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what makes this even more challenging is that we're going to need to grow all this food with less and when i say less i mean a number of things less oil for example most reputable geologists believe that we've already reached peak oil production in the world now you might not think in terms of oil and food as being linked but there's a very strong link in fact it takes calories of fossil fuel energy in our highly industrialized food system in order to produce one calorie of food energy we'll also need to grow more food with less water these three images come from three very different parts of the planet but they all tell the same story of catastrophic drought we'll also need to grow more food with less farmland
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we'll also need to grow more food with less farmland here the pressures differ from one place to the next in the global south we're seeing whereas in the north we're seeing suburban sprawl we'll also have to grow more food with less climate stability and less genetic diversity now this is really important we need our genetic varieties because they're a sort of insurance policy against climate change we heard earlier today not putting all of our eggs in one basket well we shouldn't be doing the same with our tomatoes either
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the truth is something quite different now what's become even more troublesome of late is that even the foods that ought to be healthy aren't always so and we're starting to lose confidence in our food system i think the bigger it becomes and the more complex it becomes and we've seen this time and time again this is an image from the latest e coli outbreak in this case it was in europe and we think it was started with bean sprouts of all things
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so we have this sort of shopper's dilemma right now we have all of these different foods foods in the average big box grocery store but we have less confidence in those foods and we have less confidence in the actors that are putting those foods on the shelves i think we need to redefine what good food is this is an interesting image from berlin germany where somebody started planting shopping carts and leaving them around those are potatoes by the way but in addition to redefining what good food is i think we need to redefine our living spaces instead of seeing this as a yard we need to think of it more as like a full service
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in addition to redefining what good food is i think we need to redefine our living spaces instead of seeing this as a yard we need to think of it more as like a full service that's in fact my yard and that's how i look at it that's what we transformed our yard into and i think a really key message is this one gardens grow good food and when i say good food i mean a number of different things i mean food that is safe food that is healthy food that is absolutely gorgeous and delicious another important message is this one gardens grow healthy kids and families those happen to be my two youngest sons and they look healthy and they are healthy and i think it has to do with the fact that they grew up in gardens and they know where good food comes from and in fact they know how to grow some of it themselves
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but there's still so much more that needs to be done and i think this slide sort of captures where we need to go we need a road map and i picked this slide for a reason
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i think one place we could start is we could look at the tax code we're already using the tax code to encourage green transport and green shelter
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but we can do it the technology is certainly there in addition to that i think we need another type of infrastructure it would be good if we could all get together i think if we've learned anything through the ted experience it's that there is power when we bring people together and i think we need to bring people together at the local level as well and i think we can take some inspiration from a previous movement which was the grange movement a rural movement which brought farmers together in a single building to meet and to recreate and learn how to become better farmers
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jack geiger who had written to congratulate me on health leads and to share as he said a bit of historical context in dr geiger founded one of the first two community health centers in this country in a brutally poor area in the mississippi delta and so many of his patients came in presenting with malnutrition that be began prescribing food for them and they would take these prescriptions to the local supermarket which would fill them and then charge the pharmacy budget of the clinic and when the office of economic opportunity in washington d c which was funding clinic found out about this they were furious and they sent this bureaucrat down to tell geiger that he was expected to use their dollars for medical care to which geiger famously and logically responded the last time i checked my textbooks the specific therapy for malnutrition was food
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showed up the first day ready to make coffee and photocopies but was paired with this righteous deeply inspired attorney named jeff purcell who thrust me onto the front lines from the very first day and over the course of nine months i had the chance to have dozens of conversations with low income families in boston who would come in presenting with housing issues but always had an underlying health issue so i had a client who came in about to be evicted because he hasn't paid his rent but he hasn't paid his rent of course because he's paying for his medication and just can't afford both we had moms who would come in daughter has asthma wakes up covered in cockroaches every morning
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smack can mean kiss as in air kisses as in lip smacking but that can lead to smack as in hit as in domestic abuse because sexual attraction can seem threatening the red that means fertility can also mean poison oleander is poisonous and usages like smack for kiss or hit can help us see how our assumptions can make us believe we are bad either because sex is sinful or because we tolerate so much sexism we let guys tell women what to do the poem reacts to old lipstick ads and its edginess about statement its reversals and halts have everything to do with resisting the language of ads that want to tell us so easily what to want what to do what to think that resistance is a lot of the point of the poem which shows me armantrout shows me what it's like to hear grave threats and mortal dishonesty in the language of everyday life and once she's done that i think she can show other people women and men what it's like to feel that way and say to other people women and men who feel so alienated or so threatened that they're not alone now how do i know that i'm right about this somewhat confusing poem well in this case i emailed the poet a draft of my talk and she said yeah yeah that's about it yeah
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i read poetry all the time and write about it frequently and take poems apart to see how they work because i'm a word person i understand the world best most fully in words rather than say pictures or numbers and when i have a new experience or a new feeling i'm a little frustrated until i can try to put it into words i think i've always been that way i devoured science fiction as a child i still do and i found poems by andrew marvell and matthew arnold and emily dickinson and william butler yeats because they were quoted in science fiction and i loved their sounds and i went on to read about rima and medial and and all that other technical stuff that you care about if you already care about poems because poems already made me happier and sadder and more alive
