Life lessons from an ad man | Rory Sutherland

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This is my first time at TED. Normally, as an advertising man,
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I actually speak at TED Evil, which is TED's secret sister
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that pays all the bills.
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It's held every two years in Burma.
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And I particularly remember a really good speech
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by Kim Jong Il on how to get teens smoking again.
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(Laughter)
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But, actually, it's suddenly come to me after years working in the business,
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that what we create in advertising,
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which is intangible value -- you might call it perceived value,
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you might call it badge value, subjective value,
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intangible value of some kind --
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gets rather a bad rap.
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If you think about it, if you want to live in a world in the future
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where there are fewer material goods, you basically have two choices.
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You can either live in a world which is poorer,
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which people in general don't like.
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Or you can live in a world where actually intangible value
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constitutes a greater part of overall value,
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that actually intangible value, in many ways
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is a very, very fine substitute
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for using up labor or limited resources
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in the creation of things.
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Here is one example. This is a train which goes from London to Paris.
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The question was given to a bunch of engineers,
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about 15 years ago, "How do we make the journey to Paris better?"
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And they came up with a very good engineering solution,
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which was to spend six billion pounds
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building completely new tracks
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from London to the coast,
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and knocking about 40 minutes off a three-and-half-hour journey time.
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Now, call me Mister Picky. I'm just an ad man ...
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... but it strikes me as a slightly unimaginative way of improving a train journey
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merely to make it shorter.
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Now what is the hedonic opportunity cost
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on spending six billion pounds on those railway tracks?
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Here is my naive advertising man's suggestion.
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What you should in fact do is employ all of the world's top male
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and female supermodels,
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pay them to walk the length of the train, handing out free Chateau Petrus
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for the entire duration of the journey.
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(Laughter)
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(Applause)
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Now, you'll still have about three billion pounds left in change,
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and people will ask for the trains to be slowed down.
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(Laughter)
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Now, here is another naive advertising man's question again.
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And this shows that engineers,
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medical people, scientific people,
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have an obsession with solving the problems of reality,
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when actually most problems, once you reach a basic level of wealth
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in society, most problems are actually problems of perception.
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So I'll ask you another question.
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What on earth is wrong with placebos?
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They seem fantastic to me. They cost very little to develop.
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They work extraordinarily well.
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They have no side effects,
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or if they do, they're imaginary, so you can safely ignore them.
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(Laughter)
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So I was discussing this. And I actually went to the Marginal Revolution blog
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by Tyler Cowen. I don't know if anybody knows it.
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Someone was actually suggesting that you can take this concept further,
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and actually produce placebo education.
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The point is that education doesn't actually work by teaching you things.
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It actually works by giving you the impression
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that you've had a very good education, which gives you an insane sense
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of unwarranted self-confidence,
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which then makes you very, very successful in later life.
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So, welcome to Oxford, ladies and gentlemen.
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(Laughter)
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(Applause)
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But, actually, the point of placebo education is interesting.
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How many problems of life can be solved
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actually by tinkering with perception,
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rather than that tedious, hardworking and messy business
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of actually trying to change reality?
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Here's a great example from history. I've heard this attributed to several other kings,
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but doing a bit of historical research,
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it seems to be Fredrick the Great.
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Fredrick the Great of Prussia was very, very keen
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for the Germans to adopt the potato and to eat it,
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because he realized that if you had two sources of carbohydrate,
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wheat and potatoes, you get less price volatility in bread.
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And you get a far lower risk of famine,
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because you actually had two crops to fall back on, not one.
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The only problem is: potatoes, if you think about it, look pretty disgusting.
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And also, 18th century Prussians ate very, very few vegetables --
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rather like contemporary Scottish people.
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(Laughter)
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So, actually, he tried making it compulsory.
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The Prussian peasantry said,
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"We can't even get the dogs to eat these damn things.
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They are absolutely disgusting and they're good for nothing."
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There are even records of people being executed
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for refusing to grow potatoes.
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So he tried plan B.
