av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 22, 2018 | Ted
We get stronger, not weaker, by engaging with ideas and people we disagree with, says Zachary R. Wood. In an important talk about finding common ground, Wood makes the case that we can build empathy and gain understanding by engaging tactfully and thoughtfully with controversial ideas and unfamiliar perspectives.
”Tuning out opposing viewpoints doesn’t make them go away,” Wood says. ”To achieve progress in the face of adversity, we need a genuine commitment to gaining a deeper understanding of humanity.”
av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 21, 2018 | Ted
Diane Wolk-Rogers teaches history at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, site of a horrific school shooting on Valentine’s Day 2018. How can we end this senseless violence?
In a stirring talk, Wolk-Rogers offers three ways Americans can move forward to create more safety and responsibility around guns — and invites people to come up with their own answers, too. Above all, she asks us to take a cue from the student activists at her school, survivors whose work for change has moved millions to action. ”They shouldn’t have to do this on their own,” Wolk-Rogers says. ”They’re asking you to get involved.”
av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 19, 2018 | Ted
What if we could use existing technologies to provide Internet access to the more than 4 billion people living in places where the infrastructure can’t support it?
Using off-the-shelf LEDs and solar cells, Harald Haas and his team have pioneered a new technology that transmits data using light, and it may just be the key to bridging the digital divide. Take a look at what the future of the Internet could look like.
av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 17, 2018 | Ted
John Koenig loves finding words that express our unarticulated feelings — like ”lachesism,” the hunger for disaster, and ”sonder,” the realization that everyone else’s lives are as complex and unknowable as our own.
Here, he meditates on the meaning we assign to words and how these meanings latch onto us.
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av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 15, 2018 | Ted
Investigative journalist Will Potter is the only reporter who has been inside a Communications Management Unit, or CMU, within a US prison. These units were opened secretly, and radically alter how prisoners are treated
— even preventing them from hugging their children. Potter, a TED Fellow, shows us who is imprisoned here, and how the government is trying to keep them hidden. ”The message was clear,” he says. ”Don’t talk about this place.” Find sources for this talk at willpotter.com/cmu
av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 15, 2018 | Ted
In the early days of digital culture, Jaron Lanier helped craft a vision for the internet as public commons where humanity could share its knowledge
— but even then, this vision was haunted by the dark side of how it could turn out: with personal devices that control our lives, monitor our data and feed us stimuli. (Sound familiar?) In this visionary talk, Lanier reflects on a ”globally tragic, astoundingly ridiculous mistake” companies like Google and Facebook made at the foundation of digital culture — and how we can undo it. ”We cannot have a society in whoch, if two people wish to communicate, the only way that can happen is if it’s financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them,” he says.
