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  • Future....is Kevin

  • Master you are THE GREAT

  • so...what do you study to do stuff like this?

  • that whole young motorcycle comment was funny but creepy as crap

  • Get this procedure covered by my national health care!!!

  • So, do I get the bacon from my pig-lig donor too?

  • THIS IS TO ALL THOSE BITCHES CRYING ABOUT HOW WE ARE USING ANIMALS

    sure these animals are pretty smart and such and such and we shouldnt be doing it, but we already use them for meet, i mean we arnt killing an entire animal for one small part of it, these animals are already going to be dead for our food, we are just taking something extra from the carcess

  • Rolex is resorting to classy words, big numbers, and most of all nostalgia.

  • granted this would be very helpful to me given that i am in my mid 20s and have bad OA already, but shouldn't we take a second to consider the ethical implication of exploiting animals like that and not refering to them as "unlimited resources"? (which isn't even correct) does he plan on creating farms solely for this purpose? don't we have enough unethical factory farms? or do we just further torcher those animals by taking their tissue? (which would probably be questionable quality)

  • this in what i need for my knee its mest up and hurts whenver i go 90 degress

  • Id rather walk like a man in pain than walk with pig shit ligament inside me.

  • so they're killing animals to regenerate people's joints?

  • It's weird that he said 'Bioware' in the presentation, and the music in the Rolex ad sounds a bit like the Mass Effect 2 theme :)

  • The Rolex Oyster 1926, The Oyster Perpetual 1931, Datejust 1945, Submariner 1953, Day-Date 1956, Deep Sea Special 1960, Sea-Dweller 2000 1967, Last Time Anyone Gave a Shit About Rolex 1980.

    I mean seriously... it's a friggin' watch. This after someone talks about something as cutting edge as quantum physics or the future of joint surgery... oy.

  • THUMBS UPS: Dear TED, please remove the fraud Al Gore from your opening credits.

  • @DJTmaq World wide thermometers are conspiring with Al Gore, you say???

    Do space aliens also visit you at night to steal you blood and anal probe you?

  • @abram730 Global Warming is a fraud, and you bought it you dope. The more you speak the more you show your ignorance. The truth is that there is a "Carbon Tax" being pushed through congress right now. Everyone will pay this tax because of the carbon they exhale. I'm not making this bullshit up. Why on earth are you defending a lie? I think that if you were educated on the subject you wouldn't be making fun of it. Plants eat carbon & produce H2O, we inhale H2O and exhale carbon. Circle repeats.

  • @DJTmaq Do you mean plants exhale O2. Cause H2O is water. All life takes in and expels water. Also the majority of carbon sequestration is accomplished by micro-organisms in the ocean...that's getting pretty overloaded, high acidity and all that.

    I think there's some pretty strong evidence that plenty of people have taken climate change as an opportunity to spread lies and fear for profit & politics, but it's pretty clear that the earth is getting warmer, has been for over 100 years.

  • @t3tsuyaguy1 RIGHT RIGHT, O2 not H2O. You know what im talking about. But the earth is not getting warmer. Scientists are recording record cooling.

    Another COOLING LINK (China's coldest winter in 100 yrs): Google term: dailytech China Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling

  • @DJTmaq The temperature always moves in both directions when you are looking at individual years. You have to look at long term trends. Looking at long term trends is one of the reasons I don't buy that mankind is the main cause of our current cycle of warming, because it started before we were producing a great deal of CO2. But the earth gets psycho warm and then crazy cold over long time scales. Right now the long scale evidence is a trend of warming, which will continue.

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  • @t3tsuyaguy1 Yea you are right. Did you also know that ALL the planets in our solar system are also getting warmer? Speaking seriously.

  • @DJTmaq I have heard that.  It seems like a lot of things, too far from the point. I don't support "cap & trade" because it's retarded. It focuses on the wrong things. I oppose ethanol as a replacement for gasoline, because it generates ozone. That stuff is great in the upper atmosphere, but at ground level it kills plant-life and causes lung cancer.

