Peter Weyland in TED 2023

Viscal

The first Prometheus viral video confirms Guy Pearce as Peter Weyland who gives an invigorating speech at a TED Conference... from the future! You can watch this highly elaborate presentation on Youtube:

Or check it out at the originating site: http://blog.ted.com/TED2023

In this TED2023 link, you'll find a brief summary of the fictional Ted Talk and a Peter Weyland biography which are as follows:

ABOUT THIS TALK:
“Peter Weyland has been a magnet for controversy since he announced his intent to build the first convincingly humanoid robotic system by the end of the decade.

Whether challenging the ethical boundaries of medicine with nanotechnology or going toe to toe with the Vatican itself on the issue of gene-therapy sterilization, Sir Peter prides himself on his motto, “If we can, we must.” After a three year media blackout, Weyland has finally emerged to reveal where he’s heading next. Wherever that may be, we will most certainly want to follow.”

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
“Sir Peter Weyland was born in Mumbai, India at the turn of the Millennium. The progeny of two brilliant parents; His mother, an Oxford Educated Professor of Comparative Mythology, his father, a self-taught software Engineer, it was clear from an early age that Sir Peter’s capabilities would only be eclipsed by his ambition to realize them. By the age of fourteen, he had already registered a dozen patents in a wide range of fields from biotech to robotics, but it would be his dynamic break-throughs in generating synthetic atmosphere above the polar ice cap that gained him worldwide recognition and spawned an empire.”

In less than a decade, Weyland Corporation became a worldwide leader in emerging technologies and launched the first privatized industrial mission to leave the planet Earth. “There are other worlds than this one,” Sir Peter boldly declared, “And if there is no air to breathe, we will simply have to make it.“

In going back to the video above, you'll see at the end of the Weyland speech a website site address of the fictional Weyland Industries. The interesting element of this viral site is it that takes a cue from James Cameron's Aliens with the tag line from Weyland-Yutani "Building Better Worlds".

Lastly, some Twitter personalities who are also part of the production of the movie have these things to say on this wonderful start to the viral campaign:

and

Glorious!

aperezNWO

Viscal said:
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I tried to find the script of the speech, no luck:

http://blog.ted.com/TED2023/

Also they lauched a viral site

https://www.weylandindustries.com/

Charism

In 0:40 there is link to site bit.ly/XXXXX on the background screen, but I can't read it right, or its jus bunch of letters, without any sense.

deadinspace

It makes me wonder how far into the future this is set since Ridley Scott is publicly conceeding that Peter Wayland is about middle aged in the year 2023, and yet has a small part in the movie (a minute we're told). The movie very obviously can't be set eleven years from now considering the fact that the technology espoused in the film (i.e. archeological expeditions into deep space) would not nearly be ready by 2023. Maybe 2050 at the earliest, and by then Weyland would be much older.

So the question is, does Weyland make an appearance as an old man?

Charism

Seems legit. This old man on wheelchair in hospital-like room, and in space suit, when Kate Dickie helps him to go outside.

kjohnson26

Could be Peter Weyland makes a synthetic version of himself, appears as a hologram, is an immortal human or alien (Prometheus himself), appears only in historical flashbacks or recordings, is in hypersleep or relativistic time dilation for 30-50 years, yada yada yada, ... .

Sticky_Fingaz

Hell yeah! Great work as usual Viscal.

Perhaps we will only see a video feed of Peter Weyland in Prometheus. His legacy.

kjohnson26

@Charism, thats a possibility too and might make more sense story-wise.

deadinspace

Well according to Ray Kurzweil, reverse engineering of the aging gene should be available by the mid to latter half of the century...so that's a possibility.

Anyway, I'm sure they hired consultants, like geneticists and astrophysicists, the way Danny Boyle did for Sunshine.

Viscal

I'm not sure if this was already discussed in the other thread (I'm doing a lot of catch up now) but:

deadinspace

Btw, close your eyes and listen to Guy Pierce speak--sounds exactly like John Hurt.

Aeus

Thank god this isn't in the movie.

deadinspace

Viscal said:
I'm not sure if this was already discussed in the other thread (I'm doing a lot of catch up now) but:

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I've read that as well...but it's still 2023 in this promo, and Pierce in character is about middle aged, so assuming the promo is consistent with the Prometheus timeline, you'd have to assume he'd be much older to make an appearance in the film.

nineinchwonder

Sir Peter Weyland was born in Mumbai, India at the turn of the
Millennium. The progeny of two brilliant parents; His mother, an Oxford
Educated Professor of Comparative Mythology, his father, a self-taught
software Engineer, it was clear from an early age that Sir Peter’s
capabilities would only be eclipsed by his ambition to realize them. By
the age of fourteen, he had already registered a dozen patents in a wide
range of fields from biotech to robotics, but it would be his dynamic
break-throughs in generating synthetic atmosphere above the polar ice
cap that gained him worldwide recognition and spawned an empire.

