Tom Rivett-Carnac : How to shift your mindset and choose your future

 Tom Rivett-Carnac·TED2020

How to shift your mindset and choose your future

Summary

The speaker is a Political strategist. When people face big problems, he has to lead them to their better future, even in the state of coronavirus pandemic, wars, boring meetings, and climate changes. People are in trepidation, restiveness, and fear. These in the world are painful, though, we weren’t powerless against it, we can rise to meet the challenge. The speaker suggests adopting a mindset of “stubborn optimism”. It must move us. We can shift our mindset and choose our future.

P.S. For me, not to think about returning to a former state, it never comes back, so when I've realized it, l could shift my mindset and choose my future. I don’t think that l have positive thoughts, l don’t know that it’s because I'm Japanese. Furthermore, I've always felt that optimism mightn't be serious more than being positive.

Kristalina Georgieva : How to rebuild the global economy

Kristalina Georgieva·TED2020

How to rebuild the global economy

Summary

The speaker, Kristalina Georgieva, is a Bulgarian economist and the head of the International Monetary Fund since last October 2019. She was working before the World Bank Group, thus she explained how to use money in this coronavirus spreading. The economy is standing still around the world. Especially, poor countries must suffer. If we do nothing, farms are going to go massively bankrupt, people would be unemployed, the economy would be scarred, and it’s going to make the recovery more difficult.

IMF is rapidly doing the financial injection, monetary policy stimulus, and various help. It did a bent moratorium for the poorest countries to their official bilateral creditors. Inflation is also worried

It’ll take time for recovery, even in 2021, it won’t be a full recovery, but partial. The speaker suggests that preparing for a crisis, seeking help, offering help, and working together are important. It’s amplified. IMF is addressing a better diagnosis, protection, and help. After the coronavirus, it doesn’t go unequal, but it should be fairer, equitable, and a more sustainable world. The speaker tells us that worries won’t help and positive action will.

P.S. l didn’t miss the speaker’s great answer!! She said that let me say something, we need everyone and we need this mixture of experience, knowledge, and predisposition when Chris asked that women are better at handling nuance. It’s not fair that the cause of success and failure is whether you are a man or a woman.

Words in the story

moratorium / legally authorized delay in the payment of money due, abandonment of debts; temporary cessation of an activity (especially when dangerous or harmful)

Refik Anadol : Art in the age of machine intelligence

This is a moment when a building could dream.

In 2018, for the symphony's hundred-years anniversary, the Los Angeles Philharmonic collaborated with media artist Refik Anadol collected everything recorded in archives of the LA Phil and WDCH and projected onto the building’s exterior skin. It amounted to digital memories of  77 terabytes and 42 projectors. It's amazing unbelievably.

P.S. I think that it's wonderful if it'll project onto Shibuya Scramble Crossing in Tokyo, Japan, known all over the world. 

Refik Anadol·TED2020 

Art in the age of machine intelligence

Summary

The speaker is a media artist. He seemed to be growing up in Istanbul. He uses data as a pigment and paints a thinking brush that is assisted by artificial intelligence. Using architectural spaces as canvases, he collaborates with machines to make buildings dream and hallucinate.

Onto the TED stage, curated TED talk from the past 30 years was projected!!

It’s really amazing to be able to remember all the questions of 7,705 talks that have ever been asked on the stage.

It means to be an AI in the 21st century. It’s in our hands, humans, to train this mind to learn and remember what we can only dream of.

Uri Alon : A COVID-19 "exit" strategy to end lockdown and reopen the economy

 Uri Alon·TED2020

A COVID-19 “exit” strategy to end lockdown and reopen the economy

Summary

First, l thought that this was a great title that everyone was finding and the story was recorded on May 20, 2020, when many countries were in lockdown.

In the story, the speaker suggests a cycle that will exploit a weakness in the virus’s biology and potentially cut its reproductive rate to a manageable level. When a person gets infected, they’re NOT infectious for about three days. You don’t infect others for the first three days and after two days, on average, you get symptoms. Thus we’re proposing a strategy which is four days of work and then 10 days of lockdown, and it can be repeating. It seems to be better because you don’t seem to start to infect your coworkers by the end of that four days, though, there is a possibility that you infect people at home. However, by creating some groups, it might be solved.  ”A” family members go out for four days, next ”B” family members go out. When children go to school, parents go to work. It might be difficult for hospitals, schools, and people with low income, though, there is a huge risk that our economy stops completely for a long time. It’ll be important to try it at the level of a town, a region, and a month.

Some people and companies will work effectively. Several industries that are hotels, tourism, dining require more thought and adjusting.

Lastly, by concentrating testing on people at the end of their 10 lockdown days, it can reduce the test number and when case numbers are decreasing, people can feel relief.

In Japan, people often had told about the exit strategies of A COVID-19, though, it turned to how we live with coronavirus called “WITH CORONA” today. It must be correct. Probably, there is no exit. It’ll be important to prepare for the next strong infection or a big accident.

Dallas Taylor : What silence can teach you about sound

 Dallas Taylor·TED2020

What silence can teach you about sound

Summary

I didn’t know about “4’33” completely. I thought that was a broadcast accident, it’s too long, even if it's 3 seconds, the moment of no sound is long for us.

We unconsciously and always seem to hear something and when we say that we are ready to listen, it’s not true.

There’s basically no such thing as silence. Our bodies are making a sound. 1)

Music isn’t the only kind of sound worth listening to. All sounds are worth thinking about. 2)

Can you think about “4’33” which is the way that helps you focus on accepting things? 3)

We can be more conscious of what we hear. 4)

And also, we can enjoy more the magnificence of hearing and listening by knowing silence. 5)

Joseph Shin : How doctors can help fix the broken US asylum system

Joseph Shin·TEDMED 2020

How doctors can help fix the broken US asylum system

Summary

Asylum seekers are people who ask the protection granted by a nation to leave their native country as political refugees to flee persecution.

They will take on violence or be tortured. Faintly, they left their country, though, they couldn't have evidence that were documents or videos. It’s difficult to be granted protection.

The speaker is a physician. He tried to document their medical evidence with lawyers. He created a case that a person was granted asylum.

the speaker suggests that there are many people who can be helped if the US asylum system changes. Children are also taken on violence by parents and the case will apply to them. For that, doctors and lawyers can cooperate. Now, a lot of people ask the protection granted.

Erin Baumgartner : Big data, small farms and a tale of two tomatoes

 Erin Baumgartner·TEDxNatick

Big data, small farms and a tale of two tomatoes

Summary

Her data and two tomatoes’ stories were interesting. The waste-management system researched about where your trash goes when you throw something away by installing small sensors into pieces of trash and throwing them into the waste system. Surprisingly, it was moving through the city, across the state, and across the country... it’s trash!! It means highly inefficient!!

Our food has the same system as that. In the distant farm, for example, tomatoes are created, when those are still green and hard, it’s picked, it’s gassed to turn red, and they travel at least 1,600 miles to get to your house.

Thus coming from a distant farm means that it’s high cost and it wouldn’t be delicious, though, companies can get benefits. Even if there are wastes, they can get it. Agricultural information and technology can carry a lot of products to many places where tomatoes couldn’t grow, though, in your area, small farms must grow high quality and tasty tomatoes.

The important things are quality, taste, no waste, and whether all people who work in small farms and customers can be satisfied.

The speaker insists on eating local food is an evolutionary act.