    I've always supported a move away from fossil fuels, but because I support progress, not because of some polar bear free scary future. :)

  • @DJTmaq Let test your theory about H2O... fill up your bath tub with H2O, stick you head in and take some deep breaths of that H2O... I predict the results of this experiment will save the world from your stupidity.

    I mean you have no clue what you are talking about. You don't know the difference between oxygen and water for starters. There are no bills to tax breath.

    If you were educated of the subject you wouldn't be saying such retarded things.

  • @abram730 Don't be a dumbass abram730. 

  • @abram730 You didn't see the comment where i corrected myself? Simply typo. O2 is what I was talking about.

  • i can understand why you would make a watch that can stand 12800 feet of water pressure, but I don't understand who would buy that. A person at that depth would immediately get crushed.

  • I'd kill 10 pigs with my bare hands if it meant I could go even a week without the pain of arthritis. It's a much better alternative than a wheelchair and boxes of painkillers

  • @jimius plus the pigs taste good, painkillers don't :p

  • who is Ted?

  • @ksnovak your ma

  • @nublex morda kacapie

  • @ksnovak T.E.D. Technology - Entertainment - Design. Scientists, engineers, directors, business moguls, and more, all brought together to share their ideas in a presentation format.

  • All these animal-esque implants are sure to be a hit with furries.

    maybe a virus to change the DNA like they have done with squirrels to make them able to green red and green.

    would be cool to see infrared/ultraviolet aswell..

  • the commercial at the end... rolex...

    who "uses" wristwatches anymore? the brand rolex has become an accessory that shows off only wealth that they are meant for mermans who live 35.000 ft

  • @Mygo666 I still find my wristwatch useful, but I have heard that younger people don't use them. It just seems more convenient than pulling out my phone. I would by a Rolex if I could afford it, not to demonstrate wealth, but because I think they really are beautiful timepieces. They are actually one of the few status symbol items, that really is of superior quality to other brands.

  • @Mygo666 in a previous TED video, the presenter actually did a little social test, and among the people who were born before 1990 most still use wristwatches.

    They have just gotten used to it i guess

  • @Mygo666 exactly. it's used for showing off wealth

  • @TechnoLife120

    No fucking shit. Its a watch. The added features are absolutely unecessary. Non one actually buys it for that reason.

    This applies to all jewellery.

  • @Mygo666 lol, but the rolex commercial was awesome ^^ much better than other commercials out there

  • @Mygo666 Men know what a rolex is .......you'll understand

  • These technologies need to become cheaper... All medical procedures should be affordable to everyone.

    I don't care what political stances may twist this issue... All people should have a right to live long healthy lives, regardless of money.

  • @NikoKun When it comes to something like this, I'm not sure it's just politics (though it plays a role to be sure). Manufacturing enzymes is tedious resource draining work, that requires high grade materials. Once you create the substance you have to keep it stable. It's part of why it's difficult to supply medication to another country. It's tricky enough transporting higher end medications within one state. One medication I mix at work is only stable for three hours, then it's useless.

  • I hope I have enough money in 25-30 years to afford some nice bionics :>

  • market ready by 2079.

  • @1schwererziehbar1 ill be 87 or 88, awesome.

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  • If you're rich you can be healthy. Otherwise, go elsewhere with your broken knees.

  • 6:16 "or more talks" lol

  • Haha at the Rolex commercial at the end. It was on this channel that I learned that most people under the age of 25 don't wear wrist watches

  • i just want awesome robot legs :,(

  • Thumbs down for knocking bionics and implying that something 'natural' is inherently better than something manmade, despite demonstrable fact that those composite, replaceable parts are far superior. This guy can't build an argument so he tries to manipulate with emotional cues.

  • @RookofIvory I think the substance of his argument was in the availability and renew-ability of bio-matter. Growing things is often more efficient long term, than manufacturing. If we can use parts from our food animals to keep ourselves mobile and vital, it saves us mining the raw materials for our high-grade composites.

