vue - Edward Tenner: Unintended consequences
http://www.ted.com Every new invention changes the world -- in ways both intentional and unexpected. Historian Edward Tenner tells stories that illustrate the under-appreciated gap between our ability to innovate and our ability to foresee the consequences. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate.
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Make better use of chaos. Fortunate outcomes come from seemingly unfortunate circumstances
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14:30 learn from unintended consequences
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16:00 gap between capabilities and foresight.
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Great talk, would love to write an article about you, Chaos Happens, lets make the best of it. One of the best TED speeches I have ever seen.
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I can't watch this... he speaks too slowly and his content is not very interesting. I hope that I could do a better job.
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@Ocker3 The unintended consequence was of the regulation that required the lifeboats to be fitted -- the well-intended people who created that regulation failed to take into account its effect on the stability of hulls that were designed and built before the regulation came into force.
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@juditK2007 I think it is the latter, a delicate form of troll comment with the purpose of emotionally stirring up conversations to wake people up. So if the comment is shit, then it tastes like chocolate.
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I fell asleep watching this... this guy needs someone more energetic to give his speeches.
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@sokseb Wrong as in the entire socio-economic dynamics of 7 centuries can be explained in 500 characters? Or wrong as in you can go and read a book about it or type in a few words in Google? Akak you can't do either of those. Or as in "I'm a lazy troll and have nothing better to do than write shit comments on youtube videos"? And you, obviously female gender-ed person who's name is a typical Slavic male first name, are right. Makes perfect sense. Oh wait it's not reverse day.
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Damn that intros stealing valuable bandwidth
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What?? Unintended consequences of adding extra lifeboats? Too much weight above the centre of gravity makes a boat unstable, basic physics! That's not unintended consequences, that's shoddy design!
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@JosephOR whats wrong with the intro?
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Those headset thingies sure make you look as though you have jowls...oh, wait a minute; you DO have jowls!
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@bluefootedpig you have to ask why people think small business is expensive and if that is actually the case, again it goes back to the big companies having the economies of scale to deal with all the red tape put in by the government. if there is a problem with the country, blame the government, you will be right 99% of the time
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@bluefootedpig I agree wholeheartedly. In all honestly, I see the writing on the wall. I have an education (and more importantly, I'm actually smart) so I'm doing pretty well right now. Republicans would probably be against some type of retraining program and a lot of blue collar people would probably resent it anyway. I honestly think a lot of them just don't want to work on "fu fu" stuff like solar panels and wind mills. They want to make steel and cars (rawr!).Even so, we can't all be elites.
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@majinspy Yup, I am lucky enough to have valued education. Although to continue on a bit more, I would suggest that people who are facing mass unemployement, we should do what we did last time, with Kennedy. We offered massive government scholarships to state universities for specific training, in Kennedy's case it was to train for NASA. I personally would like to see some of these unemployeed retrained for say, renewable energy. I am much more for job creation via education.
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@bluefootedpig Now I like you :) you're consistent. You realize exactly what republicans mean when they say we are uncompetitive because of govt. interference. Republicans do believe in more jobs...they just don't pay worth a damn. I assume you are one of the educated elites who won't suffer such a fate?
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Lets not forget about multi-use chopsticks versus "disposable" chopstick ... and I wouldn't say "Tragedies" ... but "Necessity is the Mother of all inventions" ... - Zappa ... :) The way to close the gap is "accepting the different" .. and I think that during "the great depression" people had more time on their hands ?. IMHO
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@majinspy Are you suggesting that the labor of an "american" is somehow more valuable than a worker in the 3rd world country? Yes they make very little money, and the rich often buy what is made, but lets realize that they earn that much as that is what the skill is worth. So you are saying that although an american makes 40 bucks a day on min wage, doing the same skill as a 3rd world country person who makes 1 dollar a day. I can only assume you think Americans are somehow better.
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@independence4wales I would tend to agree personally. Although I wouldn't say the government's fault, as much as the general attitude of the population. It used to be that each person owned their own business, they did their task, and people bought from the people around them. Now we only "trust" big box stores, and think small business is overpriced. It is silly that I have to pay the government to work for myself.
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