Martine Rothblatt : My daughter, my wife, our robot, and the quest for immortality

Martine Rothblatt : My daughter, my wife, our robot, and the quest for immortality (script)
Summary
The speaker published his thesis in his book of which the title was "The Apartheid of Sex". It shockingly says that a gender has fluidity. Racism is real though race is fiction and male or female gender is constructed fiction. People have to choose either because of society forces. Genitals don't determine your gender or sexual identity. It's the structure of the human body and reproductive tracts. He changes his gender sometimes.
He works with satellite though he stars a nonprofit foundation to collect a fund for medical research and to help his daughter. It's because she was diagnosed to have a rare fatal disease that is said to definitely kill its patients by her doctor.
However, he studies her illness and looks for her medicine.
Although the medicine he found was just piece of powder for a rat that is said not to be able to turn into a medicine for people, by his research, it's turned to the great medicine for two years. It could help not only his daughter but also other many people who have the same illness as her and it currently produces a big benefit. She now helps his company that will cure more people by transplantable lungs.
He is, now,  working to develop a new software which can revive the consciousness. First, a mind file which is a place on the internet to collect your mannerisms, personality, recollection, feeling, beliefs and values, is created. And then, after couple decades, it can be recapitulated by a software.
If a robot has the software, the robot can do anything like you forever. He showed the robot that version is his wife to us.
This is his new research that leads to the quest for immortality.
Words in this story
prediction / estimation, forecast
consciousness / senses
doppelganger / offshoot, an apparition or double of a living person.

Andrew Solomon 3: How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are

TED 2014
Andrew Solomon 3: How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are (script)
Summary
What the speaker figured out from his big struggles was that you can build your meaning and identity, even if you are in unusual situations. So you don't find your meaning but you can forge your meaning.
However, all of you are with stigmatized identities that we don't agree but there are many people who confiscate our humanity.
However, the stigmatized identities: your gender, sexuality, race, disability and being a political prisoner, involve entering you to draw strength from you, and to give you strength also.
 When you start to tolerate them, you can see progress and reverberation to others. They are the foundation of identity. You forge your meaning and build your identity, even if you are at the worst moment.
It gives you the power and joy, it makes you what you are, and it can change you and anything.
Forge meaning and build your identity. It can't change anything.
Words in this story
forge / make or shape (a metal object) by heating it in a fire or furnace and beating or hammering it.
confiscate / take or seize (someone's property) with authority. pick up, take up
preordain / decide or determine (an outcome or course of action) beforehand.
torment  / agony, suffering, torture, pain
tolerant /adj/  tolerance /noun/  generosity, allowance
tolerate /verb/  allow, permit, condone, accept, swallow
reverberation / echo

Andrew Solomon 2: Depression, the secret we share

TEDxMet 2013
Andrew Solomon 2: Depression, the secret we share  (script)
Summary
In fact, depression is not known well and people think that the opposite of depression is happiness. However, it's not happiness but it's vitality.
Having depression seems that you start not to be able to do small things that are eating lunch and organizing yourself while thinking that it's ridiculous. You feel yourself doing less, thinking less and feeling less. You lose all interest. It's a kind of nullity but anxieties are set in. It becomes too painful to be alive. It leads to killing yourself.
Moreover, if you have depression, it's probably hidden by yourself and your family won't know it. You can't tell it to anyone. It makes it worse.
Depression is said to be the flaw in love but people confuse about depression, grief, and sadness. Although it'll take time, grief will ultimately solve itself.
However, if you experience a catastrophic loss, its big sadness tends to lead to depression that is much too much sadness and grief.
However, it's looked it small reasons from far place by others.
About treatment, it doesn't figure out that it needs a chemical cure or a philosophical cure though both cures have an each role. Then the speaker says that we should tolerate the vast world of alternative treatments.
It's because depression is braided so deep into you. It can't be separated from your character and personality. However, it's not part of your personality. It happens when the system gets broken. It's only maladaptive for you though shutting out and hiding depression grow it.
Looking at, tolerating the fact that you have the condition and understanding your depression will become the way that you achieve resistance.
The speaker wants to tell us that by vitality, even little of it that you can face the fact that you have depression, it leads to a cure. It's because the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality. You might be in hell as depression, but thinking about the way to love it and to find joy bravely. Its vitality makes you leave having depression. Don't think that you are not happy because the opposite of depression is not happiness.