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He tried the marketing solution, which is he declared the potato
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as a royal vegetable, and none but the royal family could consume it.
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And he planted it in a royal potato patch,
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with guards who had instructions
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to guard over it, night and day,
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but with secret instructions not to guard it very well.
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(Laughter)
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Now, 18th century peasants know that there is one
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pretty safe rule in life, which is if something is worth guarding,
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it's worth stealing.
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Before long, there was a massive underground
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potato-growing operation in Germany.
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What he'd effectively done is he'd re-branded the potato.
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It was an absolute masterpiece.
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I told this story and a gentleman from Turkey came up to me and said,
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"Very, very good marketer, Fredrick the Great. But not a patch on Ataturk."
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Ataturk, rather like Nicolas Sarkozy,
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was very keen to discourage the wearing of a veil,
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in Turkey, to modernize it.
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Now, boring people would have just simply banned the veil.
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But that would have ended up with a lot of awful kickback
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and a hell of a lot of resistance.
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Ataturk was a lateral thinker.
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He made it compulsory for prostitutes to wear the veil.
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(Laughter)
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(Applause)
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I can't verify that fully, but it does not matter.
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There is your environmental problem solved, by the way, guys:
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All convicted child molesters
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have to drive a Porsche Cayenne.
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(Laughter)
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What Ataturk realized actually is two very fundamental things.
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Which is that, actually, first one,
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all value is actually relative.
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All value is perceived value.
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For those of you who don't speak Spanish, jugo de naranja -- it's actually the Spanish for "orange juice."
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Because actually it's not the dollar. It's actually the peso
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in Buenos Aires. Very clever Buenos Aires street vendors
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decided to practice price discrimination
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to the detriment of any passing gringo tourists.
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As an advertising man, I have to admire that.
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But the first thing is that all value is subjective.
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Second point is that persuasion is often better than compulsion.
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These funny signs that flash your speed at you,
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some of the new ones, on the bottom right,
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now actually show a smiley face or a frowny face,
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to act as an emotional trigger.
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What's fascinating about these signs is they cost about 10 percent
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of the running cost of a conventional speed camera,
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but they prevent twice as many accidents.
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So, the bizarre thing, which is baffling
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to conventional, classically trained economists,
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is that a weird little smiley face
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has a better effect on changing your behavior
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than the threat of a £60 fine and three penalty points.
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Tiny little behavioral economics detail:
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in Italy, penalty points go backwards.
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You start with 12 and they take them away.
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Because they found that loss aversion
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is a more powerful influence on people's behavior.
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In Britain we tend to feel, "Whoa! Got another three!"
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Not so in Italy.
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Another fantastic case of creating intangible value
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to replace actual or material value, which remember, is what,
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after all, the environmental movement needs to be about:
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This again is from Prussia, from, I think, about 1812, 1813.
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The wealthy Prussians, to help in the war against the French,
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were encouraged to give in all their jewelry.
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And it was replaced with replica jewelry
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made of cast iron.
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Here's one: "Gold gab ich für Eisen, 1813."
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The interesting thing is that for 50 years hence,
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the highest status jewelry you could wear in Prussia
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wasn't made of gold or diamonds.
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It was made of cast iron.
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Because actually, never mind the actual intrinsic value
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of having gold jewelry. This actually
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had symbolic value, badge value.
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It said that your family had made a great sacrifice in the past.
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So, the modern equivalent would of course be this.
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(Laughter)
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But, actually, there is a thing, just as there are Veblen goods,
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where the value of the good depends on it being expensive and rare --
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there are opposite kind of things
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where actually the value in them depends on them being
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ubiquitous, classless and minimalistic.
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If you think about it, Shakerism was a proto-environmental movement.
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Adam Smith talks about 18th century America,
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where the prohibition against visible displays of wealth was so great,
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it was almost a block in the economy in New England,
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because even wealthy farmers could find nothing to spend their money on
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without incurring the displeasure of their neighbors.
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It's perfectly possible to create these social pressures
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which lead to more egalitarian societies.
