Apple’s new Vision Pro that released at the beginning of 2024 is a small step in that direction. Tech has a limit right now, but think about how far we’ve come from the first iPhone in 2007, to the the top of the line iPhones and Androids we have today and so on.
Utopianists like Weyland never seem to factor greed and stupidity into their visions. On the one end of the spectrum: genetic engineering, cybernetics, global telecommunication. On the other end, sentient life forms that can be technically classified as homo sapiens believing the world is flat, that women are inferior because of a book, and being offended that I referred to them as "Homo". One of these has to go. It's not canceling a culture. It's curing a disease. And ending once for all the idea that a man's ignorance is as valid as another man's intelligence. And that work is only recognizable in paper that folds or bits of metal that jingle.
@@stuartfury3390 It's not clever it's simple and if you think people will not get it actually means it took a moment for YOU to comprehend it. Fictional TED Talk was made 3 months into the year of our Lord this year 2023
Great actor.... horribly forced scene! It feels like someone's impression of what an apple conference was like but wasnt invited and mixed it with the opening of angels and demons... and still thinks its cool :S
@@ChrisGWGreen when bezos came back from space, the first thing he talked about wasn’t about pushing mankind in a effort to help the spinning globe he saw before him. It was about building factory’s in space to help with production. I’d say that this “forced scene” isn’t that far away at all.
@@arandall3912 Bezos seems like a greedy MOFO by saying that. However, greed is what motivated Christopher Columbus. He was motivated by his own personal greed of finding a westward passage into China and India, at the time the Ottomans had the monopoly of trade. Building factories in space is a step, there are asteroids that are mineral rich, and the only way of finding them is exploration.
Best ted talk ever. I would vote for him if he ran for president. I would probably let him sex my wife too. Weyland and shaw were wasted and cut short what a potential drop if you ask me. Also so many perople assume the engineers as a collective decided to create humanity but as we have seen from david's solo antics maybe the engineer that created the humans decided to go solo and used the black goo to create life whereas the rest of his kind only wanted to use it as a weapon. Hence why they are so intent at wiping out humans becuae we were an unautorised creation that threatens their galactic dominance. It also explains why the engineer used his own body as the seed because he was porbably due for a death sentence anyway for his actions.
This is underrated and we need more Guy Pearce to do a Weyland Movie or television series. The company had decades worth of knowledge on the xenomorphs according to the comics. Weyland knew a lot.
@@jemzstones3045 Not only that, Ai in general is running rampant and evolving at an exponential rate. We also have autonomous cars, electric cars and flying cars.
He believes gods are real and he belives he deserves his place among them, from his point of view he and his company gave humanity many gifts and he compares himself to gods for that.
I'm really disappointed by the speed humans are evolving. I really wish there's a Weyland-Yutani corporation in real life that focuses on rapid interstellar colonization, advanced dna sequencing studies, evolution of the human species. Hell I would even agree Making most of the humans as slaves, including me working at different planets serving the corporation at the expense of humans becoming multi planetary .
Elon Musk is the only billionaire that is helping the humankind to evolve by converting 70% of cars to electric, promoting solar and how can we ever thank him for creating the fully reusable space launch system which is the first step of humans becoming a space flared civilization. I would lick his boots my entire life if he makes sure to build a moon based and ultimately large scale mega factories on the moon along with his friend bezos, manufacturing large spaceships and enabling solar system exploration. Bringing mass from earth to outside is too costly to escape the terminal velocity. Better in the future we use Moon and Mars as the main stations for all kinds of activities and building ultra large vehicles for deep space exploration with cryo pods equipped with synthetic robots helping humans travel for thousands of years inside space.
Fuck the Europa Clipper which aims to scan for life inside the icy crust of Saturn's moon Europa launched some days back, and it will reach Europa and sends first pictures no early than 2031 ??? 😢 And it just goes there to observe from space. Imagine if we want to send a landing mission that drills the core and collects samples and return back ??? That type of technology may come after we and our kids are long dead. So sad we're born early to explore space. Anyone able to relate to me ? Pls share your thots.
Always wondered what a Peter Weyland rise to power movie would be like. I like Aliens but the horror angle becomes limited over time, which is why I like Prometheus for what it was trying to do as a more science adventure movie. But this Ted Talk makes me want a Gordon Gekko-esk type off shoot of a businessman gone scientist with a god complex. You could even cross over some Bladerunner elements as his competition, but it could be an interesting spinoff prequel.
Guy Pierce is incredible in this. I would have preferred Prometheus was just about a Young Peter Weyland venturing out to colonize his first planet....then he finds an egg chamber....maybe some Engineer Tech......and then the Damon Lindeloff twist.... he finds the crashed remains of the Prometheus???? Oh MY GOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!
