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15,418 | so ok so why so we have the finger other people have dinosaurs you know why do we have them well as i said we have them because we think maybe playfulness is important but why is it important we use it in a pretty pragmatic way to be honest we think playfulness helps us get to better creative solutions helps us do our ... | 0 |
15,419 | kids are more engaged with open possibilities now certainly when they come across something new certainly ask what is it of course they will but also ask what can i do with it and you know the more creative of them might get to a really interesting example and this openness is the beginning of exploratory play | 0 |
15,422 | i had also had the privilege since the last years to work on several masterpieces as you can see behind me but basically to do what well to assess for example the state of conservation see here the face of the madonna of the chair that when just shining a light on it you suddenly see another different lady aged lady i ... | 1 |
15,423 | i would say the discovery that really caught my imagination my admiration is the incredibly vivid drawing under this layer brown layer of the adoration of the magi here you see a handmade setting scanner with an infrared camera put on it and just peering through this brown layer of this masterpiece to reveal what could... | 1 |
15,424 | well this time we focused on trying to reconstruct the way the hall of the was before the remodeling and the so called sala grande which was built in and to find out the original doors windows and in order to do that we first created a model and then with we went on to discover hidden windows these are the original win... | 0 |
15,425 | well from there unfortunately in the project came to a halt many political reasons | 0 |
15,426 | everyone is both a learner and a teacher this is me being inspired by my first tutor my mom and this is me teaching introduction to artificial intelligence to students at stanford university now the students and i enjoyed the class but it occurred to me that while the subject matter of the class is advanced and modern ... | 1 |
15,427 | co teacher sebastian thrun and i thought there must be a better way we challenged ourselves to create an online class that would be equal or better in quality to our stanford class but to bring it to anyone in the world for free we announced the class on july and within two weeks people had signed up for it and that gr... | 1 |
15,428 | and i like that kind of response that's just what we were going for we didn't want students to memorize the formulas we wanted to change the way they looked at the world and we succeeded or i should say the students succeeded and it's a little bit ironic that we set about to disrupt traditional education and in doing s... | 1 |
15,430 | so we got to work we studied what others had done what we could copy and what we could change benjamin bloom had showed that one tutoring works best so that's what we tried to emulate like with me and my mom even though we knew it would be one here an overhead video camera is recording me as i'm talking and drawing on ... | 0 |
15,431 | now from khan academy we saw that short videos worked much better than trying to record an hour long lecture and put it on the small format screen we decided to go even shorter and more interactive our typical video is two minutes sometimes shorter never more than six and then we pause for a quiz question to make it fe... | 0 |
15,432 | this motivated the students to keep going and it also meant that everybody was working on the same thing at the same time so if you went into a discussion forum you could get an answer from a peer within minutes now i'll show you some of the forums most of which were self organized by the students themselves from daphn... | 0 |
15,456 | but despite that cold you could have rain falling down on the surface of titan and doing on titan what rain does on the earth it carves gullies it forms rivers and cataracts it can create canyons it can pool in large basins and craters it can wash the sludge off high mountain peaks and hills down into the lowlands so s... | 1 |
15,458 | picture is taken at kilometers this is the picture taken at eight kilometers ok again the shoreline okay now kilometers eight kilometers this is roughly an airline altitude if you were going to take an airplane trip across the u s you would be flying at these altitudes so this is the picture you would have at the windo... | 1 |
15,460 | in the next minutes i'm going to take you on a journey and it's a journey that you and i have been on for many years now and it began some years ago when humans first stepped off our planet and in those years not only did we literally physically set foot on the moon but we have dispatched robotic spacecraft to all the ... | 0 |
15,463 | and those are titan and titan is saturn's largest moon and until cassini had arrived there was the largest single expanse of unexplored terrain that we had remaining in our solar system and it is a body that has long intrigued people who've watched the planets it has a very large thick atmosphere and in fact its surfac... | 0 |
