This lecture makes people think.It makes us happy to hear that we as a human race are not doomed like the media tells us. It made a lot of sense to me and it was not scientific mumbo jumbo....ok, now it really gets weird- we got from the arrowhead to the PC mouse (in my opinion) with help from aliens,yes...E.T's...the government played a big part in this. This is a good thing. Why do they insist on keeping it a secret?
1:15 "How did we become the only species that becomes more prosperous as it becomes more populous?"
Fossil fuels, maybe? That would be my guess.
If we don't change course, we're likely to arrive where we're headed.
We are now very gradually changing course. Maybe the sharing of good ideas like real democracy and non-carbon fuels will outcompete the bad ideas like corporate personhood and mind-shackling religion. The race is on.
That's nice. Too bad global capitalism is transforming the planet into a smoldering toxic ball of shit. But as long as this goofball can suck people into bullshit optimism, I guess it's okay.
@beesleeper Oh I see. Well no system is perfect and there is corruption in capitalism, but you really cant deny that things are on their way to getting better. The problems are huge and so now a huge number of people are addressing them. Ideas to solve the energy crisis and help the planet have never been better. Technology becomes more efficient every day, biomimicry is being implemented, and now we have innovations like test tube meat. Society isnt hopeless, thats what the facts tell us.
@beesleeper Not a utopia, just more sustainable living thanks to human innovation. Its just the facts. Test tube meat was just published in almost every science magazine. Something like this will revolutionize food consumption while eliminating the need for mass animal slaughter and the resulting cruelty. Its just stem cells that grow healthy and nutritious meat. Not even any hormones or chemicals are needed. But anyway, do you not see the facts here? Why do you have no hope for humanity?
what he is saying is true... but the issues are not technical- in many cases technical fixes to the issues are the easy part- it's the human habit change that's the hard part... check out conservative party's blueprint for a green economy released 2007. cheers
he can say that incomes adjusted for inflation have risen it's pretty easy to figure out since the 1970's middle class real income wages within the US and most advanced industrialized countries have been falling or are flat. when adjusted for inflation- the concentration of wealth has been enormous- the corporate oligarchy is trying on Kant's benign dictatorship to bring progress, and in my opinion it's not hitting the mark- all social indicators for quality of life are falling
I've said it myself -- we have a dangerously, dangerously co-dependent society, thanks to too many years of self-serving "captains of industry" shaping us into fractionated niche-bots.
And while it's all well and good, all this delightful orgy of knowledge, who's keeping MOST OF THE MONEY from all this innovation? That's right -- you guessed it: the usual Uberclique of shadow assassin-backed Bilderbrats.
Interesting yes, but at about 1:00 he is talking about GDP/person on the planet has tripled, I would argue the reason for this GDP growth and the population growth is because of low hanging easily picked nearly free fossil fuels and those AREN'T going to keep up with the growing demand. More idea sex isn't going to solve that problem, of fiat currency retaining value in an economic contraction due to peak oil.
Language arose out of a spontaneous order -- no one said "here are the words, here's the grammar, speak it to one another." People just needed a way to communicate and it evolved into what it is today. People won't learn a second language or Esperanto unless they need it. (They don't need it).
This is why i don't understand why Americans buy guns and ammo when they get scared of disaster situations.
"When the shit hits the fan, all you need is your gun and ammo".
what? no!
The most valuable thing to have when the shit hits the fan is OTHER PEOPLE. Don't have a shootout with your neighbour trying to steal eachother's food. Instead, cooperate, farm, and make some more food!
@roidroid Dutch has a lot of vowel sounds and uses normal letters, so they could try using that. Or the phonetic alphabet if they're not quite willing to go pictoral like the ancient Egyptians and Asians.
I am however reminded that there are still a few people who don't use metric in this world. As long as there are different measuring systems, our rate of progress (and the exchange of ideas) will be slowed as people fail to understand each other and we have things like the Mars orbiter disaster.
@psarmstr May I add that, as long as we don't have a common second language, our rate of progress and exchange of ideas will be slower, more expensive, and more cumbersome as people fail to understand each other. I've read studies on Esperanto (the neutral international language) that show that it can be learned by everyone in 6 months, because its grammar is so logical. If everybody had a common (easy and neutral) second language, all would be able to communicate without language barriers.
@VirgilBlackgold But does it sound nice? Can it trace its lineage? I thought it was too much like Spanish, which i'm not fond of as it's like French. How logical is the counting system?
@VirgilBlackgold why not lojban? then we can include computers -- it doubles as a programming language, and uses phonemes pronounceable by everyone in the world, not merely europeans.
The problem is that ideas create new things, new things needs new words to fully be understood, new things might create new concepts that needs new words to be understood.
It's not so simple and logical after a bit of innovation.
@haradrel82 This is why we are creating English 2.0 > and updated version of english to help us deal with new ideas, concepts and thoughts. You can find it on the Seeducation website... let me know what you think! Any addition or changes are welcome :)
Do you understand that you're thinking in tens of years, when the scientists are looking at things a little differently. In your tiny, itty bitty life, the changes don't mean crap, but given the RAMPING UP of the situation, things do look bad for NEAR FUTURE generations. It's not just smoke, it is credible scientific data. To simply sit and say per capita income means a better future for the world is elitism in its worst form. The future actually is quite bleak, given the data.
Of course this rather enjoyable video begs the question: Are the modern concepts of copyright and patents what will turn the tide of innovation away from it's upward trend?
Not that these things are intrinsically bad. It's just that the current developing concepts lean towards that I can only describe as 'we own everything, forever'.
I recall a recent statistic that went something along the lines that over 55% of the funding for medical research just goes towards dealing with patents issues.
@therealfatNINJA Patents lapse after 17 years, 21 for pharmacueticals.
What you miss is the front end of this. People don't invest huge bucks in risky inventions if they can't protect it for a while. The patent process is far from perfect, but it does better about getting people to fund ideas than not having patents does.