Words in this story
solitary / lonely, lonesome   solidarity / unite
accurate /  precise, correct, right
imperative / command, order
implausible / unlikely, questionable, doubtful
impoverished /  poor, poverty-stricken
maladaptive /  it's not able to adaptive

Andrew Solomon 1: Love, no matter what

TEDMED 2013
Andrew Solomon 1: Love, no matter what (script)
Summary
The love you have for your children is like no other feeling in the world, and until you have children, you don't know what it's like.
So parents love their children whoever or whatever they are. It is not changed everywhere, even if there are situations that you think are difficult or that you mourn over. The situations are, for example, a parent whose kid has autism, a dwarf,  who has a child with down syndrome or a family of a convicted murder.
You mourn over them, you pray for a cure and you wish that their existence is eliminated but it's exchanged with someone though parents don't think that. They don't want to be cured, changed of eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they are. They say that they wouldn't give them up for anything in the world.  If they lost their children, it would be a catastrophic loss.
They don't think of their kids never been born. They, parents can love their children with their flaws and strong effective will.
Sometimes, it might take time to accept the situations though there is an unconditional love throughout the relationship between a parent and a child.  This is such strange love in which you can fall into naturally when you become a parent.
Words in this story
convict /  find guilty, sentence
convince / persuade
lethal /  mortal, deadly
lineage / pedigree, family line, system

Shah Rukh Khan: Thoughts on humanity, fame and love

TED 2017
Shah Rukh Khan: Thoughts on humanity, fame and love (script)
Summary
This is the new TEDtalk that was told in this year 2017, in May and the title of TED in this year was "The future you". Thus the speaker tells us "The future you" that he thinks.
He is a very famous movie star in India. However, he says that in America, a few people probably know him, even if they know that India is, now, the second-most populous country but it is still not a rich country.
He tells us his difficult life struggled with laughter and a joke. even if you are struggling, you have to repeat progressing and growing. It leads you to the miracle of human innovation and cooperation.
For "the future you," there is the present you. There are many things that you think important, the most important thing to help you survive is love. Your love can create the great you and you can solve the world's problems with love. The future you is in your love.
Words in this story
enlightenment / the action of enlightening or the state of being enlightened. insight, understanding, awareness, wisdom, education, learning
fame / renown, celebrity, stardom, popularity

His Holiness Pope Francis: Why the only future worth building includes everyone

TED2017
His Holiness Pope Francis:
Why the only future worth building includes everyone (script)
Summary
In this year 2017, the title of TEDtalk is "The Future You". The speaker is Pope Francis who is Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Why the only future worth building includes everyone is that life flows through our relations whit others. Future is made of not only you but also encounters. Life is about interactions.
1) When we don't lock our door to the outside world and the whole is harmonized with each single component, we can overcome our big problems and happiness can be discovered.
2) In our world, the growth of scientific and technological innovation can come along with more equality and social inclusion. It will come from a true solidarity. It is a free response bone from the heart of each. When you understand that love is the source and meaning of life, you can't stop urging to do good to another fellow being.
3) Thinking about tenderness. We have to innovate our tenderness. It's not weakness but even the power have to be used with humility and tenderness. It protects from hurting yourself and people around you. The future is in your hand when you recognize the other as "you" and themselves as part of an "us". Life is about interactions.
Words in this story
inclusion /  the action or state of including or of being included within a group or structure
harmonize / add notes to (a melody) to produce harmony
tenderness / gentleness and kindness
mankind /  humanity, human beings considered collectively, the human race
irreplaceable / unable to be replaced

Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks

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TEDGlobal 2010
Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks  (script)
Summary
Julian Assange is the founder of WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks is an organization that publishes secret information, news leaks, corruption incident, and classified media from anonymous sources.
He says that in the world there is a lot of big disparity and information that are hidden by big companies and even countries. They spend big money to conceal it.
WikiLieaks finds the information and shows it to the public though the most important things are to protect the whistleblowers who are really well motivated, to change the perception and opinion of the people who are paying for corruption incidents.
He also says that What WikiLeaks does should be that people can feel morality and it does not create victims but it nurtures victims or it polices perpetrators of crime. He thinks that the world needs WikiLieaks, because the world needs freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation, even if the big power comes to it to control or to secret the information.
Words in this story
disparity /  discrepancy, imbalance, gap,  difference
conceal /  hide, screen, cover
perception / the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses.

whistleblowers / a person who informs on a person or organization engaged in an illicit activity.

