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Speaker 1: I'm Laurie Siegel, and I spent the last decade reporting

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Speaker 1: on technology, introducing the world to companies like Instagram and

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Speaker 1: Uber when they were just a handful of people and

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Speaker 1: an idea. I had a front row seat to history,

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Speaker 1: interviewing founders like Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey as their

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Speaker 1: companies changed the world. Now I want to show you

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Speaker 1: my Silicon Valley. First contact will give you what I

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Speaker 1: like to call dinner table access to tech leaders, how

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Speaker 1: I see them behind the scenes. Human It didn't look

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Speaker 1: like the reboot was going to work in the beginning.

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Speaker 1: It was really hard. I mean really dark times, like

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Speaker 1: really depressed. At certain points, you have all these people

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Speaker 1: who are looking to you to be optimistic. What did

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Speaker 1: you do during that time to take care of yourself.

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Speaker 1: I don't have social media, period, and I don't have

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Speaker 1: slacker email on my phone. I didn't like free myself

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Speaker 1: from addiction from drugs nougal just to be like a

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Speaker 1: slave to my phone. We'll have nuanced and sometimes emotional

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Speaker 1: conversations about us, humans and technology. We designed screens that

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Speaker 1: shine blue light straight into the human and that has

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Speaker 1: a real effect because we all feel more easily disconnected

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Speaker 1: and lonely. We get stuck scrolling for long periods of time.

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Speaker 1: We have to look at ourselves as human beings and say,

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Speaker 1: how do we work? And we'll tackle ethical issues of

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Speaker 1: the future, because, let's be honest, things got complicated quickly.

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Speaker 1: Had this moment where you thought, if I unleashed us

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Speaker 1: to the world, couldn't do harm. And we had this

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Speaker 1: like very big debate with ourselves and it's not public

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Speaker 1: yet because we were scared to put it out there.

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Speaker 1: From engineers coding bots to serve the dating apps to

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Speaker 1: intimate conversations with tech leaders. Yes, I could have sucked

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Speaker 1: it up, but it also is not my DNA to

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Speaker 1: phone it in. You walked out the door and left

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Speaker 1: fifty million dollars on the table. Right a little bit more,

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Speaker 1: she's pausing for effect. I'm trying to think of my

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Speaker 1: head like it must have been hard, But how much

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Speaker 1: money do you need? Money? And wealth does not buy immortality.

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Speaker 1: It for me, time is actually more of an essence.

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Speaker 1: How can I contribute to this world while I'm still

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Speaker 1: on it? First contact will bring you rare access to

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Speaker 1: the billionaires and also the people on the fringes, the

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Speaker 1: ones that you may call weird, but I called the future.

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Speaker 1: I think everything is possible with technology, but it's not

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Speaker 1: possible to build our loved ones back. Can you talk

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Speaker 1: about his death? Is kind of what helped make a

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Speaker 1: lot of people feel us alone with some of the

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Speaker 1: technology that you built off of it, is that there's

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Speaker 1: anything I'm trying to broadcast to our users through this

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Speaker 1: medium of AI conversation is that if you can do anything,

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Speaker 1: just go out there to the ones that means something

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Speaker 1: for you and tell them how much you love them,

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Speaker 1: like every single day, because nothing else really matters. First

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Speaker 1: Contact with Lori Siegel premieres on Monday, December two on

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