@neoaeonian Well you kind of missed the point of my second statement there; the one about there being nothing wrong with the ability to patent or copyright an idea. The problem lies in the fact that current copyright and patent law allows for such broad reaching powers. Usually for whoever can lay down the most cash.
Eventually an idea has to become part of the greater whole of public knowledge. Otherwise you'll end up spending more time defending yourself, in court, than actually inovating.
"The patent term in the United States was changed in 1995 to bring U.S. patent law into conformity with the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) as negotiated in the Uruguay Round."
I appreciate his anthropological, archeological and pre-historical perspectives about the benefits of "free trade."
Adam Smith, Hayek. Hazlitt and Friedman make similar observations about free trade, but without observation that free trade clearly benefitted pre-historical hominids as well.
@kronocyber Though stratified, the poor do much better today, than ever. This, of course, relates to economic freedom (free trade) fueling the economic engine that has created our mutual prosperity.
Some, like you, would rather the poor be poorer as long as the rich are much less rich so we are all more equal. Obama holds similar class warfare dogma as well.
how can he say that the standard of living for all has went up when there are areas which were once a sea, is now drought were children are picking cotton for no money and where vast golf courses are being built in places where there is a high homeless population just to mention a few i can go on if anything the standard of living has dropped considerably
@millingtonjp Re: standard of living dropped considerably
The only part of the world where that is true is subsaharan africa, and even then it's not accross the board, but mainly where Aids has been a scourge, and even that is finally turning around. For the vast majority of the world homelessness is down, lifespan is up. You're not referring to statistics, you're referring to selective reporting. Statistics are clear. People are wealthier and healthier
@neoaeonian all statistics are made up you should look at some of these places with your own eyes my friend. For a starting you off you should take a look on you tube at uzbekistan white gold. Craig Murrey former british ambassador taught me alot he was the rector of my university for a good few years here in scotland.
@millingtonjp HIs statistics pretty much relate the developing world to the US circa the 50s. If you looked at the US in the 50s, and even into the 70s, with respect to coal mining you'd find much to find fault with.
@neoaeonian like i said all statistics are made up, on april 4th this year in krygystan the riot and the people speak for themselves. There is no such thing as terrorism the revolution is happening now on a much bigger scale, capitalism doesnt work.
@millingtonjp What do you mean all statistics are made up? That's simply not true. People always have limited views of the situation around them. A well made Statistic is more truthful than our skewed limited and local subjective human views and opinions. You should check the source neoaeonian gave you. What does anarchy have to do with any of this? What is your alternative for capitalism anyway? Just all out anarchy and chaos? If anything that will hurt progress, science and technology.
It doesn't work when the rule of law isn't in place, including secure property rights for individuals. If those 2 things are ruled out, then you are not talking about capitalism. I googled Uzebekistan white gold, and the first sentence included, "made to work in the fields, but denied right to own property." You can find fault with backwater politics, but don't call it capitilism, because it isn't.
"Connections" He did it twice and it was great! It showed, historically, exactly what Ridley is discussing @3:30, how ideas build over time, and over the world.
Burke wasn't always positive and upbeat, but when I was watching the series (there were 2 seperate ones, 1 was 1hr shows, the other 30 minute shows), I couldn't help but think that we are living in the best time ever, but we are so accustomed to danger that we look for things to worry about.
The concept of interconnectivity he's talking about is quite straight-forward. It's where the saying "a group is more than the sum of its parts" comes from. If you have n many people, the number of potential connection (and therefore potential beneficial connections) is n factorial. For example, 6 billion people can potentially have 1*10^1.5 billion beneficial connections between them (that's a 1 with 1.5 billion zeros after it, for non-math people).
Even though people say bad things about it, without capitalism our modern life and our accelerated innovation would not be possible. Good presentation.
What TED audiences choose to give and not to give a standing ovation perplexes me. I think this is the only one in the most recent ten that deserved one, yet they sat firmly on their asses. Hmph.
@PepperBabe, he is and then he isn't. he's got some very valid points, but then there are parts where you start to cringe, but who cares anyway when he's naive, just pull out the points that are interesting and move onto the next ted talk
@svenskic2 for sure, i dont want to get into a discussion... and yes, he does make some very interesting points, in fact, some "aaaah makes sense!" points.
what i think is naive of him, is the fact that he IMPLIES (i'm not saying he SAID it, maybe it's just what I got out of it) that the whole world is a community that works towards each other and the better good. i guess what i mean is that i'm too much of a pessimist to believe that there aren't any Louis XIV in the world anymore.
@PepperBabe I pulled up your channel to see if you had some kind of actual answer somewhere (I LOVE LOCAL NATIVES, BTW), but it seems like you've made an unsubstantiated claim and didn't really attempt to say anything more on the issue.
@NerdzClub2 they're awesome :D when i saw local natives, they were the opening band, and there were only 5 people in the audience
now, about Matt Ridley being naive.
what i think is naive of him,is the fact that he IMPLIES (i'm not saying he SAID it, maybe it's just what I got out of it) that the whole world is a community that works for each other and the greater good.i guess what i mean is that i'm too much of a pessimist to believe that there aren't any Louis XIV in the world anymore.
@PepperBabe Alright, fair enough. I'm going to disagree because I study networks and decision science and one thing that's apparent to me is that systems, even comprised of thinking people, develop minds and traits of their own. For instance, in crowd flow modeling we don't need biology or psychology because people move roughly according to the same rules as electrons in a gas. When enough density is provided, patterns begin to emerge without a mastermind- only from consistent and simple rules.
@PepperBabe (continued) my point being that we don't always have to individually act towards a goal if the trend tends that way without us. You know, not everyone participates in "the wave" during a sports event, but counterexamples don't seem to affect the strength of the wave as long as the trend manages to start, and as long as people are comfortable with at least their neighbors (you only need to know what your immediate neighbors are doing to pass a wave to hundreds of strangers, you know?)