Yup he made a bad desition. He asked a genetically modified solider existential questions without knowing that they were in that desolated planet to investigate and maybe destroy humanity xD
Exactly why he had to be destroyed. The Annunaki perfectly understand that immortality is a gift from the creator for a life of service. Not a grand prize to be fought over by the richest and most intellectual. Weyland is everything the Annuanki hate about humanity, all ego without an ounce of regard for their creator. Many humans arent even aware of the gift of eternal life due to their lack of understanding and faith. They can look at a car or house and easily discern that someone made it however when looking at themselves they fail to see the divine beauty and genius in their own bodies and minds. Just a couple reasons why the Annunaki are so utterly disgusted by humanity. The name of the ship in Prometheus was LV223. Go look up Leviticus 22 verse 3 and you should see the correlation. The Annunaki are a holy race of Aliens, in my opinion.
@@nostarswithoutdarknessFun fact: the engineers race is called 'Malak'kak' it is almost similar to angel/messenger in hebrew. I hope the next movie 'Aliens: Paradise' will explore more on the "holy" symbolisms because Covenant was utterly disappointing. It has so much potential.
Always makes me chuckle, even in films like this set from this point a mere 11 years ahead of it's release (2012) to March of 2023 for this scene. So ambitious in regards to technological marvels that are only possible in Hollywood. In 2030, while we'll have astounding advancements no doubt. By and large...our world, the way we do things, the devices and way in which we lead our lives.....all will have little difference than it does today, as it did in 2014, and as it did in 2004. We're at a slowing period of sorts in terms of how technology has changed how we live our everyday lives.
2023 boys, here we go! Love these little remembrances. Like when the Blade Runner movie took place in LA 2019 and Back to the Future took place January 22nd, 2023.
T.E. Lawrence, eponymously of Arabia, but very much an Englishman, favored pinching a burning match between his fingers to put it out. When asked by his colleague, William Potter, to reveal his trick -- how is it he so effectively extinguished the flame without hurting himself whatsoever -- Lawrence just smiled and said, "The trick, Potter, is not minding it hurts." The fire that danced at the end of that match was a gift from the Titan, Prometheus, a gift that he stole from the gods, who were terrified of what we might do with it were it to fall into our hairy little paws. When Prometheus was caught and brought to justice for his theft, the gods, well, you might say they overreacted a little. The poor man was tied to a rock as an eagle ripped through his belly and ate his liver over and over, day after day, ad infinitum. All because he gave us fire, our first true piece of technology. Fire. Such a very long time ago. Which begs the question: What have we done with? 100,000, BC: Stone tools. 4,000, BC: The wheel. 800, BC: Sundial. 9th century, AD: Gunpowder. Bit of a game-changer, that one. 1441: The printing press -- only slightly less impactful. 19th century: Steam engine. Railway. Eureka! The light bulb!! 20th century: The automobile, television, nuclear weapons, spacecrafts, Internet. 21st century: Biotech, nanotech, fusion and fission, and M-theory -- and that was just the first decade. We are now three months into the year of our Lord, 2023. At this moment in our civilization, we are on the verge of terraforming planets undiscovered just a decade ago. We have identified the genetic chain of events behind 98% of cancers -- a chain we have broken, effectively curing them. We can create cybernetic individuals who, in just a few short years, will be completely indistinguishable from us. Which leads to an obvious conclusion: We are the gods now. I haven't been struck down. I take that to mean I'm right. We wield incredible power -- the power to transform, to destroy and to create again. The question, of course, before us is, "What the hell are we supposed to do with this power?" Or, more importantly, one should ask, "What are we allowed to do with this power? The answer to that, my friends, is nothing. Rules, restrictions, laws, ethical guidelines -- all but forbidding us from moving forwards. Well, where were the ethics during the Arabian conflicts? Why are rules preventing us from feeding impoverished cultures? How is there a law which states, "If we build a man from wires and metal -- a man who will never grow old, a man who will never feel the heat of a star or the cold of the moon -- how is the creation of such an incredible individual considered unnatural?" The answer to all these questions is simple: These rules exist because the people who created them were afraid of what would happen if they didn't. Well I am not afraid! For those of you who know me, you will be aware by now that my ambition is unlimited. You know that I will settle for nothing short of greatness, or I will die trying. For those of you who do not yet know me, allow me to introduce myself: My name is Peter Weyland. And if you’ll indulge me, I’d like to change the world.
