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I'm passionate about

The interface between creativity and technology
Changing the world one microaction at a time
Healthy open dialogue about sex

An idea worth spreading

Facebook = social graph. Twitter = interest graph. IfWeRanTheWorld = action graph.

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Microactions
Martinis
MakeLoveNotPorn

People don't know that I'm good at

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I come to TED for the content, the inspiration, and the free food (especially the Vosges Chocolate Bar).

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• A reply on Conversation: What do you think each and every one of us can do to counter the impact and influence of porn as default sex education, everywhere?

  Dec 7 2011: I am. Check it out in spring of 2012 and see what you think. :)
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  A reply on Conversation: What do you think each and every one of us can do to counter the impact and influence of porn as default sex education, everywhere?

  Dec 7 2011: Actually, porn is like any other industry sector that I study as a business consultant - it's gotten so big it's gotten conventional; the industry is tanking because its business model has been destroyed by the advent of free porn online; the entire industry is engaging in 'collaborative competition', ie competing with everyone else by doing the same thing everyone else is doing. Sound like music/broadcasting/publishing/advertising/any other industry you can name? So creativity and innovation becomes how many holes can you stick how many things into simultaneously in more and more extreme circumstances, vs true visionary creativity and innovation. That's why I'm setting out to disrupt porn with http://makelovenotporn.tv. I would like to be the Steve Jobs/Apple of porn :)
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  A reply on Conversation: What do you think each and every one of us can do to counter the impact and influence of porn as default sex education, everywhere?

  Dec 7 2011: Philippe - because the lives we live openly don't involve Tom Cruise running down our street or getting caught up in car chases. The sex we have behind closed doors and never talk about in public is never openly displayed in the same way as the real world option vs the fantasy world of porn.

• A reply on Conversation: What do you think each and every one of us can do to counter the impact and influence of porn as default sex education, everywhere?

  Dec 7 2011: Paul - absolutely.

• A reply on Conversation: What do you think each and every one of us can do to counter the impact and influence of porn as default sex education, everywhere?

  Dec 7 2011: Exactly.
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  A reply on Conversation: What do you think each and every one of us can do to counter the impact and influence of porn as default sex education, everywhere?

  Dec 7 2011: Then that's fantastic :) Totally concur - I am regularly critiqued for http://makelovenotporn.com's message essentially being 'some people like this, some people don't' - to which I have to point out that even a message that simple needs to be conveyed. That's why essentially what I am trying to say with MakeLoveNotPorn boils down simply to 'Talk about it' - because a lot of people don't. (The emails on the 'About' page of the site will give you a sense of what can happen when they don't.)

• A reply on Conversation: What do you think each and every one of us can do to counter the impact and influence of porn as default sex education, everywhere?

  Dec 7 2011: Sean - agree, and I think you'll like what http://makelovenotporn.tv is setting out to do when it launches spring of next year...

• A reply on Conversation: What do you think each and every one of us can do to counter the impact and influence of porn as default sex education, everywhere?

  Dec 7 2011: Karen, yes - MakeLoveNotPorn is absolutely a gender-equal proposition - it cuts both ways.

• A reply on Conversation: What do you think each and every one of us can do to counter the impact and influence of porn as default sex education, everywhere?

  Dec 7 2011: Lindsay - absolutely. Please do read my short TED e-book Make Love Not Porn: Technology's Hardcore Impact on Human Behavior which I think you and your fellow parents may find helpful: http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/make-love-not-porn/id452296228?mt=11 And do also suggest that at the appropriate age, some parents may like to direct their kids to http://makelovenotporn.com - I get many emails from parents who appreciate something they can send their kids to without needing to have the full conversation themselves.

• A reply on Conversation: What do you think each and every one of us can do to counter the impact and influence of porn as default sex education, everywhere?

  Dec 7 2011: Samuel - I am fully aware of KhanAcademy, and I think you will very much like what http://makelovenotporn.tv is going to be all about :)