Datasets:
jayavibhav
/
urfunnyv2_transcripts

Dataset card Data Studio Files
xet
Community
1
id
int64
transcript
string
label
int64
8,491
think about it now in design terms a wheelchair is a very difficult object
0
8,496
double click the word watch i go double click it neatly selects just that word also don't delete what you've highlighted you can just type over it this is in every program also you can go double click drag to highlight in one word increments as you drag much more precise again don't bother deleting just type over it
1
8,497
that's true in everything risky except technology for some reason there's no standard syllabus there's no basic course they just sort of give you your computer and then kick you out of the nest you're supposed to learn this stuff how just by osmosis nobody ever sits down and tells you this is how it works
0
8,498
of all on the web if you want to scroll down don't pick up the mouse and use the scroll bar that's a terrible waste of time do that only if you're paid by the hour instead hit the space bar the space bar scrolls down one page hold down the shift key to scroll back up again
0
8,501
so when that happens this works in keynote it works in every program all you do is hit the letter b key b for blackout to black out the slide make everybody look at you and then when you're ready to go on you hit b again and if you're really on a roll you can hit the w key for and you white out the slide and then you can hit w again to un blank it so i know i went super fast if you missed anything i'll be happy to send you the list of these tips in the meantime congratulations you all get your california technology license have a great day
0
8,502
for deception and i'm not even talking about the american presidential race
1
8,503
now of course not all deception hits the news much of the deception is everyday in fact a lot of research shows that we all lie once or twice a day as dave suggested so it's about now suggests that most of us should have lied let's take a look at winnipeg how many of you in the last hours think back have told a little or a big one how many have told a little lie out there all right good these are all the liars make sure you pay attention to them
1
8,504
no that looked good it was about two thirds of you the other third didn't lie or perhaps forgot or you're lying to me about your lying which is very very devious
1
8,505
now my first professional encounter with deception is a little bit later than these guys a couple thousand years i was a customs officer for canada back in the yeah i was defending canada's borders you may think that's a weapon right there in fact that's a stamp i used a stamp to defend canada's borders
1
8,506
we email we text we we it's insane almost every aspect of human communication's been changed and of course that's had an impact on deception let me tell you a little bit about a couple of new deceptions we've been tracking and documenting they're called the butler the sock puppet and the chinese water army it sounds a little bit like a weird book but actually they're all new types of lies let's start with the butlers here's an example of one on my way anybody ever written on my way then you've also lied
1
8,507
now looking at these three reviews or these three types of deception you might think wow the internet is really making us a deceptive species especially when you think about the where we can see deception brought up to scale but actually what i've been finding is very different from that now let's put aside the online anonymous sex which i'm sure none of you have been in i can assure you there's deception there and let's put aside the nigerian prince who's emailed you about getting the million out of the country
1
8,508
how about itself you know we always think that hey there are these idealized versions people are just showing the best things that happened in their lives i've thought that many times my friends no way they can be that cool and have good of a life well one study tested this by examining people's personalities they had four good friends of a person judge their personality then they had strangers many strangers judge the person's personality just from and what they found was those judgments of the personality were pretty much identical highly correlated meaning that profiles really do reflect our actual personality all right well what about online dating i mean that's a pretty deceptive space i'm sure you all have friends that have used online dating
1
8,509
and what we found was very very interesting here's an example of the men and the height along the bottom is how tall they said they were in their profile along the y axis the vertical axis is how tall they actually were that diagonal line is the truth line if their on it they were telling exactly the truth now as you see most of the little dots are below the line what it means is all the guys were lying about their height in fact they lied about their height about nine tenths of an inch what we say in the lab as strong rounding up
1
8,510
very good about half and how many of you think that b is all right slightly more for b excellent here's the answer b is a fake well done second group you dominated the first group
1
8,511
it's this pervasiveness combined with the centrality to what it means to be a human the fact that we can tell the truth or make something up that has fascinated people throughout history here we have with his lantern does anybody know what he was looking for a single honest man and he died without finding one back in greece and we have confucius in the east who was really concerned with sincerity not only that you walked the walk or talked the talk but that you believed in what you were doing you believed in your principles
0
8,512
it's insane almost every aspect of human communication's been changed and of course that's had an impact on deception let me tell you a little bit about a couple of new deceptions we've been tracking and documenting
0
8,513
here's another one sorry i didn't respond to you earlier my battery was dead your battery wasn't dead you weren't in a dead zone you just didn't want to respond to that person that time
0
8,514
you weren't in a dead zone you just didn't want to respond to that person that time here's the last one you're talking to somebody and you say sorry got work gotta go but really you're just bored you want to talk to somebody else each of these is about a relationship and this is a connected world once you get my cell phone number you can literally be in touch with me hours a day and so these lies are being used by people to create a buffer like the butler used to do between us and the connections to everybody else but they're very special
0
8,515
and so these lies are being used by people to create a buffer like the butler used to do between us and the connections to everybody else but they're very special they use ambiguity that comes from using technology you don't know where i am or what i'm doing or who i'm with and they're aimed at protecting the relationships these aren't just people being jerks these are people that are saying look i don't want to talk to you now or i didn't want to talk to you then but i still care about you our relationship is still important now the sock puppet on the other hand is a totally different animal