It's not like it will be nice to witness, if you have watched the movie alien covenant, it's a programming of what is coming in a short yrs. Humanity is fucked!
we are now in the third month of the year 2023 and still we are at war with each other on the brink of exhausting our resources a viral outbreak that pushed the civilization back decades the laws which prevent the growth
Why they never used this as an intro to Prometheus is beyond me. Perfectly encapsulates the themes of the film and would have been contrasted nicely with views of the protagonist
It's bizarre how much of these two movies got squirreled away in the corners of the internet. I wonder if they would have done better with audiences if more of this worldbuilding / character building material had been in the movies instead of hidden on TH-cam
"All this. All these wonders of arts, design, human ingenuity, all utterly meaningless in the face of the only question that matters. Where do we come from?"
Late Stage Capitalism, greed prevents cures from being made, as keeping people unhealthy is more profitable. Also, modern science has become less about finding the truth as it is about manipulating data to support agendas.
The progress has slowed largely because many fields were considered obsolete while others simply reached the full potential they can with existing knowledge, and some because of greed for a class that built themselves from the dirt to be kings and now seek to extract everything they can from those further down the ladder. For the first look no further than the sudden interest in hypersonic flight, something considered a novelty from Cold War paranoia, unnecessary and impractical for pursuit, now suddenly it's made a return with Russia and China claiming to have achieved such weapons after decades of dormancy, you could also include lasers and space travel. For the second consider things like battery technology, we have reached the capacity for what Lithium batteries are capable of, and now people across the world are scrambling to the tune of billions in research to reach the next break through in energy storage that continues to elude them. The last point, that's specifically aimed at Microsoft a company that became the richest in the world selling its wares that simply can't hope to survive with letting you own it and now you merely get to rent it, the subscription model as a whole is a cancerous tumor on human ingenuity. Still, though some developments are beyond incredible, reusable booster engines for space craft may seem mundane but that could revolutionize space travel, allowing more less costly trips. While AI is currently a bit of an overblown meme, the benefits to fields like research are beyond imagination, even a rudimentary system developed at a university to assist in reactor designs for nuclear powerplants took a process requiring the tireless work of a committee two months to produce a single model and let them finalize the design for review in two days.
I am a Law only for my kind, I am not a law for all ! - Peter Wayland 2023 quoting the scientific society and the Nieztche. The only Ted talk from a future that is truely ahead of our lords time yet so near.
so what is what he said? "I am a Law only for my kind, i am not a law for all!" ? And you state he was quoting the scientific society? which one? and Nietzsche? I am leaving you this message at approximately 3:21pm 2022-12-30 Toronto Canada time... to me they used the 'year of our Lord' with the tie in to 'gods' and what the serpent/Devil in the garden the father of lies told Eve about how they would be as gods if they ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
I have NO FUUuuuUuuUuuuUuCking idea why they removed this scene from the main film. It’s almost imperative they kept this sequence. Good movie all the same and so was Prometheus .
@@RemnantDiscipleLazzaro-Rev1217 I think it was included in the extras or DVD set somehow. It wasn't in the version I saw at the cinema when it first released though.
How cool would it have been if we'd seen this at the beginning of the film, instead of a scene of a buff alien disintegrating into a waterfall? Imagine the shock of seeing the Engineers for the first time, or seeing old man Weyland show up when we'd seen him young?? Instead in the theater we were like "Why's Guy Pearce in old man make-up?"
When I first watched Prometheus, I didn't understand why a young actor was aged using makeup effects. Why not go straight to an old actor? After seeing this TED talk on the Bluray, I knew why. It definitely should have been included at the beginning of the film.
@@venominjected oh so you mean now you comprehend the reason why they made him look older in Prometheus is because in this connected part, he's younger, ok, thanks for the clarification.
It's a Nieztche quote, "I am a law only for my kind. I am not a law for all." Basically, Weyland sees himself as the Ubermensch, the pinnacle of humanity.
@@evm6177 I listen... I like deep philosophical statements..it rouses my soul... all I heard he said was the words " law n kind ".. thanks for that nietsze quote..
This speech is one great dynamite. Dynamite that later led to the famous Nobel Prize. The past century has been a warm-up that, like a speeding steam engine, once struck people two centuries ago. The fact that the speech echoes the cult form of Ted ex talks makes it remarkable. Regards, curious world.
Prometheus did well actually (B.O. of $403 mil against a budget of $125 mil) but Covenant was shaky though not a loss (B.O of $241 mil against a budget of $111 mil)
We need some more information on the Weyland family, Charles Weyland, Peter Weyland, and the history of Weyland-Yutani Corporation as a whole!!! Perhaps in AVP3?
@@R3dTr0 Yeah, there are many characters with the name "Bishop" in the Weyland family. There's Charles Bishop Weyland, Peter Weyland's undisclosed middle name is probably also Bishop, then there's Michael Bishop Weyland, and Karl Bishop Weyland.
@@Xenosaurian isn't Vickers technically a Weyland as well ? What's the story behind her ? It seems as if she was kept in the dark like some unwanted bastard child 🧐🤔
@@R3dTr0 Yep, assuming she is part of the bloodline and not just an android as was hinted at. She's definitely a mysterious one. But yeah, she's a Weyland.