Where does Oz save 1 hour? If he where to have made them himself it would have took im less time than that off adam therefore it would of been allot more benifical for Oz (The superior) to have made everything himself.
Adam saves allot of time.
If you know how this saving an hour of Oz's time works PLEASE reply i honestly can't see it.
@JoeBrenan Darn, I wish I could remember this law of economics, I've read about it many times on Mises-org.
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It stems from the benefit of doing what you do best, even if you do what "B" does "best" -better- than "B" does it, you and "B" still end up better off each doing what you do best.
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It's a mathematical proof of the benefits of division of labor.
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Nope, can't remember which "law" it is. Sorry. I suggest the videos of Walter Block.
I might be wrong and correct me if i am. Adam ------- 8 Hours for 2 Spears 6 Hours for 2 Axes Oz ---- 2 Hours for 2 Spears 4 Hours for 2 axes ------ Oz spends 2 hours on making 2 spears Adam spends 6 hours on making 2 axes Together they equal 8 hours Adam by himself to make these equals 14 hours Oz by himself equals 6 hours. (Read my nest post.)....
HowTheWorldWorks, the jackass has put this nonsense onto his channel (I cannot comment on HTWW's channel since he does not believe in free speech and blocked my dissent out).
The guy cites "rational optimist" and hallelujahs the free market. Intervention according to Ridley is not necessary because global warming is bogus and the Friedman market will do away with it.
HTWW recognized the propaganda potential of the talk and hep, uploaded it, without asking permission onto his channel.
By the way, if there is too much positive feedback in his idea-network ('collective brain') should it not be susceptible to seizures like the human brain, as a reaction to an exces of positive feedback?
the amazing thing when it comes to human advancement is, when we have more able minds and bodies contributing the greater and swifter advancements are created... consider a world where everyone has the chance to pursue complex problems and technical interests.. as well as social issues etc.. those periods of greater knowledge and freedom are where humanity is at it's best...
One of many great things TED has done is to provide a platform for academics, scientists, engineers, designers and present them as figures that communicate world changing messages directly to the community. The academic or scientist as a "rockstar" figure is a very powerful example for kids from impoverished backgrounds from all over the world who can broaden their horizons and set their goals on attaining academic success and pursue these kind of careers!
@neoaeonian i think the point you raise is valid but i think it is important to make the distinction that more enfranchised and intelligent free people are also necessary... having a slave class or gender based suppression don't really help the society... i think more access to knowledge for more people is a huge catalyst to ingenuity..
@Th3Wab3 Re: make the (enfranchiesed free people) distinction,
Yes, exactly!
But the population siren song of the 70s and today say the opposite, that it is us enfranchised, free people who are impoverishing the world. If we would become poor slaves, then the world would be better.
It was an understandable mistake then. It's a lazy foolish lie today.
The size of the population doesn't matter. It's how we live that matters.
I feel like he kept on mixing ideas and physical labor throughout the talk. Sure one million people were involved in making that mouse, but how many actually had their ideas involved in this big orgy? And how many weren't given the chance to join the orgy because they were too busy doing mechanical tasks in order not to starve to death? And to be even more annoying, I ask: how many of them have a mouse?
The per-person wealth of the world is up 3 fold in 40 years. Doesn't that statisitic register? No one had a mouse 40 years ago. People around the world have them now (or cell phones, or something else that no one could afford 40 years ago).
"Ideas' includes Know-how. Not all ideas are book smart. Skilled Labor shouldn't be underestimated. I ran a factory once, and I've learned not to be dismissive of skilled labor. It's rare and valuable
@theiamania In what way does copyright prevent ideas from having sex? You're free to consume and utilize the ideas in copyrighted material, you just are not allowed to copy it without permission. To remove copyright would be the equivalent of asking our stone age ancestors to give away their stone axes for free.
@veilen I agree that the current implementation of copyright law is way out of the scope of the original idea and is in serious need reform. To say that copyrights in general prohibit the spread of ideas is incorrect.
@justincase80634 I would ask you to take a look at watch?v=zL2FOrx41N0 and watch?v=7Q25-S7jzgs both ted talks. And about the free stone axes, well then that is what I do all day long. I make homepages that are free to use, but I am doing it because I know that if I do it good enough, then I will be able to find some other way of earning even more money on it than if I would charge every user to use my sites. (ps. apple has a patent on touch-screens, imagine if they were allowed to uphold it)
@VirgilBlackgold
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(Italian) Esperanto è una realtà, esistono molte persone che ogni giorno parlano per mezzo di questa lingua. Ed è veramente facile!
(English) Esperanto it's real, there are many people that speaks one another by this language. It is very easy!
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This is my favorite TED talk.
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His opening few sentences prove him to be a complete buffoon.
seratago 3 months ago
This lecture makes people think.It makes us happy to hear that we as a human race are not doomed like the media tells us. It made a lot of sense to me and it was not scientific mumbo jumbo....ok, now it really gets weird- we got from the arrowhead to the PC mouse (in my opinion) with help from aliens,yes...E.T's...the government played a big part in this. This is a good thing. Why do they insist on keeping it a secret?
goodtuneman 5 months ago
1:15 "How did we become the only species that becomes more prosperous as it becomes more populous?"
Fossil fuels, maybe? That would be my guess.
If we don't change course, we're likely to arrive where we're headed.