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What's also interesting, if you look at products
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that have a high component
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of what you might call messaging value,
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a high component of intangible value, versus their intrinsic value:
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They are often quite egalitarian.
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In terms of dress, denim is perhaps the perfect example of something
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which replaces material value with symbolic value.
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Coca-Cola. A bunch of you may be a load of pinkos,
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and you may not like the Coca-Cola company,
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but it's worth remembering Andy Warhol's point about Coke.
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What Warhol said about Coke is, he said,
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"What I really like about Coca-Cola is the president of the United States
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can't get a better Coke than the bum on the corner of the street."
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Now, that is, actually, when you think about it -- we take it for granted --
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it's actually a remarkable achievement,
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to produce something that's that democratic.
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Now, we basically have to change our views slightly.
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There is a basic view that real value involves making things,
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involves labor. It involves engineering.
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It involves limited raw materials.
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And that what we add on top is kind of false. It's a fake version.
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And there is a reason for some suspicion and uncertainly about it.
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It patently veers toward propaganda.
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However, what we do have now
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is a much more variegated media ecosystem
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in which to kind of create this kind of value, and it's much fairer.
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When I grew up, this was basically the media environment of my childhood
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as translated into food.
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You had a monopoly supplier. On the left,
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you have Rupert Murdoch, or the BBC.
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(Laughter)
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And on your right you have a dependent public
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which is pathetically grateful for anything you give it.
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(Laughter)
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Nowadays, the user is actually involved.
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This is actually what's called, in the digital world, "user-generated content."
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Although it's called agriculture in the world of food.
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(Laughter)
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This is actually called a mash-up,
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where you take content that someone else has produced
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and you do something new with it.
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In the world of food we call it cooking.
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This is food 2.0,
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which is food you produce for the purpose of sharing it with other people.
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This is mobile food. British are very good at that.
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Fish and chips in newspaper, the Cornish Pasty,
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the pie, the sandwich.
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We invented the whole lot of them.
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We're not very good at food in general. Italians do great food,
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but it's not very portable, generally.
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(Laughter)
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I only learned this the other day. The Earl of Sandwich didn't invent the sandwich.
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He actually invented the toasty. But then, the Earl of Toasty would be a ridiculous name.
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(Laughter)
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Finally, we have contextual communication.
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Now, the reason I show you Pernod -- it's only one example.
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Every country has a contextual alcoholic drink. In France it's Pernod.
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It tastes great within the borders of that country,
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but absolute shite if you take it anywhere else.
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(Laughter)
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Unicum in Hungary, for example.
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The Greeks have actually managed to produce something called Retsina,
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which even tastes shite when you're in Greece.
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(Laughter)
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But so much communication now is contextual
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that the capacity for actually nudging people,
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for giving them better information -- B.J. Fogg,
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at the University of Stanford, makes the point
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that actually the mobile phone is --
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He's invented the phrase, "persuasive technologies."
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He believes the mobile phone, by being location-specific,
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contextual, timely and immediate,
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is simply the greatest persuasive technology device ever invented.
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Now, if we have all these tools at our disposal,
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we simply have to ask the question,
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and Thaler and Sunstein have, of how we can use these more intelligently.
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I'll give you one example.
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If you had a large red button of this kind, on the wall of your home,
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and every time you pressed it, it saved 50 dollars for you,
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put 50 dollars into your pension,
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you would save a lot more.
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The reason is that the interface fundamentally determines
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the behavior. Okay?
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Now, marketing has done a very, very good job of creating
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opportunities for impulse buying.
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Yet we've never created the opportunity for impulse saving.
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If you did this, more people would save more.
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It's simply a question of changing the interface
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by which people make decisions,
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and the very nature of the decisions changes.
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Obviously, I don't want people to do this,
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because as an advertising man I tend to regard saving as just
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consumerism needlessly postponed.
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(Laughter)
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But if anybody did want to do that,
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that's the kind of thing we need to be thinking about, actually:
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fundamental opportunities to change human behavior.
