Usually women are retarded when it comes to big picture or creative thinking...but this is actually a really nice, fun, informative presentation. So kudos to Ms. Case.
It seems like having a TED Women is really counter-productive...sure, it effectively determines what gender all of the speakers are going to be, which isn't a big deal, but at the same time it determines that great majority of the audience members that show up to see it...that crowd was at least 90% female, but the subject had to do with all of people, so how does this TED Women title help anybody?
we are not all cyborgs, people who wear glasses are not cyborgs.
we are simply using tools. having a pacemaker does not make you a cyborg, it does not replace an organ or part of an organ, it is a redundant node.
if you get an esteem hearing implant or a cochlear implant, you are a cyborg. when you REPLACE part of your body with a machine that interacts with your body via an electronic/mechanical to biological medium.
behavior patterns ans new tools do not qualify as species change.
WE ARE BORG. YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE. YOUR BIOLOGICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVENESS WILL BE ADDED TO OUR OWN. YOUR CULTURE WILL ADAPT TO SERVICE US.
YOU WILL DISARM YOUR WEAPONS AND ESCORT US TO SECTOR 001.
Extension of the physical and mental self defines not only everyone who has ever used a tool, telephone, TV or cell phone but especially meaningful for all ventriloquists of which there are quite a few as of the last count at the ventriloquist's convention in Covington Kentucky in 2011.The puppets and the puppet makes and the ventriloquists reach with their voices into a modeled character extended beyond their physical and mental selves. Amber case' work is fascinating and her truths profound.
What a great video. I fully agree with the concern with younger generations being unable to unplug from connectivity. I've seen way too many brand new college grads lose their jobs because they can't put their iphones up and stop texting and surfing the net on the job.
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@NinjaRunningWild No. Your mom bitches too much about her personal life when she's with a client. It's unprofessional. I'm not interested in hearing about how much of a little faggot her son is and how he was conceived by rape and thinks his dad is somewhere on youtube, unaware of the dangers of crack.
Except for the TEDwomen part, it just makes me have even less respect for women in science and tech, it's probably a better idea that it's male dominated in the first place.
The theory that technology brings us closer together is great, but in reality many people are constantly on their phones and rarely take time to connect face to face.
If the nukes went off tommorow & there was no more electricty, could you survive?
What backup plan do you have to contact important people? Cellphones won't matter if all the satellites are knocked out. Even if you recharged it with a solar panel. Can you live without a fridge or freezer? Do you have a source of fresh water? We have lived on this planet for how long? In only 100 years we have become reliant on other people to provide. What if that system breaks apart? You can eat your money..
Not this bullshit again! Second time in my Que youtube did not like it the first time around. Don't care what kind of pubs she flosses out of her teeth! Happy munchin
@ok2pro Shush! Dude! This is awesome! Ha! Ha! I got the plans! For the secret ingredients for KFC's secret recipe. I know your excited now! Will remarket it together.Will call it iChicken. That's funny! Knew you'd like it. We can commit genocide on chickens with out any feelings! Okay! Don't get to excited I know the greed is too awesome to think about! I wet myself with excitement too!
@jbohler33 Meds? that was low! Well thanks For the comment sheep. Did you make that up on your own? You better go and get yourself some fast food I hear your insulin screaming from hear. Go back to sleep and consume.
@Mystery207 You know how people have told you to lay off the weed and stop jerking off to Zeitgeist? Don't listen to them they're in on the conspiracy. Kill yourself hippie, it's the only way out!
Nice talk! "I Love Lucy assembly line input!" Love it! I embrace technology but am a "physicalist". God made our eyes, hears, emotions to connect face to face, hug to hug. Ears were made to hear voices and hunting, nothing louder than a brief thunderclap. Skye puts us artificially face to face, but nothing beats real face to face.
I believe the explosion of social networks shows our human yearning to connect, even if it's artificial. Except we are connecting with 237 instead of 1 or 2.
@NinjaRunningWild No it applies to you and your Asian prostitute mother who is responsible for your hereditary predisposition to crack, hence your initial comment and user name.
@jbohler33 That's cute. Did your crackhead boyfriend help you out with that one? Or was it a fortune cookie from an Asian prostitute since you seem to know so much about them?
Yeah, shocker. When the internet/search engine does your thinking for you, you don't do your own thinking. Seriously, newsflash. This was already covered in the Atlantic's "Is Google making us stoopid". And, also quite shocking that *organic* being's usage of technology they created also looks organic. How is any of this new info? Oh, it's not? Ok then...