We are now very gradually changing course. Maybe the sharing of good ideas like real democracy and non-carbon fuels will outcompete the bad ideas like corporate personhood and mind-shackling religion. The race is on.
loqiloqi 7 months ago
I can't believe people listen to this idiot. Any optimism I had is crushed when I reflect that people consider this man intelligent.
beesleeper 8 months ago
@beesleeper Why? He has written some of the most classic books in biology and his reasons for optimism seem very backed up by facts.
dudepal187 7 months ago
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That's nice. Too bad global capitalism is transforming the planet into a smoldering toxic ball of shit. But as long as this goofball can suck people into bullshit optimism, I guess it's okay.
beesleeper 7 months ago
@beesleeper Oh I see. Well no system is perfect and there is corruption in capitalism, but you really cant deny that things are on their way to getting better. The problems are huge and so now a huge number of people are addressing them. Ideas to solve the energy crisis and help the planet have never been better. Technology becomes more efficient every day, biomimicry is being implemented, and now we have innovations like test tube meat. Society isnt hopeless, thats what the facts tell us.
dudepal187 7 months ago
@dudepal187
Please, please spare me this Techno-Utopian, Blue Sky, Post-Humanist TRIPE. "test tube meat" ---that synthetic tissue ? Good lord.
beesleeper 7 months ago
@beesleeper Not a utopia, just more sustainable living thanks to human innovation. Its just the facts. Test tube meat was just published in almost every science magazine. Something like this will revolutionize food consumption while eliminating the need for mass animal slaughter and the resulting cruelty. Its just stem cells that grow healthy and nutritious meat. Not even any hormones or chemicals are needed. But anyway, do you not see the facts here? Why do you have no hope for humanity?
dudepal187 7 months ago
@beesleeper YOU SHOULD WATCH GLOBALIZATION IS GOOD BY JOHAN NORBGERG, YOU SEEM NOT TO KNOW WHAT CAPITALISM REALLY IS
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MrLaughinggrass 4 weeks ago
scrabblekin1965, I really recommend you read his book, The Rational Optimist. he addresses your concerns conclusively.
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I loved this speech - the human race as become 'one-organism'.
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frilink 1 year ago
Interesting speech.
ParaglidingManiac 1 year ago
what he is saying is true... but the issues are not technical- in many cases technical fixes to the issues are the easy part- it's the human habit change that's the hard part... check out conservative party's blueprint for a green economy released 2007. cheers
CandianBear 1 year ago
he can say that incomes adjusted for inflation have risen it's pretty easy to figure out since the 1970's middle class real income wages within the US and most advanced industrialized countries have been falling or are flat. when adjusted for inflation- the concentration of wealth has been enormous- the corporate oligarchy is trying on Kant's benign dictatorship to bring progress, and in my opinion it's not hitting the mark- all social indicators for quality of life are falling
CandianBear 1 year ago
this is completely true, no body knows nothing, but accumulation,
ibraheem2555 1 year ago 4
I've said it myself -- we have a dangerously, dangerously co-dependent society, thanks to too many years of self-serving "captains of industry" shaping us into fractionated niche-bots.
TheLogicJunkie 1 year ago 2
And while it's all well and good, all this delightful orgy of knowledge, who's keeping MOST OF THE MONEY from all this innovation? That's right -- you guessed it: the usual Uberclique of shadow assassin-backed Bilderbrats.
TheLogicJunkie 1 year ago
Interesting yes, but at about 1:00 he is talking about GDP/person on the planet has tripled, I would argue the reason for this GDP growth and the population growth is because of low hanging easily picked nearly free fossil fuels and those AREN'T going to keep up with the growing demand. More idea sex isn't going to solve that problem, of fiat currency retaining value in an economic contraction due to peak oil.
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oliveyaqwer 1 year ago
The message seems simple, but it really shows us the way of success.
Evolution will benefit from the open source movement and all "modern software sex".
But this is also why patents on seeds and animals ARE NOT the way to go! Right?
MrScrewy 1 year ago
Excellent video. Glad to see an alternate viewpoint opposed to the the typical gloom and doom of many predicting the future. Thanks TED.
coolgreyoneabby 1 year ago 2
Language arose out of a spontaneous order -- no one said "here are the words, here's the grammar, speak it to one another." People just needed a way to communicate and it evolved into what it is today. People won't learn a second language or Esperanto unless they need it. (They don't need it).
qerplonk 1 year ago
Excellent layman explanation on a truly magnificent concept!
rsanchez112789 1 year ago 2
He looks like a mix between Christopher Nolan and Steve Jobs.
ekearsey 1 year ago
ideas have sex?
SatoTM3 1 year ago
i hope it was good for you as it was for me.
afordian 1 year ago
Two heads are better than one, especially when they are up each other's ass...
SirWinstonChurchill 1 year ago
Ridley takes the complex and makes it fun and simple
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EarthTravels 1 year ago
Matt Ridley never fails to write or say something interesting, he is quickly becoming one of my favorite writers
blindside70 1 year ago
Finally, a free-marketer talks to these people.
Wormtail81 1 year ago
wow, you re-invented my way of thinking.
neobattle2 1 year ago
This speech makes me feel very humble as an individual.
1648357 1 year ago
This is why i don't understand why Americans buy guns and ammo when they get scared of disaster situations.
"When the shit hits the fan, all you need is your gun and ammo".
what? no!
The most valuable thing to have when the shit hits the fan is OTHER PEOPLE. Don't have a shootout with your neighbour trying to steal eachother's food. Instead, cooperate, farm, and make some more food!
roidroid 1 year ago 3
The isolated Aboriginals of Tasmania. I wonder if a robust WRITTEN language could have curtailed their sad technological "moonwalk".
Don't have anyone to teach howto make stone axes? Write down howto do it. Your teaching ability becomes near-immortal.
roidroid 1 year ago
@roidroid Dutch has a lot of vowel sounds and uses normal letters, so they could try using that. Or the phonetic alphabet if they're not quite willing to go pictoral like the ancient Egyptians and Asians.
VCat2006 1 year ago
Per Louis CK: Everything is amazing and nobody's happy.
hufnmouth 1 year ago
An excellent video.