"We are now three months into the Year of Our Lord, 2023..."
Yes, here we are.
The singularity is just around the corner.
@@Infiny92Yes
2023 seemed so futuristic back en 2012...but here we are....and we are no even close of Weyland's accomplishments..
well, we have chatgpt
Apple’s new Vision Pro that released at the beginning of 2024 is a small step in that direction. Tech has a limit right now, but think about how far we’ve come from the first iPhone in 2007, to the the top of the line iPhones and Androids we have today and so on.
Language models are few shot learners
Utopianists like Weyland never seem to factor greed and stupidity into their visions.
On the one end of the spectrum: genetic engineering, cybernetics, global telecommunication.
On the other end, sentient life forms that can be technically classified as homo sapiens believing the world is flat, that women are inferior because of a book, and being offended that I referred to them as "Homo".
One of these has to go.
It's not canceling a culture.
It's curing a disease.
And ending once for all the idea that a man's ignorance is as valid as another man's intelligence.
And that work is only recognizable in paper that folds or bits of metal that jingle.
IDK! Perhaps our current direction would be Skynet.
Such an amazing speech Peter gave today. Really inspiring.
Too bad he isn't real otherwise I probably wouldnt even be on this planet right now
@@ayinfrazier3682 the laws made to stop us
Thank you for your very clever reply which no one else will probably understand. I salute you
@@stuartfury3390 It's not clever it's simple and if you think people will not get it actually means it took a moment for YOU to comprehend it. Fictional TED Talk was made 3 months into the year of our Lord this year 2023
Yes brilliant 👏👏👏👏
Wish I saw more of Guy Pearce as Peter Weyland, such a marvelous actor
Great actor.... horribly forced scene! It feels like someone's impression of what an apple conference was like but wasnt invited and mixed it with the opening of angels and demons... and still thinks its cool :S
@@ChrisGWGreen when bezos came back from space, the first thing he talked about wasn’t about pushing mankind in a effort to help the spinning globe he saw before him. It was about building factory’s in space to help with production. I’d say that this “forced scene” isn’t that far away at all.
Yep, real cool…
Brilliantly casted as Peter Weyland
@@arandall3912 Bezos seems like a greedy MOFO by saying that. However, greed is what motivated Christopher Columbus. He was motivated by his own personal greed of finding a westward passage into China and India, at the time the Ottomans had the monopoly of trade. Building factories in space is a step, there are asteroids that are mineral rich, and the only way of finding them is exploration.
If all TED talks would be like this I would watch them all time.
The extended version is incredible...
That takes place now in real life but the film was in 2012 and is set in the future
Amazing scene. It's a crying shame they didn't include this in the movie; it would have added so much.
would have been a better intro then the one we got
Such a great speech, I was there, I remember vividly I asked him for a photo and he politely refused. Said it was better to live in the moment.
Extraordinary!!!! Love how Guy Pierce portrayed Weyland! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Best ted talk ever. I would vote for him if he ran for president. I would probably let him sex my wife too. Weyland and shaw were wasted and cut short what a potential drop if you ask me.
Also so many perople assume the engineers as a collective decided to create humanity but as we have seen from david's solo antics maybe the engineer that created the humans decided to go solo and used the black goo to create life whereas the rest of his kind only wanted to use it as a weapon. Hence why they are so intent at wiping out humans becuae we were an unautorised creation that threatens their galactic dominance. It also explains why the engineer used his own body as the seed because he was porbably due for a death sentence anyway for his actions.
Quite possibly the best Ted Talk of all time
I remember when Guy starred in “The Time Machine” back in 2002. He is an awesome actor…..
Not a particularly good remake 😳
First time I saw him was in "L.A. Confidential."
This is underrated and we need more Guy Pearce to do a Weyland Movie or television series. The company had decades worth of knowledge on the xenomorphs according to the comics. Weyland knew a lot.
The fact that this was recorded years ago to be released today in 2023
it wasnt released in 2023?
2023 is nearing and we have already achieved drones. I hope to see them being used like this for future TED Talks.
He's playing the role of Antichrist
It's 2023 and we've got ChatGPT4, what's next is anyones guess.
@@jemzstones3045 Not only that, Ai in general is running rampant and evolving at an exponential rate. We also have autonomous cars, electric cars and flying cars.
Drones is old news mate
He believes gods are real and he belives he deserves his place among them, from his point of view he and his company gave humanity many gifts and he compares himself to gods for that.
