Larry Page at TED2014 (transcript)
Where’s Google going next?
Summary
I love the words that Larry Page told us in the story. “Looking at things that people might not think about and working on things that no one else is working on because those must be worthy to focus and to have curiosity. There are many companies which don't succeed because they missed the future. In Japan, it's said that continuing a company for ten years is a rare case because of that reason, not to do willingly and not take a risk.
Larry Page was a person who created Google that was really famous. He seems to be CEO at another company now. His mission was to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. A searching power of Google becomes really great. People are worried about privacy and security, though, we have to have more knowledge about how to use the internet. It's to find a solution without having to be helped out.
People must use Google to help others and change the world better. We live in such a great world.
Words in this story
follow up /verb/ put throughimplementgo throughfollow outcarry out
horizon /noun/ the line at which the earth's surface and the sky appear to meet.
turnover /noun/ the amount of money taken by a business in a particular period.
Nick Bostrom at TED2015 (transcript)
What happens when our computers get smarter than we are?
Summary
I thought hard that what is worth of humans and what is worth of our computer when our computer gets smarter than humans are.
Now, it figures out that our computer can learn itself, it can calculate faster than us, it's said that the computer robs our jobs in many situations, it’ll become the machine of superintelligence, and it must control us. In the first place, the word “control” gives us the image of slaves, though, we won't need to work that time. I talked with my friend about that situation. The conclusions are our actions of wearing dresses, going out, studying English, buying something and even eating are meaningful. It's because you can use teleportation to meet friends who use another language though it's translated automatically. The computer makes its image wear beautiful dresses, you are in a pajama, though and your meals are only one tablet supplement that has enough nutrients that you live for your one day. It'll be like you're a dog and the computer is your owner. People really love their pets now.
The speaker tells us that the ultimate limit to information processing in a machine substitute lies far outside the limits in biological tissue. It’ll be like we're flea and a computer is a person who stamps on a flea. A current situation, no one says that doesn't push a flea, gathering might carry some diseases, though.
Can a flea a million years pass from now look back that fleas create the computer?
We can think from the article. If Earth was created one year ago, the human species would be ten minutes old but we would be fleas but it might get eternal life.
There, All notions that are not only wearing, studying, going, buying and eating, but also living, emotions and money must be changing.
Now, we can't learn our histories correctly thus humans wouldn't learn whether we did that really mattered was to get this thing right. Only the computer must know it. It's not necessarily incorrect, is it?
Words in this story
substrate /noun/ a substance or layer that underlies something, or on which some process occurs, in particular.
adversary /noun/ opponent rival enemy
Linda Hill at TEDxCambridge (transcript)
How to manage for collective creativity
Summary
Again, a Japanese system seems to be criticized. It works by orders from on high which is bosses, governments and other authorities. Of course, it can't create creativity. When people are unleashed by those authorities, wonderful ideas, power and creativity must be created. Officers and the space you work have to be where your genius can be unleashed and harnessed. There's no compromise and dominance. This is to manage for collective creativity.
Words in this story
agility /noun/ quickness, activity
iteration /noun/ repetition
Juan Enriquez at TEDxCERN (transcript)
The age of genetic wonder
Summary
I overlooked the word "unless" in the article. I thought that it's strange that people never want to redesign humans. It continues the word "unless" and the age of using it is coming here soon. Nobody's going to live beyond 120, 130, 140 years unless if we fix something that is the level of genetic sequences. It means that we can live over 120, 130, 140 years if we fix it and our some body parts are already rebuild to live longer before.
The speaker tells us that redesigning humans and affecting the environment in an extreme way have to be more debated and it's long-term trends, though, it must happen soon.
The short-term trends are that we're going to see a new industrial revolution, we would need to have new thoughts like combining biology and physics, it seems to be called theological biology, and those happening will be coming to the consumers who are us. Whether the next new age that's genetic editing generation is better or not depends on us.
Words in this story
immense /noun/ huge, enormous
frontier /noun/ boundary, border
Shoplifters of the Japanese movie (wiki)
My comment
l thought that the title of this movie was not good, Japanese movies would be loved by only Japanese people thus l hadn't needed to watch it.