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update you will recall i introduced you guys to the tracker it's like a water dowsing device it's just a hollow piece of plastic with an antenna that swivels around and you walk around and it points to things like if you're looking for marijuana in students' lockers it'll point right to somebody oh sorry
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pretty sexy feet i must say maybe a little and of course the ambiguous figures that seem to flip flop back and forth it turns out what you're thinking about a lot influences what you tend to see and you see the lamp here i know because the lights on here of course thanks to the environmentalist movement we're all sensitive to the plight of marine mammals so what you see in this particular ambiguous figure is of course the dolphins right you see a dolphin here and there's a dolphin and there's a dolphin that's a dolphin tail there guys
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so what i want to talk about today is belief i want to believe and you do too and in fact i think my thesis here is that belief is the natural state of things it is the default option we just believe we believe all sorts of things belief is natural disbelief skepticism science is not natural it's more difficult
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we find patterns we make those connections whether it's dog here associating the sound of the bell with the food and then he to the sound of the bell or whether it's a rat in which he's having an association between his behavior and a reward for it and therefore he repeats the behavior in fact what skinner discovered is that if you put a pigeon in a box like this and he has to press one of these two keys and he tries to figure out what the pattern is and you give him a little reward in the hopper box there if you just randomly assign rewards such that there is no pattern they will figure out any kind of pattern and whatever they were doing just before they got the reward they repeat that particular pattern sometimes it was even spinning around twice counterclockwise once clockwise and peck the key twice and that's called superstition and that i'm afraid we will always have with us i call this process that is the tendency to find meaningful patterns in both meaningful and meaningless noise when we do this process we make two types of errors a type i error or false positive is believing a pattern is real when it's not our second type of error is a false negative
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com where you can actually buy collections of sheep you can't pick individual sheep but you can buy a single plate block of stamps as a commodity and juxtaposed against this grid you see actually by rolling over each individual one the humanity behind this hugely mechanical process i think there's something really interesting to watching people as they go through this creative toil something we can all relate to this creative process of trying to come up with something from nothing i think it was really interesting to juxtapose this humanity versus this massive distributed grid kind of amazing what some people did so here's a few statistics from the project approximate collection rate of sheep per hour which would make a working wage of cents per hour there were rejected sheep that didn't meet sheep like criteria and were thrown out of the flock
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that gives you an idea of the different types of motivations and dedication and there were people that contributed to the project or were unique ip addresses so about how many people contributed but only one of them out of the said this
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you can also toggle between altitude for model and manufacturer see again the diversity and you can scroll around and see some of the different airports and the different patterns that they have this is up the east coast you can see some of the chaos that's happening in new york with the air traffic controllers having to deal with all those major airports next to each other so zooming back out real quick we see again the u s you get florida down in the right hand corner moving across to the west coast you see san francisco and los angeles big low traffic zones across nevada and arizona
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we turned to the tech sector there's been quite a lot of innovations there just to name one the internet we hoped it could produce growth and indeed it changed our lives it made big waves in the media the service the entertainment spaces but it hasn't done much for productivity actually what's surprising is that productivity is on the decline despite all of those innovation efforts imagine that sitting at work through watching videos on has made us less productive weird
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growth is fading away and it's a big deal our global economy stops growing and it's not new growth has actually declined for the last years if we continue like this we need to learn how to live in a world with no growth in the next decade this is scary because when the economy doesn't grow our children don't get better lives
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with ms help i ended up returning to school i even finished my credits on time and graduated with my class but ms russ said to me right before graduation victor i'm so proud of you i knew you could do it now it's time to go to college
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so we went out to test these ideas in the community of watts in la with young people that had been pushed out of school william was one of them william was the kind of kid that had been given every label he had dropped out he was a gang member a criminal and when we met him he was very resistant but i remember what ms russ used to say hey i'm here for you whenever you're ready
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i wasn't ready but she understood one basic principle about young people like me we're like oysters we're only going to open up when we're ready and if you're not there when we're ready we're going to clam back up ms russ was there for me she was culturally relevant she respected my community my people my family
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russ was there for me she was culturally relevant she respected my community my people my family i told her a story about my uncle ruben he would take me to work with him because i was broke and he knew i needed some money he collected glass bottles for a living four in the morning on a school day we'd throw the glass bottles in the back of his van and the bottles would break and my hands and arms would start to bleed and my tennis shoes and pants would get all bloody and i was terrified and in pain and i would stop working and my uncle he would look me in the eyes and he would say to me vida
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the first let's get rid of our deficit perspective in education these people come from a culture of violence a culture of poverty these people are at risk these people are truant
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truth be told i have never found a role model i could truly identify with my mother's generation wasn't into professional leadership there were some encouraging men along the way but none knew the demands and pressures i was facing pressures that got particularly acute when i had my own two beautiful children and although western women love to give us poor oppressed arab women advice they live different lives with different constraints so arab women of my generation have had to become our own role models we have had to juggle more than arab men and we have had to face more cultural rigidity than western women as a result i would like to think that we poor oppressed women actually have some useful certainly hard earned lessons to share lessons that might turn out useful for anyone wishing to thrive in the modern world here are three of mine convert their into your fuel
