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i have a power manager mouse driver memory etc and i built this in kyoto the old capital of japan it's a room broken in two halves i've turned the computer on and these assistants are placing a giant floppy disk built out of cardboard and it's put into the computer and the floppy disk drive person wears it she finds the first sector on the disk and takes data off the disk and passes it off to of course the bus so the bus diligently carries the data into the computer to the memory to the the etc and it's an actual working computer that's a bus really
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you change the typeface to like this typeface and it's kind of funny it's like pirate typeface like captain jack sparrow typeface fear like that's not fearful that's actually funny or fear like this kind of a nightclub typeface
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if you just change one letter in that content you get a much better word much better content free free is a great word you can serve it almost any way free bold feels like mandela free it's like yes i can be free free even light feels kind of like ah i can breathe in free it feels great or even free spread out it's like ah i can breathe in free so easily and i can add in a blue and a dove and i have like don draper free
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and i've been curious about how design and technology intersect and i'm going to show you some old work i never really show anymore to give you a sense of what i used to do so yeah so i made a lot of work in the this was a square that responds to sound people ask me why i made that it's not clear
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it has variations there's a shift ten variations this is like spin the letter around this is like a ring of letters this is years old so it's kind of a let's see this is i love the french film the red balloon great movie right i love that movie so this is sort of like a play on that it's peaceful like that
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so that was years ago and i was always on the periphery of art by being president of i've gone deep into art and art is a wonderful thing fine art pure art you know when people say i don't get art i don't get it at all that means art is working you know it's like art is supposed to be enigmatic so when you say like i don't get it like oh that's great
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why do we have this facility because at you have to look at the actual animal the object to understand its volume to perceive it at you're not allowed to draw from an image and many people ask me john couldn't you just digitize all this make it all digital wouldn't it be better and i often say well there's something good to how things used to be done there's something very different about it something we should figure out what is good about how we did it even in this new era and i have a good friend he's a new media artist named tota hasegawa he's based in london no actually it's in tokyo but when he was based in london he had a game with his wife he would go to antique shops and the game was as such when we look at an antique we want we'll ask the shopkeeper for the story behind the antique and if it's a good story we'll buy it so they'd go to an antique shop and they'd look at this cup and they'd say tell us about this cup and the shopkeeper would say it's old
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and many people ask me john couldn't you just digitize all this make it all digital wouldn't it be better and i often say well there's something good to how things used to be done there's something very different about it something we should figure out what is good about how we did it even in this new era and i have a good friend he's a new media artist named tota hasegawa he's based in london no actually it's in tokyo but when he was based in london he had a game with his wife he would go to antique shops and the game was as such when we look at an antique we want we'll ask the shopkeeper for the story behind the antique and if it's a good story we'll buy it so they'd go to an antique shop and they'd look at this cup and they'd say tell us about this cup and the shopkeeper would say it's old tell us more oh it's really old
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we aren't a simple authoritarian regime anymore as an example of authoritarianism i was in russia one time traveling in st petersburg at a national monument and i saw this sign that says do not walk on the grass and i thought oh i mean i speak english and you're trying to single me out that's not fair but i found a sign for russian speaking people and it was the best sign ever to say no it was like no swimming no hiking no anything my favorite ones are no plants why would you bring a plant to a national monument i'm not sure and also no love
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and i was influenced by performance art so this is years ago i made a computer out of people
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you know like that we'd go to a computer store and they'd do the same thing and they'd say daddy why doesn't the computer respond to sound and it was really at the time i was wondering why doesn't the computer respond to sound so i made this as a kind of an experiment at the time and then i spent a lot of time in the space of interactive graphics and things like this and i stopped doing it because my students at mit got so much better than myself so i had to hang up my mouse
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and then i spent a lot of time in the space of interactive graphics and things like this and i stopped doing it because my students at mit got so much better than myself so i had to hang up my mouse but in i made my last piece it was in black and white monochrome fully monochrome all in integer mathematics it's called tap type write it's paying a tribute to the wonderful typewriter that my mother used to type on all the time as a legal secretary it has variations there's a shift ten variations
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have this amazing facility called the edna lawrence nature lab it has samples of animal bone mineral plants you know in rhode island if an animal gets hit on the road they call us up and we pick it up and stuff it and why do we have this facility because at you have to look at the actual animal the object to understand its volume to perceive it at you're not allowed to draw from an image
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it isn't about old the dirt new the cloud it's about what is good a combination of the cloud and the dirt is where the action is at you see it in all interesting art today in all interesting businesses today how we combine those two together to make good is very interesting so art makes questions and leadership is something that is asking a lot of questions we aren't functioning so easily anymore we aren't a simple authoritarian regime anymore
