New Zealand's Rise as a Tech Giant

This episode of "Hello World" offers a window into just how good New Zealand technology has become. Ashlee Vance covers the country's North Island, stretching from Auckland to the southern port and capital of Wellington - the home of Peter Jackson's movie making empire and an incredible hotbed of effects artistry.
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[@imludwig]

This series is amazing, better than anything on T.V.

[@dhgfffhcdujhv5643]

I'm 40. i hope i will live to the days where all these inovative ideas be in the public massses. What an amazing world it will be to live in.

[@EddievanderMeer]

Amazing video! looking forward to this series!

[@abdulalimbaakza954]

Seeing this video 4 years later. Everything must be changed/improved by now

[@HunterBitcoin]

Yeah, Rocket Lab has launched about 100 satellites into space now, they figured out how to reuse pieces of their rockets, and they're now working on a rocket that's almost as big as the Falcon 9.

[@marilyng8127]

Ashley Vance videos of “Hello World” are amazing!

[@kashmirha]

How is it possible, that videos like this viewed by 100.000, while some guys doing kinder egg opening or walkthrough get millions?? Thumbs up, and google should sort out its algorithms

[@BaddaBigBoom]

Easy, bite-sized tidbits of gratification for the shallow minded sell better ;-)

[@ToxicOverdos]

This such great reporting, Ashley is such a great modern journalist! Love this series!

[@vojin7video]

Great stuff, reminiscent of the 80's Aussie show "Beyond 2000". Go, Ashlee! :)

[@AshleeVanceHelloWorld]

thanks!

[@debrayebba9734]

I really enjoyed this.

[@mkrbu50]

Phenomenal! All science documentaries need to be like this one.

[@takoda598]

Thank you Sir. Avery.

[@jcb355]

I'm totally diggin' the Hello World series. Ashley Vance does a great job in this. More please?? 😎👍

[@babyaquinosal7023]

New Zealand is very interesting to learn more in complicated...very challenging...

[@MrJohnverkerk]

The thing I love about my country New Zealand, is that no-one knows we even exist. For people who love to live their lives, do their own thing and mind their own business, New Zealand is perfect.

[@MichaelDaysh]

Our past shapes our future. Much work to be done. Well done Friends and New Zealanders. Our future is bright. #NEWZEALANDNESS

[@jonniewright2934]

Amazing! #:)

[@kiwivloger6793]

fun fact the new zealand sky tower is taller then the efile tower in france

[@dickhamilton3517]

yeah but the Eiffel Tower was built 100 years earlier

The Eiffel tower was a gimmick for a trade show 130 years ago.

[@babyaquinosal7023]

Wow...majestic amazing!

[@CodeLeeCarter]

That Mike Sager who does the simulations reminds me of Doctor Noonian Soong, the Federation's leading cyberneticists during the 24th century. Trivia, he invented the Positronic Brain in Data.

[@pikiwiki]

"failure is really just for people who are unprepared..you don't waste your time on things that aren't going to get you where you need to go.." brutal

[@roberthalf1094]

Failure means you are trying and seeing what needs to change in order to progress. If you are not failing, you are not trying. Not trying *is* guaranteed failure. Trying and failing is mathematically a massive improvement for progress. Enthusiasm is the operative element. We simply either embrace the need for failure as a mechanism for innovation and imagination, or we quit and guarantee non-redemptive ultimate failure, which means we quit. As Yoda said, there is no try (even though he was wrong), there is only do or do not.

[@sample.text.]

What a fascinating series.

[@oliversissonphone6143]

Hearing about NZ's tech potential is like overhearing people debate whether the next tech boom is going to be in Albuquerque or Tucson...

[@foggycraw6758]

Wow savage

[@jacksonfranco5776]

Yesss, I'm looking forward to this

[@baddiecentral22]

why is no one mentioning how freaky that baby x is

[@BaddaBigBoom]

Probably because most of them are more logically thinking than you are.

[@BaddaBigBoom]

@Lum inosity Ooooh "the agenda" quiver quiver shiver shiver! Poke it with a stick, see if it byt ...sorry bites!

[@minusmimik8622]

is this why we are missing from so many maps? are we competition or is it a strategic way to protect our weirdo inventors?

[@demilishing]

5 years later and I think Fisher and Paykel is still the biggest company in the country.

[@NicholasMerrynote]

insanely great documentary hope you do plenty more of them !

[@BaddaBigBoom]

Brilliant - thumbs up.

[@bittence]

Did it happen yet?

[@feiryfella]

New Zealand is addictive.

[@monicbeautiful406]

Rhiannon Williams please can I be you friend dear

[@Kofutua05]

This is eye opening, thanks.

[@MarsDorian]

Very edu-taining series, great host and dry humor. Going to watch every episode.

[@ravindertalwar553]

Congratulations 👏

[@foggycraw6758]

The a.i baby set off my p3do alarm...

