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.
Rachel Botsman at TEDSummit (transcript)
We've stopped trusting institutions and started trusting strangers
Summary
This is a story that profound opinions are written about trust and l really felt that Japan has a big difference in culture about trust. It's because the speaker tells us in the story that even if in China, the ride-sharing platform is increasing beyond the culture, though, it's not increasing in Japan completely.
The speaker defines trust as a confident relationship with the unknown. There is a common pattern that can show three stages. First, trusting the idea, having confidence in the platform, and using little bits of information to decide whether the other person is trustworthy. When people climb those stairs, ideas become normal, people's behavior transforms, and it will be called trust enables change and innovation. Furthermore, the speaker explains that trust, itself seems to change to local trust, institutional trust, and distributional trust so the real disruption that is now happening is not technological but trusting. We have to know that the new era of trust is coming, Japan seems to be really out of date, though.
The article makes me really notice about the cultural differences are important about trust and l who am Japanese seem to think about trust more than deception.
Words in this story
leap /noun/ jumping, jump, leap, skip, bound
cope with / deal with, handle, get over, fulfill
transform /verb/ convert, change into
Christine Porath at TEDxUniversityofNevada (transcript)
Why being respectful to your coworkers is good for business
Summary
The title must show that our world loses corporations because of a lot of competitions. We have to be winners in classes, schools, sports, business, world and so on. It's always holding someone down always, getting benefits for yourself busily and continuing ignoring many things.
We have to learn how to be civil and how to sabotage our success by being uncivil. The speaker tells us about her research. It shows that when we have more civil environments, we're more productive, creative, helpful, happy and healthy. Taking actions to lift others up must lead you to growth.
P.S.
I 've read this article before changing the title. The previous title was "Why being nice to your coworkers is good for business".
Words in this story
sabotage /verb/ destroy
civil /adj/ reverent, reverential, respectful, polite
Ruby Sales at TED Salon: Verizon (transcript)
How we can start to heal the pain of racial divisions
Summary
This is a story that is really true, though, no one can't tell because it's taboo. It's racism shockingly and it is not a problem between black and white but it's a culture problem. It has become the culture of whiteness, not white people, and a social construct.
It’s connecting a problem between Korea and Japan and another problem of a defeated country of Japan in my brain. It's a culture where there is in vicious volley thus we can't solve. It's layered and created by wrong education every year and then people can't know about the truth.
The speaker explains that it's a culture where white people are seen as necessary and friendly insiders and where people of color and black are seen as dangerous and threatening outsiders. It's been the same that Japanese people call foreigners Gaizin because Gai means outside and Zin means people. I’m really shocked.
Furthermore, she tells us that in the social construct that is this culture, we are socialized, however, it doesn't create our better world. She said that we must fix it because we can't humanize our future.
Her conclusion, she said that it's the important model, is redemption. Movements for racial justice must be redemptive rather than punitive, whether we want to live into the fullest of your political or not, and whether we want to be healed or not.
My conclusion is that the solution we think is not a solution. It's because people want to win, to find criminal, and want criminal to apologize. It won't lead to redemption of each other, so it must do with each other, it doesn't lose, and it doesn't pay money. Enabling those must mean humanizing our future. We have to think thoroughly a lot.
Words in this story
punitive /adj/ serving as a punishment
Marian Wright Edelman at TEDWomen 2018 (transcript)
Reflections from a lifetime fighting to end child poverty
Summary
The speaker who is around 80 years old is a granny. She has been fighting to end child poverty in her life and it doesn't still end. The most important thing that I think in the story is what she said the need.
“If you just follow the need, you will never lack for something to do or a real purpose in life “.
Her world was that the ambulance didn't help black children. There was no food, schools were unequal between white and black but there were many places where black children shouldn't go.
However, she went everywhere, audiences laughed and she said that it felt so good. I didn't think about that, it didn't feel good but it's very tough, but she said that she was terribly blessed.