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we all know that a hierarchy is how we run many systems today but as we know it's been disrupted it is now a network instead of a perfect tree it's a instead of a hierarchy and that's kind of awkward
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you know it's all these one meetings for like four days and it felt kind of like being president actually i was like oh this my job president i do a lot of meetings you know and by the end of the experience i realized why i was doing this it's because leaders what we do is we connect improbable connections and hope something will happen and in that room i found so many connections between people across all of london and so leadership connecting people is the great question today whether you're in the hierarchy or the it's a wonderful design challenge and one thing i've been doing is doing some research on systems that can combine technology and leadership with an art and design perspective let me show you something i haven't shown anywhere actually
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and one thing i've been doing is doing some research on systems that can combine technology and leadership with an art and design perspective let me show you something i haven't shown anywhere actually so what this is is a kind of a sketch an application sketch i wrote in python you know how there's this is called and the way it works is imagine an organization you know the isn't ever at the top the at the center of the organization there may be different subdivisions in the organization and you might want to look into different areas for instance green are areas doing well red are areas doing poorly
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for instance green are areas doing well red are areas doing poorly you know how do you as the leader scan connect make things happen so for instance you might open up a distribution here and find the different subdivisions in there and know that you know someone in eco over here and these people here are in eco the people you might engage with as people going across the hierarchy and part of the challenge of the is to find connections across areas and so you might look in and here you see one person who crosses the two areas of interest and it's a person important to engage so you might want to for instance get a heads up display on how you're interacting with them how many coffees do you have how often are you calling them emailing them what is the tenor of their email how is it working out leaders might be able to use these systems to better regulate how they work inside the you can also imagine using technology like from luminoso the guys from cambridge who were looking at deep text analysis what is the tenor of your communications so these kind of systems i believe are important they're targeted social media systems around leaders and i believe that this kind of perspective will only begin to grow as more leaders enter the space of art and design because art and design lets you think like this find different systems like this and i've just begun thinking like this so i'm glad to share that with you
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so what actually works and the answer is rather strange it's a letter we live in a digital world but we're fairly analog creatures letters actually work even the top dog himself takes time every day to read letters that are picked out by staff i can tell you that every official that i've ever worked with will tell you about the letters they get and what they mean so how are you going to write your letter first of all you're going to pick up an analog device a pen i know these are tough and you may have a hard time getting your hand bent around it but this is actually critical
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going to give you a four paragraph format to work with now when you approach these animals you need to understand there's a dangerous end to them and you also need to approach them with some level of respect and a little bit of wariness so in paragraph number one what i'm going to tell you to do is very simply this you appreciate them you may not appreciate the person you may not appreciate anything else but maybe you appreciate the fact that they've got a tough gig when animals are going to make a point they make the point they don't spend a lot of time around so here you go
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when you do this don't attack people you attack tactics ad hominem attacks will get you nowhere paragraph number three when animals are attacked or cornered they will fight to the death so you have to give them an exit most of the time if they have an exit strategy they should take it obviously you're intelligent if you had the right information you would have done the right thing
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now the challenge with you moving your issue forward is these animals are getting broadcast to all the time so what doesn't work in terms of getting your issue to be important you can send them an email well unfortunately i've got so many ads coming at me your email is lost it doesn't matter it's spam how about you get on the phone well chances are i've got a who's picking up the phone yes they called and they said they didn't like it that doesn't move face to face would work but it's hard to set it up
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second of all i'm going to recommend that you get into a proactive stance and write to your elected officials at least once a month here's my promise to you if you are consistent and do this within three months the elected official will start calling you when that issue comes up and say what do you think now i'm going to give you a four paragraph format to work with now when you approach these animals you need to understand there's a dangerous end to them and you also need to approach them with some level of respect and a little bit of wariness
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yeah i think we all have this hopeful expectation of living into old age let's project out into the future to your future and let's imagine that we're all now everyone look at two people one of you probably has alzheimer's disease