[@Dytex4]

most beautiful country on earth - a road trip is a must in new zealand

[@RogerBarraud]

Trudat! [Not that I'm biased or anything... :-) ]

[@babyaquinosal7023]

Ilove stars...coz its my signature...

[@luisfernandocuestasanchez4343]

we need to promote this in developing countries

[@merlincnrad5385]

I love these episodes

[@pesterlis]

new zealand is an amazing place!

[@monicbeautiful406]

Peter Hi dear hw rr u please can I be you friend

[@babyaquinosal7023]

Neatherlands..Switzerland...holy land...

[@problemsolver3254]

no just no 3:20

[@babyaquinosal7023]

Oh...ilove this place...my nerve...says..ill be there soon...

[@r3dp1ll]

Good stuff thanks !

[@FrantzBROUGERE]

Really good, inspiring.

[@valentinacazacu9011]

Am aflat multe chestii interesante

[@neroprintingservices]

we are also making ours but its a old machine for new in our country, philippines.

[@cathyk9197]

Seems 8-wire in New Zealand is like Duct Tape in the US!

[@MusicLover-ti6zo]

That dude is building replicants with his AI baby.

[@mreckes9967]

How did he get the streets of Auckland so empty? Queen St is busier than that at 4am. Also I have been swimming in hot springs all my life and putting my head under, never had a problem. There have been isolated cases but usually only in certain places.

[@RogerBarraud]

Christmas Day? :-)

[@aryavasa7699]

26:48 is Tongariro

[@KSchawacker]

Ashley's a great host.

[@milliefusion7340]

The baby bit is a bit creepy. I mean, really, come on! If you are going to build a simulation...why a baby? That just sat wrong with me for some reason. Anyway I would also like to say that they don't spend enough time on one subject to explain things better, or to show more. How is consciousness simulated in a computer? Explain more about the human pod for babies. There's that baby again....lol. Why are old men fascinated with babies? (Sorry, thinking out loud). So yeah, I would like to know more about these people and their inventions so I am not so creeped out about the babies.

[@RogerBarraud]

True, very sound-bitey as with all collage-of-snippets-style docco's like this. Suggestions: Look at the credits (if they haven't trimmed them off the end of the vid), Google the names and follow the links from there. The Baby X thing is at either AUT or University of Auckland (I forget which offhand). Rocket Labs is now US-HQ'd and building a new launch complex in VA. [along with another one at Mahia Peninsula in the North Island of NZ].

[@RogerBarraud]

@M C H A M M E R Not kill them before they are born, perhaps?

[@taliagrace1565]

As a New Zealander who often awkwardly gets trapped between the outside of the bus and the bus terminal because the automatic sliding doors break down and don’t register my presence... I do not feel I am living in a this so-called ‘tech giant’.

[@mihailamarcel5201]

You havent seen the former soviet union wire mythology..its even famous outside URSS

[@bobbyaldol]

ISRO takes about 15 million per launch. Why did you not mention that? Any specific parameters other than cost were taken into consideration?

[@RogerBarraud]

Right, 'cos YT Comments are where every engineer finds the answers... :-/

[@OneButteryBagel]

I enjoyed this

[@Benwarnock1]

um that's the sky tower 2:06 it not like im from new zealand or anything

[@dogansahin5106]

neden bu programın tr altyazılısı yok

[@dickhamilton3517]

have they declared Peter Jackson a National Treasure yet? he (and his team) introduced the world to the idea that there was incredible talent in NZ, and a lot more than sheep.

[@RogerBarraud]

Bollocks. Pete's great, but let's not give him false credit. Sir Ernest Rutherford Sir Edmund Hillary Sir William Pickering Katherine Mansfield Beatrice Tinsley Bill Hamilton Sir Paul Callaghan Rewi Alley The All Blacks Kiri Te Kanawa Split Enz Crowded House Lorde (admittedly after Pete J hit the scene) Inia Te Wiata Janet Frame Sam Neill Dame Ngaio Marsh Ngaire Dawn Porter Ewen Solon ... Just a few of other famous and/or impactful Kiwis.

[@BaddaBigBoom]

"Oh, hello sky-phallus!" :-)

[@Rhinogaming259]

1:42 SUPERHOT

[@shanetonkin2850]

I wish somebody could have had the decency to politely explain to him that term is actually “number 8 wire”, not “8 wire” . This might seem pedantic but literally nobody says it like that. Nobody. Say “8 wire” and you’ll probably just get a lot of blank looks, or maybe asked if you meant the 2002 film ‘8 mile’

[@alisonrawbone6752]

thats cool

[@glorious_help]

well done New Zealand.

[@JaiBadriJaiKedaar]

What is the name of the song in the beginning

[@maharshiyeluri4289]

Hey Ashle Why don't you come to india

[@KevMironga]

Glued to this....

[@themodfather9382]

Those walking legs don't seem fast enough.

