Wendy Woods : Milan The business benefits of doing good

Wendy Woods at TED@BCG Milan
The business benefits of doing good  (transcript)
Summary
I don't like the speaker's way of explaining this topic somehow.
Now, our world has difficult problems that  are poverty, hunger, climate change and inequality.
Many companies, wealthy people, and charities donate big money to them.
It's too big, thus it'll be difficult to continue for a long  time until the problems are solved.
There should be companies that get benefits and do better things for the world.
We have to challenge problems profitably, and we will continue it. Companies should be so.
I think that all people have to be patient just a little. All people means people who are executives, who hire people, who are hired, and who receive donations.

Words in this story
CSR / corporate social responsibility
TSI / total societal impact
TSR / total shareholder returns
societal /adj/səˈsīitl/ of or relating to society or social relations.
social /adj/ of or relating to society or its organization.
society /noun/ socially /adv/

Keller Rinaudo : How we're using drones to deliver blood and save lives

Keller Rinaudo at TEDGlobal 2017
How we're using drones to deliver blood and save lives  (transcript)
Summary
"How we're using drones to deliver blood and save lives".
This is a strange title. Everyone must think that drones can't deliver anything safely.
In fact, technologies and engineers' skills are really improving, even in Africa. It can bring drones having a simple paper parachute to a landing gently and reliably in the same place every time and it succeeds in Rwanda, in East Africa. The moment video was truly amazing.

In there, hospitals are in remote areas. A blood center has to bring blood to them, but there are no better driving streets to carry something, thus it takes too much time and high costs when people bring it there.

The more wonderful things are not to use the money to build other hospitals or streets but to understand this idea and it is not charity idea but it becomes the commercial business sustainably and extensively.
In the near future, children in there also can have dreams to want to help people.
It's because those children were helped by this system when they were born. When their mother needed blood, this sky ambulance carried it to them.

There are people (patients) who need the small idea in the world.

Words in this story
reliable /adj/ trustworthy dependable, honest
centralize /verb/  concentrate, consolidate, amalgamate
transfusion /noun/ transfuse /verb/ an act of transfusing donated blood, blood products, or other fluid into the circulatory system of a person or animal.
accuracy /noun/ precision

Neha Narula : The future of money

Neha Narula at TED@BCG Paris 2016
The future of money  (transcript)
Summary
Money isn't anything objective but it is a powerful concept. It's about a collective story that people tell each other about value. It is collective fiction. There is nothing inherently valuable a dollar or coin.
People decided that money is about the exchanges and the transactions with each other and they do now. They just only continue doing that.

They bring money when they want to buy something. However, they don't want to bring it and credit card also because it's not safe. They’re troubled where they put money.
They don't want to rely on banks and want to transact directly.

And then the concept of new money was created. The future of money is programmable. It's the combination that is software and currency cryptographically. Cryptography is masking information but verifying it secretly. You don't have to rely on institutions for security.

This is the new thinking that is the future of money; Cryptocurrencies.
The speaker's examples in this talk were really understandable.
She said that no one knows that this idea fits you. However, money innovation that is programmable money will be going to spread rapidly. It's difficult to predict.

Words in this story
deduct /verb/ subtract or take away (an amount or part) from a total.
implement /verb/  execute, apply
crypto /noun/ a person having a secret allegiance to a political creed, especially communism.
cryptocurrency / virtual currency  cryptography /passwords
allocate /verb/  allot, assign, distribute

Martin Ford : How we'll earn money in a future without jobs

Martin Ford at TED2017
How we'll earn money in a future without jobs (transcript)
Summary
After reading this article, I thought that this title really showed our world because the talk was about a basic income that people didn't like to talk about.
Somehow, people really like to talk about how they earn money without jobs, they don't want to think about a basic income, though.

People are stuck with rewarding by working. They think that they're doing their work hard and they did their work harder than others, thus they get a salary. Many of them think that they can get more salary when they do work more.

The current thought about an incentive that by working hard leads to getting salary is very strong.

We can't think that a basic income helps our world inequality but we think that someone getting it is inequality.

However, the thought is not correct and technologies that don't take our jobs away but create new jobs won't keep up. It's because developing technologies is too fast, machines start learning themselves more than we thought and it'll affect all jobs.

We have to change our ideas about jobs and a basic income, but the world has to keep economy successful.
In there, we have to find our incentives to be able to build our better future that works for everyone.

