- I'm Philip Rosedale and my new company is called Coffee & Power. So Coffee & Power is an attempt to use technology in the area of work to enable people to
work together in new ways. I became convinced that there were going to be enormous changes coming
in the way we work together. And that the idea of assigning a bunch of people who work for you salaries and telling them to go off and build a new software project was becoming increasingly antiquated. And so what we're trying
to do with Coffee & Power is change the way work, works. We're trying to create a network and a tool set for mobile work. We believe that increasingly people are gonna work away from offices. They're gonna work on contracts
instead of on salaries. They're gonna work with each other in a much more ad hoc digital
way than the did before and we're trying to build
a website, and iPhone, and Android apps that enable
people to do that effectively. So imagine an app that was just for work that would let you look at a city and see where people with
different skills worked. So say you're an entrepreneur and you need a web
designer, imagine being able to look at a map of a city and literally see that in this coffee shop in this coworking space are the
following five or 10 people. They were there yesterday and so they'll probably be here today. My message to kids today would be to realize that many of those subjects that you learned growing up
or that you've just learned in college that you think
of as kind of boring and they don't matter very
much, they matter a lot now. Because as we increasingly
have the ability to change all of the world around us all of these disparate subjects philosophy, psychology, architecture those subjects are gonna matter more and more in a world that we now have
the power to change so much. For example, looking back on history and seeing where the mistakes were made. It is a human tendency to believe that it's all been done, and it hasn't. In fact we're in a period now where the rate at which technology is changing the world
around us is accelerating. And so the possible space of new ideas is growing not shrinking. We as human beings are
falling behind in the race with technology to
exploit new possibilities. You know I think as technology
gets more and more human as the internet and
computing affects our lives in more and more mainstream ways it creates an opportunity for kids, for students to turn almost any rich, interesting, education path into some impact on products
in the rest of the world.