15,464 | i said i'd talk about two windows on human nature the cognitive machinery with which we the world and now i'm going to say a few words about the relationship types that govern human social interaction again as reflected in language and i'll start out with a puzzle the puzzle of indirect speech acts now i'm sure most of... | 1 |
15,465 | would you like to come up and see my etchings i think most people understand the intent behind that and likewise if someone says nice store you've got there it would be a real shame if something happened to it we understand that as a veiled threat rather than a musing of hypothetical possibilities | 1 |
15,466 | this is a picture of maurice the honorary perpetual secretary of francaise the french academy he is splendidly attired in his uniform befitting the role of the french academy as legislating the correct usage in french and perpetuating the language the french academy has two main tasks it compiles a dictionary of offici... | 0 |
15,467 | now this is one model of how language comes to be namely it's legislated by an academy but anyone who looks at language realizes that this is a rather silly conceit that language rather emerges from human minds interacting from one another and this is visible in the unstoppable change in language the fact that by the t... | 0 |
15,470 | today i'm going to talk about technology and society the department of transport estimated that last year people died from traffic crashes in the us alone worldwide million people die every year in traffic accidents if there was a way we could eliminate percent of those accidents would you support it of course you woul... | 1 |
15,474 | what do you think or kant here's what we found most people sided with so it seems that people want cars to be utilitarian minimize total harm and that's what we should all do problem solved but there is a little catch when we asked people whether they would purchase such cars they said absolutely not | 1 |
15,476 | we see this problem in many places in the difficulty of managing overfishing or in reducing carbon emissions to mitigate climate change when it comes to the regulation of driverless cars the common land now is basically public safety that's the common good and the farmers are the passengers or the car owners who are ch... | 1 |
15,477 | all of a sudden the car experiences mechanical failure and is unable to stop if the car continues it will crash into a bunch of pedestrians crossing the street but the car may swerve hitting one bystander killing them to save the pedestrians what should the car do and who should decide what if instead the car could swe... | 0 |
15,479 | so if we acknowledge that cars will have to make trade offs on the road how do we think about those trade offs and how do we decide well maybe we should run a survey to find out what society wants because ultimately regulations and the law are a reflection of societal values so this is what we did with my collaborators... | 0 |
15,480 | we've seen this problem before it's called a social dilemma and to understand the social dilemma we have to go a little bit back in history in the english economist william forster lloyd published a pamphlet which describes the following scenario you have a group of farmers english farmers who are sharing a common land... | 0 |
15,482 | as a starting point my brilliant students edmond awad and dsouza built the moral machine website which generates random scenarios at you basically a bunch of random dilemmas in a sequence where you have to choose what the car should do in a given scenario and we vary the ages and even the species of the different victi... | 0 |
15,483 | so let's wrap up we started with the question let's call it the ethical dilemma of what the car should do in a specific scenario swerve or stay but then we realized that the problem was a different one it was the problem of how to get society to agree on and enforce the trade offs they're comfortable with it's a social... | 0 |
15,489 | but i really like that so i wrote a book called the laws of simplicity i was in milan last week for the italian launch it's kind of a book about questions questions about simplicity very few answers i'm also wondering myself what is simplicity is it good is it bad is complexity better i'm not sure after i wrote the law... | 1 |
15,490 | so i went to the cape last summer to hide from simplicity and i went to the gap because i only have black pants so i went and bought khaki shorts or whatever and unfortunately their branding was all about keep it simple | 1 |
15,491 | turned on the tv and i don't watch tv very much but you know this person this is paris hilton apparently and she has this show the simple life so i watched this it's not very simple a little bit confusing | 1 |
15,493 | so i wanted to escape again so i went out to my car and cape cod there are idyllic roads and all of us can drive in this room and when you drive these signs are very important it's a very simple sign it says road and road approaching so i'm mostly driving along okay and then i saw this sign | 1 |
15,494 | we're human beings we love complex things we love relationships very complex so we love this kind of stuff i'm at this place called the media lab maybe some of you guys have heard of this place it's designed by i m pei one of the premier modernist architects modernism means white box and it's a perfect white box | 1 |