Words in this story
decimate /verb/ kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage or part of.
disruptive /adj/  troublesome, unruly, badly behaved
incentive /noun/ motive, cause, purpose, impetus, consideration
erode /verb/ (of wind, water, or other natural agents) gradually wear away (soil, rock, or land).

John Cary : How architecture can create dignity for all

John Cary at TEDWomen 2017
How architecture can create dignity for all  (transcript)
Summary
A building means a structure with a roof and walls, such as a house, school, store, or factory and it's to protect people.
A roof and walls protect people from rain, wind, sun, and many other things.
Next, outside of buildings were changed. It means that designs were added to buildings. Many different forms and colors of buildings started to be built in the world. Architects and designers succeeded and it made cities beautiful and people happy.
Then a times, people knew that their all spaces including inside buildings need the design to work well and to be better.
The design has unique ability to make people feel valued.
There should be architecture for not only architects and designers but also all people succeed. It must mean to create dignity for all.

Words in this story
dignity /noun/ dignify /verb/ the state or quality of being worthy of honor or respect.
diversity /noun/ diversify /verb/ the state of being diverse; variety.
dividend /noun/ a number to be divided by another number.
divide /noun/verb/ a wide divergence between two groups, typically producing tension or hostility.
startle /verb/ surprise,
anticipate /verb/ expect, foresee, predict
dedicate /verb/ devote, commit, pledge, give

Naomi McDougall Jones : What it's like to be a woman in Hollywood

Naomi McDougall Jones at TEDxBeaconStreet 2016
What it's like to be a woman in Hollywood  (transcript)
Summary
Still, there are entrenched systems that don't changed because we ask the people in charge who has all of the money, power, and resources, and then they don't want to give it up. Then it prevents from doing anything in our life because we are women.
The speaker noticed that there were the systems in Hollywood and she came here to make the change happen through a revolution.
She created a female filmmaker to be able to show better female characters. There is a revolution for not only women but also people who are deprived of the right and whose story has not been told.
The movies affect not only our hobbies but also our career choices, emotions, sense of identity, relationships, and mental health, even marital status. Those are the mechanisms that we can learn the process of being alive, and those are the ways that we understand the world and our place in it, that we develop empathy for people who have different experiences from us.
Hre hopes are to make movies, to invest in each other, disrupt through business and to watch movies more.
The most important thing is not to create them with one perspective. 

Words in this story
entrench /verb/ settle, lodge, set, root, install, plant
deprive /verb/ pick up, take up
perspective /noun/ outlook, view, viewpoint
perception /noun/ intuition, hunch, sensation

Astro Teller : The unexpected benefit of celebrating failure

Astro Teller at TED 2016
The unexpected benefit of celebrating failure (transcript)
Summary
My opinion is that a fulfilled dream we think great wouldn't have a thought that wants to affect millions of people.
Just they wanted to only catch their dreams, it attracts many people, and various wisdom is gathered naturally.

Nothing makes you do. You do and choose to fulfill your dream and you don't think that something is a failure, it should be celebrated and there is an unexpected benefit while chasing your dream. Then failures will teach you many things  to come to dreams.

The result after you achieve your dream, you would think that there were failures that led you to success. 
For your dreams, sizes and people's number are not related. You just go forward.

Words in this story
audacious /adj/  bold, daring, fearless, intrepid, brave
enthusiastic /adj/  extensive, energetic
skepticism /noun/  doubt, doubtfulness
buoyancy /noun/ the ability or tendency to float in water or air or some other fluid.
perception /noun/ sensation

Jia Jiang : What I learned from 100 days of rejection

Jia Jiang at TEDxMtHood 2015
What I learned from 100 days of rejection  (transcript)
Summary
Don't run but ask why when you get rejected in your life. Embracing something seems to turn it into your gifts as well.

The speaker couldn't take his first step for a long time because he was stuck with rejection.
However, he found the idea that you desensitize yourself from the pain. He tried a plan named 100 days of rejection. The plan taught him many things and changed him.

He stopped running and asked why. He mentioned some doubt people might have before he was asked of it. People were more likely to say yes to him. ( I often use it. It seems to remove people's anxiety. ) Then he overcame fears of past rejection.
Say it again.
Don't run but ask why when you get rejected in your life. Embracing something seems to turn it into your gifts as well.