  • Why would you ever need a watch resistant to 12.800 ft underwater? :))

  • Great, so anybody with more than half a conscience when it comes to animal ethics is going to get arthritis while the unthinking masses frolic around on pig legs till they're a hundred.

  • @funkalunatic I eat meat nearly every day of my life. Who gives a fuck?

  • @Saesegral Plenty. 

  • @Saesegral Not you, clearly. Which I dare say proves my point.

  • @funkalunatic: vegetarians use to make one mistake... they forget, that thinking doesn't prevent one from drawing wrong conclusions.

    if eating animals is unethical, beeing human is unethical.

  • @liquidminds I have a similar opinion, based on the fact that plants are just as alive as animals. They just not as easy to anthropomorphize. They just don't make disturbing sounds and faces when you kill them. It simply isn't more moral to eat plants than to eat animals.

  • @t3tsuyaguy1 i agree.. moraly speaking, the only "we dont hurt anything"-moral that works are those guys who only eat fruits that fell of the plant by themselves.

    But If humanity would have lived like that from the beginning, we wouldn't be the dominating race we are now. probably there would be no intelligent life on earth without us eating other animals.

  • the rolex commercial in the end was a nice touch,

  • @JetSetForLife

    Then I apologize. I just felt it was this "schools don't teach you sh*t" attitude I have seen a lot of lately.

    Have a nice day.

  • @BrokenBjartur Schools don't teach you shit, compared to the internet.

  • @SuperiorApostate

    That's a ridiculous statement. You wouldn't have been able to browse the internet if it weren't for the school. The schools lay the groundwork, from which you can seamlessly go further from there.

  • @BrokenBjartur Everyone can lay down the groundwork. Schools just try to force you into studying useless shit and it makes it hard for you to study what you actually want. Schools are the killers of motivation. It's funny how the best students in our class barely studied at school and did most of their studies at home and the student in our school who passed exams with highest scores was homeschooled. I myself learned english watching TV and was way better at it then my classmates.

  • @SuperiorApostate To some extent, I agree with your comment. I myself, am a physics and math double major and most of us spend our time self-studying material ahead of what we're currently learning in our lectures. It's hard to get a good teaching system in countries that have a large GDP for capita since all the potential good teachers end up in other fields and it is more difficult to have well paid teachers.

  • @SuperiorApostate

    It's the schools job to lay down the groundwork, as opposed to the parents. Parents rarely have time to teach their kids. And how can you just label it as useless sh*t? For some, it's very useful. I have been forced to have history, geography and language classes which I consider useless (for me at least). But I have also had chemistry, physics and math which most definitely are useful to me.

    I don't know how schools are in Lithuania, so I don't know where you are on this one.

  • @BrokenBjartur Well, education in Lithuania is useless all together because it's not acknowledged anywhere else in the world. At least not in the countries that matter and here, specialist get paid barely to survive so they leave to do shitty jobs in other countries or get an education there.

  • @SuperiorApostate

    "Than" your classmates.

    You fail english?

    That's unpossible.

  • @MrXanderPanda

    "You fail at english, That's impossible."

    I've learned english watching TV, playing PC games and on the internet and I could have been much better at it if in school they would not have forced me to study shit I already know and would have taught me something new.

    You pretentious asshole.

  • @BrokenBjartur The function of a school isn't necessarily to educate its students, but rather to record that a student, perhaps, has some mastery of the material which they have studied formally. Also, major research colleges definitely work like corporations where they're looking for what benefits them the most, as opposed to their customers(the students). It's all about the research grants and funding.

  • @Zubinen

    I wouldn't know much about colleges, so I don't where you are coming from on this one.

  • @BrokenBjartur I'll give you a big LOL for that statement. And a BIG ROTFLMAO if you believe it.

  • @HigherPlanes

    That isn't helpful. I have no idea what comment you are referring to.

  • Awesome stuff :)

    Now, if I could get that rolex grafted to my wrist biologically... hmmm...

  • Okay that's great, but in this economy, with our current Health care this becomes meaningless.

  • How about that it is not humane in regards to animals?