0
8,516
the sock puppet isn't about ambiguity per se it's about identity let me give you a very recent example as in like last week here's r j best seller author in britain here's one of his bestselling books here's a reviewer online on amazon my favorite by jones is whatever else it might do it will touch your soul
0
8,517
and of course you might suspect that jones is r j he wrote very very positive reviews about himself surprise surprise now this sock puppet stuff isn't actually that new walt whitman also did this back in the day before there was internet technology sock puppet becomes interesting when we get to scale which is the domain of the chinese water army chinese water army refers to thousands of people in china that are paid small amounts of money to produce content
0
8,540
but before we get there we're engaged in a struggle between good and evil the good of socialism against the evil of capitalism and the good shall triumph that of course was the meta narrative distilled from the theories of karl marx and the chinese bought it we were taught that grand story day in and day out it became part of us and we believed in it the story was a bestseller about one third of the entire world's population lived under that meta narrative then the world changed overnight as for me disillusioned by the failed religion of my youth i went to america and became a berkeley hippie
1
8,541
it also claims that all human societies develop in a linear progression towards a singular end this one went as follows all societies regardless of culture be it christian muslim confucian must progress from traditional societies in which groups are the basic units to modern societies in which individuals are the sovereign units and all these individuals are by definition rational and they all want one thing the vote because they are all rational once given the vote they produce good government and live happily ever after paradise on earth again sooner or later electoral democracy will be the only political system for all countries and all peoples with a free market to make them all rich but before we get there we're engaged in a struggle between good and evil
1
8,544
even for him the career took years he started as a village manager and by the time he entered the politburo he had managed areas with a total population of million people and combined of trillion u s dollars now please don't get me wrong okay this is not a put down of anyone it's just a statement of fact george w bush remember him this is not a put down
1
8,545
good morning my name is eric li and i was born here but no i wasn't born there this was where i was born shanghai at the height of the cultural revolution my grandmother tells me that she heard the sound of gunfire along with my first cries when i was growing up i was told a story that explained all i ever needed to know about humanity
0
8,546
but no i wasn't born there this was where i was born shanghai at the height of the cultural revolution my grandmother tells me that she heard the sound of gunfire along with my first cries when i was growing up i was told a story that explained all i ever needed to know about humanity it went like this all human societies develop in linear progression beginning with primitive society then slave society feudalism capitalism socialism and finally guess where we end up communism sooner or later all of humanity regardless of culture language nationality will arrive at this final stage of political and social development the entire world's peoples will be unified in this paradise on earth and live happily ever after but before we get there we're engaged in a struggle between good and evil the good of socialism against the evil of capitalism and the good shall triumph that of course was the meta narrative distilled from the theories of karl marx
0
8,549
yet according to the grand story none of this should be happening so i went and did the only thing i could i studied it yes china is a one party state run by the chinese communist party the party and they don't hold elections three assumptions are made by the dominant political theories of our time such a system is operationally rigid politically closed and morally illegitimate well the assumptions are wrong the opposites are true adaptability meritocracy and legitimacy are the three defining characteristics of china's one party system
0
8,570
i'm one of brothers and sisters from lakefield ontario an hour and a half northeast of toronto and we grew up on a farm mom and dad raised beef cattle and i'm the oldest boy there are four girls a little bit older than me we grew up without a television people find that strange but i think it was a great blessing for us we had a television for a few years but of course we wasted so much time and the work wasn't getting done so out went the television we grew up playing mom's from cape breton coincidentally mom and mother knew each other we grew up playing and used to dance together right yeah
1
8,571
learned to play the instruments but we kind of had to come from within or go from within because we didn't watch television we didn't listen to a lot of radio we went to church and to school sometimes and farmed and played music so we were able i think at a very critical age to develop our own style our own self and my mother plays my father plays and the style that came from the ottawa valley in ontario we call it french canadian style but it originated in logging camps years ago hundreds of men would go up for the winter to the camps in northern ontario and in quebec and they were all different cultures and the irish the french scottish german they'd all meet and of course at night they'd play cards and step dance and play fiddles and over the course of many years the ottawa valley fiddling kind of evolved and the ottawa valley step dancing evolved so that's i kind of started out with that style and i quickly started doing my own thing and then i met natalie and i was exposed to the great cape breton fiddling that's how we met
1
8,575
donnell leahy thank you i'm kind of new to the ted experience and i'm glad to be here but i'm just trying to put it all together trying to figure all you people out and i've been here for a short while and i'm starting to understand a little bit better so i asked natalie what do i do and she said just talk about yourself it's kind of boring but i'll just tell you a little bit about my family i'm one of brothers and sisters from lakefield ontario an hour and a half northeast of toronto and we grew up on a farm
0
8,576
before mom's family had a piano in cape breton she learned to play the rhythms on a piece of board and the fiddlers would all congregate to play on the cold winter's evenings and mom would be banging on this board so when they bought a piano they bought it in toronto and had it taken by train and brought in on a horse a horse and sleigh to the house it became the only piano in the region and mom said she could basically play as soon as the piano arrived she could play it because she had learned all these rhythms
0
8,578
