Ari Wallach : 3 ways to plan for the (very) long term

Ari Wallach·TEDxMidAtlantic
3 ways to plan for the (very) long term
Summary 

The speaker explains three ways of thinking for every major decision that you’re working on. 

Transgenerational thinking 1) is to set your children up to how they’re going to interact with their kids and their kids and their kids. 

Futures thinking 2) is that we have to really think deeply, it’s not to look at the future in one way but it’s diverse and vast. 

Telos thinking 3) shows ultimate aim and ultimate purpose clearly. 

Simply, try to think about not the next three and five years but pushing past your own life. It leads you to doing things a little bit bigger than you thought were possible. Look at the word of the title, “Very”, and it doesn’t mean to postpone solving our problems more but to change our thoughts. The speaker means that short-term thinking that we think is just right now, and long-term thinking that we think now becomes short-term thinking. It’s because our future is not the point but it’s futuring. In fact, our future is continuing next to our future like the speaker said that he has been futuring for about 20 years 〜〜and it’s continuing forever.  

Tom Griffiths : 3 ways to make better decisions — by thinking like a computer

Tom Griffiths·TEDxSydney
3 ways to make better decisions — by thinking like a computer
Summary 

The speaker’s three ways are to explore, exploit, and trade-off. 

Explore means to gather some information that you might be able to use in the future. 

Exploit means to use the information that you’ve already gathered, you already know, or is pretty good.

Trade-off means, of course, to exchange or to try something new. 

And then, thinking like a computer means, in fact, not to consider ALL of your options and to settle for a pretty good solution. This isn’t the concession that we make when we can’t be rational but this is rational like computer algorithms that are about doing what makes the most sense in the least amount of time and removing constraints. 

'Gbenga Sesan·TED Salon: UNDP Technology can't fix inequality — but training and opportunities could

'Gbenga Sesan·TED Salon: UNDP
Technology can’t fix inequality-but training and opportunities could
Summary 

The information that there are 40 students in a classroom, though, there are only two computers there is often announced even in Japan. 

In the article, the speaker tells us that fairness is not about giving every child a computer and an app. Fairness is connecting them to access,  training, and support equally, especially men and women have to have equal opportunities. 

Now, a lot of adults use computers, though, inequalities between men and women or white and black and etc. are not solved. The story also shows that a father thought that girls were not worth having a job. 

Not only children but also adults have to think about inequalities to pass children the baton and to change children’s lives. Is your country working to have equal opportunities?

Wendy De La Rosa : 3 sneaky tactics that websites use to make you spend

 Wendy De La Rosa·Your Money and Your Mind
3 sneaky tactics that websites use to make you spend 
Summary 

You must be struggling because you always spend and use much time and money on the websites, though, in the article, the speaker tells us that websites are created to make you spend. She shows about three website's tactics to attack YOU!! (or attract you.😂) Please be careful!!

Sites are gamification to intentionally lure you back to the site! 1)

Sites show scarcity deliberately. Scarcity is, again and again, tempting YOU purposely 2) and you will be allowed to pay in installments! It’s dangerous!! 3)

Don’t startup applications, leave the site for at least an entire day, and do not use payment installment plans!! 

Evan Zodl : The unexpected math of origami

 Evan Zodl·TED-Ed
The unexpected math of origami 
Summary 

I’m Japanese and For me, this is a scientifically unexpected math story but it is the Origami of Japanese. Origami means to fold a single square sheet of paper. It can be transformed into almost any shape by only folding.  For children, the rule of Origami was only not to cut the paper. 

However, it seems to have four mathematical rules. It has areas that never touch,1) of course, the next mountain fold is a valley fold, and 2) angles add up 180 degrees. 3) However, when we were children, we didn’t know that, but we could make cranes! 

By folding the crease pattern into the flat base, it means by narrowing, bending, and sculpting flaps, the 2D base becomes and shows some parts like 3D! For example, you can create a mouth of a crane or a movement of wings, right?

When we were children, we imagined a lot of crease patterns in our brains, though, in this generation, in computers, it can show beautiful crease patterns. We can’t think that this is the Japanese Origami from the 17th century, it leads to using airbags, solar arrays, self-folding robots, and even DNA nanostructures. Furthermore, I've heard that it prevents you from Alzheimer's disease because you can use your hands a lot. Enjoy Origami and you must design incredibly complex shapes!