I am however reminded that there are still a few people who don't use metric in this world. As long as there are different measuring systems, our rate of progress (and the exchange of ideas) will be slowed as people fail to understand each other and we have things like the Mars orbiter disaster.
psarmstr 1 year ago
@psarmstr It's coming. For the last ten years metric has been taught more and more in school in America.
hufnmouth 1 year ago
@psarmstr May I add that, as long as we don't have a common second language, our rate of progress and exchange of ideas will be slower, more expensive, and more cumbersome as people fail to understand each other. I've read studies on Esperanto (the neutral international language) that show that it can be learned by everyone in 6 months, because its grammar is so logical. If everybody had a common (easy and neutral) second language, all would be able to communicate without language barriers.
VirgilBlackgold 1 year ago 38
@VirgilBlackgold But does it sound nice? Can it trace its lineage? I thought it was too much like Spanish, which i'm not fond of as it's like French. How logical is the counting system?
VCat2006 1 year ago
@VirgilBlackgold why not lojban? then we can include computers -- it doubles as a programming language, and uses phonemes pronounceable by everyone in the world, not merely europeans.
EdJ343 1 year ago
@VirgilBlackgold
The problem is that ideas create new things, new things needs new words to fully be understood, new things might create new concepts that needs new words to be understood.
It's not so simple and logical after a bit of innovation.
haradrel82 1 year ago
@haradrel82 This is why we are creating English 2.0 > and updated version of english to help us deal with new ideas, concepts and thoughts. You can find it on the Seeducation website... let me know what you think! Any addition or changes are welcome :)
noamkos 1 year ago
@VirgilBlackgold Everyone here in Germany speaks English. We're fine on the "common second language" thing, trust me. ;-)
ginotri 1 year ago 2
This is a really good video
lordjavathe3rd 1 year ago
Do you understand that you're thinking in tens of years, when the scientists are looking at things a little differently. In your tiny, itty bitty life, the changes don't mean crap, but given the RAMPING UP of the situation, things do look bad for NEAR FUTURE generations. It's not just smoke, it is credible scientific data. To simply sit and say per capita income means a better future for the world is elitism in its worst form. The future actually is quite bleak, given the data.
therealzabbledeedoo 1 year ago
"Even in England we don't leave reproduction to the queen." LOL!
speedbmp 1 year ago
Of course this rather enjoyable video begs the question: Are the modern concepts of copyright and patents what will turn the tide of innovation away from it's upward trend?
Not that these things are intrinsically bad. It's just that the current developing concepts lean towards that I can only describe as 'we own everything, forever'.
I recall a recent statistic that went something along the lines that over 55% of the funding for medical research just goes towards dealing with patents issues.
therealfatNINJA 1 year ago
@therealfatNINJA Patents lapse after 17 years, 21 for pharmacueticals.
What you miss is the front end of this. People don't invest huge bucks in risky inventions if they can't protect it for a while. The patent process is far from perfect, but it does better about getting people to fund ideas than not having patents does.
neoaeonian 1 year ago
@neoaeonian Well you kind of missed the point of my second statement there; the one about there being nothing wrong with the ability to patent or copyright an idea. The problem lies in the fact that current copyright and patent law allows for such broad reaching powers. Usually for whoever can lay down the most cash.
Eventually an idea has to become part of the greater whole of public knowledge. Otherwise you'll end up spending more time defending yourself, in court, than actually inovating.
therealfatNINJA 1 year ago
@therealfatNINJA "Eventually an idea has to become part of the greater whole of public knowledge."
That's the point of patent law. If it weren't for patents, novel ideas would remain secret.
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@neoaeonian "Patents lapse after 17 years"
20 years from the date of filing, as of 1995:
en. wikipedia. org/wiki/ Term_of_patent_in_the_United_States
"The patent term in the United States was changed in 1995 to bring U.S. patent law into conformity with the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) as negotiated in the Uruguay Round."
hitssquad 1 year ago
My Gaud, Steve Jobs is Matt Ridley's evil twin!
planeshaperman 1 year ago
First guy to make epic inflation sound good.
gabydewilde 1 year ago
@gabydewilde ROTFLMAO
HigherPlanes 1 year ago
All this knowledge is giving me a raging brainer
myownfreeworld 1 year ago
simply brilliant!
nublex 1 year ago
Excellent talk. Nice change from the usual one-sided socialistic rethoric on ted.
NietzscheanMan 1 year ago 2
I appreciate his anthropological, archeological and pre-historical perspectives about the benefits of "free trade."
Adam Smith, Hayek. Hazlitt and Friedman make similar observations about free trade, but without observation that free trade clearly benefitted pre-historical hominids as well.
islandmuffin 1 year ago
Sure the mean income has skyrocketed but the median income has gone through the floor. We live in an era of exponential stratification.
kronocyber 1 year ago
@kronocyber Though stratified, the poor do much better today, than ever. This, of course, relates to economic freedom (free trade) fueling the economic engine that has created our mutual prosperity.
Some, like you, would rather the poor be poorer as long as the rich are much less rich so we are all more equal. Obama holds similar class warfare dogma as well.
islandmuffin 1 year ago 2
@islandmuffin Well put.
People think that concentrated wealth is some evil thing, but wealthy people only have 3 things they can do with their wealth.
1. Consume (giving jobs and money to the people they buy from)
2. Invest (giving other people a chance to be wealthy)
3. Put in a mattress (living no differently than anyone else)
So what's the big deal. What earned wealthy usually accomplishes is wise use of funds. Unearned (lottery) income tends to get wasted.
neoaeonian 1 year ago
That's the best ideas sex I've had in ages!