3:37 This video is NOW. March 2023
Hello from the year of our lord 2024
I'm really disappointed by the speed humans are evolving. I really wish there's a Weyland-Yutani corporation in real life that focuses on rapid interstellar colonization, advanced dna sequencing studies, evolution of the human species. Hell I would even agree Making most of the humans as slaves, including me working at different planets serving the corporation at the expense of humans becoming multi planetary .
Elon Musk is the only billionaire that is helping the humankind to evolve by converting 70% of cars to electric, promoting solar and how can we ever thank him for creating the fully reusable space launch system which is the first step of humans becoming a space flared civilization. I would lick his boots my entire life if he makes sure to build a moon based and ultimately large scale mega factories on the moon along with his friend bezos, manufacturing large spaceships and enabling solar system exploration.
Bringing mass from earth to outside is too costly to escape the terminal velocity. Better in the future we use Moon and Mars as the main stations for all kinds of activities and building ultra large vehicles for deep space exploration with cryo pods equipped with synthetic robots helping humans travel for thousands of years inside space.
Fuck the Europa Clipper which aims to scan for life inside the icy crust of Saturn's moon Europa launched some days back, and it will reach Europa and sends first pictures no early than 2031 ??? 😢
And it just goes there to observe from space. Imagine if we want to send a landing mission that drills the core and collects samples and return back ??? That type of technology may come after we and our kids are long dead. So sad we're born early to explore space. Anyone able to relate to me ? Pls share your thots.
I need an Alien: Covenant sequel with a Shaw flashback, please, Fox/Disney!
Completely!!!!
In route
well we got the sequel, but i'm afraid we didn't get the flashback
Fucking A right
Love Prometheus! Love Guy Pearce ,such a good actor!
Loved his speech this year. I had a great seat in the audience.
one more year, waiting for this ted talk
keep waiting.
Sensational actor. Guy Pearce is top notch.
He used to be in Neighbors.
Damn our 2023 is going to be fairly far behind
AI: « Allow me to introduce myself »
It's 2024, and we are actually almost there. Our Ai now talks like Walter.
Always wondered what a Peter Weyland rise to power movie would be like. I like Aliens but the horror angle becomes limited over time, which is why I like Prometheus for what it was trying to do as a more science adventure movie. But this Ted Talk makes me want a Gordon Gekko-esk type off shoot of a businessman gone scientist with a god complex. You could even cross over some Bladerunner elements as his competition, but it could be an interesting spinoff prequel.
That would be so interesting to watch especially if it also features Tyrell Corp.
This really is a masterclass in voice modulation and tension-building pauses.
In 2 years we shall have a Peter Weyland on television talking about creating humanoid cybernetics and advanced space exploration.
Maybe Elon Musk will do this. Believe in Future
Elon musk just announced Tesla robot
no. cyber-netics... trick meaning that word. As for sci-fantasy 'space exploration' .. such will always be so.
@@theuksubs elon is a nwo agent...actor.
It's now 2024 and it didn't happen :(
Guy is one of the most underrated/ utilised actors, he leaves most of them for dead..
Guy Pierce is incredible in this. I would have preferred Prometheus was just about a Young Peter Weyland venturing out to colonize his first planet....then he finds an egg chamber....maybe some Engineer Tech......and then the Damon Lindeloff twist.... he finds the crashed remains of the Prometheus???? Oh MY GOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!
Weyland wouldn't go himself.
@@_lithp he did in the movie
@@aguy2162 No. In Prometheus, he joined the first crew to encounter alien life, not the first crew to colonize a planet.
@@_lithp good point. But if he would do one, it would not be unreasonable to assume he did the other
That was obviously an old weyland android
We are now 3 month into the year of our lord, 2023.
So Lovely to see His career progress. And I remember Him back in the late 80's/90's in Neighbours. A Show I hated.
the rite of passage for all big Australian actors
Before he walks out, he quotes Nietzsche, "I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all."
thanks.
Alien marathon this wknd. I’m currently watching Prometheus
All he wanted was immortality.
Unfortunately he died in the process
Yup he made a bad desition. He asked a genetically modified solider existential questions without knowing that they were in that desolated planet to investigate and maybe destroy humanity xD
Bring me some tea David.
Exactly why he had to be destroyed. The Annunaki perfectly understand that immortality is a gift from the creator for a life of service. Not a grand prize to be fought over by the richest and most intellectual. Weyland is everything the Annuanki hate about humanity, all ego without an ounce of regard for their creator. Many humans arent even aware of the gift of eternal life due to their lack of understanding and faith. They can look at a car or house and easily discern that someone made it however when looking at themselves they fail to see the divine beauty and genius in their own bodies and minds. Just a couple reasons why the Annunaki are so utterly disgusted by humanity. The name of the ship in Prometheus was LV223. Go look up Leviticus 22 verse 3 and you should see the correlation. The Annunaki are a holy race of Aliens, in my opinion.