Bill Burnett : 5 steps to designing the life you want

Bill Burnett·TEDxStanford
5 steps to designing the life you want 
Summary 

The article reminded me of an old speech. About 15 years ago, a famous man who was an American businessman and CEO of Apple Computer, gave a speech for graduates in the finest university to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks. His name was Steve Jobs and he never graduated from college. 

His first story was about connecting the dots. Not only his life but his biological mother and his parents’  lives were hard, he often thought that something that he did might be wasted, though, the dots somehow connected in the near future. 

We can’t connect the dots looking forward. We can only connect them looking backward, so we have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in our future. We have to trust in something. 

In this TEDtalk, the speaker’s first idea was about connecting the dots.

He gives us five steps to design the life we want. By using design, we can reframe our life anytime and anywhere. 

Trust about connecting the dots, 1)

Continue having curiosity, 2) 

Know that a lot of choices trouble you, 3) 

Think your luck, and 4) 

Try it. 5) We can’t design a well-lived joyful life!!

Qiuqing Tai : TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat — and the rise of bite-sized content

 Qiuqing Tai·TED@BCG
Tik Tok, Instagram, Snapchat-and the rise of bite-sized content 
Summary 

I thought that In the past, we were very excited by Facebook and Twitter. Next, not only we but also companies now seem to be excited by TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat. Those short videos have huge potential to change our learning, education, businesses and etc. it’s even the status quo as well.  

The speaker who is Chinese tells us that there are concerns in the context, though, the positive outcome of short videos will outweigh its downsides. Economically and socially, this must be a new way to benefit from young people. 

I think that the important point is that the speaker is Chinese. While ago, in the US, news that TikTok might be banned was announced and Facebook and Twitter are said that they harm many people. For her, now is a good chance!

Jack Dangermond : How a geospatial nervous system could help us design a better future

 Jack Dangermond·TED Salon: Brightline Initiative
How a geospatial nervous system could help us design a better future 
Summary 

First, we have to know about GIS which is a geographic information system. 

It provides the ability to capture and analyze spatial and geographic data. Furthermore, it allows the users to create, edit, analyze spatial information output and share the results of those. 

It’s attached to various operations, numerous applications, engineering, planning, management, transport, logistics, insurance, telecommunications, and businesses like maps or spreading nerves in your brain!! Thus, the title called it a geospatial nervous system. 

The key is to be able to design holistically. It has physical, environmental, demographic features and can look at the whole, not just make money, not just conserve something, not just measure and not just analyze something. 

By using this, we must better understand the world’s biggest challenges simply and holistically when we look at the maps. 

The speaker is a pioneer in GIS and tells that we can see unifier, integrators of the individual systems into systems of systems that can talk to the world and transform the world. (What? and Hahaha!)

Juan Enriquez : How technology changes our sense of right and wrong

 Juan Enriquez·TED2020
How technology changes our senses of right and wrong 
Summary 

The speaker suggests that right and wrong is something that changes over time, because of technology and exponentially. Thus in this polarized time, humility and forgiveness are important. Our notions and understanding of right and wrong change across time and to build communities, you have to allow space. 

P.S. I think that people already know that time changes right and wrong thus, the side that was told wrong strongly moves to change it, though, another side has humility, forgiveness, and spaces. Then it'll be changed by the opposite side, it repeats and continues forever but it’s impossible to stop because time can’t be stopped. 

Angela Francis : How a green economy could work for you

 Angela Francis·TEDxLondonWomen
How a green economy could work for you 
Summary 

People think that it’s going to cost too much to save the planet and to sacrifice something that they do or have. 

However, the speaker suggests our thoughts change first. It means that it’s not to degrade people’s life but by using investment and policy to reward people and businesses for the decisions. 

How a green economy could work for you is to improve our health, our well-being, our quality of life and to have better jobs.  When it’s shown, all people can join to save our planet without worrying and unjustifying. 

Yen Pham : Why should you read Toni Morrison's "Beloved"?

 Yen Pham·TED-Ed
Why should you read Toni Morrison’s “ Beloved “?
Summary 

The book, “Beloved”, was written by Toni Morrison and won the Pulitzer Prize. The story is about a woman who escaped enslavement, though, sadness and suffering are continuing. 

It shows that all humans have a desire to find love and be loved even when it’s painful. Love challenges social conversations. However, people didn’t agree with it for the only black. 

By listening to the past voices, we have to see and know our actions, and responsibilities. Reading books has a power that is including with the redeeming power of love.