D1g1talMess1ah 1 year ago 2
how can he say that the standard of living for all has went up when there are areas which were once a sea, is now drought were children are picking cotton for no money and where vast golf courses are being built in places where there is a high homeless population just to mention a few i can go on if anything the standard of living has dropped considerably
millingtonjp 1 year ago
@millingtonjp Re: standard of living dropped considerably
The only part of the world where that is true is subsaharan africa, and even then it's not accross the board, but mainly where Aids has been a scourge, and even that is finally turning around. For the vast majority of the world homelessness is down, lifespan is up. You're not referring to statistics, you're referring to selective reporting. Statistics are clear. People are wealthier and healthier
See: Hans Rosling, best Statistics
neoaeonian 1 year ago
@neoaeonian all statistics are made up you should look at some of these places with your own eyes my friend. For a starting you off you should take a look on you tube at uzbekistan white gold. Craig Murrey former british ambassador taught me alot he was the rector of my university for a good few years here in scotland.
millingtonjp 1 year ago
@millingtonjp HIs statistics pretty much relate the developing world to the US circa the 50s. If you looked at the US in the 50s, and even into the 70s, with respect to coal mining you'd find much to find fault with.
neoaeonian 1 year ago
@neoaeonian like i said all statistics are made up, on april 4th this year in krygystan the riot and the people speak for themselves. There is no such thing as terrorism the revolution is happening now on a much bigger scale, capitalism doesnt work.
millingtonjp 1 year ago
@millingtonjp What do you mean all statistics are made up? That's simply not true. People always have limited views of the situation around them. A well made Statistic is more truthful than our skewed limited and local subjective human views and opinions. You should check the source neoaeonian gave you. What does anarchy have to do with any of this? What is your alternative for capitalism anyway? Just all out anarchy and chaos? If anything that will hurt progress, science and technology.
DaFreak4ever 1 year ago
@millingtonjp Re: Capitalism doesn't work.
It doesn't work when the rule of law isn't in place, including secure property rights for individuals. If those 2 things are ruled out, then you are not talking about capitalism. I googled Uzebekistan white gold, and the first sentence included, "made to work in the fields, but denied right to own property." You can find fault with backwater politics, but don't call it capitilism, because it isn't.
neoaeonian 1 year ago
Anyone remember Jim Burke's different TV series in the early/mid 80's? His talk is more of like a reminder of what Burke told us back then.
rodsky71 1 year ago
@rodsky71 Re: Jim Burke's TV series
"Connections" He did it twice and it was great! It showed, historically, exactly what Ridley is discussing @3:30, how ideas build over time, and over the world.
Burke wasn't always positive and upbeat, but when I was watching the series (there were 2 seperate ones, 1 was 1hr shows, the other 30 minute shows), I couldn't help but think that we are living in the best time ever, but we are so accustomed to danger that we look for things to worry about.
neoaeonian 1 year ago
[clever and sexual reference to the video]
This was great.
BrokenBjartur 1 year ago
there's a commit with 56 thumbs up but its not at the top. it talks about how copyright laws stop idea sex like a condom.
Doopdon 1 year ago
The concept of interconnectivity he's talking about is quite straight-forward. It's where the saying "a group is more than the sum of its parts" comes from. If you have n many people, the number of potential connection (and therefore potential beneficial connections) is n factorial. For example, 6 billion people can potentially have 1*10^1.5 billion beneficial connections between them (that's a 1 with 1.5 billion zeros after it, for non-math people).
redAkamaru13 1 year ago
Even though people say bad things about it, without capitalism our modern life and our accelerated innovation would not be possible. Good presentation.
AcWuffer 1 year ago
ib4 same sex idea marriage.
but srsly, some ideas sex need more protection imo to protect the world from ignorance.
xjustamem0ryx 1 year ago
umm there is symbiosis between animals :)
spydrebyte 1 year ago
What TED audiences choose to give and not to give a standing ovation perplexes me. I think this is the only one in the most recent ten that deserved one, yet they sat firmly on their asses. Hmph.
Saerain 1 year ago
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dbalieiro 1 year ago
Its always something so obvious thats brilliant
PugDiary 1 year ago
So, the point is exchange of ideas can be good?
Isn't that a trivial point?
tantzer 1 year ago
12:30 North Korea anyone?
Memubitsu 1 year ago
Normal Borlaug. Look him up.
CurtHowland 1 year ago
Archeology is always fascinating.
KlipKultur4 1 year ago
this guy is painfully naive.
PepperBabe 1 year ago
@PepperBabe I'm intrigued how you think so...
doford 1 year ago
@PepperBabe, he is and then he isn't. he's got some very valid points, but then there are parts where you start to cringe, but who cares anyway when he's naive, just pull out the points that are interesting and move onto the next ted talk
svenskic2 1 year ago
@svenskic2 for sure, i dont want to get into a discussion... and yes, he does make some very interesting points, in fact, some "aaaah makes sense!" points.
what i think is naive of him, is the fact that he IMPLIES (i'm not saying he SAID it, maybe it's just what I got out of it) that the whole world is a community that works towards each other and the better good. i guess what i mean is that i'm too much of a pessimist to believe that there aren't any Louis XIV in the world anymore.
PepperBabe 1 year ago
@PepperBabe I pulled up your channel to see if you had some kind of actual answer somewhere (I LOVE LOCAL NATIVES, BTW), but it seems like you've made an unsubstantiated claim and didn't really attempt to say anything more on the issue.
Care to elucidate, or are you just trollin'? :P
NerdzClub2 1 year ago
@NerdzClub2 they're awesome :D when i saw local natives, they were the opening band, and there were only 5 people in the audience
now, about Matt Ridley being naive.
what i think is naive of him,is the fact that he IMPLIES (i'm not saying he SAID it, maybe it's just what I got out of it) that the whole world is a community that works for each other and the greater good.i guess what i mean is that i'm too much of a pessimist to believe that there aren't any Louis XIV in the world anymore.
PepperBabe 1 year ago
@PepperBabe Alright, fair enough. I'm going to disagree because I study networks and decision science and one thing that's apparent to me is that systems, even comprised of thinking people, develop minds and traits of their own. For instance, in crowd flow modeling we don't need biology or psychology because people move roughly according to the same rules as electrons in a gas. When enough density is provided, patterns begin to emerge without a mastermind- only from consistent and simple rules.