Words in this story
desensitize /verb/ make less sensitive.
microcosm /noun/ miniaturization, a reduced drawing; a miniature (copy)
fame /noun/ reputation, popularity
demeanor /noun/  manner, air, attitude

Elizabeth Lesser 2 : Say your truths and seek them in others

Elizabeth Lesser at TEDWomen 2016
Say your truths and seek them in others  (transcript)
Summary
No matter where you live in the world, and no matter the age, sisters seem to have the same relationship.  There are love and friendship, they don't talk deeply, though. There are also protection, jealousy, competition, rejection, and attack there. They are hesitant to tell their truths to reveal their wounds or to admit our wrongdoings. 　

However, it just covers  each other’s soul.
Uncover your soul.
Try to stay open, even in difficult and painful situations.
Step off your busy days.

It's getting a big dose of sacred awe though we have to step toward the others with courage.
To offer our truths and to seek it in another and in the world.
We can do or try to do something other than rejection or attack.
Words in this story
authenticity /noun/  genuineness, legitimacy, legality
deficit /noun/ damage, shortage
resist /verb/  withstand, combat, weather, endure
rejection
spectacle /noun/ scene
assumption /noun/  hypothesis
differentiate /verb/ recognize or ascertain what makes (someone or something) different.

Ron Finley : A guerilla gardener in South Central LA

Ron Finley at TED 2013
A guerilla gardener in South Central LA  (transcript)
Summary
I was sorry that I thought why it's not better to pop up dialysis centers. In the city, people have cars, there are streets that can be driven a lot of cars, and people can go to fast food shops soon.

Are those better things that the city planners changed the city?

There are many cars means that a lot of car accidents occur and automobile emissions give an evil influence to people who don't use cars. To be able to go fast food shops soon means that the obesity rate is high, then people need dialysis centers.

The important for the city is not by using cars, people can buy food and go to hospitals soon but the food system that people can keep being healthy.

All people in the city can eat fresh delicious fruit and vegetables with cheaper price or free. Children can know vegetables' names. People cooperate in the community and they have jobs to have to do for people and work voluntarily in the city.

A guerilla is an irregular soldier that uses guerrilla warfare, harassing the enemy by surprise raids, sabotaging communication and supply lines.

The speaker attacked lands owned by the city by planting fresh delicious fruit and vegetables like guerillas get.

By 900 signatures, the city's councilman was also in favor of the planting. 
The speaker is a cool gardener who plants vegetables, who changes not only the food system in the city but the whole city and who thinks about people in the city sincerely.

Words in this story
citation /noun/ quotation

Cleo Wade : Want to change the world? Start by being brave enough to care

Cleo Wade at TEDWomen 2017
Want to change the world? Start by being brave enough to care  (transcript)
Summary
This might be the same that my mother often told me, her ways was very hysterical and straight, though.
No one takes care of me all my lifetime. They give me only the first step and I have to do myself what I want to receive.
What human does is small, but we have to do even alone and someday, it'll be gathered and bigger. Do what we can do, even if the start step is small.
We are born with an interest in the world. Understand what someone disagrees with us.
It might be too big to say change the world but the start is always small things. Stop waiting what someone does and start something even alone. We can start it.

Words in this story
grownup /noun/adj/ adult
triumph /noun/ victory
tolerance /noun/ generosity,
bigotry /noun/  bias, prejudice

Jeff Hancock : The future of lying

Jeff Hancock at TEDxWinnipeg 2012
The future of lying  (transcript)
Summary
I think that in the five years from 2012 to 2018, our world of lying must be changed completely and unfortunately.
It's because in the digital age we live in now is in the networked age and we are all leaving a record. It means that we can leave all things that are our legacy and personal, but it must be better, even if it's not true. It leads us to lying.
In the past, we thought that we could detect someone's lies when we looked at their eyes. However, people can lie on the internet which is much of the deception but we can't see all people who wrote them.
And then there is a reason we lie. We lie to protect ourselves or for our own gain or for somebody else's gain.
We can know many things we want now soon today because there is internet there. Thus there is no patience there.
When we are honest and we think that we have to leave something honestly, lies must be born.

I couldn't detect this.

Words in this story
patience /noun/  tolerance, restraint
deception /noun/ false, fake,  deceit
detect /verb/ find out, discover
pervasiveness /noun/ permeance, spread out

Kang Lee : Can you really tell if a kid is lying?

Kang Lee at TED 2016
Can you really tell if a kid is lying? (transcript)
Summary
Adults must believe that children start to tell lies after entering elementary school and they are poor liars. And if children lie very young age, they will be pathological liars for life.

However, the speaker tells us that those are wrong.

