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the living world far supersedes our imagination of how things actually work boy oh my god right oh my god i hadn't realized this would be such a universal phrase over the last two years in my lab we built and shipped them to countries in the world at no cost to the kids we sent them to this year alone with the support of our community we are planning to ship a million microscopes to kids around the world
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there's a pharmacologist who came up with a new way to detect fake drugs anywhere there is a girl who wondered how does glitter actually work and discovered the physics of crystalline formation in glitter there is an argentinian doctor who's trying to do field cervical cancer screening with this tool and yours very truly found a species of flea that was dug inside my heel in my foot one centimeter deep now you might think of these as anomalies but there is a method to this madness i call this frugal science the idea of sharing the experience of science and not just the information to remind you there are a billion people on this planet who live with absolutely no infrastructure no roads no electricity and thus no health care also there a billion kids on this planet that live in poverty
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now i narrowed it down to the gray one the green one and say the orange one so by a show of hands we'll start with the easiest one show of hands how many people think it's the gray one really okay how many people think it's the green one and how many people think it's the orange one pretty even split let's find out what the reality is here is the orange one
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here is the green one and here is the gray one
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so let me show you how quickly our brains can redefine normality even at the simplest thing the brain does which is color so if i could have the lights down up here i want you to first notice that those two desert scenes are physically the same one is simply the flipping of the other now i want you to look at that dot between the green and the red and i want you to stare at that dot don't look anywhere else we're going to look at it for about seconds which is a bit of a killer in an talk
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here you have the hive you can see the queen bee the large bee in the middle those are her daughters the eggs they go back and forth between this hive and the arena via this tube you'll see one of the bees come out here you see how she has a little number on her there's another one coming out she also has a number on her now they're not born that way right we pull them out put them in the fridge and they fall asleep then you can little numbers on them
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and now in this experiment they get a reward if they go to the blue flowers they land on the flower stick their tongue in there called a proboscis and drink sugar water she's drinking a glass of water that's about that big to you and i will do that about three times then fly and sometimes they learn not to go to the blue but to go where the other bees go so they copy each other they can count to five they can recognize faces and here she comes down the ladder and she'll come into the hive find an empty honey pot and throw up and that's honey
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now some of you will have noticed that the consequence is that the light coming through those middle nine on the right or your left is exactly the same as the light coming through the middle nine on your right agreed yes okay so they are physically the same let's pull the covers off now remember you know that the middle nine are exactly the same do they look the same no the question is is that an illusion and i'll leave you with that so thank you very much
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i want to start with a game okay and to win this game all you have to do is see the reality that's in front of you as it really is all right so we have two panels here of colored dots and one of those dots is the same in the two panels and you have to tell me which one
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can anyone see it anyone no now let's see the surfaces according to the quality of light that they reflect and now you see it so color enables us to see the similarities and differences between surfaces according to the full spectrum of light that they reflect
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this is a huge problem because it means that the same image could have an infinite number of possible real world sources let me show you what i mean imagine that this is the back of your eye okay and these are two projections from the world they're identical in every single way identical in shape size content they are the same as far as your eye is concerned and yet they come from completely different sources the one on the right comes from a yellow surface in shadow oriented facing the left viewed through a pinkish medium
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they are the same as far as your eye is concerned and yet they come from completely different sources the one on the right comes from a yellow surface in shadow oriented facing the left viewed through a pinkish medium the one on the left comes from an orange surface under direct light facing to the right viewed through sort of a bluish medium completely different meanings giving rise to the exact same retinal information and yet it's only the retinal information that we get so how on earth do we even see so if you remember anything in this next minutes remember this that the light that falls onto your eye sensory information is meaningless because it could mean literally anything and what's true for sensory information is true for information generally there's no inherent meaning in information
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what are you reading half the letters are missing right there's no a reason why an h has to go between that w and a but you put one there why because in the statistics of your past experience it would have been useful to do so so you do so again and yet you don't put a letter after that first t why because it wouldn't have been useful in the past so you don't do it again so let me show you how quickly our brains can redefine normality even at the simplest thing the brain does which is color so if i could have the lights down up here
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can i have the lights up again i take it from your response they don't look the same anymore right why because your brain is seeing that same information as if the right one is still under red light and the left one is still under green light that's your new normal
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now i've told this story to a mostly asian audience before nobody laughs they just shake their head of course
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i hadn't seen for about years and when we had our annual meetings in lima peru a couple of years ago the filmmakers found him and here is us getting together he has become a bit of a media star because he goes to the film openings and he knows how to work an audience now