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time stood still for a long while and all i could think and repeat in the chaos of my brain was you can forget about that partnership leila it's just never going to happen it took me a couple of days to fully absorb this incident and its implications but once i did i reached three conclusions one that these were his issues his complexes there may be many like him in our society but i would never let their issues become mine two that i needed another sponsor and fast
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if you look at my calendar you will see every working day one and a half hours from to time blocked and called family time this is sacred time i have done this ever since was a baby i do everything in my power to protect this time so that i can be home by then to spend quality time with my children asking them about their day checking up on homework reading them a bedtime story and giving them lots of kisses and if i'm traveling in whatever the time zone i use to connect with my children even if i am miles away our son is five years old and he's learning to read and do basic here's another confession i have found that our daughter is actually more successful at teaching him these skills than i am
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are these people it was an innocent question from my young daughter around the time when she was three we were walking along with my husband in one of abu big fancy malls was peering at a huge poster standing tall in the middle of the mall it featured the three rulers of the united arab emirates as she tucked in my side i bent down and explained that these were the rulers of the who had worked hard to develop their nation and preserve its unity
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we were walking along with my husband in one of abu big fancy malls was peering at a huge poster standing tall in the middle of the mall it featured the three rulers of the united arab emirates as she tucked in my side i bent down and explained that these were the rulers of the who had worked hard to develop their nation and preserve its unity she asked mom why is it that here where we live and back in lebanon where grandma and grandpa live we never see the pictures of powerful women on the walls is it because women are not important this is probably the hardest question i've had to answer in my years as a parent and in my years of professional life for that matter i had grown up in my hometown in lebanon the younger of two daughters to a very hard working pilot and director of operations for the lebanese airlines and a super supportive stay mom and grandma my father had encouraged my sister and i to pursue our education even though our culture emphasized at the time that it was sons and not daughters who should be professionally motivated i was one of very few girls of my generation who left home at to study abroad my father didn't have a son and so i in a sense became his
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there is this word that everybody is touting as the key to success resilience well what exactly is resilience and how do you develop it i believe resilience is simply the ability to transform shit into fuel in my previous job well before my current firm i was working with a man we will call john i had teamed up with john and was working hard hoping he would notice how great i was and that he would come to support my case to make partner at the firm
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it's sort of your classic idea of a heat ray it goes out to a really long distance compared to any of these other sorts of things anybody who is hit with this feels a sudden burst of heat and just wants to get out of the way it is a lot more sophisticated than a microwave oven but it basically is boiling the water molecules in the very surface level of your skin so you feel this massive heat and you go i want to get out of the way and they think this will be really useful in places where we need to clear a crowd out of a particular area if the crowd is being hostile if we need to keep people away from a particular place we can do that with these sorts of things so there's a whole range of different nonlethal weapons we could give military personnel and there's a whole range of situations where they're looking at them and saying these things would be really useful but as i said the military and the police are very different
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and you can't actually find them very easily for individual australian states i could only find these this is from an australian institute of criminology report you can see in the fine print at the top police shooting deaths means not just people shot by police but people who have shot themselves in the presence of police but these are the figures across the entire country and the red arrow represents the point where queensland said yes this is where we're going to give all police officers across the entire state access to spray so you can see there were six deaths sort of leading up to it every year for a number of years there was a spike a few years before but that wasn't actually queensland anyone know where that was wasn't port arthur no victoria yes correct that spike was all victoria
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next two years were the years they studied anyone want to take a stab at the number of times given how they've introduced this the number of times police in queensland used spray in that period hundreds one three a thousand is getting better explicitly introduced as an alternative to the use of lethal force an alternative between shouting and shooting i'm going to go out on a limb here and say that if queensland police didn't have spray they wouldn't have shot people in those two years
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i checked the reports on this one i looked at it i was really surprised apparently she took up a more threatening position in her bed
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there's a bunch of reasons why we send military personnel rather than police to do these jobs if australia had to send people tomorrow to west papua for example we don't have police officers hanging around that could go tomorrow and we do have soldiers that could go so when we have to send someone we send the military they're there they're available and heck they're used to going off and doing these things and living by themselves and not having all this extra support so they are able to do it in that sense but they aren't trained the same way police officers are and they're certainly not equipped the way police officers are so this has raised a bunch of problems for them when dealing with these issues one particular thing that's come up that i am especially interested in is the question of whether when we're sending military personnel to do these sorts of jobs we ought to be equipping them differently and in particular whether we ought to be giving them access to some of the nonlethal weapons that police have since they're doing some of the same jobs maybe they should have some of those things
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there's a range of places you'd think those things would be really useful for example when you've got military checkpoints if people are approaching these checkpoints and the military personnel are unsure if this person's hostile or not say this person approaching here and they say is this a suicide bomber or not is something hidden under their clothes what's going to happen they don't know if the person is hostile or not if the person doesn't follow directions they may end up shooting them and then find out afterwards either yes we shot the right person or no this was just an innocent person who didn't understand what was going on