now the ideology of choice is very successful in opening for us a space to think about some imagined future let me give you an example my friend when she was a student at university in california was earning money by working for a car dealer now when she encountered the typical customer would debate with him about his lifestyle how much he wants to spend how many children he has what does he need the car for they would usually come to a good conclusion what would be a perfect car now before customer would go home and think things through she would say to him the car that you are buying now is perfect but in a few year's time when your kids will be already out of the house when you will have a little bit more money that other car will be ideal but what you are buying now is great now the majority of customers who came back the next day bought that other car the car they did not need the car that cost far too much money now became so successful in selling cars that soon she moved on to selling airplanes
1
8,579
now choices are anxiety provoking they are linked to risks losses they are highly unpredictable now because of this people have now more and more problems that they are not choosing anything not long ago i was at a wedding reception and i met a young beautiful woman who immediately started telling me about her anxiety over choice she said to me i needed one month to decide which dress to wear then she said for weeks i was researching which hotel to stay for this one night and now i need to choose a sperm donor
1
8,580
preparing for this talk i went to search for a couple of quotes that i can share with you good news i found three that i particularly liked the first by samuel johnson who said when making your choice in life do not forget to live the second by who reminded us that happiness is a choice that requires effort and the third is one by groucho marx who said i wouldn't want to choose to belong to any club that would have me as a member now bad news i didn't know which one of these quotes to choose and share with you the sweet anxiety of choice in today's times of post industrial capitalism choice together with individual freedom and the idea of self making has been elevated to an ideal now together with this we also have a belief in endless progress
0
8,583
and one day after a woman i met on the street did the same and i later asked her why she told me that best she could tell her tears had had something to do with my being happy and strong but vulnerable too i listened to her words i suppose they were true i was me but i was now me despite a limp and that i suppose was what now made me me anyway mohamed told me what perhaps he would not have told another stranger he led me to a house of cream stucco then drove off and as i sat contemplating what to say a woman approached in a black shawl and black robe i stepped from my car and said shalom and identified myself and she told me that her husband abed would be home from work in four hours her hebrew was not good and she later confessed that she thought that i had come to install the internet
1
8,584
one year ago i rented a car in jerusalem to go find a man i'd never met but who had changed my life i didn't have a phone number to call to say i was coming i didn't have an exact address but i knew his name abed i knew that he lived in a town of kara and i knew that years before just outside this holy city he broke my neck and so on an overcast morning in january i headed north off in a silver chevy to find a man and some peace the road dropped and i exited jerusalem i then rounded the very bend where his blue truck heavy with four tons of floor tiles had borne down with great speed onto the back left corner of the minibus where i sat
0
8,592
but first i think it's important to recognize that we brought this problem on ourselves and it's not just because you know we are the one building the robots but even though most jobs left the factory decades ago we still hold on to this factory mindset of standardization and de skilling we still define jobs around procedural tasks and then pay people for the number of hours that they perform these tasks we've created narrow job definitions like cashier loan processor or taxi driver and then asked people to form entire careers around these singular tasks these choices have left us with actually two dangerous side effects the first is that these narrowly defined jobs will be the first to be displaced by robots because single task robots are just the easiest kinds to build but second we have accidentally made it so that millions of workers around the world have unbelievably boring working lives
1
8,593
to counteract this we have to start creating new jobs that are less centered on the tasks that a person does and more focused on the skills that a person brings to work for example robots are great at repetitive and constrained work but human beings have an amazing ability to bring together capability with creativity when faced with problems that we've never seen before it's when every day brings a little bit of a surprise that we have designed work for humans and not for robots our entrepreneurs and engineers already live in this world but so do our nurses and our plumbers and our therapists you know it's the nature of too many companies and organizations to just ask people to come to work and do your job but if you work is better done by a robot or your decisions better made by an ai what are you supposed to be doing well i think for the manager we need to realistically think about the tasks that will be disappearing over the next few years and start planning for more meaningful more valuable work that should replace it we need to create environments where both human beings and robots thrive i say let's give more work to the robots and let's start with the work that we absolutely hate doing here robot process this painfully idiotic report
1
8,595
and for the human beings we should follow the advice from harry davis at the university of chicago he says we have to make it so that people don't leave too much of themselves in the trunk of their car i mean human beings are amazing on weekends think about the people that you know and what they do on saturdays they're artists carpenters chefs and athletes but on monday they're back to being junior specialist and systems analyst
1
8,596
a few years ago i was working at a large bank that was trying to bring more innovation into its company culture so my team and i designed a contest that invited anyone to build anything that they wanted we were actually trying to figure out whether or not the primary to innovation was a lack of ideas or a lack of talent and it turns out it was neither one it was an empowerment problem and the results of the program were amazing we started by inviting people to what it is they could bring to a team this contest was not only a chance to build anything that you wanted but also be anything that you wanted and when people were no longer limited by their day job titles they felt free to bring all kinds of different skills and talents to the problems that they were trying to solve we saw technology people being designers marketing people being architects and even finance people showing off their ability to write jokes
1
8,598
