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happy holidays YouTube I am John Rhett injure and I wanted to call attention to the fact that we live in an absolutely magical time a time of wizardry and a time of magical superpowers that are given to us by the tiny computers in our pockets does you look at a lot of YouTube comment threads you looked at a lot of Twitter feeds that are filled with negativity there's a lot of positive things that are happening a lot of cool things that your phones can do and in a fit of insomnia at about 3:30 in the morning a few weeks ago I put out a tweet saying what part of technology is most wonderful magic to you and the responses that I got really personal and awesome so thought I would kind of share some of those stories share some of my own antidotes about hacking technology has been magical to me and maybe just maybe create a positive video on YouTube with positive comments ranging in size from small units nor divisional level to large-scale systems for IBM theater level if we were around 50 years ago 60 years ago ask your grandparents or great-grandparents all of this tech would have seen like a science fiction dream and now we've got it in our pockets if you look at this giant stack of code that's the stack of code that got man to the moon now we've got that power times I'm just gonna say 200 million sitting in your pocket for under 300 bucks it is incredible what phones and technology in general can do I was out to dinner for example for my brother-in-law's 40th birthday and his wife's sisters on the other side of the world were able to FaceTime her and see her and see her children at the dinner table that is a personal connection with technology whether you use FaceTime or duo whatsapp or Skype whatever app you use the fact that you can see people wherever they are in the world is absolutely incredible to me and it wasn't that long ago when cell phones first started existing you have certain plans where you could call your region and then you had a certain amount of minutes for outside of your region now you can call anyone anywhere in the world it was incredible technology has opened up communication with the world and I personally am incredibly thankful for that so if you wanted to play a song couple years ago you had a go buy a CD you had to try to download it maybe go a tape or a record the fact that you can use your voice and call up any song you can think of within presumably like 10 seconds is a freaking miracle something with movies you could say play a movie and it is going to show up you don't have to go rent a movie you not to go to a blockbuster or a Hollywood Video or pay for it you could sling it to your TV using only your voice that and that really does kind of seem like a little bit of like magic take your phone the fact you have access to all the information in the world that alone would be incredible but the fact that your phone can unlock securely using just your face is an extra layer of Awesomeness on top of the already like awesome layer cake of of Technology all of you guys are pixel users but if you tried nitesite you can go and see nothing with your eyes you can take a picture and you can see detail in that shot that technology is awesome you have real-time translation using your voice in translating your voice you can hold your phone over a different language you can see the words in your own home language driverless technology is also a crazy thing I got to go to weigh Mo's campus and drive in one of their fully autonomous cars they it's kind of bummer they won't let me film it but this car legit drove itself that a person touching the steering wheel they put a destination and the car went and if there's ever been a time where I felt like I was living in the future it was sitting in the backseat of a car that was moving and computing itself and seeing what the car could see through a computer screen was absolutely awesome I think the point that I wanted to make here is not just YouTube comments and not just online comments but to appreciate the time that we live in you might be Android you might be iOS it doesn't matter you've got a browser on your phone through that browser you can access the world's information you can know facts at a moment's notice you can answer trivia questions at a moment's notice you can know who the Lakers all-time leading scorer was by just using your voice you can find out how to donate to fire relief you could pay with your phone all of these things can happen so quickly and I sort of it hit me at 3:00 in the morning at that sleep that we live in a really wonderful time and a lot of videos on tech and focus on positive and negative mind included because we no need to review stuff but just to sit back and appreciate the magic technology I thought it was a cool opportunity to do it especially with the holidays so if there's some aspect of technology that you think is magic let us know in the comments let's try to make like a happy comment thread on YouTube that would be like my Christmas gift in my holiday miracle if we could have a happy threat people helping each other people sharing stories without sort of the negativity usually associated with YouTube comments so kind of a unreligious silly video but something that I wanted to share I'm feeling really lucky to be alive this time and I thought maybe you guys might need it a little bit of luck maybe help you feel better if you're feeling down hope you guys enjoyed until next time I'm John render