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Now, I've got an example here from Canada.
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There was a young intern at Ogilvy Canada
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called Hunter Somerville,
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who was working in improv in Toronto,
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and got a part-time job in advertising,
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and was given the job of advertising Shreddies.
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Now this is the most perfect case of creating
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intangible, added value,
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without changing the product in the slightest.
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Shreddies is a strange, square, whole-grain cereal,
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only available in New Zealand, Canada and Britain.
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It's Kraft's peculiar way of rewarding loyalty to the crown.
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(Laughter)
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In working out how you could re-launch Shreddies,
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he came up with this.
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Video: (Buzzer)
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Man: Shreddies is supposed to be square.
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(Laughter)
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Woman: Have any of these diamond shapes gone out?
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(Laughter)
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Voiceover: New Diamond Shreddies cereal.
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Same 100 percent whole-grain wheat in a delicious diamond shape.
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(Applause)
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Rory Sutherland: I'm not sure this isn't the most perfect example
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of intangible value creation. All it requires is
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photons, neurons, and a great idea to create this thing.
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I would say it's a work of genius.
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But, naturally, you can't do this kind of thing without a little bit of market research.
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Man: So, Shreddies is actually producing a new product,
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which is something very exciting for them.
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So they are introducing new Diamond Shreddies.
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(Laughter)
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So I just want to get your first impressions when you see that,
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when you see the Diamond Shreddies box there.
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(Laughter)
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Woman: Weren't they square?
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Woman #2: I'm a little bit confused. Woman #3: They look like the squares to me.
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Man: They -- Yeah, it's all in the appearance.
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But it's kind of like flipping a six or a nine. Like a six,
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if you flip it over it looks like a nine.
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But a six is very different from a nine.
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Woman # 3: Or an "M" and a "W". Man: An "M" and a "W", exactly.
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Man #2: [unclear]
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You just looked like you turned it on its end. But when you see it like that
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it's more interesting looking.
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Man: Just try both of them.
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Take a square one there, first.
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(Laughter)
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Man: Which one did you prefer? Man #2: The first one.
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Man: The first one?
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(Laughter)
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Rory Sutherland: Now, naturally, a debate raged.
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There were conservative elements in Canada, unsurprisingly,
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who actually resented this intrusion.
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So, eventually, the manufacturers actually
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arrived at a compromise, which was the combo pack.
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(Laughter)
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(Applause)
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(Laughter)
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If you think it's funny, bear in mind there is an organization called
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the American Institute of Wine Economics,
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which actually does extensive research into perception of things,
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and discovers that except for among
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perhaps five or ten percent of the most knowledgeable people,
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there is no correlation between quality and enjoyment
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in wine,
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except when you tell the people how expensive it is,
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in which case they tend to enjoy the more expensive stuff more.
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So drink your wine blind in the future.
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But this is both hysterically funny --
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but I think an important philosophical point,
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which is, going forward, we need more of this kind of value.
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We need to spend more time appreciating what already exists,
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and less time agonizing over what else we can do.
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Two quotations to more or less end with.
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One of them is, "Poetry is when you make new things
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familiar and familiar things new."
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Which isn't a bad definition of what our job is,
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to help people appreciate what is unfamiliar, but also
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to gain a greater appreciation, and place a far higher value on
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those things which are already existing.
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There is some evidence, by the way, that things like social networking help do that.
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Because they help people share news.
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They give badge value to everyday little trivial activities.
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So they actually reduce the need for actually spending great money on display,
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and increase the kind of third-party
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enjoyment you can get from the smallest, simplest things in life. Which is magic.
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The second one is the second G.K. Chesterton quote of this session,
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which is, "We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders,"
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which I think for anybody involved in technology, is perfectly true.
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And a final thing: When you place a value on things like health,
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love, sex and other things,
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and learn to place a material value
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on what you've previously discounted
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for being merely intangible, a thing not seen,
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you realize you're much, much wealthier than you ever imagined.
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Thank you very much indeed.
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(Applause)
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