEN: It never even
came into my head
1272
01:14:01,838 --> 01:14:05,609
that I'd get old,
and not be able
to call my brother.
1273
01:14:08,011 --> 01:14:11,648
I believe, right now,
I can pick up the phone
and call him.
1274
01:14:13,316 --> 01:14:14,784
I can't...
1275
01:14:14,818 --> 01:14:17,954
I can't really believe that
that's not the case.
1276
01:14:20,690 --> 01:14:22,125
(SIGHS)
1277
01:14:23,627 --> 01:14:25,028
KAMEN ON MIC:
Life is so short.
1278
01:14:28,397 --> 01:14:30,667
And Bart's passing
1279
01:14:31,868 --> 01:14:34,203
just gives me
even more urgency.
1280
01:14:37,140 --> 01:14:38,708
My whole life,
1281
01:14:38,742 --> 01:14:42,779
every time I thought
of something good
and important to do,
1282
01:14:42,812 --> 01:14:44,681
I wanted to do it now.
1283
01:14:46,583 --> 01:14:49,218
It's not a coincidence
I build clocks.
1284
01:14:50,554 --> 01:14:53,056
'Cause the world's in a race.
1285
01:14:53,089 --> 01:14:55,491
Between all sorts
of catastrophes,
1286
01:14:56,225 --> 01:14:58,227
and technical expertise.
1287
01:14:58,995 --> 01:15:02,165
We can't let catastrophe win.
1288
01:15:03,900 --> 01:15:07,671
So time is critical.
1289
01:15:17,847 --> 01:15:21,685
KAMEN: Coca-Cola selected
ideal locations
1290
01:15:21,718 --> 01:15:23,953
for the next level of testing.
1291
01:15:24,688 --> 01:15:26,089
Mexico,
1292
01:15:26,122 --> 01:15:27,591
South Africa,
1293
01:15:27,624 --> 01:15:29,859
Paraguay.
1294
01:15:29,893 --> 01:15:35,364
What we're learning is,
if there are 206 different
countries on this planet,
1295
01:15:35,398 --> 01:15:40,904
we have to ask ourselves
at least 206 different ways
to be successful,
1296
01:15:40,937 --> 01:15:43,873
because in each
environment, there are
different challenges.
1297
01:15:49,145 --> 01:15:53,016
KAMEN: The ideal would
be a machine that has
no weight, no size,
1298
01:15:53,049 --> 01:15:55,518
no cost, never breaks down,
1299
01:15:55,551 --> 01:15:58,888
is available
wherever you need it,
all the time, free.
1300
01:16:00,556 --> 01:16:02,859
That will never happen.
1301
01:16:02,892 --> 01:16:07,196
There is, I think, a very
pervasive but naive assumption
1302
01:16:07,230 --> 01:16:10,700
that aid means
you give things away.
1303
01:16:10,734 --> 01:16:12,401
If you give things away,
1304
01:16:12,435 --> 01:16:14,604
with this mythical idea
1305
01:16:14,638 --> 01:16:16,572
that it should have no cost,
1306
01:16:17,807 --> 01:16:20,343
it will end up demonstrating
that it had no value.
1307
01:16:21,945 --> 01:16:23,947
(CHILDREN CHATTERING)
1308
01:16:24,814 --> 01:16:27,083
(TEACHER SPEAKING SPANISH)
1309
01:16:42,298 --> 01:16:46,970
KAMEN: It will be those people
that are drinking
the output of this device
1310
01:16:47,003 --> 01:16:50,674
that are protecting it,
maintaining it,
1311
01:16:50,707 --> 01:16:53,643
in some cases,
creating a business around it
1312
01:16:53,677 --> 01:16:55,712
and becoming entrepreneurs.
1313
01:16:58,047 --> 01:17:01,617
The Wright brothers flew
at Kitty Hawk in 1903.
1314
01:17:03,219 --> 01:17:06,489
The day after they did that,
you didn't see airlines.
1315
01:17:06,522 --> 01:17:09,092
You didn't get
frequent flyer miles.