15,495 | last year at ted these were all my titles i had a lot of titles i have a default title as a father of a bunch of daughters this year at ted i'm happy to report that i have new titles in addition to my previous titles another associate director of research and this also happened so i have five daughters now | 1 |
15,496 | and work till p m six days a week my father was kind of like andy grove paranoid of the competition so often seven days a week family business equals child labor we were a great model so i loved going to school school was great and maybe going to school helped me get to this media lab place i'm not sure | 1 |
15,497 | had a problem because i make all this flying stuff and people say oh i know your work you're the guy that makes eye candy and when you're told this you feel kind of weird eye candy sort of pejorative don't you think so i say no i make eye meat instead | 1 |
15,498 | the tree i began to use my old computers i took these to tokyo in to make computer objects this is a new way to type on my old color classic you can't type very much on this i also discovered that an mouse responds to emissions and starts to move by itself so this is a self drawing machine and also one year the bondi b... | 1 |
15,500 | and also as a child i was the fattest kid in class so i used to love oh i love yummy so i wanted to play with in some way i wasn't sure where to go with this i invented paint paint is a very simple way to paint with | 1 |
15,502 | sometimes they find a hair in the food that's my hair my hair's clean it's okay i'm a tenured professor which means basically i don't have to work anymore it's a strange business model i can come into work everyday and staple five pieces of paper and just stare at it with my latte end of story | 1 |
15,503 | the car is so big the camera is so small yet the manual for the camera is so much bigger than the car manual it doesn't make any sense | 1 |
15,504 | also if you look at your physical strength you know i have a lot of cocky freshmen at mit so i tell them oh your bodies are really getting stronger and stronger but in your late twenties and mid thirties cells they die ok it gets them to work harder sometimes and if you have your vision vision is interesting as you age... | 1 |
15,505 | you know there's also something called the complete guide there's a sort of business model around being stupid in some sense we like to have technology make us feel bad for some strange reason but i really like that so i wrote a book called the laws of simplicity i was in milan last week for the italian launch it's kin... | 0 |
15,507 | but looking way back when i was a child you see i grew up in a tofu factory in seattle many of you may not like tofu because you haven't had good tofu but a good food it's a very simple kind of food | 0 |
15,508 | and there was this person muriel cooper who knows muriel cooper muriel cooper wasn't she amazing muriel cooper she was wacky and she was a exactly and she showed us she showed the world how to make the computer beautiful again and she's very important in my life because she's the one that told me to leave mit and go to... | 0 |
15,510 | i was in japan i went to an art school in japan i had a nice sort of situation because somehow i was connected to paul rand some of you guys know paul rand the greatest graphic designer i'm sorry out there the great graphic designer paul rand designed the logo the westinghouse logo he basically said i've designed every... | 0 |
15,511 | you have mentors and yesterday kareem abdul jabbar talked about mentors these people in your life the problem with mentors is that they all die this is a sad thing but it's actually a happy thing in a way because you can remember them in their pure form i think that the mentors that we all meet sort of humanize us when... | 0 |
15,512 | because the human thing is very hard when you're at mit the t doesn't stand for human it stands for technology and because of that i always wondered about this human thing so i've always been this word human to find out how many hits i get and in i had million hits and for computer because computers are against humans ... | 0 |
15,513 | so if you sort of compare that like this you'll see that computer versus human i've been tracking this for the last year computer versus human over the last year has changed it used to be kind of two to one now humans are catching up very good us humans we're catching up with the computers in the simplicity realm it's ... | 0 |
15,514 | i have a confession i'm not a man of simplicity i spent my entire early career making complex stuff lots of complex stuff i wrote computer programs to make complex graphics like this i had clients in japan to make really complex stuff like this and i've always felt bad about it in a sense so i hid in a time dimension i... | 0 |
15,515 | i built things in a time graphics dimension i did this series of calendars for shiseido this is a floral theme calendar in and this is a firework calendar so you launch the number into space because the japanese believe that when you see fireworks you're cooler for some reason this is why they have fireworks in the sum... | 0 |