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a real concern because between and terrorism incidents increased by percent the number of deaths from terrorism went up percent right now two billion people live in conditions of fragility conflict violence and by more than percent of the world's poor will live in these situations of fragility conflict and violence and so what do we do about meeting these aspirations are there new ways of thinking about how we can rise to meet these aspirations because if we don't i'm extremely worried aspirations are rising as never before because of access to the internet
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right now two billion people live in conditions of fragility conflict violence and by more than percent of the world's poor will live in these situations of fragility conflict and violence and so what do we do about meeting these aspirations are there new ways of thinking about how we can rise to meet these aspirations because if we don't i'm extremely worried aspirations are rising as never before because of access to the internet everyone knows how everyone else lives has our ability to meet those aspirations risen as well and just to get at the details of this i want to share with you my own personal story this is not my mother but during the korean war my mother literally took her own sister her younger sister on her back and walked at least part of the way to escape seoul during the korean war now through a series of miracles my mother and father both got scholarships to go to new york city they actually met in new york city and got married in new york city my father too was a refugee
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they actually met in new york city and got married in new york city my father too was a refugee at the age of he left his family in the northern part of the country escaped through the border and never saw his family again now when they were married and living in new york my father was a waiter at patricia murphy's restaurant their aspirations went up they understood what it was like to live in a place like new york city in the well my brother was born and they came back to korea and we had what i remember as kind of an idyllic life but what was happening in korea at that time was the country was one of the poorest in the world and there was political upheaval there were demonstrations just down the street from our house all the time students protesting against the military government and at the time the aspirations of the world bank group the organization i lead now were extremely low for korea
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there were demonstrations just down the street from our house all the time students protesting against the military government and at the time the aspirations of the world bank group the organization i lead now were extremely low for korea their idea was that korea would find it difficult without foreign aid to provide its people with more than the bare necessities of life so the situation is korea is in a tough position my parents have seen what life is like in the united states they got married there my brother was born there and they felt that in order to give us an opportunity to reach their aspirations for us we had to go and come back to the united states now we came back first we went to dallas
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the good news is that some things have changed and the most important thing that's changed is that we can now measure ourselves in ways that used to be the dominion of the health system so a lot of people talk about it as digital exhaust i like to think of it as the dust that runs along behind my kid we can reach back and grab that dust and we can learn a lot about health from it so if our choices are part of our health what we eat is a really important aspect of our health so you can do something very simple and basic and take a picture of your food and if enough people do that we can learn a lot about how our food affects our health one interesting thing that came out of this this is an app for called the eatery is that we think our pizza is significantly healthier than other people's pizza is
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as you can see i carry a percent risk of prostate cancer percent risk of psoriasis and a percent risk of alzheimer's disease so that means if you're a geneticist you're freaking out going oh my god you told everyone you carry the allele what's wrong with you right when i got these results i started talking to doctors and they told me not to tell anyone and my reaction is is that going to help anyone cure me when i get the disease and no one could tell me yes and i live in a web world where when you share things beautiful stuff happens not bad stuff so i started putting this in my slide decks and i got even more obnoxious and i went to my doctor and i said i'd like to actually get my please give me back my data so this is my most recent as you can see i have high cholesterol i have particularly high bad cholesterol and i have some bad liver numbers but those are because we had a dinner party with a lot of good wine the night before we ran the test
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a commons of data is something that's really unique because we make it from our own data and although a lot of people like privacy as their methodology of control around data and obsess around privacy at least some of us really like to share as a form of control and what's remarkable about digital is you don't need a big percentage if your sample size is big enough to generate something massive and beautiful so not that many programmers write free software but we have the apache web server not that many people who read edit but it works so as long as some people like to share as their form of control we can build a commons as long as we can get the information out and in biology the numbers are even better so vanderbilt ran a study asking people we'd like to take your your blood and share them in a and only five percent of the people opted out i'm from tennessee it's not the most science positive state in the united states of america
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and open doesn't mean that there's no money closed systems corporations make a lot of money on the open web and they're one of the reasons why the open web lives is that corporations have a vested interest in the openness of the system and so all of these things are part of the clinical study that we've created so you can actually come in all you have to be is years old willing to sign a contract that says i'm not going to be a jerk basically and you're in you can start analyzing the data you do have to solve a as well
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so this is he wrote a book over a thousand years ago called the canon of medicine and the rules he laid out for testing medicines are actually really similar to the rules we have today that the disease and the medicine must be the same strength the medicine needs to be pure and in the end we need to test it in people and so if you put together these themes of a narrative or a hypothesis in human testing right you get some beautiful results even when we didn't have very good technologies this is a guy named carlos finlay he had a hypothesis that was way outside the box for his time in the late he thought yellow fever was not transmitted by dirty clothing