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if people are approaching these checkpoints and the military personnel are unsure if this person's hostile or not say this person approaching here and they say is this a suicide bomber or not is something hidden under their clothes what's going to happen they don't know if the person is hostile or not if the person doesn't follow directions they may end up shooting them and then find out afterwards either yes we shot the right person or no this was just an innocent person who didn't understand what was going on so if they had nonlethal weapons then they would say we can use them in that sort of situation if we shoot someone who wasn't hostile at least we haven't killed them another situation this photo is from one of the missions in the balkans in the late this situation is a little bit different where maybe they know someone is hostile they've got someone shooting at them or doing something else that's clearly hostile throwing rocks whatever but if they respond there's a range of other people around who are innocent people who might also get hurt it'd be collateral damage that the military often doesn't want to talk about so again they'd say with access to nonlethal weapons if we've got someone we know is hostile we can do something to deal with them and know that if we hit anyone else at least we're not going to kill them
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started to investigate some of those issues and have a look at the way police use nonlethal weapons when they're introduced and some of the problems that might arise out of those sorts of things when they actually do introduce them and of course being australian i started looking at stuff in australia knowing from my own experience of various times when nonlethal weapons have been introduced in australia one of the things i particularly looked at was the use of spray spray pepper spray by australian police and seeing what had happened when that had been introduced and those sorts of issues and one study that i found a particularly interesting one was in queensland because they had a trial period for the use of pepper spray before they actually introduced it more broadly and i went and had a look at some of the figures here now when they introduced spray in queensland they were really explicit the police minister's and a heap of public statements were made about it
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said no it's a simple solution one of your students must have been passing by showed them how to use the mouse so i said yeah that's possible so i repeated the experiment i went miles out of delhi into a really remote village where the chances of a passing software development engineer was very little
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there was no place to stay so i stuck my computer in i went away came back after a couple of months found kids playing games on it when they saw me they said we want a faster processor and a better mouse
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so i said how on earth do you know all this and they said something very interesting to me in an irritated voice they said you've given us a machine that works only in english so we had to teach ourselves english in order to use it
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so i started publishing i published everywhere i wrote down and measured everything and i said in nine months a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the west i'd seen it happen over and over and over again but i was curious to know what else would they do if they could do this much i started experimenting with other subjects among them for example pronunciation there's one community of children in southern india whose english pronunciation is really bad and they needed good pronunciation because that would improve their jobs i gave them a speech engine in a computer and i said keep talking into it until it types what you say
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important but it's all in english so they said how can we understand such big english words and diagrams and chemistry so by now i had developed a new pedagogical method so i applied that i said i haven't the foggiest idea
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why did they create a system like that because it was needed there was an age in the age of empires when you needed those people who can survive under threat when you're standing in a trench all alone if you could have survived you're okay you've passed if you didn't you failed but the age of empires is gone what happens to creativity in our age we need to shift that balance back from threat to pleasure i came back to england looking for british grandmothers i put out notices in papers saying if you are a british grandmother if you have broadband and a web camera can you give me one hour of your time per week for free i got in the first two weeks i know more british grandmothers than anyone in the universe
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going to be the future of learning i do have a plan but in order for me to tell you what that plan is i need to tell you a little story which kind of sets the stage i tried to look at where did the kind of learning we do in schools where did it come from and you can look far back into the past but if you look at present day schooling the way it is it's quite easy to figure out where it came from it came from about years ago and it came from the last and the biggest of the empires on this planet the british empire imagine trying to run the show trying to run the entire planet without computers without telephones with data handwritten on pieces of paper and traveling by ships
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it came from about years ago and it came from the last and the biggest of the empires on this planet the british empire imagine trying to run the show trying to run the entire planet without computers without telephones with data handwritten on pieces of paper and traveling by ships but the victorians actually did it what they did was amazing they created a global computer made up of people it's still with us today it's called the bureaucratic administrative machine in order to have that machine running you need lots and lots of people they made another machine to produce those people the school
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so that's a pretty strong comment there i said schools as we know them now they're obsolete i'm not saying they're broken it's quite fashionable to say that the education system's broken it's not broken it's wonderfully constructed
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it's quite fashionable to say that the education system's broken it's not broken it's wonderfully constructed it's just that we don't need it anymore it's outdated what are the kind of jobs that we have today well the clerks are the computers they're there in thousands in every office and you have people who guide those computers to do their clerical jobs those people don't need to be able to write beautifully by hand
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a short glimpse from those years that's the first day at the hole in the wall on your right is an eight to his left is his student she's six and he's teaching her how to browse