@04petesake I'm pretty familiar with the supposed ideals feminism started with, and I am also aware that nowadays, what is criticized in the name of feminism is, for the most part, ridiculous, and at times completely contrary to those ideals. If my assumptions of what TED Women is are accurate, then what I mentioned was a good example of this.
@jbohler33 If women get a TED conference for themselves then surely my idea isn't so preposterous... They need a TED for every fraction of society.... "TED homeless" would be awesome. Maybe then we'd be able to find out which homeless community makes the best bathtub meth. SCORE!! p.s. I'm not saying ALL homeless people do meth.... just most of them.
this chick spent thousands of dollars on college. her dad sent her off with probably his own money. and after 15 some years of research. thinks that cell phones are wormholes. and that making a tool is reason to call them a cyborg......are you serious? lulz. PUT DOWN THE BONG BEIBER.
I predict mass suicides, this is a grotesque conspiracy that has been perpatrated on humaity and not all are going to be able to adapt, you can't fit a round peg in a square hole. The rise in mental illnesses, anxiety, depression is testament to that, but these degenerates don't seem to care. I guess the empathy has been screened out of them as Neuroscientist Susan Greenfield warned.
We become so connected that we "bonded" (not to real people) but to what people want, or expect from us, be it: a comment, a reply, a like, a view or something else.
But those bonds can become shackles that we can't get away from.
All technology has a "off" switch for something, and we better know how to use it so we can find time for ourselves.
We become so connected that we "bonded" (not to real people) but to what people want, or expect from us, be it: a comment, a reply, a like, a view or something else.
But those bonds can become shackles that we can't get away from.
All technology has a "off" switch for something, and we better know how to use it so we can find time for ourselves.
space compression?? WTF? you still got thousands of kilometer of cable around the world, otherwise it wouldn't be possible to "be there".. you still got the same distance...
@hwnzero Ya, you're right, studying the origin and development of human societies is pointless. Who cares where we came from or where we might be headed -- now that's a properly scientific outlook! /end sarcasm.
Her fear is that the compression of time and space through technological prosthetics is robbing us of mental reflection. What concern is reflection when the meaningful content to be reflected on has long since been expunged. We are unconscious engineers working towards a technological reality that supercedes us, much like a protein cell nonconsciously repairing the tissue of an organ. There never was 'the human' or 'humanity' as such.
@ninjapiratelover Presumably she means to take the human being as an essentially social being. But Its absurd to maintain that the content of that social interaction is unimportant, and all that matters is the form itself (content can be reduced to a bare minimum of twaddle to be consumed, like facebook or "LOL's" via texts, as long as were still affecting one another through 'communication'). and you are absolutely right: humanity should also be an ACTIVE being, not a sedentary hunk of meat.
No communication of meaning, just the functional manipulation of information. It was a mistake to ever think man was the factor and not instead the factum.
A brilliant talk and interesting talk. I've been thinking about this sort of "human networking" for some time now, and it's good to see that someone else has discovered the same phenomenon. Not to mention that she's absolutely adorable ^^
What a complete waste of time. Why did they give her the talking time just to talk about her very skewed opinions. She needs to rethink everything she's talking about because a lot of what she is saying is false and based solely on her opinions.
@jiberish001 why on earth are you so negative? these aren't "opinions", they're different ways of conceptualising things. it's not the best TED talk I've ever had, but -- I have to ask, what is it, exactly, that you disagree or take issue with in this video?
@jiberish001 cool "opinions". Only, the difference is hers are justified, yours are not. Maybe you can muster the intellect to tell us *why* they are 'skewed', 'false', etc?
Well, If you go outside and shoot yourself in the head, you won't be pissed anymore. Problem solved. This way we also avoid reading your idiotic comments, so it's clearly a win-win solution.
Are you kidding me? If you seriously can't see the difference between eugenics and people who are just observing an ongoing phenomenon, then there is a third win in the solution I previously offered to you.
Next time you listen to a speech, try to understand what the speaker is trying to tell rather than bashing it over a few words you don't like and have taken out of context.