1316
01:17:09,125 --> 01:17:13,930
In fact, I believe,
it was at least a decade
after they did that,
1317
01:17:13,963 --> 01:17:17,801
before anybody had
any commercial use
of any airplane.
1318
01:17:19,969 --> 01:17:23,439
Where we were
with the first machines
that you saw in Ghana,
1319
01:17:23,472 --> 01:17:28,111
we were like
the Wright brothers,
with their first flyer.
1320
01:17:28,144 --> 01:17:30,880
Where are we now
with our Alpha machines?
1321
01:17:30,914 --> 01:17:35,551
We're one of those early
airplanes with the big
propellers, spitting smoke.
1322
01:17:35,584 --> 01:17:39,455
Where would we like to be
with our next machine?
1323
01:17:39,488 --> 01:17:41,290
You know, the dream liner.
1324
01:17:41,324 --> 01:17:43,626
Where do we want
to be after that?
1325
01:17:43,659 --> 01:17:45,194
A spaceship.
1326
01:17:53,002 --> 01:17:56,372
I think the reason that
water is such a big
problem these days
1327
01:17:56,405 --> 01:18:01,310
is because all the people
in the western world
don't see it as a problem.
1328
01:18:01,344 --> 01:18:02,912
In fact,
they don't even see it at all.
1329
01:18:04,881 --> 01:18:07,250
Even here, in the richest
country in the world,
1330
01:18:07,283 --> 01:18:11,654
our pure clean water
isn't as pure and as clean
as we thought.
1331
01:18:11,687 --> 01:18:16,525
Sadly, most of us
will probably come
to see a world where
1332
01:18:16,559 --> 01:18:19,729
you can't trust
tap water anymore.
1333
01:18:19,763 --> 01:18:21,865
KATIE COURIC:
At least 41 million of us
1334
01:18:21,898 --> 01:18:26,235
are drinking water
that contains traces
of prescription drugs.
1335
01:18:26,269 --> 01:18:29,372
Anti-seizure medications,
prescription pain killers.
1336
01:18:29,405 --> 01:18:33,276
Even the anti-depressant
ingredient in Prozac.
1337
01:18:33,309 --> 01:18:36,913
KAMEN: There are,
literally, for instance,
tens of millions of women
1338
01:18:36,946 --> 01:18:39,082
that are taking birth control.
1339
01:18:39,115 --> 01:18:44,387
And every day,
they literally pass through
their body, hormones
1340
01:18:45,588 --> 01:18:49,025
that municipal water systems
can't filter out.
1341
01:18:49,058 --> 01:18:52,195
And tiny, tiny, tiny
amounts of hormones
1342
01:18:52,228 --> 01:18:56,732
have a big effect
on your health.
1343
01:18:56,766 --> 01:19:00,036
The average age of puberty
for young girls
in the United States
1344
01:19:00,069 --> 01:19:03,572
has been dropping
pretty radically.
1345
01:19:03,606 --> 01:19:08,377
The problem
of global access to water
is getting worse everywhere,
1346
01:19:08,411 --> 01:19:12,982
including, in the next
decade or two,
North America.
1347
01:19:13,016 --> 01:19:15,751
There will be many places
around this country,
1348
01:19:15,785 --> 01:19:19,188
where water becomes
a serious issue.
1349
01:19:21,757 --> 01:19:24,760
Everybody asks me,
"Well, why do we call
the box SlingShot?"
1350
01:19:24,794 --> 01:19:28,431
As a little kid,
I was always the smallest
kid in my grade,
1351
01:19:28,464 --> 01:19:31,167
and I heard the story
of David and Goliath,
1352
01:19:31,200 --> 01:19:36,439
and to me,
the moral of that story was,
"Technology is cool."
1353
01:19:36,472 --> 01:19:39,943
And people say to me,
"How? How did you get
that moral out of it?"
1354
01:19:39,976 --> 01:19:42,578
I say, "Well, there was
this really little guy, David.
1355
01:19:42,611 --> 01:19:44,848
"He had this really
big problem, Goliath.