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he had a hypothesis that was way outside the box for his time in the late he thought yellow fever was not transmitted by dirty clothing he thought it was transmitted by mosquitos and they laughed at him for years they called this guy the mosquito man but he ran an experiment in people right he had this hypothesis and he tested it in people so he got volunteers to go move to cuba and live in tents and be voluntarily infected with yellow fever so some of the people in some of the tents had dirty clothes and some of the people were in tents that were full of mosquitos that had been exposed to yellow fever
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i asked colleagues from universities the government oil gas and mining companies and the answer was a unanimous no and this makes sense you see boiling rivers do exist in the world but they're generally associated with volcanoes you need a powerful heat source to produce such a large geothermal manifestation and as you can see from the red dots here which are volcanoes we don't have volcanoes in the amazon nor in most of peru so it follows we should not expect to see a boiling river telling this same story at a family dinner my aunt tells me but no i've been there i've swum in that river
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then my uncle jumps in no she's not kidding you see you can only swim in it after a very heavy rain and it's protected by a powerful shaman your aunt she's friends with his wife
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what was amazing is that the locals had always known about this place and that i was by no means the first outsider to see it it was just part of their everyday life they drink its water they take in its vapor they cook with it clean with it even make their medicines with it i met the shaman and he seemed like an extension of the river and his jungle he asked for my intentions and listened carefully then to my tremendous relief i was freaking out to be honest with you a smile began to snake across his face and he just laughed
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i've seen all sorts of animals fall in and what's shocking to me is the process is pretty much the same so they fall in and the first thing to go are the eyes eyes apparently cook very quickly they turn this milky white color the stream is carrying them they're trying to swim out but their meat is cooking on the bone because it's so hot so they're losing power losing power until finally they get to a point where hot water goes into their mouths and they cook from the inside out
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you know despite all my scientific skepticism i found myself hiking into the jungle guided by my aunt over kilometers away from the nearest volcanic center and well honestly mentally preparing myself to behold the legendary warm stream of the amazon but then i heard something a low surge that got louder and louder as we came closer it sounded like ocean waves constantly crashing and as we got closer i saw smoke vapor coming up through the trees
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i had received the blessing to study the river on the condition that after i take the water samples and analyze them in my lab wherever i was in the world that i pour the waters back into the ground so that as the shaman said the waters could find their way back home i've been back every year since that first visit in and the fieldwork has been exhilarating demanding and at times dangerous one story was even featured in national geographic magazine i was trapped on a small rock about the size of a sheet of paper in sandals and board shorts in between an degree c river and a hot spring that well looked like this close to boiling and on top of that it was amazon rain forest pouring rain couldn't see a thing
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there is no real indication that there is any real thinking going on in fact there is little evidence that there is any cognitive ability in a very young infant infants don't respond to much there is not really much of an indication in fact that there is a person on board
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this brain is very much a thinking machine and by this age there is absolutely no question that this brain it has a person on board and in fact at this age it is substantially controlling its own self development and by this age we see a remarkable evolution in its capacity to control movement now movement has advanced to the point where it can actually control movement simultaneously in a complex sequence in complex ways as would be required for example for playing a complicated game like soccer now this boy can bounce a soccer ball on his head and where this boy comes from sao paulo brazil about percent of boys of his age have this ability you could go out into the community in monterey and you'd have difficulty finding a boy that has this ability and if you did he'd probably be from sao paulo
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your issues as it relates to this science is how to maintain your own high functioning learning machine and of course a well ordered life in which learning is a continuous part of it is key but also in your future is brain aerobics get ready for it it's going to be a part of every life not too far in the future just like physical exercise is a part of every well organized life in the contemporary period the other way that we will ultimately come to consider this literature and the science that is important to you is in a consideration of how to nurture yourself now that you know now that science is telling us that you are in charge that it's under your control that your happiness your well being your abilities your capacities are capable of continuous modification continuous improvement and you're the responsible agent and party of course a lot of people will ignore this advice it will be a long time before they really understand it
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it has stored recorded can retrieve the meanings of thousands tens of thousands of objects actions and their relationships in the world and those relationships can in fact be constructed in hundreds of thousands potentially millions of ways
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every one of us has a different set of acquired skills and abilities that all derive out of the the adaptability of this really remarkable adaptive machine in an adult brain of course we've built up a large repertoire of mastered skills and abilities that we can perform more or less automatically from memory and that define us as acting moving thinking creatures
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now we study this as the nerdy laboratory university based scientists that we are by engaging the brains of animals like rats or monkeys or of this particularly curious creature one of the more bizarre forms of life on earth to engage them in learning new skills and abilities and we try to track the changes that occur as the new skill or ability is acquired in fact we do this in individuals of any age in these different species that is to say from infancy up to adulthood and old age so we might engage a rat for example to acquire a new skill or ability that might involve the rat using its paw to master particular manual grasp behaviors just like we might examine a child and their ability to acquire the sub skills or the general overall skill of accomplishing something like mastering the ability to read or you might look in an older individual who has mastered a complex set of abilities that might relate to reading musical notation or performing the mechanical acts of performance that apply to musical performance from these studies we defined two great epochs of the plastic history of the brain the first great epoch is commonly called the critical period