@@nostarswithoutdarknessFun fact: the engineers race is called 'Malak'kak' it is almost similar to angel/messenger in hebrew. I hope the next movie 'Aliens: Paradise' will explore more on the "holy" symbolisms because Covenant was utterly disappointing. It has so much potential.
Always makes me chuckle, even in films like this set from this point a mere 11 years ahead of it's release (2012) to March of 2023 for this scene. So ambitious in regards to technological marvels that are only possible in Hollywood. In 2030, while we'll have astounding advancements no doubt. By and large...our world, the way we do things, the devices and way in which we lead our lives.....all will have little difference than it does today, as it did in 2014, and as it did in 2004. We're at a slowing period of sorts in terms of how technology has changed how we live our everyday lives.
2023 boys, here we go! Love these little remembrances. Like when the Blade Runner movie took place in LA 2019 and Back to the Future took place January 22nd, 2023.
T.E. Lawrence, eponymously of Arabia, but very much an Englishman, favored pinching a burning match between his fingers to put it out. When asked by his colleague, William Potter, to reveal his trick -- how is it he so effectively extinguished the flame without hurting himself whatsoever -- Lawrence just smiled and said, "The trick, Potter, is not minding it hurts."
The fire that danced at the end of that match was a gift from the Titan, Prometheus, a gift that he stole from the gods, who were terrified of what we might do with it were it to fall into our hairy little paws.
When Prometheus was caught and brought to justice for his theft, the gods, well, you might say they overreacted a little. The poor man was tied to a rock as an eagle ripped through his belly and ate his liver over and over, day after day, ad infinitum. All because he gave us fire, our first true piece of technology. Fire.
Such a very long time ago. Which begs the question: What have we done with?
100,000, BC: Stone tools.
4,000, BC: The wheel.
800, BC: Sundial.
9th century, AD: Gunpowder. Bit of a game-changer, that one.
1441: The printing press -- only slightly less impactful.
19th century: Steam engine. Railway. Eureka! The light bulb!!
20th century: The automobile, television, nuclear weapons, spacecrafts, Internet.
21st century: Biotech, nanotech, fusion and fission, and M-theory -- and that was just the first decade.
We are now three months into the year of our Lord, 2023. At this moment in our civilization, we are on the verge of terraforming planets undiscovered just a decade ago. We have identified the genetic chain of events behind 98% of cancers -- a chain we have broken, effectively curing them. We can create cybernetic individuals who, in just a few short years, will be completely indistinguishable from us.
Which leads to an obvious conclusion: We are the gods now.
I haven't been struck down. I take that to mean I'm right.
We wield incredible power -- the power to transform, to destroy and to create again. The question, of course, before us is, "What the hell are we supposed to do with this power?" Or, more importantly, one should ask, "What are we allowed to do with this power?
The answer to that, my friends, is nothing. Rules, restrictions, laws, ethical guidelines -- all but forbidding us from moving forwards. Well, where were the ethics during the Arabian conflicts? Why are rules preventing us from feeding impoverished cultures? How is there a law which states, "If we build a man from wires and metal -- a man who will never grow old, a man who will never feel the heat of a star or the cold of the moon -- how is the creation of such an incredible individual considered unnatural?"
The answer to all these questions is simple: These rules exist because the people who created them were afraid of what would happen if they didn't.
Well I am not afraid!
For those of you who know me, you will be aware by now that my ambition is unlimited. You know that I will settle for nothing short of greatness, or I will die trying.
For those of you who do not yet know me, allow me to introduce myself:
My name is Peter Weyland.
And if you’ll indulge me, I’d like to change the world.
well it's 2023. He really inspired us lol
Awesome!!!
Why they did not included this in Prometheus??
I just want to say here from 2020, I look forward to 2023 and the horrors that will burst forth.
It's not like it will be nice to witness, if you have watched the movie alien covenant, it's a programming of what is coming in a short yrs. Humanity is fucked!
hehe burst forth i like what you did there x)
@@albertayunda5521 sorta.
we are now in the third month of the year 2023
and still we are at war with each other
on the brink of exhausting our resources
a viral outbreak that pushed the civilization back decades
the laws which prevent the growth
Why couldn’t I get tickets to this Ted Talk…???!!!
On point even in 2023
"3 months into the year of our lord, 2023" o_o
And ChatGPT is just the beginning
well, it’s the year 2023 now. Let’s see how much what Weyland said we’ve achieved, comes to light ;)
Why they never used this as an intro to Prometheus is beyond me. Perfectly encapsulates the themes of the film and would have been contrasted nicely with views of the protagonist
It's bizarre how much of these two movies got squirreled away in the corners of the internet. I wonder if they would have done better with audiences if more of this worldbuilding / character building material had been in the movies instead of hidden on TH-cam
Oh shit its 2023
Peters Uncanny resemblance to Elon Musk 😅
There should have been more of Guy Pearce as Weyland, pity they did not add all this into the final cut
"All this. All these wonders of arts, design, human ingenuity, all utterly meaningless in the face of the only question that matters. Where do we come from?"