Some children can start lie when they are at two years of age, adults can't detect their lies. Children are not poor liars. They have abilities that are mind reading and self-control. Mind reading is that children know that you don't know what they know and self-control is that children control their speech, facial expression, and body language. Those two abilities are essential for all of us to function well in our society, thus children don't have them is serious developmental problems.

What would you do after you detect someone's lies?

The speaker said in the talk, still the study that transdermal optical imaging technology detects lies of people is an early stage of development, but it must be used to reveal politicians' or your girlfriends'/ boyfriends' emotions whether they lie or not in the near future. However, lying will never be the same.

However,  I would do the same thing even if I could detect someone's lies.

Words in this story
detect /verb/ discover or identify the presence or existence of.
lie, lay, lain, lying, lies /verb/ (of a person or animal) be in or assume a horizontal or resting position on a supporting surface. the man lay face downward on the grass.
lie, lied, lied. lying /verb/ deceive, cheat
lie, lies /noun/  falsehood, incorrect fact, or position, location, place
lay, laid, laid /verb/ put down, especially gently or carefully. she laid the baby in his crib.

Kio Stark : Why you should talk to strangers

Kio Stark at TED 2016
Why you should talk to strangers (transcript)
Summary
A way I always use has been the way of triangulation that people can talk to strangers.

When I meet a person who came from another country or who have been to another country, I give him or her a present that is our company's products Flag key-chain. It becomes a third thing, and then the person, I, and Flag key-chain can start a conversation. Flag key-chain is a very strong weapon because people definitely love their related countries. I receive a hug even Japan which doesn't have its custom, I'm offered my hand, and they jump for joy when I give it.

Recently, we must forget to use our senses when we meet and talk to strangers. It's because we're taught that strangers are dangerous, and then we classify strangers unconsciously with having biases. It’ll lead us to losing our own freedom and intimacy. It means that we can't have opportunities that we know how significant interactions are and how special forms of closeness gives us.
Thus the challenge: talking to strangers can be very rewarding as much as we need our families and our friends.
It’ll give us wonderful connection unexpectedly.

Words in this story
fleeting /adj/  brief, short
profound /adj/ deep
absurd /adj/ unreasonable, irrational
perception /noun/ the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses.
perspective /noun/ outlook, view, viewpoint, point of view
intention / noun/ conception

Marlon Peterson : Am I not human? A call for criminal justice reform

Marlon Peterson at TED Residency 2016
Am I not human? A call for criminal justice reform (transcript)
Summary
You matter and all human matters, even you are in prison.
When the speaker was in prison, letters that students gave him redeemed and helped him move beyond the darkness and the guilt associated with the worst moment of his young life. It gave him a sense that he was useful.
There are amazing rewards by investing the humanity of people and pursuing their importance wherever they are

We need to invest in them more and help them find that they matter, society easily disregard and discard, though.

Words in this story
redeemed /verb/ buy back. compensate for the faults or bad aspects of (something).
redemptive /adj/ acting to save someone from error or evil
malign /adj/ evil in nature or effect; malevolent.

Stewart Brand 6 : Mammoths resurrected, geoengineering and other thoughts from a futurist

Stewart Brand and Chris Anderson at TED 2017
Mammoths resurrected, geoengineering and other thoughts from a futurist  (transcript)
Summary
"The whole story is more interesting than these fragmentary stories",  the speaker said. However, it is difficult for us to think and understand so we must think about one part or one side always, then we try to decide whether it is correct or no now.

We humans expect Mammoths resurrected. Probably, we must expect to resurrect ourselves.

In geoengineering, we have the same thought. We are worried about climate change though we use energies unchangeably.
Even genetically engineered food crops in geoengineering can help many people from hunger, we don’t want to eat them.

The speaker is an environmental futurist.
A futurist means a scientist or a social scientist whose specialty is the attempt to systematically explore predictions and possibilities about the future and how those can emerge from the present.

My understanding from his stories is that humans potentially think about only eternal life like Gog. If current medical progress can continue, eternal life must apply to humans.
However, it won't happen during a period of our life, but like his thought: to create a timepiece that can count down the next 10,000 years, it is important.

It is important to challenge something that you never see it succeed whether you know it or not.

Words in this story
resurrect /verb/ restore (a dead person) to life.
unchangeably / constantly, eternally, everlastingly, evermore, forever
eternal life / immortality
counterculture / a way of life and set of attitudes opposed to or at variance with the prevailing social norm.
nuisance /noun/ annoyance