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and she said it was like a thunderous train of air and it would come barreling down at her over the landscape and she felt it coming because it would shake the earth under her feet she knew that she had only one thing to do at that point and that was to in her words run like hell and she would run like hell to the house and she would be getting chased by this poem and the whole deal was that she had to get to a piece of paper and a pencil fast enough so that when it thundered through her she could collect it and grab it on the page and other times she wouldn't be fast enough so she'd be running and running and she wouldn't get to the house and the poem would barrel through her and she would miss it and she said it would continue on across the landscape looking as she put it for another poet and then there were these times this is the piece i never forgot she said that there were moments where she would almost miss it right so she's running to the house and she's looking for the paper and the poem passes through her and she grabs a pencil just as it's going through her and then she said it was like she would reach out with her other hand and she would catch it she would catch the poem by its tail and she would pull it backwards into her body as she was transcribing on the page and in these instances the poem would come up on the page perfect and intact but backwards from the last word to the first
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not just bad but the worst book ever written and i started to think i should just dump this project but then i remembered tom talking to the open air and i tried it so i just lifted my face up from the manuscript and i directed my comments to an empty corner of the room and i said aloud listen you thing you and i both know that if this book isn't brilliant that is not entirely my fault right because you can see that i am putting everything i have into this i don't have any more than this if you want it to be better you've got to show up and do your part of the deal but if you don't do that you know what the hell with it i'm going to keep writing anyway because that's my job and i would please like the record to reflect today that i showed up for my part of the job
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and i don't expect that that's ever going to change but that said something kind of peculiar has happened recently in my life and in my career which has caused me to have to my whole relationship with this work and the peculiar thing is that i recently wrote this book this memoir called eat pray love which decidedly unlike any of my previous books went out in the world for some reason and became this big mega sensation international bestseller thing
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the question that i want to ask everybody here today is are you guys all cool with that idea are you comfortable with that because you look at it even from an inch away and you know i'm not at all comfortable with that assumption i think it's odious and i also think it's dangerous and i don't want to see it perpetuated into the next century i think it's better if we encourage our great creative minds to live and i definitely know that in my case in my situation it would be very dangerous for me to start sort of leaking down that dark path of assumption particularly given the circumstance that i'm in right now in my career
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and that search has led me to ancient greece and ancient rome so stay with me because it does circle around and back but ancient greece and ancient rome people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then ok people believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source for distant and unknowable reasons the greeks famously called these divine attendant spirits of creativity socrates famously believed that he had a daemon who spoke wisdom to him from afar the romans had the same idea but they called that sort of disembodied creative spirit a genius which is great because the romans did not actually think that a genius was a particularly clever individual
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and then the renaissance came and everything changed and we had this big idea and the big idea was let's put the individual human being at the center of the universe above all gods and mysteries and there's no more room for mystical creatures who take dictation from the divine and it's the beginning of rational humanism and people started to believe that creativity came completely from the self of the individual and for the first time in history you start to hear people referring to this or that artist as being a genius rather than having a genius and i got to tell you i think that was a huge error you know i think that allowing somebody one mere person to believe that he or she is like the vessel you know like the font and the essence and the source of all divine creative unknowable eternal mystery is just a too much responsibility to put on one fragile human psyche
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men typically listen so he's saying i've got this problem he's saying here's your solution thanks very much next that's the way we talk right guys expansive listening on the other hand is listening with not listening for it's got no destination in mind it's just enjoying the journey women typically listen if you look at these two eye contact facing each other possibly both talking at the same time
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one translation of which is the world is sound and in a way that's true because everything is vibrating in fact all of you as you sit here right now are vibrating every part of your body is vibrating at different frequencies so you are in fact a chord each of you an individual chord one definition of health may be that that chord is in complete harmony
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and they realize i'm right there isn't a square meter of ground in the entire country that hasn't been reclaimed from the sea or otherwise moved modified and manicured to look as if it had always been there it's the only place you ever go for a walk in the woods and all the trees are lined up in rows
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the opposite of course is fake fake all right now there is value for fake there will always be companies around to supply the fake because there will always be desire for the fake fact is there's a general rule if you don't like it it's fake if you do like it it's faux