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what else cardiovascular health high blood pressure diabetes obesity smoking high cholesterol have all been shown to increase our risk of developing alzheimer's some autopsy studies have shown that as many as percent of people with alzheimer's also had cardiovascular disease aerobic exercise has been shown in many studies to decrease amyloid beta in animal models of the disease so a heart healthy mediterranean lifestyle and diet can help to counter the tipping of this scale so there are many things we can do to prevent or delay the onset of alzheimer's but let's say you haven't done any of them let's say you're there's alzheimer's in your family so you've likely inherited a gene or two that tips your scale arm a bit you've been burning the candle at both ends for years you love bacon and you don't run unless someone's chasing you
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here's a picture of two neurons connecting the point of connection this space circled in red is called the the is where are released this is where signals are transmitted where communication happens this is where we think feel see hear desire and remember and the is where alzheimer's happens
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and it ended up being so much fun that i decided i could pursue doing more of these things the next one is i froze myself in a block of ice for three days and three nights in new york city that one was way more difficult than i had expected the one after that i stood on top of a hundred foot pillar for hours i began to hallucinate so hard that the buildings that were behind me started to look like big animal heads so next i went to london in london i lived in a glass box for days with nothing but water it was for me one of the most difficult things i'd ever done but it was also the most beautiful there was so many skeptics especially the press in london that they started flying cheeseburgers on helicopters around my box to tempt me
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he was underneath not breathing for minutes when the rescue workers came they resuscitated him and there was no brain damage his core temperature had dropped to degrees as a magician i think everything is possible and i think if something is done by one person it can be done by others i started to think if the boy could survive without breathing for that long there must be a way that i could do it so i met with a top neurosurgeon and i asked him how long is it possible to go without breathing like how long could i go without air and he said to me that anything over six minutes you have a serious risk of brain damage so i took that as a challenge basically
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so he came up with this idea of creating a with a scrubber which was basically a tube from home depot with a balloon duct taped to it that he thought we could put inside of me and somehow be able to circulate the air and with this thing in me this is a little hard to watch but this is that attempt so that clearly wasn't going to work
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then i actually started thinking about liquid breathing there is a chemical that's called and it's so high in oxygen levels that in theory you could breathe it so i got my hands on that chemical filled the sink up with it and stuck my face in the sink and tried to breathe that in which was really impossible it's basically like trying to breathe as a doctor said while having an elephant standing on your chest so that idea disappeared then i started thinking would it be possible to hook up a bypass machine and have a surgery where it was a tube going into my artery and then appear to not breathe while they were my blood which was another insane idea obviously then i thought about the craziest idea of all the ideas to actually do it
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i started learning about the world record holder his name is tom and this guy is perfectly built for holding his breath he's six foot four he's pounds and his total lung capacity is twice the size of an average person i'm six foot one and fat we'll say big boned
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the thinner i was the longer i was able to hold my breath and by eating so well and training so hard my resting heart rate dropped to beats per minute which is lower than most olympic athletes in four months of training i was able to hold my breath for over seven minutes i wanted to try holding my breath everywhere i wanted to try it in the most extreme situations to see if i could slow my heart rate down under duress
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i decided that i was going to break the world record live on prime time television the world record was eight minutes and seconds held by tom that guy with the whale lungs i told you about i assumed that i could put a water tank at lincoln center and if i stayed there a week not eating i would get comfortable in that situation and i would slow my metabolism which i was sure would help me hold my breath longer than i had been able to do it i was completely wrong i entered the sphere a week before the scheduled air date and i thought everything seemed to be on track two days before my big breath hold attempt for the record the producers of my television special thought that just watching somebody holding their breath and almost drowning is too boring for television
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so i had to add handcuffs while holding my breath to escape from this was a critical mistake because of the movement i was wasting oxygen and by seven minutes i had gone into these awful convulsions by i started to black out and by seven minutes and seconds they had to pull my body out and bring me back i had failed on every level
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i told her that i wanted to up the ante and hold my breath longer than any human being ever had this was a different record this was a pure static apnea record that guinness had set the world record at minutes so basically you breathe pure first your body flushing out and you are able to hold much longer i realized that my real competition was the beaver
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and it ended up being so much fun that i decided i could pursue doing more of these things the next one is i froze myself in a block of ice for three days and three nights in new york city
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so i began early on competing against the other kids seeing how long i could stay underwater while they went up and down to breathe you know five times while i stayed under on one breath by the time i was a teenager i was able to hold my breath for three minutes and seconds
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it was the most amazing thing that i ever discovered pretty much there is many different aspects to free diving