15,516 | computer programs are essentially trees and when you make art with a computer program there's kind of a problem whenever you make art with a computer program you're always on the tree and the paradox is that for excellent art you want to be off the tree so this is sort of a complication i've found so to get off the tre... | 0 |
15,518 | so i focused on food as my area these sort of clementine peel things in japan it's a wonderful thing to remove the clementine peel just in one piece who's done that before one piece clementine oh you guys are missing out if you haven't done it yet it was very good and i discovered i can make sculptures out of this actu... | 0 |
15,519 | it's a bit eerie isn't it so i thought maybe i'll do this for the next twenty years or something and i wrote this book the laws of simplicity it's a very short simple book | 0 |
15,520 | and i wrote this book the laws of simplicity it's a very short simple book there are ten laws and three keys the ten laws and three keys i won't go over them because that's why i have a book and also that's why it's on the web for free but the laws are kind of like sushi in a way there are all kinds in japan they say t... | 0 |
15,521 | the three keys are easy to eat so this is cooked already so easy to eat so enjoy your sushi meal later with the laws of simplicity because i want to simplify them for you because that's what this is about i have to simplify this thing so if i simplify the laws of simplicity i have what's called the cookie versus laundr... | 0 |
15,523 | so we started with them saying well what do you want what's a problem you want to solve and they said let's work on newborn jaundice so this is another one of these mind boggling global problems jaundice affects two thirds of newborns around the world of those newborns one in roughly if it's not treated the jaundice ge... | 1 |
15,524 | bright blue light on as much of the skin as you can cover how is this a hard problem i went to mit ok we'll figure that out | 1 |
15,525 | and here's what we developed this is the firefly device except this time we didn't stop at the concept car from the very beginning we started by talking to manufacturers our goal is to make a state art product that our partner can actually manufacture our goal is to study how they work the resources they have access to... | 1 |
15,526 | the idea here is you want to make it hard to use wrong in other words you want to make the right way to use it the easiest way to use it another example again silly mom silly mom thinks her baby looks cold wants to put a blanket over the baby that's why we have lights above and below the baby in firefly so if mom does ... | 1 |
15,527 | you think it's funny i had a laptop in the peace corps and the screen had all these dead pixels on it and one day i looked in they were all dead ants that had gotten into my laptop and perished those poor ants | 1 |
15,528 | went wrong between the design studio and the factory today i don't want to talk about beautiful babies i want to talk about the awkward adolescence of design those sort of teenage years where you're trying to figure out how the world works i'm going to start with an example from some work that we did on newborn health ... | 0 |
15,529 | is a newborn intensive care unit in nepal all of these kids in blankets belong in incubators something like this this is a donated japanese atom incubator that we found in a in this is what we want probably what happened is a hospital in japan upgraded their equipment and donated their old stuff to nepal the problem is... | 0 |
15,530 | so this seemed like a problem that we could do something about keeping a baby warm for a week that's not rocket science so we got started we with a leading medical research institution here in boston we conducted months of user research overseas trying to think like designers human centered design let's figure out what... | 0 |
15,531 | the bad news the only baby ever actually put inside the incubator was this kid during a time magazine photo shoot so recognition is fantastic we want design to get out for people to see it it won lots of awards but it felt like a booby prize we wanted to make beautiful things that are going to make the world a better p... | 0 |
15,533 | well it turns out there's this whole constellation of people who have to be involved in a product for it to be successful manufacturing financing distribution regulation michael free at path says you have to figure out who will choose use and pay the dues for a product like this and i have to ask the question that alwa... | 0 |
15,534 | j was one of many fellow inmates who had big plans for the future he had a vision when he got out he was going to leave the dope game for good and fly straight and he was actually working on merging his two passions into one vision he'd spent dollars to buy a website that exclusively featured women having sex on top of... | 1 |
15,535 | it was my first week in federal prison and i was learning quickly that it wasn't what you see on tv in fact it was teeming with smart ambitious men whose business instincts were in many cases as sharp as those of the who had wined and dined me six months earlier when i was a rising star in the missouri senate now perce... | 0 |
15,556 | the rights of citizens the future of the internet so i would like to welcome to the ted stage the man behind those revelations ed snowden ed is in a remote location somewhere in russia controlling this from his laptop so he can see what the can see ed welcome to the ted stage what can you see as a matter of fact ha i c... | 1 |