1356
01:19:44,881 --> 01:19:47,516
"But he had this little
thing called the slingshot.
1357
01:19:47,550 --> 01:19:51,988
"And that little
piece of technology took out
that really big problem."
1358
01:19:55,491 --> 01:19:57,793
Dean, where are you? Stand up.
1359
01:19:57,827 --> 01:20:00,129
Now, let me tell you.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
1360
01:20:00,163 --> 01:20:03,332
About seven years ago,
I did drink
1361
01:20:03,366 --> 01:20:06,769
some of the ugliest,
most contaminated water
you ever saw.
1362
01:20:06,802 --> 01:20:08,938
Dean came and put it
in his little machine,
1363
01:20:08,972 --> 01:20:12,108
I drank it down,
and I'm still here.
It works.
1364
01:20:12,141 --> 01:20:13,509
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
1365
01:20:13,542 --> 01:20:15,211
I mean, it works.
1366
01:20:15,244 --> 01:20:16,612
I drink it all the time.
1367
01:20:16,645 --> 01:20:20,984
It works and it is just an
amazing piece of equipment.
1368
01:20:24,153 --> 01:20:26,155
KAMEN: You start putting
all these pieces together
1369
01:20:26,189 --> 01:20:31,995
and the chain will finally
go from a crazy idea to,
"Of course. It was obvious."
1370
01:20:32,028 --> 01:20:34,563
Let's put water machines
all over the world.
1371
01:20:34,597 --> 01:20:38,301
There's no easier way
to wipe out 50%
of all human disease.
1372
01:20:38,334 --> 01:20:40,136
Let's just do it.
1373
01:20:40,169 --> 01:20:42,005
Simple.
MAN: Overnight success?
1374
01:20:42,038 --> 01:20:46,009
I think in less than
20 years, we're gonna be
an overnight success.
1375
01:20:46,042 --> 01:20:47,843
(CHILDREN SCREAMING)
1376
01:20:50,513 --> 01:20:55,418
KAMEN: We want to be
helping get water
to everybody on this planet.
1377
01:20:55,451 --> 01:20:56,852
It's the right thing to do.
1378
01:20:56,886 --> 01:20:58,554
It's simply
the right thing to do.
1379
01:20:58,587 --> 01:21:02,658
We can do it.
Therefore, we should do it.
1380
01:21:02,691 --> 01:21:06,095
So why is it prevention
to give people clean water?
1381
01:21:06,129 --> 01:21:07,496
Call me crazy.
1382
01:21:07,530 --> 01:21:09,065
We have
a Department of Defense
1383
01:21:09,098 --> 01:21:13,502
and we build the ultimate
weapons of mass destruction.
1384
01:21:13,536 --> 01:21:18,074
But how about if we build
weapons of mass construction?
1385
01:21:18,107 --> 01:21:20,576
And what if we go around
the world and give everybody
clean water,
1386
01:21:20,609 --> 01:21:24,180
and it says "US" on it,
your friend?
1387
01:21:24,213 --> 01:21:26,382
Maybe we'll have
a Department of Peace.
1388
01:21:26,415 --> 01:21:29,585
And maybe
we will prevent the wars.
1389
01:21:29,618 --> 01:21:33,122
And if we can get these
water machines into
high volume production,
1390
01:21:33,156 --> 01:21:35,191
I think we put them
around the world
1391
01:21:35,224 --> 01:21:40,696
and there's a way better shot
that a large part
of two billion people
1392
01:21:40,729 --> 01:21:42,498
will be our friends.
1393
01:21:44,400 --> 01:21:47,470
I don't have time for things
that just don't matter.
1394
01:21:47,503 --> 01:21:52,408
So, number one,
is I'd like to work on
big problems and solve them.
1395
01:21:52,908 --> 01:21:54,710
Number two,
1396
01:21:54,743 --> 01:21:58,247
is at least I'll be able to
say to the world, "I worked
on a really big problem.
1397
01:21:58,281 --> 01:22:02,551
"I didn't solve it,
but I tried.
What did you do?"