well a recent study from forrester research goes so far to predict that million jobs might disappear over the next years to put that in perspective that's three times as many jobs lost in the aftermath of the financial crisis and it's not just blue collar jobs that are at risk on wall street and across silicon valley we are seeing tremendous gains in the quality of analysis and decision making because of machine learning so even the smartest highest paid people will be affected by this change what's clear is that no matter what your job is at least some if not all of your work is going to be done by a robot or software in the next few years and that's exactly why people like mark and bill gates are talking about the need for government funded minimum income levels but if our politicians can't agree on things like health care or even school lunches i just don't see a path where they'll find consensus on something as big and as expensive as universal basic life income
0
8,599
and that's exactly why people like mark and bill gates are talking about the need for government funded minimum income levels but if our politicians can't agree on things like health care or even school lunches i just don't see a path where they'll find consensus on something as big and as expensive as universal basic life income instead i think the response needs to be led by us in industry we have to recognize the change that's ahead of us and start to design the new kinds of jobs that will still be relevant in the age of robotics the good news is that we have faced down and recovered two mass of jobs before from to the percent of american workers based on farms fell by percent and then again from to the percent of americans working in factories fell by percent the challenge we face this time however is one of time we had a hundred years to move from farms to factories and then years to fully build out a service economy the rate of change today suggests that we may only have or years to adjust and if we don't react fast enough that means by the time today's elementary school students are college aged we could be living in a world that's robotic largely unemployed and stuck in kind of un great depression
0
8,600
but i don't think it has to be this way you see i work in innovation and part of my job is to shape how large companies apply new technologies certainly some of these technologies are even specifically designed to replace human workers but i believe that if we start taking steps right now to change the nature of work we can not only create environments where people love coming to work but also generate the innovation that we need to replace the millions of jobs that will be lost to technology i believe that the key to preventing our jobless future is to rediscover what makes us human and to create a new generation of human centered jobs that allow us to unlock the hidden talents and passions that we carry with us every day but first i think it's important to recognize that we brought this problem on ourselves and it's not just because you know we are the one building the robots
0
8,602
you feel so trapped when someone kind of leans over and you're sort of held captive there for a minute so far it's chaos but a lot of people are doing stuff so that's good we'll see what happens the first group builds a cubicle in which the walls are screens for the computer and for family photos in the second group's scenario the walls are alive and actually give a group hug
1
8,608
maybe you've seen them in the airports they seem to be everywhere now lots of lives are being saved by those and we're just about to announce the reader product that i believe will make magazines even more enjoyable to read so we really will continue to focus on products but something's happened in the last years since richard started ted and that's that people like us i know people in other places have caught onto this for a long time but for us we've really just started we've kind of climbed hierarchy a little bit and so we're now focused more and more on human centered design human in an approach to design that really involves designing behaviors and personality into products
0
8,610
i was on bowman lake in glacier national park which is a long skinny lake with sort of mountains upside down in it and my partner and i have a rowing shell and so we were rowing and one of these western came along and what they do for their courtship dance is they go together the two of them the two mates and they begin to run underwater they paddle faster and faster and faster until they're going so fast that they literally lift up out of the water and they're standing upright sort of paddling the top of the water and one of these came along while we were rowing and so we're in a skull and we're moving really really quickly and this grebe i think sort of us for a prospect and started to run along the water next to us in a courtship dance for miles it would stop and then start and then stop and then start now that is foreplay
1
8,611
ok i'll just hold this thing ok great ok so that's the healing one sensing and responding feedback is a huge thing this is a locust there can be million of them in a square kilometer and yet they don't collide with one another and yet we have million car collisions a year
1
8,612
it is a thrill to be here at a conference that's devoted to inspired by nature you can imagine and i'm also thrilled to be in the foreplay section did you notice this section is foreplay because i get to talk about one of my favorite critters which is the western grebe you haven't lived until you've seen these guys do their courtship dance i was on bowman lake in glacier national park which is a long skinny lake with sort of mountains upside down in it and my partner and i have a rowing shell
0
8,613
i came this close to changing species at that moment obviously life can teach us something in the entertainment section life has a lot to teach us but what i'd like to talk about today is what life might teach us in technology and in design what's happened since the book came out the book was mainly about research in and what's happened since then is architects designers engineers people who make our world have started to call and say we want a biologist to sit at the design table to help us in real time become inspired or and this is the fun part for me we want you to take us out into the natural world
0
8,615
and i bought some plastic bags and duct tape and shade cloth a timer a paper suit a respirator and then i borrowed some high tech stuff from my university a geiger counter a counter a mass spectrometer microscopes and then i got some really dangerous stuff syringes full of radioactive carbon dioxide gas and some high pressure bottles of the stable isotope carbon dioxide gas but i was legally permitted
1
8,616
oh and i forgot some stuff important stuff the bug spray the bear spray the filters for my respirator oh well the first day of the experiment we got out to our plot and a grizzly bear and her cub chased us off and i had no bear spray but you know this is how forest research in canada goes
1
8,617