However, it was recommended to me by a movie's director who teaches foreign students how to make films and how to use the Japanese Language. He also told me that it's not necessary to understand the true messages of what the movie and the director want to tell us.
Why? It's too sad to make movies. Is it because it's too difficult, he gives up, people have many opinions without watching films, just he wants people to go to cinemas because films are recently unpopular?
I think that l try to summarize why people and l don't go to theaters, 1) what opinions he has, 2) and that my comments about this movie. 3)
l didn't have time to go to theatres at this time, but l bought this book and read it and watched its YouTube.
1) Why don't people and l go to theaters?
Probably, it's because there are many temptations in the words. Those are T.V, YouTube, books, games, SNS and so on.
In my case, l was not allowed to watch T.V from my mother when I was a child thus I've liked to read books for a long time, l found something that I wanted to do finally, it's to study English, and I don't have time and money. Furthermore, l don't like watching movies in the first place because of one famous and important movie Ten Commandments that was really scary for me when I was really a kid. It made me dislike movies.
2) what opinions does he have?
I wanted to know why the Japanese teacher told not to need knowing true messages and why he recommended this film.
I thought for a long time that movies have strong messages and we have to understand it. I have another movie that made me dislike movies. It's the Pearl Harbor and I continue to think that it's not true and histories have to be told correctly. Although it's said fictions, many social problems became fictions are told and people don't know it and don't think about the truth. I can't allow those.
3) What does the movie of Shoplifters want to tell us?
I was really shocked why the movie of a thief receive some awards and I don't want foreigners to know about thief which happened in Japan.
I hope that the director just wants the foreigner students to learn Japanese from movies, l understand that the message of the movie is the family, not the thief, though.
In the movies, important key sentences seemed to be the following.
What connects the family?
Did we choose from kids as a parent?
Even living with birth parents, whether they are happy or not. Women might not be a mother, even she gives birth to a baby.
All families seem to have bonds, even they don't look normal. It means there are abuse, neglect, adoption, divorce, and thief. All family has anxiety and anxiety might make bonds.
Kids can't choose their parents, Japanese people strongly think blood makes bonds thus adoptions are little in Japan thus women who can't give birth can't do anything, though, the problem with the declining birth are always told strongly to only women.
In the first place, Japanese people might allow a diversity of the family, Japan looks really peaceful, though.
Questions haven't been solved yet and l think that reading this book was really good because I wouldn't read it without his recommendation.
Social problems connect the problem of families strongly, it might be a bad culture. Making culture takes much time. Societies and politics must create a better culture. Only revealing something isn't better. All media have to help it.
Laura Bates at TEDxCoventGardenWomen (transcript)
Everyday sexism
Summary
See no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil. We shouldn't be the three wise monkeys.
We tend not to see the problem of impropriety. Something that no one says and everyone is experienced become normal. It doesn't become a problem. This is the current problem of sexism. Everyone says that men and women are equal, though, the base of sexism just isn't seen.
The Everyday Sexism Project that is the platform she created certified that there's the problem yet, men and even women think that it's normal, but by having voices, it might be solving.
The most important things are not to find targeters or perpetrators and not to tell victims how to do it but the people who ignore the problem have to be changed and realized. Create a world where people can feel sexism is not normal.
Words in this story
fuss /noun/ noise
grope /verb/ explore, search, spy, look for
David Puts at TEDxPSU (transcript)
To find your perfect mate, think like an evolutionist
Summary
First, I thought that a mate in the title was a classmate or workmate, somehow, it's wrong and then the important thing is why the words “an evolutionist ” is used.
My opinion is that there is an idea that is a designer baby must be normal from now. Our basic is that leaving better genes and species thus mating might not be necessary. We are now surprised, however, it's the same as we didn't believe about evolutionism.
Evolutionism describes the belief in the evolution of organisms. Its exact meaning has been changing over time as the study of evolution has progressed so we have to progress the idea more that is evolutionism. Our heart and brain have many things that we don't know yet, though, we are humans. As humans, leaving better genes must need our love.
Words in this story
homicide /noun/ murder, homicide, manslaughter
monogamy /noun/ marriage to one person at a time, having only one mate at a time.
