Translator: Maki Sugimoto Reviewer: Yuko Shirakawa
I have a dream.
My dream is working for people with digital technology.
The reason is clear.
I've been interested in Computer Graphics Technology
since I was 4 years old.
To model my dream, I'm piling up the "paper of efforts".
I wanted to know what will happen
if I pile up a "paper of efforts".
You might think "paper" is two-dimensional.
But, if paper is piled up, it will have thickness
and it'll become three-dimensional.
Using this idea, I piled up more than 100 milk cartons
and built a sailing boat when I was 11 years old.
I thought that piling up something is so interesting.
This is my first dot of curiosity.
Now, I'm researching about digital technology at school seminar.
Last summer vacation, I got to know the OsiriX software.
By using this software,
CT and MRI images can be easily reconstructed into 3D images.
And the 3D images can be modeled by using a 3D printer.
I was surprised to see this technology used in the medical field.
A 3D model is made by piling up the slice data.
This idea is the same as that of building my sailing boat.
The dots were connected in my life.
[Dots were connected - Steve Jobs]
(Laughter)
(Applause)
However, this wonderful technology is used only in the medical field.
Maybe you think it's "Mottainai", wasteful.
(Laughter)
I thought so, too.
And I thought that we should use this technology for education, too.
At that time in the newspaper,
I knew Dr. Maki Sugimoto who is an expert in digital medicine.
I thought I must meet him.
He looked friendly enough to share my idea,
so I sent him an email.
Then I went to meet him.
I told him my idea; then he said,
"I'll make [you] visible and copy you in a 3D model."
Later on, my body was modeled.
(Laughter)
This is it!
(Applause)
It's amazing.
This is 40% of my real body.
When I got this model, I had a big question.
How should I use this model for people?
(Laughter)
There are, I think, two answers.
The first is to make my model every year
and it helps me understand the process of my growth.
If I become ill in the future,
we can easily find the cause through it.
Then it'll contribute to the prevention of diseases.
The second is anyone can have his own skeleton model
and learn his own body through it.
If you're a smoker and your skeleton’s lungs look black,
then you'll stop smoking.
If metabolic people
(Laughter)
see their own skeleton models and find a lot of fat,
then they'll start a diet.
By visualizing their own body, everyone can change for better.
Of course you too.
Well, do you want to have your skeleton model?
(Audience) Yes.
Thank you.
(Applause)
By the way,
I found this life model in my science room.
You can take out internal organs one by one from this model,
and learn about them.
But who is he?
(Laughter)
Do you know?
Who knows?
Nobody knows!
Do you feel life through this?
No!
He never tells me how life is.
But this is me.
(Laughter)
We can think of life using it.
Of course, the Skeleton never talks to me.
(Laughter)
Well, life is precious, the skeleton model tells us.
I hear 30% of the cause of death among Japanese teens is suicide.
To reduce this, I want to show this skeleton model
to every junior high school boys and girls
for the skeleton model gives us a chance
to think about the meaning of life seriously.
We, the young generation, must lead the future world.
And then, I have been doing many presentations outside of my school.
I had the chance to tell my idea up to 2,000 people this year.
I'm spreading my idea by doing like this.
Encounters induce encounters.
Today, my idea has been extending nationally and internationally.
I would like to connect with everybody in the world.
If everyone has his own skeleton model,
even if looks is different, we notice that we all are human.
Actually, my activity is a little step.
But, I hope it will be a first step towards global peace.
Thank you very much.
(Applause) (Standing ovations)
Thank you.
(Applause)