so i came back the next day and mama grizzly and her cub were gone so this time we really got started and i pulled on my white paper suit i put on my respirator and then i put the plastic bags over my trees i got my giant syringes and i injected the bags with my tracer isotope carbon dioxide gases first the birch i injected the radioactive gas into the bag of birch and then for fir i injected the stable isotope carbon dioxide gas i used two isotopes because i was wondering whether there was two way communication going on between these species i got to the final bag the replicate and all of a sudden mama grizzly showed up again and she started to chase me and i had my syringes above my head and i was the mosquitos and i jumped into the truck and i thought this is why people do lab studies
1
8,618
they send them more carbon below ground they even reduce their own root competition to make elbow room for their kids when mother trees are injured or dying they also send messages of wisdom on to the next generation of seedlings so we've used isotope tracing to trace carbon moving from an injured mother tree down her trunk into the network and into her neighboring seedlings not only carbon but also defense signals and these two compounds have increased the resistance of those seedlings to future stresses so trees talk thank you through back and forth conversations they increase the resilience of the whole community it probably reminds you of our own social communities and our families well at least some families
1
8,619
imagine you're walking through a forest i'm guessing you're thinking of a collection of trees what we foresters call a stand with their rugged stems and their beautiful crowns yes trees are the foundation of forests but a forest is much more than what you see and today i want to change the way you think about forests you see underground there is this other world a world of infinite biological pathways that connect trees and allow them to communicate and allow the forest to behave as though it's a single organism it might remind you of a sort of intelligence how do i know this here's my story
0
8,620
i know this here's my story i grew up in the forests of british columbia i used to lay on the forest floor and stare up at the tree crowns they were giants my grandfather was a giant too he was a horse logger and he used to selectively cut cedar poles from the inland rainforest grandpa taught me about the quiet and cohesive ways of the woods and how my family was knit into it
0
8,622
and i wanted to know more so i studied forestry but soon i found myself working alongside the powerful people in charge of the commercial harvest the extent of the clear cutting was alarming and i soon found myself conflicted by my part in it not only that the spraying and hacking of the aspens and to make way for the more commercially valuable planted pines and firs was astounding it seemed that nothing could stop this relentless industrial machine so i went back to school and i studied my other world
0
8,623
i waited an hour i figured it would take this long for the trees to suck up the through photosynthesis turn it into sugars send it down into their roots and maybe i hypothesized shuttle that carbon to their neighbors after the hour was up i rolled down my window and i checked for mama grizzly oh good she's over there eating her so i got out of the truck and i got to work i went to my first bag with the birch
0
8,624
now around chernobyl there are scattered ghost villages eerily silent strangely charming bucolic totally contaminated many were bulldozed under at the time of the accident but a few are left like this kind of silent vestiges to the tragedy others have a few residents in them one or two babushkas or which are the russian and ukrainian words for grandmother another village might have six or seven residents so this is the strange demographic of the zone isolated alone together and when i made my way to that piping chimney i'd seen in the distance i saw hanna and i met her she's the self declared mayor of village population eight
1
8,625
three years ago i was standing about a hundred yards from chernobyl nuclear reactor number four my geiger counter which measures radiation was going berserk and the closer i got the more frenetic it became and frantic my god i was there covering the anniversary of the world's worst nuclear accident as you can see by the look on my face reluctantly so but with good reason because the nuclear fire that burned for days back in released times as much radiation as the bomb dropped on hiroshima and the sarcophagus which is the covering over reactor number four which was hastily built years ago now sits cracked and rusted and leaking radiation so i was filming i just wanted to get the job done and get out of there fast
0
8,626
thank you thank you very much like the speaker before me i am a ted virgin i guess i'm also the first time here and
1
8,627
anderson invited me i'm really grateful that i get a chance to play for everyone and the song that i just played was by josef hofmann it's called kaleidoscope and hofmann is a polish pianist and composer of the late century and he's widely considered one of the greatest pianists of all time i have another piece that i'd like to play for you it's called variations by robert schumann a german century composer the name is actually a and that's the main theme in the melody plays the notes a b e g and g that comes from the last name of one of schumann's female friends
1
8,630
and another thing that i enjoy doing is drawing drawing because i like to draw you know japanese art i think that's a craze among teens right now and once i realized it there's a parallel between creating music and creating art because for your motive or your little initial idea for your drawing it's your character you want to decide who you want to draw or if you want to draw an original character and then you want to decide how are you going to draw the character like am i going to use one page am i going to draw it on the computer am i going to use a two page spread like a comic book for a more grandiose effect i guess and then you have to do the initial sketch of the character which is like your structure of a piece and then you add pen and pencil and whatever details that you need that's polishing the drawing and another thing that both of these have in common is your state of mind because i know i'm one of those teenagers that are really easily distracted so if i'm trying to do homework and i don't feel like it i'll try to draw or you know waste my time
0
8,632
but instead of what it is our focus was on the way it worked so we liked the idea that the two farthest bits of it would end up kissing each other we actually had to halve its speed because everyone was too scared when we first did it so that's it speeded up a project that we've been working on very recently is to design a new biomass power station so a power station that uses organic waste material in the news the subject of where our future water is going to come from and where our power is going to come from is in all the papers all the time and we used to be quite proud of the way we generated power but recently any annual report of a power company doesn't have a power station on it it has a child running through a field or something like that
1
8,633
