Gadgetory

for our society to keep moving forward we have a generational challenge to not only create new jobs but create a renewed sense of purpose and today I want to talk about three ways that we can create a world where everyone has a sense of purpose by taking on big meaningful projects together by redefining equality so everyone has the freedom to pursue their purpose and by building community all across the world so first let's take on big meaningful projects our generation is going to have to deal with tens of millions of jobs replaced by automation like self-driving cars and trucks but we have the potential to do so much more than that every generation has its defining works more than 300,000 people work to put that man on the moon including that janitor millions of volunteers immunize children around the world against polio and millions of more people built the Hoover Dam and other great projects and now it's our generations turn to do great things now I know maybe you're thinking I don't know how to build a dam I don't know how to get a million people involved in anything well let me tell you a secret no one does when they begin ideas don't come out fully formed they only become clear as you work on them you just have to get started if I had to know everything about connecting people before I got started I never would have built Facebook anyone working on a big vision is going to get called crazy even if you end up right the reality is anything we do today is going to have some issues in the future but that can't stop us from getting started so what are we waiting for it is time for our generation defining great works how about stopping climate change before we destroy the planet and getting millions of people involved Manufacturing and installing solar panels how about curing all diseases and getting people involved by asking volunteers to share their health data track their health data and share their genomes you know today our society spends more than 50 times as much treating people were sick as we invest in finding cures so people get sick in the first place it makes no sense we can fix this how about modernizing democracy so everyone can vote online and how about personalizing education so everyone can learn these achievements are all within our reach let's do them all in a way that gives everyone in our society a role let's do big things not just to create progress but to create purpose