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you can contrast them by thinking about universal city walk versus disney world or disneyland universal city walk is a real fake in fact we got this very term from ada louise book the unreal america a wonderful book where she talks about universal city walk as you know she decries the fake but she says at least that's a real fake right because you can see behind the facade right it is what it says it is it's universal studio it's in the city of los angeles you're going to walk a lot right you don't tend to walk a lot in los angeles well here's a place where you are going to walk a lot outside in this city but is it really true to itself right is it really in the city is it you can see behind all of it and see what is going on in the facades of it so she calls it a real fake disney world on the other hand is a fake real or a fake reality right it's not what it says it is it's not really the magic kingdom
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then it bought miramax known for its fare and all of a sudden families everywhere couldn't really trust what they were getting from disney it was no longer true to its heritage no longer true to walt disney that's one of the reasons why they're having such trouble today and why roy disney is out to get michael eisner because it is no longer true to itself so understand what your past limits what you can do in the future when it comes to being what you say you are the easiest mistake that companies make is that they advertise things that they are not that's when you're perceived as fake as a phony company things that you're not think about any hotel any airline any hospital right if you could check into the ads you'd have a great experience
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so we moved from an agrarian economy to an industrial economy well what then happened over the last or years is that goods have become where they're treated like a commodity where people don't care who makes them they just care about three things and three things only price price and price now there's an antidote to and that is my first book was called mass it came up a couple of times yesterday and how i discovered this progression of economic value was realizing that customizing a good automatically turned it into a service because it was done just for a particular person because it wasn't inventoried it was delivered on demand to that individual person so we moved from an industrial economy to a service based economy
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an industrial economy to a service based economy but over the past or years what's happened is that services are being as well long distance telephone service sold on price price price fast food restaurants with all their value pricing and even the internet is not just goods but services as well what that means is that it's time to move to a new level of economic value time to go beyond the goods and the services and use in that same what happens when you customize a service what happens when you design a service that is so appropriate for a particular person that's exactly what they need at this moment in time then you can't help but make them go wow you can't help but turn it into a memorable event you can't help but turn it into an experience so we're shifting to an experience economy where experiences are becoming the predominant economic offering
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so we're shifting to an experience economy where experiences are becoming the predominant economic offering now most places that i talk to when i talk about experience i talk about disney the world's premier experience stager i talk about theme restaurants and experiential retail and boutique hotels and las vegas the experience capital of the world but here when you think about experiences think about thomas dolby and his group playing music think about meaningful places think about drinking wine about a journey to the clock of the long now those are all experiences think about ted itself
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those are all experiences think about ted itself the experience capital in the world of conferences all of these are experiences now over the last several years i spent a lot of time in europe and particularly in the netherlands and whenever i talk about the experience economy there i'm always greeted at the end with one particular question almost invariably and the question isn't really so much a question as an accusation and the dutch when they usually put it it always starts with the same two words you know the words i mean you americans they say you americans
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now if i take a laser pointer and turn it on and off in one of a second which is several i'll create a packet of photons barely a millimeter wide and that packet of photons that bullet will travel at the speed of light and again a million times faster than an ordinary bullet now if you take that bullet and take this packet of photons and fire into this bottle how will those photons shatter into this bottle how does light look in slow motion light in slow motion billion x slow now the whole event now remember the whole event is effectively taking place in less than a nanosecond that's how much time it takes for light to travel but i'm slowing down in this video by a factor of billion so you can see the light in motion
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i thought this is how nature paints a photo one frame at a time but of course our eye sees an integral composite but if you look at this tomato one more time you will notice as the light washes over the tomato it continues to glow it doesn't become dark why is that because the tomato is actually ripe and the light is bouncing around inside the tomato and it comes out after several of a second so in the future when this camera is in your camera phone you might be able to go to a supermarket and check if the fruit is ripe without actually touching it
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inspired us with awe and curiosity with this photo of a bullet piercing through an apple and exposure just a millionth of a second but now years later we can go a million times faster and see the world not at a million or a billion but one trillion frames per second i present to you a new type of photography photography a new imaging technique so fast that it can create slow motion videos of light in motion and with that we can create cameras that can look around corners beyond line of sight or see inside our body without an x ray and really challenge what we mean by a camera now if i take a laser pointer and turn it on and off in one of a second which is several i'll create a packet of photons barely a millimeter wide and that packet of photons that bullet will travel at the speed of light and again a million times faster than an ordinary bullet
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and we can take all that raw data and treat it in very interesting ways so superman can fly some other heroes can become invisible but what about a new power for a future superhero to see around corners the idea is that we could shine some light on the door it's going to bounce go inside the room some of that is going to reflect back on the door and then back to the camera and we could exploit these multiple bounces of light and it's not science fiction we have actually built it on the left you see our camera