NerdzClub2 1 year ago
@PepperBabe (continued) my point being that we don't always have to individually act towards a goal if the trend tends that way without us. You know, not everyone participates in "the wave" during a sports event, but counterexamples don't seem to affect the strength of the wave as long as the trend manages to start, and as long as people are comfortable with at least their neighbors (you only need to know what your immediate neighbors are doing to pass a wave to hundreds of strangers, you know?)
NerdzClub2 1 year ago
Where does Oz save 1 hour? If he where to have made them himself it would have took im less time than that off adam therefore it would of been allot more benifical for Oz (The superior) to have made everything himself.
Adam saves allot of time.
If you know how this saving an hour of Oz's time works PLEASE reply i honestly can't see it.
JoeBrenan 1 year ago
@JoeBrenan He saves the hour by trading the spear which took him an hour to make for a axe which would have taken 2 hours to make.
doford 1 year ago
@JoeBrenan Darn, I wish I could remember this law of economics, I've read about it many times on Mises-org.
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It stems from the benefit of doing what you do best, even if you do what "B" does "best" -better- than "B" does it, you and "B" still end up better off each doing what you do best.
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It's a mathematical proof of the benefits of division of labor.
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Nope, can't remember which "law" it is. Sorry. I suggest the videos of Walter Block.
CurtHowland 1 year ago
JoeBrenan 1 year ago
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JoeBrenan 1 year ago
Very good vid.
Pushtrak 1 year ago
Freaking blew my mind.
bbm187 1 year ago
I foresee the emergence of idea porn.
angrylaserhobo 1 year ago 63
@angrylaserhobo Rule 34 of the Internets: There is porn of it, no exceptions.
ZarlanTheGreen 1 year ago
@angrylaserhobo Rule 34. No exceptions.
shiftyjake 1 year ago 2
@angrylaserhobo Isn't that what TEDTalks is?
destructicon500 1 year ago
@angrylaserhobo Idea porn already exists, it's called TED!
artlessartist 1 year ago
@angrylaserhobo thats what TED is
Xenophanes21 1 year ago
@angrylaserhobo
rule 34
luszczi 1 year ago 2
@angrylaserhobo Rule 34...
ryanexsus 1 year ago
@angrylaserhobo let me be the 5th person say Rule 34.
also the 6th.
what?
rule 34
roidroid 1 year ago
Briliant!
sashakid 1 year ago
Damnit! I was trying to say I have read that series twice now and this talk made me think of Douglas Adams books immediately.
Loki95531 1 year ago
is it just me or did Douglas Adams kinda hit on the idea of a collective brain here on Earth when he wrote the Hitchhikers Guide series? I have
Loki95531 1 year ago
@Loki95531 The idea easily predates Douglas Adams, but yes, that's one example in fiction.
Saerain 1 year ago
My favorite ted talk! There have been so many pessimistic technoaverse talks lately. TED, if you can hear me: more of this!
Sondre7 1 year ago
HowTheWorldWorks, the jackass has put this nonsense onto his channel (I cannot comment on HTWW's channel since he does not believe in free speech and blocked my dissent out).
hyperseauton 1 year ago
@hyperseauton Sure HTWW is a jackass and an idiot (though I've forgotten on what fields he is stupid), but how is this video nonsense?
Things don't become stupid, just because stupid people do it after all.
ZarlanTheGreen 1 year ago
@ZarlanTheGreen
The guy cites "rational optimist" and hallelujahs the free market. Intervention according to Ridley is not necessary because global warming is bogus and the Friedman market will do away with it.
HTWW recognized the propaganda potential of the talk and hep, uploaded it, without asking permission onto his channel.
I'll DMCA HTWW.
hyperseauton 1 year ago
@hyperseauton You say "The guy cites "rational optimist" and hallelujahs the free market.".
Where in the talk does he do that?
"Intervention according to Ridley is not necessary because global warming is bogus and the Friedman market will do away with it."
Where in the video does he say/imply that?
...oh yeah, and good luck with the DMCA, when HTWW gets you arrested for perjury, for illegally claiming to have the copyright for the video.
...and TEDtalks are free to distribute.
ZarlanTheGreen 1 year ago
@ZarlanTheGreen
you idiot.
It is CC, which means HTWW needs permission to duplicate verbatim.
As for the talk's content, I recommend re-watching since you did not grasp the meaning of the words being said, you child.
hyperseauton 1 year ago
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@hyperseauton Eh, no. It means it HAS to be verbatim. Also it has to be non-commercial and must explicitly attribute the original source.
...which HTWW has done.
...and in any case, you are not the holder of the copyright.
DMCA it and you have broken the law.
...and done something immoral.
"As for the talk's content, I recommend re-watching since you did not grasp the meaning of the words being said, you child."
I am impressed by your skills of pedagogy and persuasion...
ZarlanTheGreen 1 year ago
@hyperseauton 'You child!' accuses the person who seeks to file false DMCAs and submit false spam flags. Good work, gentle sir.
Saerain 1 year ago
@Saerain
Stalk someone else around youtube. As I said the DMCA I sent is genuine. Then again HTWW has around 2000 socks, so it is not he had it not coming.
Good luck to you.
hyperseauton 1 year ago
By the way, if there is too much positive feedback in his idea-network ('collective brain') should it not be susceptible to seizures like the human brain, as a reaction to an exces of positive feedback?
Waranoa 1 year ago
@variablast lol point taken
PlasteringKing25 1 year ago
Such a damn good vid!
Waranoa 1 year ago
@variablast "proud to be a 'nigger" ?
PlasteringKing25 1 year ago
Awesome!