15,557 | some people are furious at what you've done i heard a quote recently from dick cheney who said that julian was a flea bite edward snowden is the lion that bit the head off the dog he thinks you've committed one of the worst acts of betrayal in american history what would you say to people who think that dick cheney's r... | 1 |
15,558 | so i'd actually like to get some feedback from the audience here because i know there's widely differing reactions to edward snowden suppose you had the following two choices right you could view what he did as fundamentally a reckless act that has endangered america or you could view it as fundamentally a heroic act t... | 1 |
15,559 | you have a question for ed well two questions a general question ed can you still hear us yes i can hear you ca oh he's back the wiretap on your line got a little interfered with for a moment | 1 |
15,560 | absolutely there's really no question the principles that have been the foundation of this project have been the public interest and the principles that underly the journalistic establishment in the united states and around the world and i think if the press is now saying we support this this is something that needed t... | 1 |
15,561 | ed some questions for you you've been called many things in the last few months you've been called a whistleblower a traitor a hero what words would you describe yourself with you know everybody who is involved with this debate has been struggling over me and my personality and how to describe me but when i think about... | 0 |
15,562 | know everybody who is involved with this debate has been struggling over me and my personality and how to describe me but when i think about it this isn't the question that we should be struggling with who i am really doesn't matter at all if i'm the worst person in the world you can hate me and move on what really mat... | 0 |
15,563 | so just to give some context for those who don't know the whole story this time a year ago you were stationed in hawaii working as a consultant to the as a you had access to their systems and you began revealing certain classified documents to some handpicked journalists leading the way to june's revelations now what p... | 0 |
15,564 | now what propelled you to do this es you know when i was sitting in hawaii and the years before when i was working in the intelligence community i saw a lot of things that had disturbed me we do a lot of good things in the intelligence community things that need to be done and things that help everyone but there are al... | 0 |
15,565 | show the audience a couple of examples of what you revealed if we could have a slide up and ed i don't know whether you can see the slides are here this is a slide of the prism program and maybe you could tell the audience what that was that was revealed the best way to understand prism because there's been a little bi... | 0 |
15,566 | and soon after that i wrote a story about genetically engineered food same thing only bigger people were going crazy so i wrote a story about that too and i couldn't understand why people thought this was why they thought moving molecules around in a specific rather than a haphazard way was trespassing on nature's grou... | 1 |
15,567 | we love to wrap ourselves in lies we love to do it everyone take their vitamins this morning a little antioxidant to get you going i know you did because half of americans do every day they take the stuff and they take alternative medicines and it doesn't matter how often we find out that they're useless the data says ... | 1 |
15,568 | we love to wrap ourselves in lies we love to do it everyone take their vitamins this morning a little antioxidant to get you going i know you did because half of americans do every day they take the stuff and they take alternative medicines and it doesn't matter how often we find out that they're useless the data says ... | 1 |
15,569 | we hate big government we don't trust the man and we shouldn't our health care system sucks it's cruel to millions of people it's absolutely astonishingly cold and soul bending to those of us who can even afford it so we run away from it and where do we run we leap into the arms of big placebo | 1 |
15,570 | the most mindless epidemic we're in the middle of right now is this absurd battle between proponents of genetically engineered food and the organic elite it's an idiotic debate it has to stop it's a debate about words about metaphors it's ideology it's not science every single thing we eat every grain of rice every of ... | 1 |
15,571 | and all i can say about this is why are we fighting it i mean let's ask ourselves why are we fighting it because we don't want to move genes around this is about moving genes around it's not about chemicals it's not about our ridiculous passion for hormones our insistence on having bigger food better food singular food... | 1 |
15,572 | a big machine a cool ted ish machine and it's a time machine and everyone in this room has to get into it and you can go backwards you can go forwards you cannot stay where you are and i wonder what you'd choose because i've been asking my friends this question a lot lately and they all want to go back i don't know | 0 |