Interesting talk. It made me think of an animation called Serial experiments Lain which was very much inspired by this subject. Very thought provoking stuff... It might not be for everyone though, judging from some comments.
lol.. some of u are ignoring the main points she said. She is most definitely not hating on technology... Shes trying to convey that technology is helping us evolve and grow in a positive way as a Species. The same way anything else would try to grow and better its self in nature. So now, how can we evolve the fastest most efficient way using technology? "Why cant humans zoom" =PPP
In other words, we need to stop seeing 'technology' or 'modernity' as evils, and see them as rich sources of value we would not want to abandon, even if it were possible. What's in the way is the common assumption that binaries such as technology and nature, modernity and.. 'authenticity' I guess, cannot co-exist, when actually they clearly can.
@Harrycurtin "In other words, we need to stop seeing 'technology' or 'modernity' as evils, and see them as rich sources of value we would not want to abandon" - You said an awful lot of nothing in that sentence. I don't know a single person that would say technology is an evil, or even vexed to any level. I know arguments from popularity are quite poor but take a look around you. The whole world lives and breathes the stuff, we can't get enough of this shit....
@victor1eremita - You thought you was really clever then didn't you. Did you sit there with a hardon whilst typing it. 1st, my comment was a reply to someone who claimed we should stop seeing technology as evils, which was something of a misnomer. 2nd my point was that people are not sitting there saying technology is evil. 3rd, I might concede that some people do, perhaps you... but then they would be absolute hypocrits, enjoying a life that would not be possible without such tech advancements.
@victor1eremita And finally, for the retarded amongst us..... you then go and make some absurd little jump from the argument that technology is not evil........... and then infer it as some kind of argument for the use of heroin. Please. Do stop, if you kept your mouth shut then i wouldn't of had to know how stupid you really are.
Technology should work For, instead of against us. Its not realy doing that now is it.
If we were to Somehow Integrate it with a form of Spirituality if you will., were we no longer fight against the rythem of life, but realy Co-operate, All should be Peachy.
The automobile is an extension of your feet, clothing an extension of your skin, glasses an extension of your eyes, the internet an extension of your nervous system. ~Marshall McLuhan
@HigherPlanes Hi HigherPlanes. That's a very interesting quote there. This has lead me to wonder: how exactly is "clothing an extension of your skin" in that context? The other analogies seem point to significant improvements and technological advances and how that has affected people's way of life. How should clothing be interpreted in that sense? It has been around for a while, now.
@Creation0012 Clothing works in a very similar fashion to the other technological advances but to a much lesser degree. You may ask to a much lesser degree of what? I remember Marshall McLuhan warning folks that when technology changes, man changes. Clothing has definitely changes man, but to a lesser degree than the others. But I'm more interested in how the electronic technology will change man.
@HigherPlanes And us killing innocent children in Iraq is an extension of our ? Individual rights for freedom? Since all that shit is made in china we are all extensions of the Chinese. I know a lot of guys compensate for getting older expected much more from someone on this board your argument is INVALID! Now run along and tell your mother you made a post!
@HigherPlanes And us killing innocent children in Iraq is an extension of our ? Individual rights for freedom? Since all that shit is made in china we are all extensions of the Chinese. I know a lot of guys compensate for getting older. expected much more from someone on this board your argument is INVALID! Now run along and tell your mother you made a post!
Life is still beautiful with technology.. but at the same time technology is destroying the appreciation of that beauty. Hmm .. i still say bring on the technology! Its awesome!!
How does anything of what she said make us cyborgs? Cochlear impants and moveable prostetics and things like that make you a cyborg, not facebook.
Improved communication doesn't make you a cyborg, and cell phones are not worm holes. The stuff still travels in radio waves and wires, not instantaneous transfer.
It seems like her whole point is "I study social networking."
The preponderance of technology is yet another command upon the truly human to adopt rites of passage. In days of old, an adolescent was required to prove his worth to the society by surviving without it. In the same way, we can only come to the table of cyborg humanity if we are capable of bringing some identity that has form in absence of the other voices. The way to do this is to spend time alone, self-constructing, so that when we are with others, they will notice that we are unique.
I cannot believe how many people are dissing this talk. The woman had 8 minutes to introduce a lot of complex ideas, and does a fairly good job of it. If you want deeper, more intellectual and subject-specific talks, consider TED talks an introduction to those ideas ONLY.
This was a good talk. Yes, it mostly confirmed things I have thought/heard of already, but it sets my mind working and introduced a couple of new things, which is more than most things I watch do.
She doesn't have any downtime either. She's seems unable to complete a coherent thought for fear of not starting another one and missing saying something. A constant stream of half finished ideas badly put across with a conclusion that tells us nothing.