Yesrly1 1 year ago
So... Can we have trade liberalization?
dar482 1 year ago
I just got an academic boner
NextToNothing123 1 year ago 40
me too
dmacosta1 1 year ago
the amazing thing when it comes to human advancement is, when we have more able minds and bodies contributing the greater and swifter advancements are created... consider a world where everyone has the chance to pursue complex problems and technical interests.. as well as social issues etc.. those periods of greater knowledge and freedom are where humanity is at it's best...
Th3Wab3 1 year ago
we will be come the borg collective.
epatton1001 1 year ago
@epatton1001 The Borg are a piss-poor imagination of a sapient collective intelligence, really, for so many reasons....
Saerain 1 year ago
This channel gets better and better.
bavwill 1 year ago 3
Great!~ idea
Johnfong1986 1 year ago
One of My Favourite TEDs!!!
zombiesmasher 1 year ago
And nothing bad ever happens involving sex.
ZoltarTube 1 year ago
great perspective at 15:14
the internet is the manifestation of our collective brain
EmpireStateofLife 1 year ago 3
One of many great things TED has done is to provide a platform for academics, scientists, engineers, designers and present them as figures that communicate world changing messages directly to the community. The academic or scientist as a "rockstar" figure is a very powerful example for kids from impoverished backgrounds from all over the world who can broaden their horizons and set their goals on attaining academic success and pursue these kind of careers!
EmpireStateofLife 1 year ago 2
It's about time!!
I've been saying for years that the evidence is very clear, more people = a better world.
Why people can't get that is beyond me. Population growth is not a problem, it's a solution. People are good, more people, even better.
My idea was the same (more people, better ideas, and we all gain from anyone's great idea) but his way of putting it, ideas having sex, major advance.
Finally someone is allowed to say that people are good.
neoaeonian 1 year ago
@neoaeonian i think the point you raise is valid but i think it is important to make the distinction that more enfranchised and intelligent free people are also necessary... having a slave class or gender based suppression don't really help the society... i think more access to knowledge for more people is a huge catalyst to ingenuity..
Th3Wab3 1 year ago 3
@Th3Wab3 Re: make the (enfranchiesed free people) distinction,
Yes, exactly!
But the population siren song of the 70s and today say the opposite, that it is us enfranchised, free people who are impoverishing the world. If we would become poor slaves, then the world would be better.
It was an understandable mistake then. It's a lazy foolish lie today.
The size of the population doesn't matter. It's how we live that matters.
neoaeonian 1 year ago
This is Econ 101 explained to liberals. Can we pass the pending free trade agreements now?
sugarkang 1 year ago
How does he know it was from 500,000 years ago?
Dajuhan2u 1 year ago
Welp, I just found my new favorite TED Talk.
AULhall 1 year ago
This is new clothing for volumes of Hegel's writing exploring the dialectic dynamic.
ubu2600 1 year ago
being able to do it and knowing how to do it are 2 different things
Finiras 1 year ago
The brilliance of Ridley is his ability to advocate in favor of Capitalism and Free Markets without actually saying Capitalism or Free Markets.
HowTheWorldWorks 1 year ago
This is why OpenSource is the way to go
MagicHandedAlex 1 year ago 5
I feel like he kept on mixing ideas and physical labor throughout the talk. Sure one million people were involved in making that mouse, but how many actually had their ideas involved in this big orgy? And how many weren't given the chance to join the orgy because they were too busy doing mechanical tasks in order not to starve to death? And to be even more annoying, I ask: how many of them have a mouse?
chapulinaaa 1 year ago
@chapulinaaa Re: how many of them have a mouse
The per-person wealth of the world is up 3 fold in 40 years. Doesn't that statisitic register? No one had a mouse 40 years ago. People around the world have them now (or cell phones, or something else that no one could afford 40 years ago).
"Ideas' includes Know-how. Not all ideas are book smart. Skilled Labor shouldn't be underestimated. I ran a factory once, and I've learned not to be dismissive of skilled labor. It's rare and valuable
neoaeonian 1 year ago
Advertising at the end there -- showing the 'peak' reach of technology, i.e. iphone. Lol
elmenhorster 1 year ago
The graph he showed looks like to be in complete inverse relationship with Dollar value!
Tnat1on 1 year ago
AAAHH! His pencil point is pointing up. That's gonna hurt when he takes it out later
SuperCraigm 1 year ago
So what prohibits ideas to have sex? Copyright!!
theiamania 1 year ago 61
@theiamania That would be the condoms for safe sex.
ExclusiveManual 1 year ago
@theiamania Couldn't agree more. Copyright is massively destructive, by preventing the building upon ideas.
CurtHowland 1 year ago
@theiamania In what way does copyright prevent ideas from having sex? You're free to consume and utilize the ideas in copyrighted material, you just are not allowed to copy it without permission. To remove copyright would be the equivalent of asking our stone age ancestors to give away their stone axes for free.
justincase80634 1 year ago
@justincase80634 Copyright has two crucial properties:
- to make sure that people specializing in creating ideas can make a living,
- to not restrict the spreading of ideas through human culture (this video nicely tells you why).
Unfortunately today enforced copyright law is seriously flawed:
- it practically protects monopolies that trade ideas, not the creators,
- it restricts spreading of ideas in a way that endangers, ironically, the creating of new ones.
veilen 1 year ago
@veilen I agree that the current implementation of copyright law is way out of the scope of the original idea and is in serious need reform. To say that copyrights in general prohibit the spread of ideas is incorrect.
justincase80634 1 year ago
@justincase80634 I would ask you to take a look at watch?v=zL2FOrx41N0 and watch?v=7Q25-S7jzgs both ted talks. And about the free stone axes, well then that is what I do all day long. I make homepages that are free to use, but I am doing it because I know that if I do it good enough, then I will be able to find some other way of earning even more money on it than if I would charge every user to use my sites. (ps. apple has a patent on touch-screens, imagine if they were allowed to uphold it)
theiamania 1 year ago