were looking at how we could make a power station that instead of keeping people out and having a big fence around the outside could be a place that pulls you in and it has to be i'm trying to get my feet high so it felt that what we could try to do is make a power park and actually bring the whole area in and using the spare soil that's there on the site we could make a power station that was silent as well because just that soil could make the acoustic difference and we also found that we could make a more efficient structure and have a cost effective way of making a structure to do this the finished project is meant to be more than just a power station it has a space where you could have a bar mitzvah at the top
1
8,635
pavilion and an expo is a totally bonkers thing there's pavilions it's the world's biggest ever expo that had ever happened so there are up to a million people there everyday and countries all competing and the british government saying you need to be in the top five and so that became the governmental goal is how do you stand out in this chaos which is an expo of stimulus so our sense was we had to do one thing and only one thing instead of trying to have everything and so what we also felt was that whatever we did we couldn't do a cheesy for britain
1
8,636
we worked with an astroturf manufacturer to develop a mini me version of the seed cathedral so that even if you're partially sighted that it was kind of crunchy and soft that piece of landscape that you see there and then you know when a pet has an operation and they shave a bit of the skin and get rid of the fur in order to get you to go into the seed cathedral in effect we've shaved it and inside there's nothing there's no famous actor's voice there's no projections there's no televisions there's no color changing there's just silence and a cool temperature and if a cloud goes past you can see a cloud on the tips where it's letting the light through this is the only project that we've done where the finished thing looked more like a rendering than our renderings
1
8,637
and i just wanted to show you the british government any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have and there was a lot of terror but there was an underlying support and so there was a moment when suddenly actually the next thing this is the head of u k trade and investment who was our client with the chinese children using the landscape children one two three go
1
8,640
and there on the smaller scale the scale of an earring or a ceramic pot or a musical instrument was a materiality and a and this influenced me the first building i built was years ago and since in the last years i've developed a studio in london sorry this was my mother by the way in her bead shop in london i spent a lot of time counting beads and things like that i'm just going to show for people who don't know my studio's work a few projects that we've worked on this is a hospital building this is a shop for a bag company
0
8,641
this is a shop for a bag company this is studios for artists this is a sculpture made from a million yards of wire and glass beads the size of a golf ball and this is a window display and this is pair of cooling towers for an electricity substation next to st paul's cathedral in london and this is a temple in japan for a buddhist monk and this is a cafe by the sea in britain and just very quickly something we've been working on very recently is we were commissioned by the mayor of london to design a new bus that gave the passenger their freedom again
0
8,642
and just very quickly something we've been working on very recently is we were commissioned by the mayor of london to design a new bus that gave the passenger their freedom again because the original bus that some of you may be familiar with which had this open platform at the back in fact i think all our are here in california now actually but they aren't in london and so you're stuck on a bus and if the bus is going to stop and it's three yards away from the bus stop you're just a prisoner but the mayor of london wanted to reintroduce buses with this open platform so we've been working with transport for london and that organization hasn't actually been responsible as a client for a new bus for years and so we've been very lucky to have a chance to work
0
8,643
so we've been working with transport for london and that organization hasn't actually been responsible as a client for a new bus for years and so we've been very lucky to have a chance to work the brief is that the bus should use percent less energy so it's got hybrid drive and we've been working to try to improve everything from the fabric to the format and structure and aesthetics i was going to show four main projects and this is a project for a bridge and so we were commissioned to design a bridge that would open and openings seemed everyone loves opening bridges but it's quite a basic thing
0
8,644
and so we were commissioned to design a bridge that would open and openings seemed everyone loves opening bridges but it's quite a basic thing i think we all kind of stand and watch but the bridges that we saw that opened and closed i'm slightly squeamish but i once saw a photograph of a who was diving for a ball and as he was diving someone had stamped on his knee and it had broken like this and then we looked at these kinds of bridges and just couldn't help feeling that it was a beautiful thing that had broken and so this is in paddington in london and it's a very boring bridge as you can see it's just steel and timber
0
8,645
that just taking a field and banging all these things out isn't necessarily the most efficient way that they could work so we looked at how we could compose all those elements instead of just litter create one composition and what we found this area is one of the poorest parts of britain
0
8,649
we don't know if you change the gravity substantially if the same thing will happen to create your body we do know that if you expose our bodies as they currently are to a lot of radiation we will die so as you're thinking of that you have to really redesign things just to get to mars forget about the moons of neptune or jupiter and to borrow from nikolai let's think about life in a series of scales so life one civilization is a civilization that begins to alter his or her looks and we've been doing that for thousands of years you've got tummy tucks and you've got this and you've got that you alter your looks and i'm told that not all of those alterations take place for medical reasons
1
8,650
so how about the brain two possible outcomes to this experiment if you can get a mouse that is functional then you can see is the new brain a blank slate and boy does that have implications second option the new mouse recognizes minnie mouse the new mouse remembers what it's afraid of remembers how to navigate the maze and if that is true then you can transplant memory and consciousness and then the really interesting question is if you can transplant this is the only input output mechanism this down here or could you transplant that consciousness into something that would be very different that would last in space that would last tens of thousands of years that would be a completely redesigned body that could hold consciousness for a long long period of time and let's come back to the first question why would you ever want to do that well i'll tell you why because this is the ultimate
1
8,651