Edward Snowden: Here's how we take back the Internet

TED2014
Edward Snowden: Here's how we take back the Internet (script)
Summary
Edward Snowden can't be in America. That's why he appeared by telepresence robot and spoke at the TED stage.
He only gave all his information back to the American people.
We think that we can use the Internet safely but some companies and government protect us and our privacy.
However, the internet has been exploited for a long time by a famous company and government. Their situation is to observe the Internet and to protect us our privacy.  Is it allowed that only now, America and some people who are in a big company and government can get enormous profits but our privacy is leaking?
We have to consider that it is different between getting benefit yourself to doing the right thing or protect country to getting the national interest.
However, someone who is really believed or have authority did dirty things, people can't believe the fact. A person who found and exposed it is a traitor.
Nowadays, big harm doesn't seem to occur. However, the speaker said,"you never know when you're going to need something".
The internet needs good observation and government to protect our privacy and to use it safely and freely. We have to take bake the right Internet and the next generation can take over it.
Words in this story
exploit /  utilize, harness

Lisa Kristine: Photos that bear witness to modern slavery

TEDxMaui 2012
Lisa Kristine: Photos that bear witness to modern slavery (script)
Summary
Slavery is illegal everywhere in the world. There is a law against it though slavery still exists everywhere but many people in the world don't know or they just don't see it. It's all around us but it's  not changed since a long time ago.
At an illegal mine, men work to break stones in a deep hole but they never go home.
At brick kilns, men, women, and even children carry heavy bricks over for 16 or 17 hours a day, of course, without any pay. They can't walk away.
Sex trafficking, even they are children, occurs around you. In restraints, textile industries, and fishing villages, there are people who are enslaved. The speaker shines a light on slavery and continues taking photos of them with awe to be found by Fee the Slaves which is an NGO dedicated to eradicating modern day slavery and us. Crying, giving them money or helping directly will have them in a worse situation. When only Fee the Slaves find them, they can change their lives. She thinks that her photos are bearing witness to modern slavery and their dream that they become free will come true.
Words in this story
witness /  observer, onlooker, eyewitness
restraints /  control, moderation, prudence

Carrie Poppy: A scientific approach to the paranormal

TEDxVienna 2016
Carrie Poppy: A scientific approach to the paranormal (script)
Summary
This is a funny story but I don't know what to say and I don't feel refreshed.
The speaker seemed to really believe that ghost can be explained by science.
However, she noticed that what she believed in was not explained by science.
However, she understood that this was the reason that there is an outer truth and an inner truth. There is the thing that is not clear.
Do you believe in the things explained by science,or do you believe in the things that are not explained by science?
In fact, the things change whether you believe or not, or you give up or not. And then we have to strongly believe in your opinions and pursue them. However, we have to respectfully listen to the opposite opinion.
There are a lot of things that we don't know in our reality, but searching for them must be fun. She also said in the end, "Let's all never lose that hope, because searching for what's out there helps us understand what's in here".
I understood that I am the person who gives up in searching for the truth about ghosts.I like to know about new things that I don't know yet, but I don't pursue what happened in my textbook this time. There were some words that the speaker did say but they were printed. But they were "that wasn't a laugh line, but OK".
I'm not scared somehow. I believe that there are some things that can't be explained by science.
Words in this story
dilapidated / creaky
dread /dréd/  fear, be afraid of, worry about, be anxious about

Michael Norton: How to buy happiness

TEDxCambridge 2011
Michael Norton: How to buy happiness (script)
Summary
Are you spending money right?
If you think about money which can't buy happiness, you're not spending it right. The way for you to be happy is not thinking about which products to buy for yourself.
It turned out from his study that giving some of money to other people makes you happy. It means to try spending money for other people. In the world, it makes other people happy and brings you bigger return than spending on yourself.
Please try spending money for other people. This is the way that you buy happiness.
If you'er spending money right, it can buy happiness.
Are you happy?
Words in this story
implication /  involvement, connection, suggestion, insinuation, innuendo, hint
infiltration /noun/ infiltrate / verb/  insinuate oneself into, worm one's way into

J.D. Vance: America's forgotten working class

TEDNYC  2016
J.D. Vance: America's forgotten working class (script)
Summary
Even if you think about your city is fairly happy in America, the working class exists but it is forgotten.
Working class means the social group that consists of people who earn a little money. They often are paid only for the hours or days that they work, and usually do physical work.
It leads to problems that are spreading heroine, killing a lot of people, family violence, domestic violence divorce and separated families.  Rising death rates and people are struggling but it's thought that there is no idea to solve. Then children whom Parents did them will do them also. It's continued and it won't end. Just only the speaker was lucky though he said that he couldn't have been finding answers to solve this problem.  He decided to continue asking even better questions, even if he don't know all of the solutions. There are kids who have no hope for the future because of working class. They desperately want to live the better life.
Words in this story
affirmative / af・firm・a・tive /əfˈɚːməṭɪv/ agreeing with a statement or to a request.
prestigious / pres・ti・gious /prestídʒəs/ inspiring respect and admiration; having high status.