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so then people said well how far will it go where does it stop i decided i would destroy my own argument by creating an absurd proposition i made a hypothesis a ridiculous hypothesis tamil is a south indian language and i said can tamil speaking children in a south indian village learn the biotechnology of replication in english from a computer and i said i'll measure them they'll get a zero i'll spend a couple of months i'll leave it for a couple of months i'll go back they'll get another zero i'll go back to the lab and say we need teachers i found a village
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for those of you who understand computers our right hemisphere functions like a parallel processor while our left hemisphere functions like a serial processor the two do communicate with one another through the corpus which is made up of some million fibers but other than that the two are completely separate because they process information differently each of our think about different things they care about different things and dare i say they have very different personalities excuse me thank you it's been a joy it has been
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that's not the card it took me minutes to get one inch down inside of that stack of cards in the meantime for minutes the hemorrhage is getting bigger in my left hemisphere i do not understand numbers i do not understand the telephone but it's the only plan i have so i take the phone pad and i put it right here i take the business card i put it right here and i'm matching the shape of the squiggles on the card to the shape of the squiggles on the phone pad but then i would drift back out into la la land and not remember when i came back if i'd already dialed those numbers so i had to wield my paralyzed arm like a stump and cover the numbers as i went along and pushed them so that as i would come back to normal reality i'd be able to tell yes i've already dialed that number eventually the whole number gets dialed and i'm listening to the phone and my colleague picks up the phone and he says to me woo woo woo woo
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on the morning of the hemorrhage i could not walk talk read write or recall any of my life i essentially became an infant in a woman's body
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our right human hemisphere is all about this present moment it's all about right here right now our right hemisphere it thinks in pictures and it learns through the movement of our bodies information in the form of energy streams in simultaneously through all of our sensory systems and then it explodes into this enormous collage of what this present moment looks like what this present moment smells like and tastes like what it feels like and what it sounds like i am an energy being connected to the energy all around me through the consciousness of my right hemisphere we are energy beings connected to one another through the consciousness of our right as one human family
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our left hemisphere is designed to take that enormous collage of the present moment and start picking out details and more details about those details it then categorizes and organizes all that information associates it with everything in the past we've ever learned and projects into the future all of our possibilities and our left hemisphere thinks in language it's that ongoing brain chatter that connects me and my internal world to my external world it's that little voice that says to me hey you've got to remember to pick up bananas on your way home i need them in the morning it's that calculating intelligence that reminds me when i have to do my laundry but perhaps most important it's that little voice that says to me i am i am
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then like any other consumer product you would demand to know what you're paying for when you buy medicines you get a list of side effects when you buy a higher educational product you should have a warning label that allows consumers to choose make informed choices when you buy a car it tells you how many miles per gallon to expect who knows what to expect from a degree say in canadian studies there is such a thing by the way what if there was an app for that one that linked up the cost of a major to the expected income let's call it income based tuition or one of you make this
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today million americans are indebted for their passage to the new economy too poor to pay their way through college they now owe lenders more than one trillion us dollars they do find what jobs they can get to pay off a debt that is secured on their person in america even a bankrupt gambler gets a second chance but it is nearly impossible for an american to get discharged their student loan debts once upon a time in america going to college did not mean graduating with debt
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solution for that is to make roads out of porous asphalt porous asphalt a material that we use now in most of the highways in the netherlands it has pores and water can just rain through it so all the rainwater will flow away to the sides and you have a road that's easy to drive on so no splash water anymore also the noise will disappear in these pores because it's very hollow all the noise will disappear so it's a very silent road it also has disadvantages of course and the disadvantage of this road is that raveling can occur what is raveling you see that in this road that the stones at the surface come off first you get one stone then several more and more and more and more and more and then they well i will not do that
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that this is a very nice road it's made of asphalt and asphalt is a very nice material to drive on but not always especially not on these days as today when it's raining a lot then you can have a lot of splash water in the asphalt and especially if you then ride with your bicycle and pass these cars then that's not very nice also asphalt can create a lot of noise it's a noisy material and if we produce roads like in the netherlands very close to cities then we would like a silent road
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is the main broadcast control room a technical installation so large it can broadcast over channels simultaneously and this is how the building stands in beijing today its first broadcast live was the london olympics after it had been completed from the outside for the beijing olympics and you can see at the very tip of this those three little circles and they're indeed part of a public loop that goes through the building they're a piece of glass that you can stand on and watch the city pass by below you in slow motion the building has become part of everyday life in beijing it is there it has also become a very popular backdrop for wedding photography
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for much of the past century architecture was under the spell of a famous doctrine form follows function had become ambitious manifesto and detrimental straitjacket as it liberated architecture from the decorative but condemned it to utilitarian rigor and restrained purpose of course architecture is about function but i want to remember a rewriting of this phrase by bernard tschumi and i want to propose a completely different quality if form follows fiction we could think of architecture and buildings as a space of stories stories of the people that live there of the people that work in these buildings and we could start to imagine the experiences our buildings create in this sense i'm interested in fiction not as the implausible but as the real as the reality of what architecture means for the people that live in it and with it