I find her conclusions very drastic and kinda flawed in many ways. Will not point out which but I will say that the shape of crystallizeed cyanide may be beautiful but it still kills. Smoking might feel good but it is bad. The online mapping might look beautiful but...
No we are not. Cops are cyborgs. this woman is a cyborg! Real people are not! We can cure you disillusionment with ex lax, because she is as stiff as a teenagers hard on in a pool of naked women or she received a good pounding the night before. That always make you walk funny. Either way good props on giving your first speech even if the concept is very stupid. I still have a hard time believing that walmart shoppers are cyborgs. She must have found a good toy at adult store
Like I don't know all of this already? This sounds like a general but articulate undergrad report.
Endemic to a over-sized university culture who passes through too many bright people who can't find space for their over-educated minds and inflated egos in the working world (aka...the Real World)
An organism to which exogenous components have been ADDED. Not an organism which uses tools. Our technology exists in the form of tools. Very little of it is *added* to the organism. What a load of shit.
Usually women are retarded when it comes to big picture or creative thinking...but this is actually a really nice, fun, informative presentation. So kudos to Ms. Case.
LDP060681 1 month ago
can't remember her name but there was a woman in the early 80s called Shelly something who did all this stuff before Ms. Case....
LDP060681 1 month ago
@LDP060681 Shelly Turkle
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albell616 2 months ago
It seems like having a TED Women is really counter-productive...sure, it effectively determines what gender all of the speakers are going to be, which isn't a big deal, but at the same time it determines that great majority of the audience members that show up to see it...that crowd was at least 90% female, but the subject had to do with all of people, so how does this TED Women title help anybody?
ledhotzepper 3 months ago
we are not all cyborgs, people who wear glasses are not cyborgs.
we are simply using tools. having a pacemaker does not make you a cyborg, it does not replace an organ or part of an organ, it is a redundant node.
if you get an esteem hearing implant or a cochlear implant, you are a cyborg. when you REPLACE part of your body with a machine that interacts with your body via an electronic/mechanical to biological medium.
behavior patterns ans new tools do not qualify as species change.
OSULLIVANBAER 5 months ago
WE ARE BORG. YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE. YOUR BIOLOGICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVENESS WILL BE ADDED TO OUR OWN. YOUR CULTURE WILL ADAPT TO SERVICE US.
YOU WILL DISARM YOUR WEAPONS AND ESCORT US TO SECTOR 001.
youtert 5 months ago
i like her thoery, it has a lot more to do, than just what comes to the eye
Goeeegi 6 months ago
Extension of the physical and mental self defines not only everyone who has ever used a tool, telephone, TV or cell phone but especially meaningful for all ventriloquists of which there are quite a few as of the last count at the ventriloquist's convention in Covington Kentucky in 2011.The puppets and the puppet makes and the ventriloquists reach with their voices into a modeled character extended beyond their physical and mental selves. Amber case' work is fascinating and her truths profound.
russocomedy 7 months ago
I like her. She's funny & clever
dotabayo 8 months ago
In Poland people speak to mobile phones, coz after Italy Poland has so many ears in mobile phones, so our communication is now Cyborg Anthropology.
TheNataliaRR 8 months ago
By that definition, we've been cyborgs since we invented fire.
CubicSymmetry 8 months ago
@CubicSymmetry I know right. This thing was a waste of time. oh well next.
selearemus 5 months ago
What a great video. I fully agree with the concern with younger generations being unable to unplug from connectivity. I've seen way too many brand new college grads lose their jobs because they can't put their iphones up and stop texting and surfing the net on the job.
Pullingmyselfup 10 months ago
she is awesome
1Silvus1 10 months ago
I JUST CANT GET ENOUGH OF WATCHING THIS! i WANT TO BRING HER T A CONFEECNE @usfq
readywarrior89 10 months ago
Its the matrix!
AZLuvV 11 months ago
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@NinjaRunningWild No. Your mom bitches too much about her personal life when she's with a client. It's unprofessional. I'm not interested in hearing about how much of a little faggot her son is and how he was conceived by rape and thinks his dad is somewhere on youtube, unaware of the dangers of crack.
jbohler33 1 year ago
I like this talk.
Not too profound, but sums things up nicely.
reinux 1 year ago 2
loser
jpg131995 1 year ago
Perhaps we should have some kind of right of passage rituals for our graduation into digital adulthood. I wonder what that would look like.
wresing 1 year ago
Yeah! I want my man TED!