He's almost saying "I am the the Mandarin!!".
Watching this in 2023 makes me curious at which point of history we have stopped our rapid progress
Women rights
@@voiceofreason1829 Care to elaborate?
Late Stage Capitalism, greed prevents cures from being made, as keeping people unhealthy is more profitable. Also, modern science has become less about finding the truth as it is about manipulating data to support agendas.
The progress has slowed largely because many fields were considered obsolete while others simply reached the full potential they can with existing knowledge, and some because of greed for a class that built themselves from the dirt to be kings and now seek to extract everything they can from those further down the ladder. For the first look no further than the sudden interest in hypersonic flight, something considered a novelty from Cold War paranoia, unnecessary and impractical for pursuit, now suddenly it's made a return with Russia and China claiming to have achieved such weapons after decades of dormancy, you could also include lasers and space travel. For the second consider things like battery technology, we have reached the capacity for what Lithium batteries are capable of, and now people across the world are scrambling to the tune of billions in research to reach the next break through in energy storage that continues to elude them. The last point, that's specifically aimed at Microsoft a company that became the richest in the world selling its wares that simply can't hope to survive with letting you own it and now you merely get to rent it, the subscription model as a whole is a cancerous tumor on human ingenuity.
Still, though some developments are beyond incredible, reusable booster engines for space craft may seem mundane but that could revolutionize space travel, allowing more less costly trips. While AI is currently a bit of an overblown meme, the benefits to fields like research are beyond imagination, even a rudimentary system developed at a university to assist in reactor designs for nuclear powerplants took a process requiring the tireless work of a committee two months to produce a single model and let them finalize the design for review in two days.
I am a Law only for my kind, I am not a law for all ! - Peter Wayland 2023 quoting the scientific society and the Nieztche. The only Ted talk from a future that is truely ahead of our lords time yet so near.
He's playing the role of Antichrist 2023
so what is what he said? "I am a Law only for my kind, i am not a law for all!" ? And you state he was quoting the scientific society? which one? and Nietzsche? I am leaving you this message at approximately 3:21pm 2022-12-30 Toronto Canada time... to me they used the 'year of our Lord' with the tie in to 'gods' and what the serpent/Devil in the garden the father of lies told Eve about how they would be as gods if they ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
I have NO FUUuuuUuuUuuuUuCking idea why they removed this scene from the main film.
It’s almost imperative they kept this sequence.
Good movie all the same and so was Prometheus .
which main film?
@@RemnantDiscipleLazzaro-Rev1217
Prometheus (?) I think it was.
@@jammin1881 thanks. so is it for certain they removed it or was this video like a bait to get you to watch Prometheus or something?
@@RemnantDiscipleLazzaro-Rev1217
I think it was included in the extras or DVD set somehow.
It wasn't in the version I saw at the cinema when it first released though.
@@jammin1881 thanks.
ALIEN Covenant2/Prometheus 3 please! I need it in my life!
Agreed same here, may the gods (the studios) be kind enough to oblige - Yours Ridley..
ahh yes covenant quite anemic without the engineers
Guy Pearce always gives it a hundred percent
THATS TALK Very good work by Ridley Scott and from many Others movie director very good drawer and many more all in one worker
Some of his best work.
I love this man in the time machine
How cool would it have been if we'd seen this at the beginning of the film, instead of a scene of a buff alien disintegrating into a waterfall? Imagine the shock of seeing the Engineers for the first time, or seeing old man Weyland show up when we'd seen him young?? Instead in the theater we were like "Why's Guy Pearce in old man make-up?"
Why in the world wasnt this the intro for the movie?
When I first watched Prometheus, I didn't understand why a young actor was aged using makeup effects. Why not go straight to an old actor? After seeing this TED talk on the Bluray, I knew why.
It definitely should have been included at the beginning of the film.
What is that you know why now?
@@RemnantDiscipleLazzaro-Rev1217 Why they used a young actor playing the old Mr. Weyland.
@@venominjected oh so you mean now you comprehend the reason why they made him look older in Prometheus is because in this connected part, he's younger, ok, thanks for the clarification.
Does anyone know what he says at 0:16 ?
It's a Nieztche quote, "I am a law only for my kind. I am not a law for all." Basically, Weyland sees himself as the Ubermensch, the pinnacle of humanity.
@@danboud8135 Thank you very much!
@@danboud8135 Thanks a ton, your my man.. finally somebody in the comments section who actually listens!