15,573 | and i wonder what you'd choose because i've been asking my friends this question a lot lately and they all want to go back i don't know they want to go back before there were automobiles or or american idol i don't know i'm convinced that there's some sort of pull to nostalgia to wishful thinking and i understand that ... | 0 |
15,574 | so i want to get in the machine and i want to go forward this is the greatest time there's ever been on this planet by any measure that you wish to choose health wealth mobility opportunity declining rates of disease there's never been a time like this my great grandparents died all of them by the time they were my gra... | 0 |
15,575 | kid born in new delhi today can expect to live as long as the richest man in the world did years ago think about that it's an incredible fact and why is it true smallpox smallpox killed billions of people on this planet it reshaped the demography of the globe in a way that no war ever has | 0 |
15,579 | as a trans person who doesn't fit neatly into the gender binary if i could change the world tomorrow to make it easier for me to navigate the very first thing i would do is blink and create single stall gender neutral bathrooms in all public places trans people and trans issues they've been getting a lot of mainstream ... | 1 |
15,580 | now today as a trans person public bathrooms and change rooms are where i am most likely to be questioned or harassed i've often been verbally attacked behind their doors i've been hauled out by security guards with my pants still halfway pulled up i've been stared at screamed at whispered about and one time i got smac... | 1 |
15,581 | i know a little girl she's the daughter of a friend of mine she's a self identified tomboy i'm talking about cowboy boots and caterpillar yellow toy trucks and bug jars the whole nine yards one time i asked her what her favorite color was she told me camouflage | 1 |
15,582 | she had already been taught the brutal lesson that there was no bathroom door at preschool with a sign on it that welcomed people like her she'd already learned that bathrooms were going to be a problem and that problem started with her and was hers alone so my friend asked me to talk to her little daughter and i did i... | 1 |
15,583 | which of course was a lie because you know how you hit like or and sometimes you just i don't know you pee a little bit when you cough or sneeze when you're running upstairs or you're stretching don't lie it happens right she doesn't need to know that i figure | 1 |
15,584 | and i know what some of you are thinking and you're mostly right i can and do just use the men's room most of the time these days but that doesn't solve my change room dilemmas does it and i shouldn't have to use the men's room because i'm not a man i'm a trans person and now we've got these politicians that keep tryin... | 0 |
15,585 | every time one of these politicians brings one of these bills to the table i can't help but wonder you know just who will and exactly how would we go about enforcing laws like these right panty checks really genital inspections outside of bath change rooms at public pools there's no legal or ethical or plausible way to... | 0 |
15,586 | meanwhile our trans children suffer they drop out of school or they opt out of life altogether trans people especially trans and gender youth face additional challenges when accessing pools and gyms but also universities hospitals libraries don't even get me started on how they treat us in airports if we don't move now... | 0 |
15,587 | so that awesome little kid she came home from school last october from her half day of preschool with soggy pants on because the other kids at school were harassing her when she tried to use the girls' bathroom and the teacher had already instructed her to stay out of the boys' bathroom and she had drank two glasses of... | 0 |
15,588 | told her when you get older your bladder is going to grow bigger too when you get old like me you're going to be able to hold your pee for way longer i promised her until you can get home she asked me i said yes until you can get home she seemed to take some comfort in that | 0 |
15,591 | the story starts in kenya in december of when there was a disputed presidential election and in the immediate aftermath of that election there was an outbreak of ethnic violence and there was a lawyer in nairobi ory who some of you may know from her who began about it on her site kenyan pundit and shortly after the ele... | 0 |
15,593 | what happened in afghanistan one of the unsung and untold success stories of our nation building effort in afghanistan involved the world bank in investing heavily in identifying training and promoting afghani health sector leaders these health sector leaders have pulled off an incredible feat in afghanistan they have ... | 1 |
15,594 | well i know a little bit about what this is like because when i was a medical student in i worked in a refugee camp in the balkans during the kosovo war when the war was over i got permission unbelievably from my medical school to take some time off and follow some of the families that i had befriended in the camp back... | 0 |
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