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Andrew Dickens: Highlights of the Future of New Zealand debate · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: So I'm Andrew Dickinson. I'm the filling guy, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: filling in for Ryan Bridge, and I'm filling in all week,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm doing three days next week and three days
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  Speaker 1: the week after. And the reason for that is that
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  Speaker 1: Ryan is preparing to do telly stuff with Harold now.
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  Speaker 1: And last night he was doing the first of the
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  Speaker 1: big ones. It was a 90-minute thing called The Future
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  Speaker 1: of New Zealand. Now, it had politicians. It had seven politicians. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we had some politicians. But the big thing about this,
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  Speaker 1: the difference was all the other people, all the business leaders,
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  Speaker 1: all the entrepreneurs, all the tech bros were all having
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  Speaker 1: their say about the future of New Zealand. There was
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  Speaker 1: even a dancing robot. And to see Ryan Bridge dancing
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  Speaker 1: with a dancing robot on telly was actually quite some sight.
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  Speaker 1: So here are some highlights if you haven't seen it.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, after Jack Tame suckered us into the billionaires
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  Speaker 1: moral debate, Tamitha Paul, the Green, had some ideas. She reckons, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: that billionaires are immoral.
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  Speaker 2: I think being a billionaire is immoral. Billionaires don't just
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  Speaker 2: get there because they're better than anybody else. Often they
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  Speaker 2: are utilising public infrastructure to allow them to innovate. They
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  Speaker 2: are utilising government grants.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Meanwhile, Mr John Key was there as well
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  Speaker 1: and he thought it was nuts. If we're going to
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  Speaker 1: sit there and say, oh, we're going to celebrate the
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  Speaker 1: warriors and the all blacks who are sports people or
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  Speaker 1: artists or whatever. Oh, but if you've built a world-class
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  Speaker 1: space company like Peter Beck, oh, that's morally offensive. That
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  Speaker 1: is nuts. OK, so I talked about the dancing robot, right? Well,
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  Speaker 1: there was a futurist there by the name of Francis
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  Speaker 1: Valentine who said that Kiwis are going to have to
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  Speaker 1: get used to robots living amongst us. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: have to get used to Ryan Bridge dancing with the robot.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of it's already here. Flying cars, there are
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  Speaker 3: a number of certified companies now. There's more than 25
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  Speaker 3: around the world. Humanoids, we're seeing a really huge rise
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  Speaker 3: in humanoids. And then there's this exponential plan to grow.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody's got to stop those humanoids from breeding.
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  Speaker 3: Hello.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, we had some more of that crazy... That crazy...
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  Speaker 1: word-heavy nutsness from Matua Shane.
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  Speaker 4: The gouging, villainous ways of the Gentailers, which is not
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  Speaker 4: only beggaring, beggaring businesses, but it's leading to de-industrialisation. I
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  Speaker 4: really respect the CEO from Contact Energy turning up tonight.
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  Speaker 4: I hope he still talks to me after we've split
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  Speaker 4: his business in half.
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  Speaker 1: The Shakespeare of New Zealand, and the pollies laid out
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  Speaker 1: their vision for New Zealand.
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  Speaker 3: We want a New Zealand where hard work gets you ahead.
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  Speaker 3: We can't unleash New Zealand's potential if we keep cutting
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  Speaker 3: it down at the knees.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone has a home, our tamariki have clean water, have
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  Speaker 1: access to prosperous pathways.
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  Speaker 2: We need political consensus on infrastructure, health, education.
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  Speaker 4: A future where we've got a reservoir of wealth because
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  Speaker 4: our savings have expanded.
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  Speaker 2: My mokopuna will stay here, they will be raised here
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  Speaker 2: and I want that for all of our mokopuna. We
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  Speaker 2: have to celebrate success, not just punish it with more taxes.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well the reaction online was super positive. There was
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  Speaker 1: an old socialist down in the South Island who used
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  Speaker 1: to be a talkback star with the first name Alan.
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  Speaker 1: And he wrote, what a future.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: At a time when New Zealand is spiritually bankrupt, along
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  Speaker 1: comes a program like this, The Future of New Zealand,
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  Speaker 1: a bland title for the most uplifting thing I have
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  Speaker 1: ever experienced, featuring a bunch of people I had mostly
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  Speaker 1: never heard of before. Vicky wrote, this is the stuff
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  Speaker 1: we need to hear. Inspiring stuff, not personality, you know,
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  Speaker 1: bitch fests that we normally have with our leaders debate.
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  Speaker 1: So congratulations, Ryan.
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  Speaker 3: For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge, listen live
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