  • @vladibo88 Agreed, but with the mass demand on the meat market, i'm sure there will be more than enough inventory to go in someone's joints rather than another's mystery meat hot dog.

  • @vladibo88 What's not humane about killing animals?

  • @SuperiorApostate

    It's the way they are being treated before they are killed. If we would treat a cat or a dog the same way, it's animal cruelty. But when we do it to a pig, it's industry. It's inhumane _and_ hypocritical.

  • @didjabringadidjalong Yeah, I never could figure out why they treat them the way they do.

  • @didjabringadidjalong Yeah…I was surprised at the lack of thumbs down just because of that aspect of the talk. 

  • @SuperiorApostate Search youtube for "meet your meat" to find out what.

  • arthritis ruins more lives, what about the families of those who die of cancer? id say that it does physically maybe, but certainly not mentally!

  • But...but I WANT bionic limb replacement!

    ...you'd think the username would be a clue! :D

  • @BionicDance this

  • all these medical innovations and going to the dentist is still like being kicked in the balls. maybe worse.

  • @defect530 I think dentist is still important in its aspect

  • smells like teen

  • holy shiiiit this is amazing

  • I thought biological joint-replacement meant hand rolling a new one, but then it turns out it's something completely different ;)

  • Alright let's buy a $2000 watch to dive in water with it. kkkkkk

  • As long as we are still killing the cows and pigs for burgers and ribs, what is the harm in using other parts of the carcass for helping people heal? Especially because it must be pretty much thrown out, being inedible to humans (maybe it becomes pet food).

  • i love how one of the doctors had a chainsaw.

  • I'm so sick of people using killing animals to fix humans. Why can't we grow body parts? Killing a pig or cow to make someone walk is really sad to me.

  • @happykt We can't grow body parts because that's unethical. To do that you'd have to make humans, kill them and harvest their body parts. There are other technologies, but they are also in ethical debates.

    Animals are all ready being killed in the millions. Isn't it better if we are using more parts of the animal in stead of throwing what we don't eat away? Also, killing a pig to give someone a good joint is worthwhile investment in my opinion.

  • @happykt here's a newsflash- the animal was already scheduled to die. The more we can use from it the better. I won't deny animal-based industry tugs at heartstrings at times, but where does that meet with ration and a scientific attitude? Is it religion or 'spirituality' that compels you? What is the value to you to keep them alive or release them to be killed by OTHER predators in a more 'natural' setting? Very very few animals in the wild actually die of old age, it's all be predation.

  • @tyrannicoystercult Very very few humans in third world countries actually die of old age, it's all disease, conflict, and starvation. Wouldn't it be better to kill these people while their healthy in a more humane way and use their parts for Biologic replacement. Is is religion or spirituality that compels you? What is the value to you to keep them alive or release them to be killed by OTHER people, diseases, starvation, etc, in a more 'natural' setting?

  • @shallbeagain Humans do not equal animals, if you think otherwise, go fuck a pig.

  • @SuperiorApostate Answer my comment with an argument instead of childish profanity, the point of my comment wasn't that humans are equal to other animals, just that its a bad argument to say these animals are going to die early anyway so lets chop them up for parts. And I hate to break the news to you, but humans are animals.

  • @shallbeagain parasites are "animals" too, go boycott medicine that kills parasites. You're a retard if you do not know what the common use of the word animal is. Yes, humans are animals because they fall under the Animalia kingdom, but tomatoes are fruits yet everyone calls them vegetables(unless you're a pretentious asshole), because people use common sense and logic to determine the correct definition of certain words. Humans do not equal animals.

  • @SuperiorApostate - I'm not talking about common usage, humans are animals whatever way you want to look at it., tomatoes are fruits, thats a factual statement, who cares whether most people call them vegetables. How on earth does logic lead you to the conclusion that humans do not equal animals? This is a factual statement is it not. Lets stick with proper definitions. Do you agree that our closest relatives the great apes deserve certain protections?