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it was the most amazing thing that i ever discovered pretty much there is many different aspects to free diving there is depth records where people go as deep as they can and then there is static apnea that's holding your breath as long as you can in one place without moving that was the one that i studied the first thing that i learned is when you're holding your breath you should never move at all that wastes energy and that depletes oxygen and it builds up in your blood so i learned never to move
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the first thing that i learned is when you're holding your breath you should never move at all that wastes energy and that depletes oxygen and it builds up in your blood so i learned never to move and i learned how to slow my heart rate down i had to remain perfectly still and just relax and think that i wasn't in my body and just control that and then i learned how to purge purging is basically you blow in and out you do that you get lightheaded you get tingling and you're really ridding your body of
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you do that you get lightheaded you get tingling and you're really ridding your body of so when you hold your breath it's infinitely easier then i learned that you have to take a huge breath and just hold and relax and never let any air out and just hold and relax through all the pain every morning this is for months i would wake up and the first thing that i would do is i would hold my breath for out of minutes i would hold my breath for minutes so basically what that means is i would purge i'd breathe really hard for a minute and i would hold immediately after for five and a half minutes then i would breathe again for a minute purging as hard as i can then immediately after that i would hold again for five and a half minutes i would repeat this process eight times in a row
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what that does is you start building up the red count in your body which helps you carry oxygen better every morning again after getting out of that tent your brain is completely wiped out
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so i started full focus i completely trained to get my breath hold time up for what i needed to do
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it would start it would stop
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it would start it would stop and i felt all this and i was sure that i was going to have a heart attack so at minutes what i did is i slid my feet out because i knew that if i did go out if i did have a heart attack they'd have to jump into the binding and take my feet out before pulling me up i was really nervous i let my feet out and i started floating to the top and i didn't take my head out but i was just floating there waiting for my heart to stop just waiting
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my background should have led me to a different direction i was born in israel to a right wing family and as long as i remember myself i wanted to join the israeli army to serve my country and prove what i believed was our right for the whole land i joined the israeli army just after the first intifada the first palestinian uprising and i served in one of the hard minded toughest aggressive infantry units and i got the biggest gun in my platoon quite fast i became an officer and got soldiers under my command and as time passed i started serving in the west bank and i saw these images i didn't like what i saw it took me a while but eventually i refused to serve in the west bank and had to spend time in jail it was a bit it was not that bad i have to say it was a bit like being in a hotel but with very food
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i would like to start with the story of mary a woman from an african village her first memories are of her family fleeing violent riots orchestrated by the ruling political party her brother was murdered by the state sponsored militia and she was raped more than once just because she belonged to the wrong party one morning a month before the election mary's village was called to another intimidation meeting in this meeting there is a man standing in front of them telling them we know who you are we know who you will vote for and if you're not going to drop the right paper we're going to take revenge but for mary this meeting is different
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a day here i am in the west i choose not to so in my village now kids there they normally listen to bbc or any radio and they are waiting to know the day emmanuel will eat his breakfast it means he got the money to build our school and so i made a commitment i say i'm gonna not eat my breakfast i thought i was famous enough that i would raise the money within one month but i've been humbled
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it's taken me days and i said no stop until we get it and like it's been done on the people are giving three dollars the lowest amount we ever got was cents somebody donated cents online i don't know how they did it
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to say my name is emmanuel and i come from a long way i've been telling a story that has been so painful for me it's been a tough journey for me traveling the world telling my story in form of a book and also telling it like now and also the easiest one was when i was doing it in form of a music
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myself as a war child i'm doing this because of an old lady in my village now who have lost her children there is no newspaper to cover her pain and what she wants to change in this society and i'm doing it for a young man who want to create a change and has no way to project his voice because he can't write or there is no internet like for them to talk also one thing that kept me pushing this story this painful stories out the dreams i have sometimes is like the voices of the dead that i have seen would tell me don't give up keep on going
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i'm going to show you on this chart so here we are what i've done here is put on the vertical axis social progress higher is better and then just for comparison just for fun on the horizontal axis is per capita further to the right is more so the country in the world with the highest social progress the number one country on social progress is new zealand well done never been must go
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i'm going to show you on this chart so here we are what i've done here is put on the vertical axis social progress higher is better and then just for comparison just for fun on the horizontal axis is per capita further to the right is more so the country in the world with the highest social progress the number one country on social progress is new zealand well done never been must go the country with the least social progress i'm sorry to say is chad i've never been maybe next year