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as young as i look i am growing older faster than he seven to one is the ratio they tend to say whatever the number i will pass him one day and take the lead the way i do on our walks in the woods and if this ever manages to cross his mind it would be the sweetest shadow i have ever cast on snow or grass thank you and our next dog speaks in something called the which means a spirit that comes back to visit you i am the dog you put to sleep as you like to call the needle of oblivion come back to tell you this simple thing i never liked you
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i don't know if you've noticed but there's been a spate of books that have come out lately contemplating or speculating on the cognition and emotional life of dogs do they think do they feel and if so how so this afternoon in my limited time i wanted to take the guesswork out of a lot of that by introducing you to two dogs both of whom have taken the command speak quite literally the first dog is the first to go and he is contemplating an aspect of his relationship to his owner and the title is a dog on his master as young as i look i am growing older faster than he seven to one is the ratio they tend to say
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like any major city that place is a lot of things many of which are highly contradictory our public transportation doesn't quite work so we have these privately owned bright yellow buses that regularly cause accidents luxury car showrooms line badly maintained and often flooded roads street evangelism is only slightly less ubiquitous than street harassment sex workers sometimes have two degrees a bank job and a prominent role in church
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forced evictions are incredibly violent and of course unconstitutional and yet they happen so often in so many of our cities because the first thing we are taught to forget about poor people is that they are people we believe that a home is a thing a person absolutely has a right to unless the person is poor and the home is built a certain way in a certain neighborhood but there is no single definition of the word home after all what is a slum besides an organic response to acute housing deficits and income inequality and what is a shanty if not a person making a home for themselves against all odds slums are an imperfect housing solution but they are also prime examples of the innovation adaptability and resilience at the foundation and the heart of every functional city you don't need to be the new dubai when you're already lagos we have our own identity our own rhythm and as anyone who knows lagos can tell you poor are very often the source of the city's character without its poor lagos would not be known for its music or its endless energy or even the fact that you can buy an ice cold drink or a puppy through your car window
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was one of the first to be targeted i first heard of after the demolition started when i visited in november i met magdalene she is a now homeless woman whose surname means the world is blind son basil was one of over people who were shot drowned or presumed dead in that land grab standing outside her shelter i saw the two white sand football fields where basil used to play
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son basil was one of over people who were shot drowned or presumed dead in that land grab standing outside her shelter i saw the two white sand football fields where basil used to play spread all around us were the ruins of schools churches a primary health center shops thousands of homes young children enthusiastically helped to put up shelters and about of the residents with nowhere else to go simply stayed put and then in april state security personnel came back this time they cleared the community out completely with beatings bullets and fire as i speak there are construction crews preparing beaches for anyone who can afford a multi view the new development is called estate forced evictions are incredibly violent and of course unconstitutional
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our realities may differ but our rights don't the lagos state government like far too many on our continent pays lip service to ideas of inclusion while acting as though progress can only be achieved by the exploitation and even elimination of groups it considers expendable people living with disabilities who hawk or beg on lagos streets are rounded up extorted and detained women in low income neighborhoods are picked up and charged with prostitution regardless of what they actually do for a living gay citizens are scapegoated to distract from real political problems but people like cities are resilient and no amount of legislation or intimidation or violence can fully eliminate any of us
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he arrives on the small hill dripping with water he stands there and he looks across at the island sado and he scans across the ocean and he looks at the sky then he says to himself very quietly turbulent the sea stretching across to sado the milky way was a brilliant man he said more with less than any human that i have ever read or talked to in syllables juxtaposed a turbulent ocean driven by a storm now past and captured the almost impossible beauty of our home galaxy with millions of stars probably hundreds and hundreds of who knows how many planets maybe even an ocean that we will probably call sylvia in time as he was nearing his death his disciples and followers kept asking him what's the secret how can you make haiku poems so beautiful so easily and toward the end he said if you would know the pine tree go to the pine tree that was it
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for a moment what i need to do is project something on the screen of your imagination we're in century japan on the west coast and a little wizened monk is hurrying along near midnight to the crest of a small hill he arrives on the small hill dripping with water he stands there and he looks across at the island sado and he scans across the ocean and he looks at the sky then he says to himself very quietly turbulent the sea stretching across to sado the milky way
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and when we open our hearts to the opportunities the opportunities invite us to do something and that is the third look and then go and really do something and what we can do is whatever life offers to you in that present moment mostly it's the opportunity to enjoy but sometimes it's something more difficult but whatever it is if we take this opportunity we go with it we are creative those are the creative people and that little stop look go is such a potent seed that it can revolutionize our world because we are at the present moment in the middle of a change of consciousness and you will be surprised if you i am always surprised when i hear how many times this word and gratitude comes up everywhere you find it a grateful airline a restaurant a a wine that is yes i have even come across a toilet paper whose brand is called thank you
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thank you when i was asked to do this i was also asked to look at all ted talks that i had given chronologically the first one was actually two hours the second one was an hour and then they became half hours and all i noticed was my bald spot getting bigger
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we started wired magazine some people i remember we shared the reception desk periodically and some parent called up irate that his son had given up sports illustrated to subscribe for wired and he said are you some porno magazine or something and couldn't understand why his son would be interested in wired at any rate i will go through this a little quicker this is my favorite back page of newsweek magazine okay read it