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now we have some ways to go before we take this outside the lab on the road but in the future we could create cars that avoid collisions with what's around the bend or we can look for survivors in hazardous conditions by looking at light reflected through open windows or we can build that can see deep inside the body around and also for but of course because of tissue and blood this is quite challenging so this is really a call for scientists to start thinking about photography as really a new imaging modality to solve the next generation of health imaging problems now like doc edgerton a scientist himself science became art an art of ultra fast photography and i realized that all the gigabytes of data that we're collecting every time are not just for scientific imaging
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so what did i do i built more boxes this time i started putting electronics frogs strange bottles i'd find in the street anything i could find because i was always finding things my whole life and trying to make relationships and tell stories between these objects so i started drawing around the objects and i realized holy moly i can draw in space i can make free floating lines like the way you would draw around a dead body at a crime scene so i took the objects out and i created my own of invented specimens first botanical which you can kind of get a sense of then i made some weird insects and creatures it was really fun i was just drawing on the layers of resin and it was cool because i was actually starting to have shows and stuff i was making some money i could take my girlfriend for dinner and like go to sizzler it was some good shit man
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do you guys know this painting good it's a cool painting it's kind of ahead of its time they say so the triptych i'll walk you through this piece it weighs pounds it's feet long it's double sided so it's feet of composition it's kind of weird well that's the blood fountain
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they go from the representational world to this analog mesh underworld where they're hiding this is where the animal headed creatures are by the lighthouse and they're all about to commit mass suicide into the ocean the ocean is made up of thousands of elements this is a bird god tied up to a battleship
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that's one side of the triptych it's a little narrative thing that's her hand that she's spitting into and then when you go to the other side she has like a trunk like a bird's beak and she's spitting clouds out of her trunk then she has an long serpent's tail that connects the triptych anyway her tail catches on fire from the back of the volcano
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that happens you know her tail terminates in a eyeball made out of terrorist cards have you guys seen those they were made in the they're like baseball cards of terrorists way ahead of their time
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i really didn't know anyway this is kind of funny because here i am years later and i'm still making boxes now at some point i was in hawaii i like to hike and surf and do all that weird stuff and i was making a collage for my ma
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and i went to bed every night thinking about it so i tried using glass i started drawing on the layers of glass almost like if you drew on a window then you put another window and another window and you had all these windows together that made a three dimensional composition
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did this for years which culminated in a very large work which i call the triptych the triptych was largely inspired by the garden of earthly delights which is a painting in the del prado in spain do you guys know this painting good it's a cool painting it's kind of ahead of its time they say so the triptych
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each one is an archive of our culture through our ripped up media and matter whether it's encyclopedias or dictionaries or magazines but each one acts as a sort of an archive in the shape of a human and they travel in groups of or at a time they're like cells they come together they divide
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but each one acts as a sort of an archive in the shape of a human and they travel in groups of or at a time they're like cells they come together they divide and you kind of walk through them it's taking me years each one is basically a microscope slide with a human stuck inside this one has a little cave in his chest that's his head there's the chest you can kind of see the beginning i'm going to go down the body for you there's a waterfall coming out of his chest covering his penis or not penis or whatever it is a kind of androgynous thing i'll take you quickly through these works because i can't explain them for too long
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and it comprises of scientists and computer scientists and researchers but also artists like me architects designers writers activists you name it it's a very interesting eclectic membership just a few examples an artist who paints with fluorescent a collaborative team who are combining biological and electronic design with printing technologies in a workshop another artist who is using the slime mold as a way of engaging a community to map their area here the slime mold is being used directly as a biological tool but metaphorically as a symbol for ways of talking about social cohesion communication and cooperation other public engagement activities i run lots of slime mold workshops a creative way of engaging with the organism so people are invited to come and learn about what amazing things it can do and they design their own petri dish experiment an environment for the slime mold to navigate so they can test its properties everybody takes home a new pet and is invited to post their results on the slime mould collective and the collective has enabled me to form collaborations with a whole array of interesting people i've been working with filmmakers on a feature length slime mold documentary and i stress feature length which is in the final stages of edit and will be hitting your cinema screens very soon
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other good thing about watching ted talks when you see a really good one you kind of all of a sudden wish the speaker was your best friend don't you like just for a day they seem like a nice person you'd take a bike ride maybe share an ice cream you'd certainly learn a lot and every now and then they'd chide you when they got frustrated that you couldn't really keep up with half of the technical things they're banging on about all the time but then they'd remember that you're but a mere human of ordinary mortal intelligence that didn't finish university and they'd kind of forgive you and pet you like the dog
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ken robinson good morning how are you mark applebaum i'm going to kate stone mix some music ma i'm going to do so in a way that tells a story tod something nobody's ever heard before i have a julian treasure i call this the mixer two d j decks
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process begins with traveling to the places at the forefront of climate change on site i take thousands of photographs back in the studio i work from both my memory of the experience and the photographs to create very large scale compositions sometimes over feet wide i draw with soft pastel which is dry like charcoal but colors i consider my work drawings but others call them painting i cringe though when i'm referred to as a finger painter