@@evm6177 I listen... I like deep philosophical statements..it rouses my soul... all I heard he said was the words " law n kind ".. thanks for that nietsze quote..
@@danboud8135 thanks.
what's the music at 0:27?
DISNEY IS GONNA PAY THIS FOR NOT MAKING THE FINAL MOVIE, RIGHT GUYS
Turn on the subtitles, please.
2023!!! We’re here!! Artificial humans here we go.
Happy Birthday Weyland. 😏🤣🇨🇦
Interestingly enough, Peter Weyland speaks of the Prometheus mythology: Isn't the Alien franchise, a new form of "mythos"?
The world is ending in this decade
@@albertayunda5521 If Jesus wills.
@@albertayunda5521 have you got any proof? 🤔
I fucking love this scene! Soooo good!
¡Amo esta escena! Ojalá la película se hubiera enfocado en los Ingenieros.
And now 2023. We are the gods who fights with our own kind among the promise planet still. Maybe gods are not as perfect as we thought.
People where more quiet after his talk probably a lot are scared.
They should be
@@albertayunda5521 yeah with such a paramount megalomanical god complex lust for control and poewr.
What does he say before going on stage? Can someone explain, please?
Can anyone read the link at 2:03
"Where's Weyland going with this? Thought fire was for all mankind. He's probably franchised using it now. #TED"
Lunar Otaku The website link
this better be a real ted talk
no.
He should be Dr Doom
I second that.
what does the audience member shout at the end?
This speech is one great dynamite. Dynamite that later led to the famous Nobel Prize. The past century has been a warm-up that, like a speeding steam engine, once struck people two centuries ago. The fact that the speech echoes the cult form of Ted ex talks makes it remarkable. Regards, curious world.
Thank you Weyland for your talk. Our next TEDx speaker to the stage is Will Stephen on How to sound smart in your TEDx Talk.
This man is going places!
The writers had high hopes for humanity 3 months into 2023. By that time, we will barely have flying cars.
where did it show 3 months into 2023?
@@RemnantDiscipleLazzaro-Rev1217 He said it towards the end.
@@James-th2oo thanks, going to listen again since i do not know how i missed it.
Guy Pearce is such a brilliant actor
aw dangit, I missed last year's Ted Talk.
WHERE ALIEN COVENANT 2 FOX 🦊 ?????!!!!!
Sadly, rumor has it, that now that Disney owns FOX, Disney says they will never make the final movie. I really hate Disney.
@@winkingmoose1080 I really hope that's not the case
Xenomorph XX121 Fox probably wouldn’t have made it either. Both Prometheus and Covenant were financial disappointments.
Prometheus did well actually (B.O. of $403 mil against a budget of $125 mil) but Covenant was shaky though not a loss (B.O of $241 mil against a budget of $111 mil)
Disney nor FOX has ruled out a sequel.
This is so cool
What a speech
If COVID hadn't happened, we could have been watching 6 minute TED talks in 10,000 people crowds as early as last year
this guy literally beat elon musk in the story
We need some more information on the Weyland family, Charles Weyland, Peter Weyland, and the history of Weyland-Yutani Corporation as a whole!!! Perhaps in AVP3?
isnt there a bishop weyland as well ?
@@R3dTr0 Yeah, there are many characters with the name "Bishop" in the Weyland family. There's Charles Bishop Weyland, Peter Weyland's undisclosed middle name is probably also Bishop, then there's Michael Bishop Weyland, and Karl Bishop Weyland.
@@Xenosaurian isn't Vickers technically a Weyland as well ?
What's the story behind her ? It seems as if she was kept in the dark like some unwanted bastard child 🧐🤔
@@R3dTr0 Yep, assuming she is part of the bloodline and not just an android as was hinted at. She's definitely a mysterious one. But yeah, she's a Weyland.
@@Xenosaurian Bishop it would seem is the tie in with the references to God, Jesus, 'gods', 'year of our Lord'.. etc.
how i send my curriculum to WEYLAND corp?
huh missed that talk last year
sadly it is not full version
Can anyone tell me what song if possible is played at the very beginning as he's entering the stage? Thanks
Peter weyland great person😍
WHATS THE BETTING IN FUTURE YEARS THAT PEOPLE WILL SEE THE REAL WEYLAND ON A TED TALK?
I'm confused... which version of guy pearce is more charming... this one or the older version of him in Prometheus
Is there anyone who has seen the Tesla ‘we robot’ event and does NOT think of Elon Musk during this speech?
I want to know who composed that otherworldly intro music!
he didn't say the part with "if you will indulge me I'd like to change the world" you had one job
Time will tell. We are acting gods, playing with fire.
Good Day and Good Morning 🌞
Why were these shorts so much better than the movie