They've built such an adorable cottage. Directoine.

East, West. Points of the compass, each as stupid as the other.

I'll explain what that means. We're looking at three trends.

And this student, probably the first time using it, but she can articulate it many different ways.

I try to balance my life equally between physics, love and surfing my own three charge directions.

The world has lost hope that one day this information will be known.

But I think that the greater good is being served here by just allowing people there are very few places, now, where you can go and not have identity, to be completely anonymous and say whatever you'd like.

There's many, many, many more than what I've drawn, but that's indicative, and they'll all be going in random directions this one might be going really fast in that direction, and that one might be going a little bit slower in that direction.

I'd like to talk about a way of thinking about technology trends that I call my grand unified theory of predicting the future, but it's closer to a petite unified theory of predicting the future.

And actually, about a year or so ago, there was this promulgation of the idea of Google Flu Trends, with respect to the flu, where by looking at people's searching behavior today, we could know where the flu what the status of the epidemic was today, what's the prevalence of the epidemic today.

Yeah, well, see, although, you know, my breasts are beautiful and firm... ...they do often have a mind of their own and they can go off in different directions... ...without adult supervision.

But I think that the greater good is being served here by just allowing people there are very few places, now, where you can go and not have identity, to be completely anonymous and say whatever you'd like.

So what I'm going to try to do in the next 17 and a half minutes is I'm going to talk first about the flames where we are in the economy and then I'm going to take three trends that have taken place at TED over the last 25 years and that will take place in this conference and I will try and bring them together.