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In our louder and louder world, says sound expert Julian Treasure, “We are losing our listening.” In this short, fascinating talk, Treasure shares five ways to re-tune your ears for conscious listening — to other people and the world around you.
Kevin Slavin argues that we’re living in a world designed for — and increasingly controlled by — algorithms. In this riveting talk from TEDGlobal, he shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture. And he warns that we are writing code we can’t understand, with implications we can’t control.
New York was planning to tear down the High Line, an abandoned elevated railroad in Manhattan, when Robert Hammond and a few friends suggested: Why not make it a park? He shares how it happened in this tale of local cultural activism.
Back in the days it was up to parents, priests and other hierarchies to decide who we were meant to be. The space left to design our own “selves” was tiny and further limited by a steadfast “home”. But today, after Christ’s influence has all but gone, education and management are professionalized to a cluster of “correct behaviors”. Work and private life are blended and we tend to be a virtual one who …
used to be at least two. Today building your own identity requires more activity. We have to learn to walk onto the stage of a virtual reality as one unique personality — without getting lost in ever new communities and identities.
What could the design principles of this new and necessary identity-imagology be?
We have to understand how to integrate the all new and excessive many into a whole One. New simple being — that’s what I call it. No thinking in boxes, no managing of inner diversities. Religion has become too weak, digital ignorants cannot give us directions. We — ourselves in transition – have to believe in new ways, work in new ways, live in new ways, learn to be world citizens in new ways. What will be the result? Kind of an augmented human being.
Günter Dueck is an IBM Distinguished Engineer, an IEEE Fellow, a member of the IBM Academy of Technology, and a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences. He authored some satiricalphilosophical books on humans, management and life and the Financial Times Germany Management Book of the year 2006 Lean Brain Management — Success and more Efficiency by Zero-Intelligence.
Gunter Dueck (* 9. Dezember 1951 in Hildesheim) ist ein deutscher Mathematiker und Philosoph.
Angela Belcher programs viruses to make elegant nanoscale structures that humans can use. Selecting for high-performing genes through directed evolution, she’s produced viruses that can construct powerful new batteries, clean hydrogen fuels and record-breaking solar cells.
At TEDxPeachtree, bioethicist Paul Root Wolpe describes an astonishing series of recent bio-engineering experiments, from hybrid pets to mice that grow human ears. He asks: isn’t it time to set some ground rules?
Wim Wender’s short for 2007 Cannes “Chacun un son cinema”.
You can find a lot of things on the internet, but the meaning of life is not one of them. That doesn’t stop Vanessa Fox from trying though. However, in this hero’s journey through search engines and other sites she does learn a couple of things
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