ElementzUK 1 year ago
dc from facebook
happysplinters 1 year ago
is it just me, or does she sounds like shes on the verge of tears for pretty much the entire video?
xtreme0ninja 1 year ago
1. Her dad watched Event Horizon, brilliant!
2. That our tools and technologies change us is not new, it is called materialism.
3. Because chimps use tools, they are cyborgs.
4. BEWARE THE CYBORG CHIMPS!
5. She is actually studying social networking, which is a Facebook PhD.
matthewstands 1 year ago 5
@matthewstands You know, somewhere, "Beware the Cyborg Chimps" t-shirts are now being silk screened...
Waltham1892 1 year ago 3
pretty soon you wont need a physical body
TheBlitz1 1 year ago
@TheBlitz1 When Jessica Alba is done with her's, I call dibs...
Waltham1892 1 year ago
This channel is one of the most intellectually stimulating I have ever found
Schwyndfst 1 year ago 12
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Except for the TEDwomen part, it just makes me have even less respect for women in science and tech, it's probably a better idea that it's male dominated in the first place.
AtheistTower 1 year ago
The theory that technology brings us closer together is great, but in reality many people are constantly on their phones and rarely take time to connect face to face.
Agitpropist 1 year ago 7
women shouldnt be allow to speak their mind
Streetdisciple27 1 year ago
girl is crazyy
miraclechipmunk 1 year ago
If the nukes went off tommorow & there was no more electricty, could you survive?
What backup plan do you have to contact important people? Cellphones won't matter if all the satellites are knocked out. Even if you recharged it with a solar panel. Can you live without a fridge or freezer? Do you have a source of fresh water? We have lived on this planet for how long? In only 100 years we have become reliant on other people to provide. What if that system breaks apart? You can eat your money..
dumfree254 1 year ago
Not this bullshit again! Second time in my Que youtube did not like it the first time around. Don't care what kind of pubs she flosses out of her teeth! Happy munchin
Mystery207 1 year ago
"Machines are helping us to become more human... We're increasing our humanness" I like.
ok2pro 1 year ago
@ok2pro Bullshit
Mystery207 1 year ago
@Mystery207 no reason for it being bullshit
ok2pro 1 year ago
@ok2pro Shush! Dude! This is awesome! Ha! Ha! I got the plans! For the secret ingredients for KFC's secret recipe. I know your excited now! Will remarket it together.Will call it iChicken. That's funny! Knew you'd like it. We can commit genocide on chickens with out any feelings! Okay! Don't get to excited I know the greed is too awesome to think about! I wet myself with excitement too!
Mystery207 1 year ago
God this sexism we live with now... it sucks it really does...
jbohler33 1 year ago
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Mystery207 1 year ago
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Mystery207 1 year ago
@Mystery207 I don't know what the fuck you just said but I can tell your a head case.
jbohler33 1 year ago
@jbohler33 You can talk to me when you buy something in a walmart or a target that's not made in china!
Mystery207 1 year ago
@Mystery207 You can talk to me when you go back on your meds.
jbohler33 1 year ago
@jbohler33 Meds? that was low! Well thanks For the comment sheep. Did you make that up on your own? You better go and get yourself some fast food I hear your insulin screaming from hear. Go back to sleep and consume.
Mystery207 1 year ago
@Mystery207 You know how people have told you to lay off the weed and stop jerking off to Zeitgeist? Don't listen to them they're in on the conspiracy. Kill yourself hippie, it's the only way out!
jbohler33 1 year ago
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Mystery207 1 year ago
TED Women sucks balls. How about TED people, or just TED.
wii2050 1 year ago
Nice talk! "I Love Lucy assembly line input!" Love it! I embrace technology but am a "physicalist". God made our eyes, hears, emotions to connect face to face, hug to hug. Ears were made to hear voices and hunting, nothing louder than a brief thunderclap. Skye puts us artificially face to face, but nothing beats real face to face.
I believe the explosion of social networks shows our human yearning to connect, even if it's artificial. Except we are connecting with 237 instead of 1 or 2.
houseguy4 1 year ago
@houseguy4 A physicalist acknowledges that the universe is no more extensive than its physical properties. God doesn't figure.
EclecticSceptic 1 year ago
what a circlejerk
SuonoReale 1 year ago
Why the hell is there a TED Women? THAT'S sexist if you ask me.
jbohler33 1 year ago 74
@jbohler33 I agree.
caseorganic 1 year ago
@jbohler33 Why?