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but let me show you two other countries here's the united states considerably richer than new zealand but with a lower level of social progress and then here's senegal it's got a higher level of social progress than chad but the same level of so what's going on well look let me bring in the rest of the countries of the world the we've been able to measure each one represented by a dot there we go lots of dots now obviously i can't do all of them so a few highlights for you the highest ranked country is canada my country the united kingdom is sort of middling sort of dull but who cares at least we beat the french
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this year with our friends from the nonprofit here in brazil we launched the first social progress index we did it for the amazon region it's an area the size of europe million people one of the most deprived parts of the country and here are the results and this is broken down into nearly different municipalities and with this detailed information about the real quality of life in this part of the country and other partners from government business and civil society can work together to construct a development plan that will help really improve people's lives while protecting that precious global asset that is the amazon rainforest and this is just the beginning you can create a social progress index for any state region city or municipality we all know and love this is social x this is a tool for anyone to come and use contrary to the way we sometimes talk about it was not handed down from god on tablets of stone
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it's dry as a bone but this report is the foundation of how today we judge the success of countries what we know best as gross domestic product has defined and shaped our lives for the last years and today i want to talk about a different way to measure the success of countries a different way to define and shape our lives for the next years but first we have to understand how came to dominate our lives report was delivered at a moment of crisis the u s economy was plummeting into the great depression and policy makers were struggling to respond
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struggling because they didn't know what was going on they didn't have data and statistics so what report gave them was reliable data on what the u s economy was producing updated year by year and armed with this information policy makers were eventually able to find a way out of the slump and because invention was found to be so useful it spread around the world and now today every country produces statistics but in that first report kuznets himself delivered a warning
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in that first report kuznets himself delivered a warning it's in the introductory chapter on page seven he says the welfare of a nation can therefore scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income as defined above it's not the greatest sound bite in the world and it's dressed up in the cautious language of the economist but his message was clear is a tool to help us measure economic performance it's not a measure of our well being and it shouldn't be a guide to all decision making but we have ignored warning
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but we have ignored warning we live in a world where is the benchmark of success in a global economy our politicians boast when goes up markets move and trillions of dollars of capital move around the world based on which countries are going up and which countries are going down all measured in our societies have become engines to create more but we know that is flawed it ignores the environment it counts bombs and prisons as progress
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they were born deep in the swedish forest and they made the best mechanical calculators in the world everybody used them and what did do when the electronic calculator came along they continued doing exactly the same in six months they went from maximum revenue and they were gone gone to me the irony about the story is hearing about the engineers who had bought cheap small electronic calculators in japan that they used to double check their calculators
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and they're distributing massively really complex manufacturing capabilities we're moving into this future where the factory is everywhere and increasingly that means that the design team is everyone that really is an industrial revolution and when we think that the major ideological conflicts that we inherited were all based around this question of who should control the means of production and these technologies are coming back with a solution actually maybe no one all of us and we were fascinated by what that might mean for architecture so about a year and a half ago we started working on a project called and is an open source construction system and the idea is to make it possible for anyone to go online access a freely shared library of models which they can download and adapt in at the moment because it's free and it's easy to use and almost at the click of a switch they can generate a set of cutting files which allow them in effect to print out the parts from a house using a machine and a standard sheet material like plywood and the parts are all numbered and basically what you end up with is a really big ikea kit
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what we usually mean is a professional someone who gets paid and we tend to assume that it's those professionals who are going to be the ones to help us solve the really big systemic design challenges that we face like climate change urbanization and social inequality that's our kind of working presumption and i think it's wrong actually in i was just about to graduate from architecture school after several years and go out and get a job and this happened the economy ran out of jobs and a couple of things struck me about this
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so of course it took time and i was nearly and i decided it's time to start as an artist i chose because paper is cheap it's light and you can use it in a lot of different ways and i chose the language of silhouette because graphically it's very efficient and it's also just getting to the essential of things so the word silhouette comes from a minister of finance etienne de silhouette and he slashed so many budgets that people said they couldn't afford paintings anymore and they needed to have their portrait a la silhouette
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can guess my mother tongue is french and my daily language is english so i did a series of work where it was identical words in french and in english so one of these works is the spelling spider so the spelling spider is a cousin of the spelling bee