[@afromillenials2313]

Lol everyone on this show is being called insane or a maniac

[@RogerBarraud]

It's what we do :-)

[@RogerBarraud]

Errr... It's "*number* eight wire", not just "eight wire"... which would refer to a fence with 8 wires (rather than the usual 5 wire fence). Also: It's "Sir Ray", not "Sir Avery" :-)

[@shanetonkin2850]

I know right. Was like finger nails on a blackboard every time he said if.

[@LukeSchoen]

26:14 you can see they are using a uniformly distributed point cloud (voxels) rendered with points ( they look like multisampled OpenGL points which are clipping thru the near plane ) not a very scalable rendering solution.

[@RogerBarraud]

Whatever.

[@Antigone10]

This is the same host that thought dehumidifiers would solve ur thirst in a desert? Now he thinks CGI and programming is AI? Glad I pay a huge fee for my Bloomberg terminal to get accurate and fast info....

[@KirillKovalevskiy]

What is the deal with removing the outer shell from HTC Vive and the tracking camera? 24:16

[@mathewhalevlogs7112]

Amazing! Came from Casey Neistat! Anyone else?

[@Buddy2007Sourav]

MathewHaleVlogs what did Casey mention ? about rockets ? or what ...I haven't seen him mention about new Zealand inventions

[@InnovativeVideos956]

hey i'm looking to move , and can anyone help me out, if you got a buisness already, i need to get my visa ready

[@nesiansides7133]

NZ venture capital ecosystem funding lacks numbers... like 1 onshore firm, angel investors. these investors have damaged most potential companies, due to lack of public and private sector funding pool support. NZ needs start-ups VC ecosystems to thrive like US silicon valley start up nation, china ministries of science/tech , Israel department of technologies. the resources here maybe sacrificed for debt purposes... buggah!

[@RogerBarraud]

Doesn't really work that way, Cuz... If there were more success stories the money would be easier to get, not harder. Grow the pie, let's not beat each other to death scrapping over the slices. Chur!

[@mereluft]

uncanny

[@nathanheaston7796]

Musi?

[@Danbo3004]

Is it just me or that baby will "grow", along with a lot of other "babies"

[@BaddaBigBoom]

Hopefully :-)

[@henrysaka6402]

show!

[@glorious_help]

ROCKET LAB IS IMPRESSIVE.... TURNS OUT THEY DO WELL TODAY

[@HFarazMukhtar]

Reality is everywhere, the virtual reality :)

[@InnovativeVideos956]

great tech but , there is so much better

[@rabwoody264]

Spinal injury! Then next scene you running up a mountain? Very subtle my friend...

[@fragmentalstew]

sky phallus?!

[@rocklobster1976]

ok... hanson robotics rented office space at a shop i attended for a while..... i been on site.... ive seen the collection of books they had laying around the tables. if david hanson wants to succeed, he'd do well to meet vr baby man, and perhaps open a small interpersonal library between the two of them

[@kaylahliam6940]

Where's the Maoris

[@RogerBarraud]

In their Momms' basements, commenting on KZbin vids. Chur :-)

[@Ruhgtfo]

Owe shat

[@makeitstudios988]

Casey Neistat sent me here!

[@kyoko703]

+NeillTv was it through one of this vlogs? If so, which one?

[@s._3560]

NZ is a place where people migrate to for an outdoor lifestyle or to retire. No real techies or ambitious business entrepreneurs are going to live down there in that remote corner of the world. It is just too far away to get any vibe. Too far from most other countries.

[@xordux7]

Current computers are not, computationally, as powerful as Human baby’s brain. Its like they are trying to run GTA 5 on an Atari console. Their efforts are appreciable 😊

[@josephsmith1893]

LOL, and Indians will have you believe India is the tech giant and Chinese will have you believe China is the tech giant. OK so they write some software and self convince them that they are the next superpower. LOL.

[@pamelashannon4035]

Love baby x

[@vesna1757]

white guys white guys white guys - what could go wrong?

[@shanetonkin2850]

it’s a country where 75% of the population is white, so I’m a little confused as to why you find this particularly troubling... More importantly, great innovation is great innovation, the gender / race of the person behind it is irrelevant.

[@2012Misanthrope]

why does the rocket guy sound exactly like elon musk? "i don't sleep much" . "orders of magnitude"

[@RogerBarraud]

They both get off their asses and do stuff instead of incessantly picking apart mannerisms and figures of speech. I take it you are not an engineer?

[@plyjhny]

According to tis show, everypne i a tech giant

[@MIXSTIX]

0:52 GTA V place

[@d3g3n3r4t3]

ya but does rocketlab land their rockets back on earth?....lol

[@dongraham4760]

Hopefully yes late 2020 ! Thats the plan !!

[@crystalidx]

This is like the legend of Atlantis, the civilization got so technological advanced that it committed self-destruction. I wonder how they knew this way back when.

[@RogerBarraud]

Nope, people got too stupid and believed more in stupid myths like Atlantis than in science and truth, so they recursively imploded :-/

[@saucybackport]

freaken boring as hell - info to emo ratio is too low

[@kanishkaralasi7408]

Ashlee Vance- Author of Elon Musk