  • @shallbeagain Humans are not treated as animals in ethics, because ethics is not spirituality, it is a mishmash of systems of exchange, trust, science, and self-image etc, lots of things. The real definition of humanity is biomatter that is a lot more useful to our pursuits, in most situations at very least. I can start to see the provable use of CERTAIN independantly industrious wildlife and pets which are great helpers and companions for people, but real ethics still sees two ballparks here.

  • @tyrannicoystercult Your right in the distinction ethicists have traditionally drawn between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom but this is changing more and more due largely to the work of people like Singer. In 2008 Spain became the first country in history to extend human rights to our cousins the chimpanzees, gorillas, orang-utans and bonobos. The field of ethics has changed considerably on these issues and will continue to do so especially as our knowledge grows.

  • @shallbeagain I had no idea anyone had actually succeeded in doing that! It makes sense to me, but here in the US, some 60 percent of people don't even know that the earth goes around the sun.

  • @shallbeagain Go google what animal is used for retard. I bet if I used a word with two meanings you'd get confused and your brain would shut down.

  • @SuperiorApostate From your reply, I suspect your brain already has shut down, or still hasn't matured to a state to allow you to have an adult discussion without name calling. Later.

  • @shallbeagain From an observation of your replies I have determined that you are a pretentious asshole therefore you do not deserve to be engaged with me in a so called mature discussion, people obviously come to youtube to have such types of discussions and you, after like 3 of my replies failed to see that this is not what I am here for. I do not want to argue about shit you have no control over and I am not interested in your shitty opinions you share with your minority of obnoxious asses [c]

  • @SuperiorApostate @shallbeagain You would rather a person suffers and has a shitty life which he is able to comprehend and be aware of than a pig being killed to ease his life. Plus, there are a lot of people suffering right now(from a lot of things) and I do not see you doing anything for them therefore I conclude you care more about animals and not humans.

  • @SuperiorApostate the human is not superior to the so called animal..the pig. it is in this belief of man over nature whre ALL our problems stem from. drop dominion and learn to live within the laws of nature , not above, or outside, of them, then you will experience the problems being gone as well as the life support systems of he world coming back to health..if we're lucky. otherewise your dominion will simply kill us all. all life. people die...people suffer. my remedy is easier and proven

  • @bathetcnow go live in the wild and stop using the internet then.

  • @SuperiorApostate Pigs are pretty smart. They have performed as well as Apes and dophins in mirror self-recognition tests. But ultimately we don't know to what extent they are aware of their surroundings.

  • @happykt thats a different area of science. it is not currently available, so they make do with what they've got. besides, this wouldnt increase the amount of animals being slaughtered, they'd just buy the parts from the slaughterhouse from animals that have already been killed for meat.

    if anything, it reduces the waste from the animal, making it slightly more worth it ethically.

  • i want a ROLEX

  • I love Bioware! KoToR and Mass Effect are great.

  • for some reason.. I keep thinking about the movie Repo-man... oh and waiting for animal rights activists to rage over this development.

  • Not hardware...

    Not software...

    It's bioware (lawsuit pending from actual hardware company)

  • @Stuckinadessert When did Bioware start producing hardware?

  • I would totally lay that centaur chick.

  • @DrQuijano you're sick......but yeah.

  • @DrQuijano She has a horse pussy. If you would lay her, it would be the same as having sex with a horse with a woman on the horse's back.

  • @DrQuijano In Soviet Russia, centaur chick lay you!

  • @DrQuijano

    Ditto.

  • Sweet.

    Though there is a good idea, when it comes to prevention: Chuck your shoes, and go barefoot. (this is based on science. Google it, if you doubt me)

  • how close are all the ted talks to reality now? the recent one on wikileaks obviously is close to a conventional reality but what about these science ones?

  • Cool love me some ted med.

  • The number one cause of Arthritis in America today is DJD (Degenerative Joint Disease) which is caused by disuse of joints (being fat and lazy).

    Number two is lack of Sulfur in the diet.

    Grow a backyard garden, get some exercise, eat healthy food, and you will not need a joint replacement!

