Fitbit for the faithful
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🗓️ 15 March 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The one thing we can never get more of is time or can we this is Watson X orchestra |
| 0:06.3 | AI designed to multiply productivity by automating tasks when you Watson X your business |
| 0:11.8 | You can build digital skills to help human resources spend less time generating offer letters writing job recs and managing schedules and spend more time on humans. |
| 0:22.0 | Let's create more time for your business with WatsonX Orchestra. |
| 0:25.8 | Learn more at IBM.com |
| 0:27.0 | slash Orchestra. |
| 0:28.6 | IBM, let's create. When you think of cutting edge technology, the Pope might not be the first person who comes to mind. |
| 0:44.0 | But Pope Francis, yep, the head of the Catholic Church, |
| 0:48.0 | has gotten really into tech the past few years. He's got more Twitter followers than Beyonce. He's held meetings with Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook. |
| 1:00.0 | He's even organized a tech competition and a hackathon for social causes at the Vatican. |
| 1:06.6 | And now the Catholic Church has designed a new wearable device that's meant to encourage |
| 1:11.4 | prayer. It's called the E Rosary. Picture a fit bit but |
| 1:16.6 | with beads and a cross that sinks to an app on your smartphone. On today's |
| 1:22.1 | episode we're going to investigate this unusual spiritual gadget and ask, |
| 1:27.0 | can tech like this deep in people's faith? |
| 1:30.0 | And is this a deviation from how the church has traditionally viewed technology? |
| 1:34.6 | This is reset and I'm Siegel Samuel. Okay, so the reset team was actually able to get one of these erosory bracelets shipped over from Italy. |
| 1:56.0 | Resets, intrepid host Arielle, embarked on an elaborate nerd quest to track one down for this show. But since neither she nor I is a devout |
| 2:05.0 | Catholic, we had to find someone who could test drive the Erosory for us. My |
| 2:09.9 | name is Adriana. I'm 26 years old. I was born and raised Catholic and I grew up in |
| 2:16.8 | Mexico and I moved to Texas when I was 14 and then I moved to New York a year and a half ago. I recently got offered a physician |
| 2:28.9 | with the Archdiocese of New York in their Catholic Center and I'm working with the development |
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