Eduardo Paes: The 4 commandments of cities

TED 2012
Eduardo Paes: The 4 commandments of cities (script)
Summary
This is the talk that Japanese people must listen to. It's because the speaker is a mayor of Rio de Janeiro city in Brazil where was chosen as the 31st Olympic and in Japan, Tokyo is chosen as 32nd Olympic. He said in the talk that you don't always have to be rich or powerful to get things done. You can find original ways to get things done with some basic commandments. You can really get cities to be a great place to live.
Firstly, what his city did was creating a place where people could meet. From now, a city of the future has to be environmentally friendly. Green is really needed.
Secondly, it's important that people can move easily. Among rising population, it's thought that transportation is spending lots of lots of money though the Bus Rapid Transit is spending much less money and moving much faster.
Thirdly, you can remove a problem of favelas and change it to completely urbanized. Favela means a city in Brazil where it is very poor and crowded though you bring in the basic services which are education and health. By using high -quality technology, a city can be socially integrated.
Fourthly, you can use like the operations center with technology that is the system which you can know and administrate the city but you don't need to be there anymore.
The beautiful city has been left and by using technology, a city can integrate socially its citizens and care about its all citizens. This is a city of the future.
In Japan, old buildings were demolished without fixing because workers can get the benefit but the government only think how they use the budget that is tax we citizens paid...
Words in this story
integration / synthesis, unification

BJ Miller: What really matters at the end of life

TED 2015
BJ Miller: What really matters at the end of life (script)
Summary
The most important thing for the end of our life is a shift in our perspective to all sorts of things.
The scariest thing about death isn't being dead but it's about dying and suffering.
Even in the natural and essential part of your life which is death, you can see suffering that you can change.
Even if some systems of your body are broken, you can feel primal sensorial delights until the end.
Then you don't ask too much of your hospital. You should design your end of life because the hospital is not a place to live and die.
The speaker said, "We have to make a space in our minds to agree with our death."
It's not about being able to solve death but to live out our lives. We can learn a lot to live well from small things and our usual day.
We can always find a shock of beauty or meaning in what line we have left. To realize them leads us to designing our whole life even our death.
Words in this story
repugnance / intense disgust.
sterility / the quality or condition of being sterile.
trauma / physical injury. a deeply distressing or disturbing experience. injury, damage, wound, cut.

Karen Armstrong2 : Let's revive the Golden Rule

TEDGlobal 2009
Karen Armstrong2 : Let's revive the Golden Rule (script)
Summary
Compassion is the centrality in all the major religions of the world. It is worth the Golden Rule that is the source of all morality. It is not somethinf only religious people believe in.
However, it seemed to be only emphasized. People are in the center of their world now. They do their good deed for the day, and then they return to a life of greed and egotism. People want to be right one but they seemed not to want to be compassionate. Even religious leaders argue about abstruse doctrines with hatred. Religious teaching is not believing abstruse doctrines. It should be the thing that always leads to action.
So compassion is not simply feeling sorry for somebody and you don't understand compassion if you'er just going to think about it. You always have to do it.
When all people have compassion, they can be considerate of all people, and they can gather, cooperate and work beyond religion, we can get over many problems and change the world. We have to learn amity and to live together more.
The talk is thought to be about all religions though I want especially Japanese people who will be a member of no religion to watch the Talk. It's because compassion is the source of all morality which is needed for all people.
And then, one accident that the speaker just told us lacking compassion in this TED talk occurred.
One customer was dragged off from a plane and he got injured. The reason was that the company had to suddenly move four people by using that plane.
However, if among four people who have to take an airplane or among passengers, someone could say that he/she gets off the plane, or if someone could say that he/she would take on the next flight or if the company could give up four people to move, the accident wouldn't occur.
All people didn't have compassion. We have to be considerate of others, irrespective of being yellow, white, or doctors.
The accident is our reality.
This is the reason why all we have to revive our compassion.
Words in this story
considerate / careful not to cause inconvenience or hurt to others. having a warm heart. being considerate. being wise and compassionate. having a feel for ～
be considerate / He is a very considerate person. That is a very considerate deed. They are polite and considerate. He is considerate in everything
be considerate of / He is considerate of old people. She is considerate of others.
centrality / cen・tral・i・ty /sentrˈæləṭi/

David Brooks2 : Should you live for your résumé ... or your eulogy?