here's a question that matters is it ethical to evolve the human body because we're beginning to get all the tools together to evolve ourselves and we can evolve bacteria and we can evolve plants and we can evolve animals and we're now reaching a point where we really have to ask is it really ethical and do we want to evolve human beings and as you're thinking about that let me talk about that in the context of prosthetics prosthetics past present future so this is the iron hand that belonged to one of the german counts
0
8,654
and four of the smartest people that i've ever met ed boyden hugh herr joe jacobson bob lander are working on a center for extreme and the interesting thing of what you're seeing here is these prosthetics now get integrated into the bone they get integrated into the skin they get integrated into the muscle and one of the other sides of ed is he's been thinking about how to connect the brain using light or other mechanisms directly to things like these prosthetics and if you can do that then you can begin changing fundamental aspects of humanity
0
8,655
and one of the other sides of ed is he's been thinking about how to connect the brain using light or other mechanisms directly to things like these prosthetics and if you can do that then you can begin changing fundamental aspects of humanity so how quickly you react to something depends on the diameter of a nerve and of course if you have nerves that are external or prosthetic say with light or liquid metal then you can increase that diameter and you could even increase it theoretically to the point where as long as you could see the muzzle flash you could step out of the way of a bullet those are the order of magnitude of changes you're talking about this is a fourth sort of level of prosthetics these are hearing aids and the reason why these are so interesting is because they cross the threshold from where prosthetics are something for somebody who is disabled and they become something that somebody who is normal might want to actually have because what this prosthetic does which is really interesting is not only does it help you hear you can focus your hearing so it can hear the conversation going on over there you can have you can have hearing in degrees
0
8,657
the third thing operates on a different level as humans we are social we are and that's great wouldn't that be a way to make mobile phones more intuitive think of a hamster in the pocket well i can feel it it's doing all right i don't have to check it
1
8,658
so once again a mobile phone shaped box but this one it has a breath and a heartbeat and it feels very organic
1
8,659
you can tell it's relaxed right now oh now missed call a new call new girlfriend maybe very exciting
1
8,660
and that means i have a question how can we make digital content because you see on the one hand there is the digital world and no question many things are happening there right now and for us humans it's not quite material it's not really there it's virtual on the other hand we're humans we live in a physical world it's rich it tastes good it feels good it smells good
0
8,661
and that means i have a question how can we make digital content because you see on the one hand there is the digital world and no question many things are happening there right now and for us humans it's not quite material it's not really there it's virtual on the other hand we're humans we live in a physical world it's rich it tastes good it feels good it smells good so the question is how do we get the stuff over from the digital into the physical that's my question if you look at the with its touch and the with its bodily activity you can see the tendency it's getting physical the question is what's next now i have three options that i would like to show you the first one is mass as humans we are sensitive to where an object in our hand is heavy
0
8,662
as humans we are sensitive to where an object in our hand is heavy so could we use that in mobile phones let me show you the weight shifting mobile it is a mobile phone shaped box that has an iron weight inside which we can move around and you can feel where it's heavy we shift the gravitational center of it for example we can augment digital content with physical mass so you move around the content on the display but you can also feel where it is just from the weight of the device another thing it's good for is navigation
0
8,665
now we're in the early stages of implementation and it's working the first mainline section of trail was opened in and it's already generated over three billion dollars of private sector investment but it's not only changing the physical form of the city it's changing the way we think about the city and what our expectations are for living there about a month ago i had to take my kids with me to the grocery store and they were complaining about it because they didn't want to get in the car they were saying dad if we have to go can we at least ride our bikes and i said of course we can that's what people in atlanta do we ride our bikes to the grocery store
1
8,666
it was a radical transformation but it was built by a cultural momentum so it's important to not separate the physical construction of the places we live from other things that are happening at that time at that time in the second half of the last century science was curing disease and lifting us to the moon and the sexual revolution was breaking down barriers and the civil rights movement began its march toward the fulfillment of our nation's promise television entertainment food travel business everything was changing and both the public and private sectors were colluding to give us the lives we wanted the federal highway administration for example didn't exist before there were highways think about it
1
8,667
but this is still what i see when i look in the mirror in the morning within a month of living in paris i'd lost pounds and i was in the best shape of my life because i was eating fresh food and i was walking wherever i went having grown up in suburban atlanta a region built largely by highways and automobiles and with a reputation as a poster child for sprawl paris fundamentally changed the way i understood the construction of the world around me and i got obsessed with the role of infrastructure that it's not just the way to move people from point a to point b it's not just the way to convey water or sewage or energy but it's the foundation for our economy it's the foundation for our social life and for our culture and it really matters to the way that we live when i came home i was instantly frustrated stuck in traffic as i crossed the top end of our perimeter highway not only was i not moving a muscle i had no social interaction with the hundreds of thousands of people that were hurtling past me like me with their eyes faced forward and their music blaring
0
8,669