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so what if we were living in balloon houses it would make a very uplifting world and we would leave a very low footprint on the planet it would be so light so sometimes i view from the inside like and the inner circles sometimes it's a global view to see our common roots and how we can use them to catch dreams and we can use them also as a safety net and my inspirations are very eclectic i'm influenced by everything i read everything i see i have some stories that are humorous like dead beats
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mad growth on columbus circle a web of time chaos city daily battles felicity floating islands and at one point i had to do the whole nine yards so it's actually a that's nine yards long
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parallel to my cutting is my running i started with small images i started with a few miles larger images i started to run marathons then i went to run then then i ran miles and i still feel i'm running it's just the training to become a long distance
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i took library material that had fruit in their title and i used them to make an orchard walk with these fruits of knowledge i also planted the so it's a tree and in its trunk you have the roots of languages and it's all about international writing systems and on the branches you have library material growing you can also have function and form with public art so in aurora colorado it's a bench but you have a bonus with this bench because if you sit a long time in summer in shorts you will walk away with temporary branding of the story element on your thighs
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so my process is very straightforward i take a piece of paper i visualize my story sometimes i sketch sometimes i don't and as my image is already inside the paper i just have to remove what's not from that story so i didn't come to in a straight line in fact i see it more as a spiral i was not born with a blade in my hand
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and people told me like these views of the empire state building they told me you're making artist books so artist books have a lot of definitions they come in a lot of different shapes but to me they are fascinating objects to visually narrate a story they can be with words or without words and i have a passion for images and for words
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so you can read architecture active or active architecture so this spider goes through the whole alphabet with identical adjectives and so if you don't know one of these languages it's instant learning and one ancient form of the book is scrolls so scrolls are very convenient because you can create a large image on a very small table
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and one ancient form of the book is scrolls so scrolls are very convenient because you can create a large image on a very small table so the unexpected consequences of that is that you only see one part of your image so it makes a very freestyle architecture and i'm making all those kinds of windows so it's to look beyond the surface it's to have a look at different worlds and very often i've been an outsider so i want to see how things work and what's happening so each window is an image and is a world that i often revisit
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it's all if so what if we were living in balloon houses it would make a very uplifting world and we would leave a very low footprint on the planet it would be so light so sometimes i view from the inside like and the inner circles
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here it's it's a non history of sugar it goes from slave trade to over consumption of sugar with some sweet moments in between and sometimes i have an emotional response to news such as the haitian earthquake other times it's not even my stories people tell me their lives their memories their aspirations and i create a
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from spain the with its lines crosses over to america just like the spanish guitar but in contrast to the the spanish guitar continues to live today on both sides of the atlantic but the in spain its birthplace disappeared it died out it died out about years ago and yet in latin america from mexico to chile all our countries maintain some form of the in our popular traditions in each place they've given it a different name and set it to different music it has a lot of different names more than in total on the continent in mexico for example it's called the son canto de in panama in venezuela in uruguay and argentina in cuba in peru they call it the peruvian because the becomes so integrated into our traditions that if someone asks people from each place are completely convinced that the was invented in their country
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not long ago we were in mexico after a concert and since the concert promoters know me they knew i was a freak and that everywhere i go i ask about it insisting on hearing artists so they organized a son show for me at their house if you recall the son is one of the styles of music that uses in its verses when these amazing musicians finished playing what is for me something amazing which is the son they finished playing and were i went up to greet them really excited getting ready to thank them for their gift of music and this young kid says to me and he says it with the best of intentions he says we're very proud sir to be keeping alive the purest origins of our mexican identity and to tell you the truth i didn't really know what to say
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looking at him i gave him a hug and left but
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those lines really made an impression on me i said what beautiful lyrics did you write them he said no they were by another composer named who was less known than but also a great poet these lines came to me at a time where i had been wanting to express something for a while but didn't quite know how i was getting up to leave and go home to write when stopped me and said hang on hang on and presented me with this challenge write the stanzas for this song in
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i was getting up to leave and go home to write when stopped me and said hang on hang on and presented me with this challenge write the stanzas for this song in now at this point in my life i still wasn't completely sure what were but i was too embarrassed to tell my teacher i didn't know so i put on my best yeah i totally understand face and went home to look up what were i learned that a is a type of verse that only exists in spanish and that it has lines it's very very complex perhaps the most complex style of stanza that we have in spanish it also has a very concrete date of origin which is very rare for a style of stanza the was invented in spain in by a guy named vicente a musician and poet from and listen to this coincidence he was the same guy who added the sixth string to what would later be called the spanish guitar