TED 2014
David Brooks2 : Should you live for your résumé ... or your eulogy? (script)
Summary
People work hard every day to achieve their goal. They have ambitions and they are constructive and creative. They can create companies and they have the power to innovate. They are built by building on their strengths. Their motto is "success".
However, is it better to pursue them only and to live their life like a game?
For us, there are two sides of our nature. Even if you are humble or you live in an introverted monner, they are very important. You'll have the depth of conviction and an emotional sonorousness. Your internal side of nature can be an inverse logic. You can give to receive, or you can surrender to something outside yourself to gain strength within yourself. You can conquer the desire to get what you want, or you can forget yourself to fulfill yourself and you can lose yourself to find yourself.
You are built by fighting your weaknesses and sin.
A depth of character is constructed by suffering. Recognizing the sin in yourselves and giving forgiveness are not written on your resume but you are not taught about them.
We have to think about them before they become part of our eulogy.
Words in this story
creativity /noun/  creative / adj
conviction /noun/   belief, opinion, view, thought
sonorousness / ringing, sonority

David Brooks 1: The social animal

TED2011
David Brooks 1 :The social animal (script)
Summary
We and politicians are the same jouman, and we are the social animals who live on earth. Human nature is created by reason and emotion.
However, in our current society, reason is not only separated from emotions but also suppressed to develop society. It is the success that we can see and it doesn't need the concepts of the ancient morality of virtue, honor, and goodness. This such shallow view is shared by the society currently. It leads to all things espcifically politics and education.
However, our emotion has two aspects that are conscious part and the unconscious part. In fact, when we do something, the unconscious part always works but it can't be suppressed and its influenceand is contagious. It leads not only to bad things but also good things, furthermore, it can be interpenetrated. So the speaker tells us that if we discover a more accurate vision of our deep unconsciousness, our policy failures might be changed.
Something inherited is that a view of human nature must be wonderful.
Words in this story
reason / the power of the mind to think, understand and form judgments by a process of logic.  rationality, logic, logical thought, sense
suppress/control, calm, appease, son
interpenetrate / mix or merge together

Don Tapscott 2: How the blockchain is changing money and business

TEDSummit 2016
Don Tapscott: How the blockchain is changing money and business (script)
Summary
Bitcoin is a digital currency that means a cryptocurrency.
A blockchain works as distributed ledger globally. It is available to everyone without powerful intermediaries and it can record transactions safely and permanently. Its block creates a chain to avoid hacking.
However, it's not utilized well. The internet brought us wealth but it's not shared prosperity. Social inequality is growing.
The speaker tells us five new approaches to solve this problem. The approach is to redistribute wealth which doesn't mean to spread tax people around but to change the way.  The ways are that wealth gets created in the first place by democratizing wealth creation, wealth is pre-distributed, people can engage more in the economy, and they can surely get fair compensation.
1) Land titles are rightly put on a blockchain. It becomes immutable and can't be hacked.
2) Not only sharing but aggregating services more and directly bring people who want it.
3) Reducing remittances cost and time. It births a big opportunity.
4) Creating only the data which can protect your privacy.
5)  Receiving fair compensation for all creators of various content and protecting the rights of them.
Nowadays, the world looks like wealth people create is engaged in the technology.  The blockchain has the power to change money and business must be used to give wealth to all of us
Words in this story
transfer /  move, shift, remove, displace
utilized / make practical and effective use of.
engaged /  busy, occupied,

Don Tapscott 1: Four principles for the open world

TEDGlobal 2012
Don Tapscott: Four principles for the open world (script)
Summary
The technology revolution is opening our world.
Openness has a number of different meanings, and there are corresponding principles for the transformation of civilization.
They are about collaboration, transparency, sharing, and empowerment. They really worked for the institution of the Industrial Age. Our world dramatically changed.
However, it' s passed but it started failing.
Openness should be used to birth consciousness on a global basis and we have to attack some big problems in the world. Openness gives us empowerment and freedom.
We have to think about what happens in the world and we can do this if we can connect ourselves beyond just not only sharing information and knowledge but also beyond an individual, a group, and a team.
Words in this story
transparency / clearness, clarity
corresponding /  matching, answering, coming under
transformation / change, alteration