Yeah, in real time.

Mm-hmm.

That creates an additional problem, because now do I just go into the story, or do I say, "But, by the way, if you want to ask me questions, you go to this website."?

Yes.

Today, I’m Taiwan’s first Digital Minister. I am putting into practice the same ideas that I was taught in 1996 by the internet community, and so far, it’s transforming our society.

It’s fine up to the last sentence. "Right now, it seems to be working," seems to be lukewarm. I would either be more cautious or even more energetic, but not in the middle.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

No, it’s good, it’s good. What else could I improve?

Joe. That’s my opinion. It’s not necessarily what you should do...

That’s great.

I think it’s pretty convincing to me, but maybe not to half of the audience.

All the Internet protocols, everything that you can see today was invented by those free-willing people who doesn’t get to wield or command on each other. Does that work?

Not really on my own, but with a loving community of free software hackers, and that shaped my education, and that’s how I become an optimist. Because, you see, in the early Internet, people had this crazy idea of running the Internet as anarchistic political system, where nobody get to ...

In Taiwan, we suffered for 30 years of martial rule, of martial law, of dictatorship, but democracy was at hunt, and with democracy also this fine thing called the World Wide Web. I was able to finish my education pretty much on my own.

I’m an optimist. I’ve always been an optimist ever since I dropped out of junior high school, when I was 15. That was 1996. We just had our first presidential election.

OK.

OK.

I’m erasing it now.

Yes.

Hi, I’m Audrey. I’m in Taiwan now. We’re eight hours literally in the future, and we’re...

That sounds great.

How about this, or do I just...if I do something myself.

Let’s combine those. Hi, everyone, I’m from the future. In Taiwan, we’re literally eight hours in the future, but we’re also experimenting with the future form of Democracy, and let me tell you I’m pretty optimistic about it. It’s working pretty well.

OK. Let’s do this.

Yeah.

Greetings from the future. I am literally from the future. I’m now eight hours in the future. In Taiwan...No, that’s not a very good start. Let’s start again.

OK. I’m placing...

Yes.

Mm-hmm.

OK.

Yeah, sure. Of course.

It sounds great.

OK. That’s great.

OK.

OK.

Does that work?

Try consoling using this cheese sandwich, or congratulating. Experiment with as many different ways as you can.

Take an emotional state, and build a whole conversation around the phrase "cheese sandwich." Imagine you’ve just seen the most exciting thing. You want to share that experience with a friend, but you can only use the words cheese sandwich to convey your feelings and no others.

OK.

Mm-hmm.

OK.

OK.

OK. That’s great actually.

OK.

Yes.

In Taiwan, if you’re a political minister in the cabinet, we’re trained to do the opposite with all the verbal acting thing is what the MPs do. There’s a very clear, if you see a parliamentary inquiry, you see one side using all their vocal modulation and the other side ...

The verbal mush thing. I actually look at my transcript and saw a lot of "actually" because that’s a verbatim transcript from my recording. The stenographers type what they heard. I took them all out. I think it’s really helpful. I had maybe seven "actuallys" so that’s the thing. I ...

They’re super helpful by the way. The ones that I did receive.

No, that’s correct.