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can we switch to the video disc which is in play mode i'm really interested in how you put people and computers together we will be using the tv screens or their equivalents for electronic books of the future music crosstalk very interested in touch sensitive displays high tech high touch not having to pick up your fingers to use them there is another way where computers touch people wearing physically wearing suddenly on september the world got bigger
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of the reason why we care so much about our careers and indeed start caring so much about material goods you know we're often told that we live in very materialistic times that we're all greedy people i don't think we are particularly materialistic i think we live in a society which has simply pegged certain emotional rewards to the acquisition of material goods it's not the material goods we want it's the rewards we want it's a new way of looking at luxury goods the next time you see somebody driving a ferrari don't think this is somebody who's greedy think this is somebody who is incredibly vulnerable and in need of love
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and it's a beautiful idea along with that is a kind of spirit of equality we're all basically equal there are no strictly defined hierarchies there is one really big problem with this and that problem is envy envy it's a real taboo to mention envy but if there's one dominant emotion in modern society that is envy and it's linked to the spirit of equality let me explain i think it would be very unusual for anyone here or anyone watching to be envious of the queen of england even though she is much richer than any of you are and she's got a very large house the reason why we don't envy her is because she's too weird
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closer two people are in age in background in the process of identification the more there's a danger of envy which is incidentally why none of you should ever go to a school reunion because there is no stronger reference point than people one was at school with the problem of modern society is it turns the whole world into a school everybody's wearing jeans everybody's the same and yet they're not so there's a spirit of equality combined with deep inequality which can make for a very stressful situation it's probably as unlikely that you would nowadays become as rich and famous as bill gates as it was unlikely in the century that you would accede to the ranks of the french aristocracy but the point is it doesn't feel that way it's made to feel by magazines and other media outlets that if you've got energy a few bright ideas about technology a garage you too could start a major thing
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if you open the newspaper any day of the week it's full of people who've messed up their lives they've slept with the wrong person taken the wrong substance passed the wrong piece of legislation whatever it is and then are fit for ridicule in other words they have failed and they are described as losers now is there any alternative to this i think the western tradition shows us one glorious alternative which is tragedy tragic art as it developed in the theaters of ancient greece in the fifth century b c was essentially an art form devoted to tracing how people fail and also according them a level of sympathy which ordinary life would not necessarily accord them a few years ago i was thinking about this and i went to the sunday sport a tabloid newspaper i don't recommend you start reading if you're not familiar with it already
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i went to talk to them about certain of the great tragedies of western art i wanted to see how they would seize the bare bones of certain stories if they came in as a news item at the news desk on a saturday afternoon i mentioned othello they'd not heard of it but were fascinated
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they normally happen these career crises often actually on a sunday evening just as the sun is starting to set and the gap between my hopes for myself and the reality of my life starts to diverge so painfully that i normally end up weeping into a pillow i'm mentioning all this i'm mentioning all this because i think this is not merely a personal problem you may think i'm wrong in this but i think we live in an age when our lives are regularly punctuated by career crises by moments when what we thought we knew about our lives about our careers comes into contact with a threatening sort of reality it's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living it's perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm to be free of career anxiety i want to look now if i may at some of the reasons why we might be feeling anxiety about our careers why we might be victims of these career crises as we're weeping softly into our pillows
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there are other reasons why it's perhaps harder now to feel calm than ever before one of these and it's paradoxical because it's linked to something that's rather nice is the hope we all have for our careers never before have expectations been so high about what human beings can achieve with their lifespan we're told from many sources that anyone can achieve anything we've done away with the caste system we are now in a system where anyone can rise to any position they please and it's a beautiful idea
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everybody all politicians on left and right agree that meritocracy is a great thing and we should all be trying to make our societies really really in other words what is a society a society is one in which if you've got talent and energy and skill you will get to the top nothing should hold you back it's a beautiful idea the problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top get to the top you'll also by implication and in a far more nasty way believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there in other words your position in life comes to seem not accidental but merited and deserved and that makes failure seem much more crushing you know in the middle ages in england when you met a very poor person that person would be described as an unfortunate literally somebody who had not been blessed by fortune an unfortunate nowadays particularly in the united states if you meet someone at the bottom of society they may be described as a loser
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you know in the middle ages in england when you met a very poor person that person would be described as an unfortunate literally somebody who had not been blessed by fortune an unfortunate nowadays particularly in the united states if you meet someone at the bottom of society they may be described as a loser there's a real difference between an unfortunate and a loser and that shows years of evolution in society and our belief in who is responsible for our lives it's no longer the gods it's us we're in the driving seat that's exhilarating if you're doing well and very crushing if you're not it leads in the worst cases in the analysis of a sociologist like emil durkheim it leads to increased rates of suicide there are more suicides in developed individualistic countries than in any other part of the world and some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally they own their success but they also own their failure
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there any relief from some of these pressures that i've been outlining i think there is i just want to turn to a few of them let's take meritocracy this idea that everybody deserves to get where they get to i think it's a crazy idea completely crazy i will support any politician of left and right with any halfway decent idea i am a in that sense but i think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely it's an impossible dream