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it's also got a really surprising feature which is that despite the fact that it developed independently in each of the different countries it maintains even today years after its creation exactly the same rhyme syllable and line structure the same structure vicente gave it during the spanish baroque period here's the structure i'll give you the basic idea and then later you can look online and learn more about it the is ten lines long each line has eight syllables the first line rhymes with the fourth and the fifth the second line with the third the sixth line with the seventh and the tenth and the eighth line rhymes with the ninth it's a bit complicated to be honest and me imagine me trying to write in
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a great way to start i think with my view of simplicity is to take a look at ted here you are understanding why we're here what's going on with no difficulty at all the best a i in the planet would find it complex and confusing and my little dog watson would find it simple and understandable but would miss the point
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and of course if you're a speaker here like hans a speaker finds this complex tricky but in hans case he had a secret weapon yesterday literally in his sword swallowing act and i must say i thought of quite a few objects that i might try to swallow today and finally gave up on but he just did it and that was a wonderful thing so puck meant not only are we fools in the pejorative sense but that we're easily fooled in fact what shakespeare was pointing out is we go to the theater in order to be fooled so we're actually looking forward to it we go to magic shows in order to be fooled
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so one important difference is that it's totally mobile another even more important difference is that in mass production this would not cost more tomorrow than today's cell phones and would actually not sort of be a bigger packaging could look a lot more stylish than this version that i'm wearing around my neck but other than letting some of you live out your fantasy of looking as cool as tom cruise in minority report the reason why we're really excited about this device is that it really can act as one of these sixth sense devices that gives you relevant information about whatever is in front of you so we see here going into the supermarket and he's shopping for some paper towels and as he picks up a product the system can recognize the product that he's picking up using either image recognition or marker technology and give him the green light or an orange light he can ask for additional information so this particular choice here is a particularly good choice given his personal criteria some of you may want the toilet paper with the most bleach in it rather than the most ecologically responsible choice
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picks up a book in the bookstore he can get an amazon rating it gets projected right on the cover of the book this is book our previous speaker which gets a great rating by the way at amazon and so turns the page of the book and can then see additional information about the book reader comments maybe sort of information by his favorite critic etc if he turns to a particular page he finds an annotation by maybe an expert or a friend of ours that gives him a little bit of additional information about whatever is on that particular page reading the newspaper it never has to be outdated
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you can get video annotations of the events that you're reading about you can get the latest sports scores etc this is a more controversial one
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i've been intrigued by this question of whether we could evolve or develop a sixth sense a sense that would give us seamless access and easy access to meta information or information that may exist somewhere that may be relevant to help us make the right decision about whatever it is that we're coming across and some of you may argue well don't today's cell phones do that already but i would say no when you meet someone here at ted and this is the top networking place of course of the year you don't shake somebody's hand and then say can you hold on for a moment while i take out my phone and you or when you go to the supermarket and you're standing there in that huge aisle of different types of toilet papers you don't take out your cell phone and open a browser and go to a website to try to decide which of these different toilet papers is the most ecologically responsible purchase to make so we don't really have easy access to all this relevant information that can just help us make optimal decisions about what to do next and what actions to take
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so we don't really have easy access to all this relevant information that can just help us make optimal decisions about what to do next and what actions to take and so my research group at the media lab has been developing a series of inventions to give us access to this information in a sort of easy way without requiring that the user changes any of their behavior and i'm here to unveil our latest effort and most successful effort so far which is still very much a work in process i'm actually wearing the device right now and we've sort of cobbled it together with components that are off the shelf and that by the way only cost dollars at this point in time i'm wearing a camera just a simple web cam a portable battery powered projection system with a little mirror these components communicate to my cell phone in my pocket which acts as the communication and computation device and in the video here we see my student mistry who's really the genius who's been implementing and designing this whole system and we see how this system lets him walk up to any surface and start using his hands to interact with the information that is projected in front of him
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arm so that's where we're at so far in developing this sixth sense that would give us seamless access to all this relevant information about the things that we may come across my student who's really like i said the genius behind this he does deserve a lot of applause because i don't think he's slept much in the last three months actually and his girlfriend is probably not very happy about him either
