TED: Mobiltelefoner kan användas för att bekämpa fattigdom

av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 26, 2018 | Ted

Iqbal Quadir tells how his experiences as a kid in poor Bangladesh, and later as a banker in New York, led him to start a mobile phone operator connecting 80 million rural Bangladeshi — and to become a champion of bottom-up development.

TED: Därför får skjutningar inte bli det nya normala

av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 25, 2018 | Ted

It doesn’t matter whether you love or hate guns; it’s obvious that the US would be a safer place if there weren’t thousands of them sold every day without background checks.

Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, makes a passionate, personal appeal for something that more than 90 percent of Americans want: background checks for all gun sales. ”For every great movement around the world, there’s a moment where you can look back and say, ’That’s when things really started to change,'” Gross says. ”For the movement to end gun violence in America, that moment is here.”

 

TED: Så styr algoritmer våra liv

av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 24, 2018 | Ted

We live in a world run by algorithms, computer programs that make decisions or solve problems for us. In this riveting, funny talk, Kevin Slavin shows how modern algorithms determine stock prices, espionage tactics, even the movies you watch.

But, he asks: If we depend on complex algorithms to manage our daily decisions — when do we start to lose control?

TED: Det vi kan göra åt hatkulturen

av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 18, 2018 | Ted

We’re all against hate, right? We agree it’s a problem — their problem, not our problem, that is. But as Sally Kohn discovered, we all hate — some of us in subtle ways, others in obvious ones. As she confronts a hard story from her own life, she shares ideas on how we can recognize, challenge and heal from hatred in our institutions and in ourselves.

TED: Därför ska du våga att inte hålla med

av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 16, 2018 | Ted

Most people instinctively avoid conflict, but as Margaret Heffernan shows us, good disagreement is central to progress. She illustrates (sometimes counterintuitively) how the best partners aren’t echo chambers — and how great research teams, relationships and businesses allow people to deeply disagree.

TED: Tre myter om framtidens arbete

av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 15, 2018 | Ted

”Will machines replace humans?” This question is on the mind of anyone with a job to lose. Daniel Susskind confronts this question and three misconceptions we have about our automated future, suggesting we ask something else: How will we distribute wealth in a world when there will be less — or even no — work?