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in a way if you like at one end of the spectrum of sympathy you've got the tabloid newspaper at the other end of the spectrum you've got tragedy and tragic art and i suppose i'm arguing that we should learn a little bit about what's happening in tragic art it would be insane to call hamlet a loser he is not a loser though he has lost
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about three seconds ago i've been for about years and when i first started i would sit down with people and say hey let's talk years out and they'd say great and i've been seeing that time horizon get shorter and shorter and shorter so much so that i met with a two months ago and i said we started our initial conversation he goes i love what you do i want to talk about the next six months
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these are scale problems the issue though is we can't solve them using the mental models that we use right now to try and solve these problems yes a lot of great technical work is being done but there is a problem that we need to solve for a before if we want to really move the needle on those big problems short right there's no marches there's no bracelets there's no petitions that you can sign to be against short i tried to put one up and no one signed it was weird
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now the reality is for a lot of these problems there are some technical fixes a lot of them i call these technical fixes sandbag strategies so you know there's a storm coming the levee is broken no one's put any money into it you surround your home with sandbags and guess what it works storm goes away the water level goes down you get rid of the sandbags and you do this storm after storm after storm and here's the insidious thing a sandbag strategy can get you reelected a sandbag strategy can help you make your quarterly numbers now if we want to move forward into a different future than the one we have right now because i don't think we've hit is not peak civilization
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but here's a problem with these issues they stack up on top of us because the only way we know how to do something good in the world is if we do it between our birth and our death that's what we're programmed to do if you go to the self help section in any bookstore it's all about you which is great unless you're dealing with some of these major issues and so with thinking which is really kind of ethics you're able to expand how you think about these problems what is your role in helping to solve them now this isn't something that just has to be done at the security council chamber it's something that you can do in a very kind of personal way so every once in a while if i'm lucky my wife and i like to go out to dinner and we have three children under the age of seven so you can imagine it's a very peaceful quiet meal
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so we sit down and literally all i want to do is just eat and chill and my kids have a completely and totally different idea of what we're going to be doing and so my first idea is my sandbag strategy right it's to go into my pocket and take out the and give them frozen or some other bestselling game thing and then i stop and i have to kind of put on this thinking cap i don't do this in the restaurant because it would be bizarre but i have to i did it once and that's how i learned it was bizarre
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you don't have to give it to me but think in your head and what you're probably going to see is the dominant cultural lens that dominates our thinking about the future right now technology so when we think about the problems we always put it through a technological lens a tech a techno utopia and there's nothing wrong with that but it's something that we have to really think deeply about if we're going to move on these major issues because it wasn't always like this right the ancients had their way of thinking about what the future was the church definitely had their idea of what the future could be and you could actually pay your way into that future right and luckily for humanity we got the scientific revolution from there we got the technology but what has happened and by the way this is not a critique i love technology everything in my house talks back to me from my children to my speakers to everything
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we pretty much have eradicated global polio we did the transcontinental railroad the marshall plan
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we did the panama canal we pretty much have eradicated global polio we did the transcontinental railroad the marshall plan and it's not just big physical infrastructure problems and issues women's suffrage the right to vote but in our short time where everything seems to happen right now and we can only think out past the next tweet or timeline post we get hyper reactionary so what do we do we take people who are fleeing their war torn country and we go after them we take low level drug offenders and we put them away for life and then we build without even thinking about how people are going to get between them and their job
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first thinking i love the philosophers plato socrates i was raised on them but they all did one thing that didn't actually seem like a big deal until i really started kind of looking into this and they all took as a unit of measure for their entire reality of what it meant to be virtuous and good the single lifespan from birth to death but here's a problem with these issues they stack up on top of us because the only way we know how to do something good in the world is if we do it between our birth and our death that's what we're programmed to do if you go to the self help section in any bookstore it's all about you
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what i'm saying is we have to rethink our base assumption about only looking at the future in one way only looking at it through the dominant lens because our problems are so big and so vast that we need to open ourselves up
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that's why i do everything in my power not to talk about the future i talk about futures it opens the conversation again so when you're sitting and thinking about how do we move forward on this major issue it could be at home it could be at work it could be again on the global stage don't cut yourself off from thinking about something beyond technology as a fix because we're more concerned about technological evolution right now than we are about moral evolution and unless we fix for that we're not going to be able to get out of short and get to where we want to be the final telos thinking this comes from the greek root
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it's a verb it requires action
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designing a game we speak to physical therapists at first to understand what movement patients need to do we then make that a video game to give patients simple motivating objectives to follow but the software is very and physical therapists can also create their own exercises using the software my physical therapist recorded herself performing a shoulder abduction which is one of the movements my mom had to do when she had frozen shoulder i can follow my therapist's example on the left side of the screen while on the right i see myself doing the recommended movement i feel more engaged and confident as i'm exercising alongside my therapist with the exercises my therapist thinks are best for me this basically extends the application for physical therapists to create whatever exercises they think are best this is an auction house game for preventing falls designed to strengthen muscles and improve balance as a patient i need to do sit and stand movements and when i stand up i bid for the items i want to buy
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