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the design of a street can tell you everything about what's expected on it in this case it's expected that you shelter in place the design of this street is really to maximize the movement of cars moving as quickly as possible from point a to point b and it misses all the other ways that a street is used when we started out we did some early surveys about how our streets were used and we found that new york city was largely a city without seats pictures like this people perched on a fire hydrant not the mark of a world class city
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injuries to all users pedestrians cyclists drivers are all down percent and we've built miles of these protected bike lanes and now you're seeing them pop up all over the country and you can see here that this strategy has worked the blue line is the number of cyclists soaring the green line is the number of bike lanes and the yellow line is the number of injuries which has remained essentially flat after this big expansion you've seen no net increase in injuries and so there is something to that axiom that there is safety in numbers not everybody liked the new bike lanes and there was a lawsuit and somewhat of a media frenzy a couple years ago one brooklyn paper called this bike lane that we have on prospect park west the most contested piece of land outside of the gaza strip
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the work of a transportation commissioner isn't just about stop signs and traffic signals it involves the design of cities and the design of city streets streets are some of the most valuable resources that a city has and yet it's an asset that's largely hidden in plain sight and the lesson from new york over the past six years is that you can update this asset you can remake your streets quickly inexpensively it can provide immediate benefits and it can be quite popular you just need to look at them a little differently
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this is important because we live in an urban age for the first time in history most people live in cities and the u n estimates that over the next years the population is going to double on the planet so the design of cities is a key issue for our future mayor bloomberg recognized this when he launched in the plan recognized that cities are in a global marketplace and that if we're going to continue to grow and thrive and to attract the million more people that are expected to move here we need to focus on the quality of life and the efficiency of our infrastructure for many cities our streets have been in a kind of suspended animation for generations this is a picture of times square in the and despite all of the technological innovation cultural changes political changes this is times square in
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certainly not good for the police department so we worked hard to change that balance and probably the best example of our new approach is in times square three hundred and fifty thousand people a day walk through times square and people had tried for years to make changes
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we worked hard to change that balance and probably the best example of our new approach is in times square three hundred and fifty thousand people a day walk through times square and people had tried for years to make changes they changed signals they changed lanes everything they could do to make times square work better it was dangerous hard to cross the street it was chaotic and so none of those approaches worked so we took a different approach a bigger approach looked at our street differently and so we did a six month pilot we closed broadway from street to street and created two and a half acres of new pedestrian space and the temporary materials are an important part of the program because we were able to show how it worked
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romantic love is an obsession it possesses you you lose your sense of self you can't stop thinking about another human being somebody is camping in your head as an eighth century japanese poet said my longing had no time when it ceases wild is love and the obsession can get worse when you've been rejected so right now lucy brown and i the on our project are looking at the data of the people who were put into the machine after they had just been dumped it was very difficult actually putting these people in the machine because they were in such bad shape
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and so there's one thing that makes me pursue my understanding of human nature and this reminds me of it these are two women women tend to get intimacy differently than men do women get intimacy from face talking we swivel towards each other we do what we call the anchoring gaze and we talk this is intimacy to women i think it comes from millions of years of holding that baby in front of your face cajoling it it educating it with words men tend to get intimacy from side doing as soon as one guy looks up the other guy will look away
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it was built by the grandest sun king of the grandest city state of the grandest civilization of the americas the his name was chan he stood over six feet tall he lived into his and he was buried beneath this monument in ad and mayan inscriptions proclaim that he was deeply in love with his wife so he built a temple in her honor facing his and every spring and autumn exactly at the equinox the sun rises behind his temple and perfectly bathes her temple with his shadow and as the sun sets behind her temple in the afternoon it perfectly bathes his temple with her shadow after years these two lovers still touch and kiss from their tomb
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that looming three week deadline came and then went he was still alive and at three months he joined me we gutted and repainted the interior at six months the old windows were refinished and at months the rotted porch was finally replaced and there was my father standing with me outside admiring a day's work hair on his head fully in remission when he turned to me and he said you know michael this house saved my life so the following year i decided to go to architecture school
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but there i learned something different about buildings recognition seemed to come to those who prioritized novel and sculptural forms like ribbons or
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the day my father turned i got a phone call my mother was on the line to tell me that doctors had found a lump in his stomach terminal cancer she told me and he had been given only three weeks to live
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