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11:08 And, you know, there's a kind of logical fallacy that we all have where we expect the future to be an extension of the present. Like, people in the 1980s thought that the Soviet Union would still be around today. But the future is going to be much weirder than we could possibly dream of. But we can try. And I know that there are going to be scary, scary things, but there's also going to be..

10:38 So finally: basically, I'm here to tell you, people talk about the future as though it's either going to be a technological wonderland or some kind of apocalyptic poop barbecue. 10:51 (Laughter) 10:52 But the truth is, it's not going to be either of those things. It's going to be in the middle. It's going to be both. It's going to be everything. The one thing we do know is that the future ..

03:55 And speaking of traffic jams, I spent a lot of time trying to picture the city of the future. What's it like? What's it made of? Who's it for? I try to picture a green city with vertical farms and structures that are partially grown rather than built and walkways instead of streets, because nobody gets around by car anymore -- a city that lives and breathes. And, you know, I kind of start ..

01:59 So as a science fiction writer whose stories often take place years or even centuries from now, I've found that people are really hungry for visions of the future that are both colorful and lived in, but I found that research on its own is not enough to get me there. Instead, I use a mixture of active dreaming and awareness of cutting-edge trends in science and technology and also insight ..

And one day, one Saturday afternoon while I was at the radio station, a guy named Rock was drinking while he was on the air. I was the only one there, looking at him through the control room windows, walking back and forth, young, ready and hungry. I was saying, "Drink Rock, drink. Drink rock", I had to go and get him some more if he’d asked me to. Pretty soon the phone rang and it was the gener..

I came back the next day: "Hello Mr. Butterball, how are you?" He said, "Fine. What do you want now?" I said, "I’d like to know whether or not you got any job, sir?" "Didn’t I tell you the last two days we didn’t have any jobs." I said, "Yes sir, but I don’t know whether or not somebody got sick or somebody died, sir." He said, "No one got sick or died. Don’t come back here" and threw me out aga..

07:21 I got my first smartphone in 2007. You know, the iPhone had just come out, and I wanted a phone that was cool and hip. I got a BlackBerry. 07:30 (Laughter) 07:31 I was excited, though, you know, my first thought was, "I get my emails wherever I am." And 24 hours later, I was like, "I get my emails wherever I am." 07:40 (Laughter) 07:42 I mean, battling ruminations was hard enough when they..

06:14 That's what made me realize that I still loved my work. But ruminating was destroying that love and it was destroying my personal life, too. So I read every study I could find, and I went to war against my ruminations. Now, habit change is hard. It took real diligence to catch myself ruminating each time, and real consistency to make the new habits stick. But eventually, they did. I won my..