1398
01:22:02,585 --> 01:22:06,255
And at least,
I hope in the end,
I didn't waste my time.
1399
01:22:08,958 --> 01:22:10,793
What I really, really want
1400
01:22:12,361 --> 01:22:14,730
is a time machine.
1401
01:22:14,763 --> 01:22:17,466
If I could step
into some device
1402
01:22:17,500 --> 01:22:19,635
and transport myself back
1403
01:22:19,668 --> 01:22:23,606
to have a conversation,
2,300 years ago
with Archimedes...
1404
01:22:23,639 --> 01:22:25,441
Mmm?
1405
01:22:25,474 --> 01:22:29,112
"Hey, Archi. What's up
with that buoyancy thing?"
You know... (CHUCKLES)
1406
01:22:29,145 --> 01:22:30,846
I don't know what I'd say.
(MAN LAUGHING)
1407
01:22:32,148 --> 01:22:37,486
Or if I could go forward
even just 100 years,
1408
01:22:37,520 --> 01:22:41,624
will they have answers
to questions that we
simply don't understand now?
1409
01:22:41,657 --> 01:22:46,195
And will they be answers
that are, "Oh,
why didn't we see that?"
1410
01:22:46,229 --> 01:22:48,631
MAN: Do you think
you could build one?
1411
01:22:49,832 --> 01:22:52,535
As I said, whenever you
talk about technology,
1412
01:22:52,568 --> 01:22:57,606
using a word like "never"
always comes back
to haunt you.
1413
01:22:57,640 --> 01:23:01,010
We will cure every kind of
cancer you can think of.
1414
01:23:01,044 --> 01:23:05,381
We will make computers
that outperform anything
you could possibly imagine.
1415
01:23:06,649 --> 01:23:10,286
I don't say "never"
to just about anything,
1416
01:23:10,319 --> 01:23:13,789
but I'll say
it's gonna be a long time
1417
01:23:13,822 --> 01:23:15,691
before there's a time machine,
1418
01:23:15,724 --> 01:23:19,795
especially one that has
the beautiful convenience
1419
01:23:19,828 --> 01:23:22,798
of what H.G. Wells
had in mind.
1420
01:23:22,831 --> 01:23:26,469
Get in it, dial in a time,
get out.
1421
01:23:26,502 --> 01:23:29,638
Get back in,
dial in a different time.
1422
01:23:29,672 --> 01:23:32,041
Now, that's an invention.
1423
01:23:34,843 --> 01:23:37,012
If anybody,
or any group of people
1424
01:23:37,046 --> 01:23:39,982
come up with
a device to do that,
1425
01:23:40,015 --> 01:23:42,118
they deserve the whole wall.
1426
01:23:48,057 --> 01:23:49,558
Are you ready?
1427
01:23:49,592 --> 01:23:51,260
Are we all watching?
1428
01:23:51,294 --> 01:23:52,928
This is pressure.
1429
01:23:53,229 --> 01:23:54,663
(CLAPS)
1430
01:23:54,697 --> 01:23:56,832
MAN: Dean, higher.
Oh, I failed!
1431
01:23:56,865 --> 01:23:58,767
Oh, all right, all right.
(MAN TALKING INDISTINCTLY)
1432
01:23:58,801 --> 01:23:59,968
Ready?
1433
01:24:02,738 --> 01:24:04,039
(SMACKING LIPS)
1434
01:24:08,911 --> 01:24:10,746
You know,
I don't want to say anything,
1435
01:24:10,779 --> 01:24:14,250
but I think I reached
the pinnacle of this.
1436
01:25:58,354 --> 01:26:01,290
For you
to be thanking me,
it makes my brain hurt.
1437
01:26:01,324 --> 01:26:06,329
I mean, it's the veterans
that gave me the opportunity
to do all these things.
1438
01:26:06,362 --> 01:26:09,565
And I thank all of you...
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
1439
01:27:56,104 --> 01:28:00,909
KAMEN: We could empty half
of all the beds in all the
hospitals in the world
1440
01:28:00,943 --> 01:28:03,779
by just giving people
clean water.
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