In less than a decade, Weyland Corporation became a worldwide leader
in emerging technologies and launched the first privatized industrial
mission to leave the planet Earth. “There are other worlds than this
one,” Sir Peter boldly declared, “And if there is no air to breathe, we
will simply have to make it.”

nineinchwonder

here's what he says. . . .

T.E
Lawrence, a Lawrence of Arabia but pretty much an Englishman favoured
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
so effectively he 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
and when Prometheus was caught and brought to justice for his theft,
the gods well you might say they overacted a little. The poor man was
tied to a rock as an eagle ripped through his belly and eat his liver
over and over, day after day and although the night. All because he
gave us fire. Our first true piece of technology. Fire. 100,000 BC
stone tools. 4,000 BC the wheel. 9 century A.D, gun powder. Bit of a
game changer that one! 19^th century, eureka the light
bulb! 20^th century, the auto-mobile, television, nuclear
weapons, space crafts, internet. 21^st century, biotech,
nanotech, fusion and vision and M-theory and that was just the first
decade. We are now just three months into our lord 2023 and this
moment now our civilisation, 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.

For
those of you who know me, you will be aware by now that my ambition
is unlimited, you will know by now that I would settle for nothing
short of greatness or 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.

nineinchwonder

i think the other blockbusters this year should look at prometheus and take notes on how to hype a film.

this isnt the year of the bat, or the year of the flying carpet man, a man spider or a black guy with an eye patch. this is the year of PROMETHEUS

BobSagat

Writing a TEDTalk from the future: Q&A with Damon Lindelof

http://blog.ted.com/2012/02/28/writing-a-tedtalk-from-the-future-q-a-with-damon-lindelof

Charism

Thanks for this text, now I can understand all, without text it was just ~60%. ;p

nineinchwonder

thanks bob cleared up a few things. cheers man

kjohnson26

Yeah, I'm semi-deaf, so thanks for putting up the transcript nineinchwonder.

Viscal

Thanks Bob!
Also here's a bit more but this time from Jon Spaihts

deadinspace

Aeus said:
Thank god this isn't in the movie.

Yeah, kind of has a Jurassic Park feel to it, but fun nonetheless. Pretty sure they made it recognizing what they wanted it to be.

aperezNWO

@deadinspace lining up with the comment about that TED talk, it is like the fake ads of Resident Evil. They are not part of the movie but used for promo purposes.

nineinchwonder said:
here's what he says. . . .

...

@Nineinch, thanks man!

nineinchwonder

i bet Mr Weyland has a walt disney appearance. bet he's on the mission in the far future. been frozen in hyper sleep, waking up every now and then to check up on things and is on the prometheus

Viscal

Not sure what to make of this yet, maybe it's just something imagined by the website linked on the bottom. Anyway, gonna put it here :p

Peter Weyland has been a magnet for controversy since he
announced his intent to build the first convincingly humanoid robotic
system by the end of the decade.Whether challenging the ethical
boundaries of medicine with nanotechnology or going toe to toe with the
Vatican itself on the issue of gene-therapy sterilization, Sir Peter
prides himself on his motto, “If we can, we must.” After a three year
media blackout, Weyland has finally emerged to reveal where he’s heading
next. Wherever that may be, we will most certainly want to follow.

Sir Peter Weyland was born in Mumbai, India at the turn of
the Millennium. The progeny of two brilliant parents; His mother, an
Oxford Educated Professor of Comparative Mythology, his father, a
self-taught software Engineer, it was clear from an early age that Sir
Peter’s capabilities would only be eclipsed by his ambition to realize
them. By the age of fourteen, he had already registered a dozen patents
in a wide range of fields from biotech to robotics, but it would be his
dynamic break-throughs in generating synthetic atmosphere above the
polar ice cap that gained him worldwide recognition and spawned an
empire. In less than a decade, Weyland Corporation became a worldwide
leader in emerging technologies and launched the first privatized
industrial mission to leave the planet Earth. “There are other worlds
than this one,” Sir Peter boldly declared, “And if there is no air to
breathe, we will simply have to make it.

http://www.dailyblam.com/news/2012/02/28/prometheus-viral-marketing-begins-with-video-message-from-guy-pearce

Charism

So, in TED video Peter W. is only 23 years old? I highly doubt that. : P

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