First, l didn't understand about constituency. Why the problem to end child poverty needs it. It's because such voters wouldn't be needed. Her words bullied the Children’s Defense Fund which could give birth to an investment of prevention for children there, she was attacked all over the place, though. Furthermore, she tells us that there are still so many problems that we have to leave a better world for our children. Pass on a better world to our children.
We are at the intersections of great needs, great injustice, and great opportunities to change the world. This is a gift from the speaker who is fighting to end child poverty.
Words in this story
captivate /verb/ enchant, capture someone's interest, charm
reflection /noun/ reconsideration, introspection
segregate /verb/ separate, divide
Rory Sutherland at TEDGlobal 2009 (transcript)
Life lessons from an ad man
Summary
This story seemed to be told about 10 years ago. Thus the meanings and effects of advertising must be quite changing because a lot of people become smartphone users more than before.
However, l don't think that our world becomes a place the speaker tells us where people know about intangible values well. Just many things are spreading but it's too many and too much thus people can't choose all the things but they can't think many things by themselves.
Ironically, a person who can change his/her perception must be a person who doesn't watch advertisements. We have to know that there's something that we can't see can change human behavior.
There are many funny advertisements, though, those confuse us. I think that this is the life lesson from him who is an ad man.
Words in this story
perception /noun/ the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses.
intangible /adj/ unable to be touched or grasped, not having physical presence
Rory Sutherland at TEDxAthens (transcript)
Perspective is everything
Summary
Praxeology is a study of human choice, action, and decision-making. It's said to really need for studying economics that is just a subset of psychology.
I’m thinking about that always when I think how our company’s products are bought by people. It's really important and interesting and although I don't have good examples, the speaker tells us that we can use psychology to solve problems that we didn't even realize.
I really like its thoughts. It's that people are pulled by something that we can't see and if we find that people’s behavior will be able to be changed. It won't need advertisements and perspective is everything, though, people's behavior must be changing.
In the last, the speaker tells us two important things. Choosing your frame of reference and our perception is not perfect.
This time I felt that the story was difficult, l understood his examples and l love stories about behavioral economics, though.
From now, the power that we can't see must decide our actions but l think that l don't want to be confused by that.
Words in this story
conduct /noun/ behavior, action
subset /noun/ set whose components are contained within another set
Bryan Stevenson at TED2012 (transcript)
We need to talk about an injustice
Summary
This has been not just a story about discrimination of races. I was very surprised that all things we believe don't deserve judgments. The speaker tells us that we will ultimately not be judged by our technology, our design, intellect, and reason.
A justice we know is always there and those must be what we believe, however, it's an injustice firstly.
The important things are the character of a society and treatments. It's not how the society treats riches, the powerful and the privileged but how it treats the poor, the condemned and the incarcerated. There, there is profoundly who we are.
We have to see whether our system is distorting or not, whether the outcomes come from fair judgments, and stop being indifferent.
Words in this story
distort /verb/ bend, curve
indifferent /adj/ apathetic, disconcerted
incarcerate /verb/ imprison or confine.
Tim Harford at TED@Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany (transcript)
A powerful way to unleash your natural creativity
Summary the story
The speaker was really chatting in the TED talk and he had many examples that we can be more creative without forgetting ideas.
Although I feel that my opinion is a little bit opposite, I think that my slow-motion multitasking really works.
It's because I think that I’m in a hurry, l want to do everything at once but l think that if put myself in a certain condition where I can unleash my natural creativity, many ideas will come to me and I have to create a lot of projects, so the speaker also tells us that being stuck on one is just an opportunity to do something else.
Thus we can do multiple projects actively and simultaneously, before the next thing will be done after finding one thing. You can think that those are places where you can manage many ideas. It’s not that multiple projects make you forget something. There is a powerful way to unleash our natural creativity and it must be slow-motion multitasking and there must be a worth doing.
Words in this story
free from a leash, let loose, release
multitask /noun/ simultaneous operation of several programs by one computer
multiple /adj/ many times more
counterintuitive /adj/ contrary to what is logical, contrary to intuitive expectations