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but i don't use any tools and i have always used my fingers and palms to manipulate the pigment on the paper drawing is a form of meditation for me it quiets my mind i don't perceive what i'm drawing as ice or water instead the image is stripped down to its most basic form of color and shape once the piece is complete i can finally experience the composition as a whole as an iceberg floating through glassy water or a wave cresting with foam on average a piece this size takes me about as you can see seconds
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i consider it my life's mission to convey the urgency of climate change through my work i've traveled north to the arctic to the capture the unfolding story of polar melt and south to the equator to document the subsequent rising seas most recently i visited the icy coast of greenland and the low lying islands of the maldives connecting two seemingly disparate but equally endangered parts of our planet my drawings explore moments of transition turbulence and tranquility in the landscape allowing viewers to emotionally connect with a place you might never have the chance to visit i choose to convey the beauty as opposed to the devastation if you can experience the of these landscapes perhaps you'll be inspired to protect and preserve them
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really more like hours hours for something that size but i've been drawing ever since i could hold a crayon really my mom was an artist and growing up we always had art supplies all over the house my mother's love of photography propelled her to the most remote regions of the earth and my family and i were fortunate enough to join and support her on these adventures we rode camels in northern africa and on dog sleds near the north pole
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and then she'll call out a math problem so let's say four times four and then one student from each team has to compete to figure out that four times four is and find the tire with the on it and sit on it so the goal is to have all of your teammates sitting on the tires and then your team wins and the impact of the learning landscape has been pretty surprising and amazing some of the classes and teachers have reported higher test scores a greater comfort level with the material especially with the boys that in going outside and playing they aren't afraid to take on a double digit multiplication problem and also that the teachers are able to use these as assessment tools to better gauge how their students are understanding new material so with design for education i think the most important thing is to have a shared ownership of the solutions with the teachers so that they have the incentive and the desire to use them so this is mr perry he's the assistant superintendent he came out for one of our teacher training days and won like five rounds of match me in a row and was very proud of himself
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it's a story of public education and of rural communities and of what design might do to improve both so this is bertie county north carolina usa to give you an idea of the where so here's north carolina and if we zoom in bertie county is in the eastern part of the state it's about two hours east driving time from raleigh and it's very flat
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first one is the school extension of course how do you explain drawings and engineering to people who are neither able to read nor write i started to build a prototype like that the innovation was to build a clay vault so then i jumped on the top like that with my team and it works the community is looking it still works so we can build
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the community is very proud we made it and even animals like these donkeys love our buildings
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the innovation in this project is to cast mud like you cast concrete how do you cast mud we start making a lot of mortars like you can see and when everything is ready when you know what is the best recipe and the best form you start working with the community and sometimes i can leave they will do it themselves i came to speak to you like that another factor in is rain when the rains come we hurry up to protect our fragile walls against the rain don't confound with christo and jeanne claude it is simply how we protect our walls
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but for us the rain is good it brings sand and gravel to the river we need to use to build we just wait for the rain to go we take the sand we mix it with clay and we keep building that is it the project was always connected to training the people because i just wanted one day when i fall down and die that at least one person from keeps doing this work but you will be surprised i'm still alive
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i was born in a little village called in there was no electricity no access to clean drinking water and no school but my father wanted me to learn how to read and write for this reason i had to leave my family when i was seven and to stay in a city far away from my village with no contact with my family in this place i sat in a class like that with more than other kids and for six years in this time it just happened to me to come to school to realize that my classmate died today not so much has changed there is still no electricity in my village people still are dying in burkina faso and access to clean drinking water is still a big problem
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i had luck i was lucky because this is a fact of life when you grow up in a place like that but i was lucky i had a scholarship i could go to germany to study so now i suppose i don't need to explain to you how great a privilege it is for me to be standing before you today from my home village in burkina faso to berlin in germany to become an architect is a big big step
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when i came home to to bring the good news my people were over the moon but when they realized that i was planning to use clay they were shocked a clay building is not able to stand a rainy season and francis wants us to use it and build a school is this the reason why he spent so much time in europe studying instead of working in the field with us my people build all the time with clay but they don't see any innovation with mud so i had to convince everybody i started to speak with the community and i could convince everybody and we could start to work
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the walls are totally made out of compressed clay blocks from the roof structure is made with cheap steel bars normally hiding inside concrete and the classroom the ceiling is made out of both of them used together in this school there was a simple idea to create comfort in a classroom don't forget it can be degrees in burkina faso so with simple ventilation i wanted to make the classroom good for teaching and learning
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michelle anderson aura rosser hockaday so if we look around again there are about four people still standing and actually i'm not going to put you on the spot i just say that to encourage transparency so you can be seated