in the summer of we connected with cathy woolard who was soon elected city council president and we built a citywide vision around this idea the atlanta a loop of transit and trails and transformation i was doing two and three meetings a week for two and a half years and so was cathy and her staff and a handful of volunteers together we built this amazing movement of people and ideas it included community advocates who were used to fighting against things but found the atlanta as something that they could fight for developers who saw the opportunity to take advantage of a lot of new growth in the city and dozens of nonprofit partners who saw their mission at least partly accomplished by the shared vision now usually these groups of people aren't at the same table wanting the same outcome but there we were and it was kind of weird but it was really really powerful
0
8,679
a few years ago i did a meditation retreat in thailand i wanted a place where i would have total silence and total solitude i spent two weeks at this retreat in my own little hut no music no nothing sounds of nature trying to find the essence of concentration being in the moment on my last day the woman who looked after the place she came and we spoke for a minute and then she said to me would you sing something for me and i thought but this is a place of total quiet and silence i can't make noise she said please sing for me
0
8,700
we are all activists now thank you i'll just stop here
1
8,701
we are all activists now and that means that we all have something to worry about from surveillance surveillance means government collection and use of private and sensitive data about us and surveillance is essential to law enforcement and to national security but the history of surveillance is one that includes surveillance abuses where this sensitive information has been used against people because of their race their national origin their sexual orientation and in particular because of their activism their political beliefs about years ago dr martin luther king jr gave his i have a dream speech on the mall in washington and today the ideas behind this speech of racial equality and tolerance are so noncontroversial that my daughters study the speech in third grade
0
8,704
important health message may be hazardous to your health especially if you are a male this message is given as a public service affects your posture we start with the posture this is the posture of ladies who are not this is the posture of ladies who are
1
8,705
s government so you can see that your tax man is working for good causes man the has a sleek ergonomic design for a safe and easy way to trim those scruffy underarm hairs the untidy curls on and around your bleep as well as the hard to reach locks on the underside of your bleep and bleep once you use the the world looks different and so does your bleep these days with a hair free back well groomed shoulders and an extra optical inch on my bleep well let's just say life has gotten pretty darn cozy this is one of the most popular viral advertisement of last year known as the optical inch by
0
8,708
so this one is a it's a small model helicopter in a way it's a toy no and so this one was military technology a few years ago and now it's open source easy to use you can buy it online drones is the community they do this thing called but then somebody actually launched this start up called where they figured out that you could use this to actually transport things from one village to another in africa and the fact that this was easy to find open source easy to hack enabled them to prototype their company really quickly or other projects matt richardson i'm getting a little sick of hearing about the same people on tv over and over and over again so i decided to do something about it this project which i call the enough already will mute the tv anytime any of these over exposed personalities is mentioned
1
8,710
or you can find it in arts projects so this is the so you put a message into this device and then you roll it on the wall and it basically has all these pressing the buttons on spray cans so you just pull it over a wall and it just writes on the wall all the political messages so yeah then we have this plant here this is called because there's an ball with a fi module in the plant and it's measuring the well being of the plant and it's creating a account where you can actually interact with the plant
1
8,712
he has followers he's and he anticipated a governmental project by one year or again another project where by analyzing the feed of a family you can basically point where they are like in the harry potter movie so you can find out everything about this project on the website or somebody made a chair that when somebody
1
8,724
second one can you light a little torch bulb with a battery bulb and one piece of wire yes you can and i'll show you in a second how to do that now i have some rather bad news which is that i had a piece of video that i was about to show you which unfortunately the sound doesn't work in this room so i'm going to describe to you in true monty python fashion what happens in the video and in the video a group of researchers go to mit on graduation day we chose mit because obviously that's a very long way away from here and you wouldn't mind too much but it sort of works the same way in britain and in the west coast of the usa and we asked them these questions and we asked those questions of science graduates and they couldn't answer them and so there's a whole lot of people saying i'd be very surprised if you told me that this came out of the air that's very surprising to me and those are science graduates and we it with we are the premier science university in the world because of british like hubris
1
8,725
your homework is you know how does an aircraft's wing create lift an obvious question and you'll have an answer now in your heads and the second question to that then is ensure you've explained how it is that planes can fly upside down ah ha right second question is why is the sea blue all right and you've all got an idea in your head of the answer so why is it blue on cloudy days ah see
1
8,726
i'm going to try and explain why it is that perhaps we don't understand as much as we think we do i'd like to begin with four questions this is not some sort of cultural thing for the time of year that's an in joke by the way but these four questions actually are ones that people who even know quite a lot about science find quite hard and they're questions that i've asked of science television producers of audiences of science educators so that's science teachers and also of seven and i find that the seven do marginally better than the other audiences which is somewhat surprising
0
8,729
and some people probably two of you will come up and argue with me afterwards and say that actually it comes out of the ground now if that was true we'd have trucks going round the country filling people's gardens in with soil it'd be a fantastic business but actually we don't do that the mass of this comes out of the air now i passed all my biology exams in britain i passed them really well but i still came out of school thinking that that stuff came out of the ground second one can you light a little torch bulb with a battery bulb and one piece of wire yes you can and i'll show you in a second how to do that now i have some rather bad news which is that i had a piece of video that i was about to show you which unfortunately the sound doesn't work in this room so i'm going to describe to you in true monty python fashion what happens in the video and in the video a group of researchers go to mit on graduation day
0