  • @Live414 ...yea in a perfect world but americans love being fat and lazy ...its the american way of life

  • @Live414 Don't forget injury. Tibial plateau fracture in my case.

  • 2 off-color "jokes" in one preso! Nice work Stone.

  • lol bioware

  • I want to be a man-horse!

  • @scott01019 I'd be satisfied only with one part of the horse...

  • Do people still question why Aliens would obduct us and mutulate us for tissue?

  • @lordkelvin1 LOL

  • I'm torn. As a lover of science and medicine I'm excited about anything that improves the human quality of life.

    As a lover of animals and a respecter of their right to be left alone and live happily, I can but ponder taking away an animal's ligament for my own purposes, whether or not it involves killing the animal. I ask myself if synthetic methods wouldn't be more ethical or feasible.

  • So...what is in for the pigs? :D

  • @heethen1 We take their meat, and now we take their ligaments and intestines as well. Useful little buggers. And tasty.

  • verry interesting development :) now we only need to wait for it to hit main street :P

    interesting Rolex commercial BTW

  • @shintsu01 Rolex. Waterproof down to 12,800 feet below sea level. For the man who will one day find himself that far beneath the ocean, and somehow still be alive ^.^"

  • @xXBurningSpiritXx and really really needs to know the time.

  • @bladedaemon666 Gulp gulp, oh no I'm drowning, I wonder what time it is...

  • @SuperiorApostate I was thinking the same thing. Who goes down to 12,000ft on a regular basis without a submarine?

  • @countryroo123 or they are trying to sell those to octopuses who do have 8 "arms"..

  • @SuperiorApostate LOL…nice comparison especially since they name the clock after sea creatures like oyster.

  • @countryroo123 Can we even do that? I thought we die of oxygen toxicity around 200 feet.

  • @t3tsuyaguy1 Yup...there's that too.

  • awesome!

  • ted educates me better than school ever did.

  • @volound shit school?

  • @lukeism2 very good school, even better ted talks.

  • @volound Which actually raises an important question... why aren't TED's archived videos actually used during "normal" education? What's stopping us?

  • @j00ed schools can use these videos, if they have the time. You see, teachers usually have schedules for their lessons and little to no free time.

  • @volound tell me about it

  • @volound high school ?

  • @purefunguy -_-

  • @volound

    Silly. Ted only shows you information, and does not teach you how to use it, nor does it introduce you to, or enhance, any system you know (language, science or music).

    Schools, on the other hand, teach you how to use the information you gather. E.g. they teach you right from wrong, and when to be critical or not.

    But the most important fact is that they teach you systems, like language and math.

    You wouldn't be able to understand this video, or comment on it if it weren't for them.

  • @BrokenBjartur I think you're right to a point. We learn language, math and the basic necessities early in life, but sadly during high school and even college, grades take precedence over actually teaching. TED (among many other resources) can inspire to do further research that classes and teachers too often fail to do. Schools too often deaden inspiration. "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." I agree.

  • @limitbreak323

    Obviously, but I feel that more and more people stop giving schools ANY acknowledgement at all.

    And I also strongly believe we are forced to learn rather pointless and irrelevant things (for some people) during high school and college.

    But in most cases, elementary school, and sometimes college and high school, are absolute necessities for our intelligence to prosper.

    Funny you should mention "inspire" though. I wouldn't say that is "learning", although equally important.

  • @BrokenBjartur i learned to read and write before i started school. and ive learned a lot more about language from teh interwebz than from school.

    and i didnt learn any of that shit u listed, from school.

  • @volound

    Then you are an exception. Most of us learn the basics from school.

  • @BrokenBjartur what i said was purely subjective from the start.

  • @volound can't give you enough thumbs up for your comment.

  • when he talks about taking tissues from cows and pigs I can't help but think about South Park. I'm not a particular animal lover, but I think synthetic grown tissue is the way of the future instead of (ab)using animals for anything else but nurriture. having said that, technologies like he discribes are a good way to fill the gap until we can do it all in a synthetic way.