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so those of you who recognized the first group of names know that these were african americans who have been killed by the police over the last two and a half years what you may not know is that the other list is also african americans who have been killed within the last two years only one thing distinguishes the names that you know from the names that you don't know gender so let me first let you know that there's nothing at all distinct about this audience that explains the pattern of recognition that we've just seen i've done this exercise dozens of times around the country i've done it to women's rights organizations
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good afternoon my name is i am a photo based artist from russia i started my way around six years ago with ironic self portraits to lay open so many stereotypes about nationalities genders and social issues i am russian i sell drugs guns porno with kids vodka water
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this boy is a professional dancer only years old but at secondary school he hides his dancing classes and is wearing the mask of brutality trying to be united with the rest of his classmates like a storm trooper has no personality but this boy has goals and dreams but hides it to be socially accepted because being different isn't easy especially in russia next portrait interpretation is and this is nikita a security guard from one of the bars in st petersburg he likes to say you wouldn't like me when i'm angry quoting hulk from the movie but i've never seen him angry he hides his sensitivities and romantic side because in russia among guys that's not cool to be romantic but it's cool to be surrounded with women and look like an aggressive hulk
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i focus on balancing meaningful message aesthetic beauty composition some irony and artifacts today i'm going to tell you about my project which is named desperate romantics they're my artifacts or paintings from pre brotherhood england century i took the painting and gifted new contemporary meaning talking about issues which are surrounding me in russia capturing people who are non models but have an interesting story
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through the artifacts i bring social issues which surround me in russia into the conversation interesting fact about marriage in russia that most of the old girls are already ready and dream to get married we're taught from childhood successful marriage means successful life so most of the girls kind of fight to get a good husband and what about me i'm years old for russian society i'm an old maid and hopeless to ever get married
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here's a picture of the kids that's sage and and rider now i also happen to be gay being gay and fathering triplets is by far the most socially innovative socially entrepreneurial thing i have ever done
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i said that charitable giving is two percent of in the united states that's about billion dollars a year but only about percent of that or billion dollars goes to health and human services causes the rest goes to religion and higher education and hospitals and that billion dollars is not nearly enough to tackle these problems but if we could move charitable giving from two percent of up just one step to three percent of by investing in that growth that would be an extra billion dollars a year in contributions and if that money could go disproportionately to health and human services charities because those were the ones we encouraged to invest in their growth that would represent a tripling of contributions to that sector now we're talking scale now we're talking the potential for real change but it's never going to happen by forcing these organizations to lower their horizons to the demoralizing objective of keeping their overhead low our generation does not want its epitaph to read we kept charity overhead low
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the real social innovation i want to talk about involves charity i want to talk about how the things we've been taught to think about giving and about charity and about the nonprofit sector are actually undermining the causes we love and our profound yearning to change the world but before i do that i want to ask if we even believe that the nonprofit sector has any serious role to play in changing the world a lot of people say now that business will lift up the developing economies and social business will take care of the rest and i do believe that business will move the great mass of humanity forward
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so in the for profit sector the more value you produce the more money you can make but we don't like nonprofits to use money to people to produce more in social service we have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people interestingly we don't have a visceral reaction to the notion that people would make a lot of money not helping other people you know you want to make million dollars selling violent video games to kids go for it we'll put you on the cover of wired magazine
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well i want our organizations to remain human in fact i want them to become beautiful because as machines take our jobs and do them more efficiently soon the only work left for us humans will be the kind of work that must be done beautifully rather than efficiently to maintain our humanity in the this second machine age we may have no other choice than to create beauty beauty is an elusive concept for the writer it was the promise of happiness for me it's a goal by lionel
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and there they openly discussed their personal relationships their own experiences of gender equality with the coworkers and the partners it was eye opening for the participants not only did it allow them to relate to the communities they serve it also broke down invisible barriers and created a lasting bond amongst themselves not a single team member quit in the next four years so this is how you create intimacy no masks or lots of masks
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when the food company wanted to translate its new company manifesto into product initiatives it gathered the management team and employees from across different departments seniority levels and regions for a three day strategy retreat and it asked everybody to wear costumes for the entire meeting wigs crazy hats feather boas huge glasses and so on and they left with concrete outcomes and full of enthusiasm and when i asked the woman who had designed this experience why it worked she simply said never underestimate the power of a ridiculous wig
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so bear with me as i am proposing four admittedly very subjective principles that you can use to build a beautiful organization do the unnecessary do the unnecessary a few months ago the and founder of the yogurt company made headlines when he decided to grant stock to all of his employees some called it a stunt others a genuine act of giving back but there is something else that was remarkable about it
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