ApatheticPerception 1 year ago
@ApatheticPerception Because there isn't a TED Men.
jbohler33 1 year ago
@jbohler33 Crack is bad for you.
NinjaRunningWild 1 year ago
@NinjaRunningWild That goes with most other drugs too, hippie.
jbohler33 1 year ago
@jbohler33 I'll assume you're speaking from experience and that pejorative applies to yourself.
NinjaRunningWild 1 year ago
@NinjaRunningWild No it applies to you and your Asian prostitute mother who is responsible for your hereditary predisposition to crack, hence your initial comment and user name.
jbohler33 1 year ago
@jbohler33 That's cute. Did your crackhead boyfriend help you out with that one? Or was it a fortune cookie from an Asian prostitute since you seem to know so much about them?
NinjaRunningWild 1 year ago
Yeah, shocker. When the internet/search engine does your thinking for you, you don't do your own thinking. Seriously, newsflash. This was already covered in the Atlantic's "Is Google making us stoopid". And, also quite shocking that *organic* being's usage of technology they created also looks organic. How is any of this new info? Oh, it's not? Ok then...
NinjaRunningWild 1 year ago
@jbohler33 - didn't ask. But since you have... perhaps you should look into what sexism is about and read some feminist theory.
04petesake 5 months ago
@04petesake I'm pretty familiar with the supposed ideals feminism started with, and I am also aware that nowadays, what is criticized in the name of feminism is, for the most part, ridiculous, and at times completely contrary to those ideals. If my assumptions of what TED Women is are accurate, then what I mentioned was a good example of this.
jbohler33 5 months ago
@jbohler33 If women get a TED conference for themselves then surely my idea isn't so preposterous... They need a TED for every fraction of society.... "TED homeless" would be awesome. Maybe then we'd be able to find out which homeless community makes the best bathtub meth. SCORE!! p.s. I'm not saying ALL homeless people do meth.... just most of them.
MisterAaronRodriguez 5 months ago
@MisterAaronRodriguez Nice.
jbohler33 5 months ago
@MisterAaronRodriguez this.
LDP060681 1 month ago
Cyborg Anthropology. I love it. What a great way to invent a job for yourself :-)
RamseyDEN 1 year ago 52
@BlackJack9990 im sure.......but the first part of my statement. even if she DOES mean it in an abstract sense. STILL holds true.
Wyndstarthedruid 1 year ago
she used the word humanists wrong
icetrey32 1 year ago
this chick spent thousands of dollars on college. her dad sent her off with probably his own money. and after 15 some years of research. thinks that cell phones are wormholes. and that making a tool is reason to call them a cyborg......are you serious? lulz. PUT DOWN THE BONG BEIBER.
Wyndstarthedruid 1 year ago
@Wyndstarthedruid whats "bong beiber"?
kyryll 1 year ago
@kyryll she is smoking weed out of a bong. and looks like justin beiber.
Wyndstarthedruid 1 year ago
Speak for yourself, sweetheart (BUT REALLY YOUR HEART IS MADE OF SILICON!).
BadukOD 1 year ago
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BadukOD 1 year ago
No shit. I really did not know
DutchTimmie 1 year ago
I predict mass suicides, this is a grotesque conspiracy that has been perpatrated on humaity and not all are going to be able to adapt, you can't fit a round peg in a square hole. The rise in mental illnesses, anxiety, depression is testament to that, but these degenerates don't seem to care. I guess the empathy has been screened out of them as Neuroscientist Susan Greenfield warned.
cheekydance 1 year ago
Nothing new in this talk..TEDWoman sucks... So far I think there was only 1 good TEDWoman talk.
Vormav666 1 year ago
@Vormav666 wich one?
kyryll 1 year ago
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We become so connected that we "bonded" (not to real people) but to what people want, or expect from us, be it: a comment, a reply, a like, a view or something else.
But those bonds can become shackles that we can't get away from.
All technology has a "off" switch for something, and we better know how to use it so we can find time for ourselves.
leonidasx666 1 year ago
We become so connected that we "bonded" (not to real people) but to what people want, or expect from us, be it: a comment, a reply, a like, a view or something else.
But those bonds can become shackles that we can't get away from.
All technology has a "off" switch for something, and we better know how to use it so we can find time for ourselves.
leonidasx666 1 year ago
space compression?? WTF? you still got thousands of kilometer of cable around the world, otherwise it wouldn't be possible to "be there".. you still got the same distance...
Carrera1123 1 year ago
@Carrera1123 it's not meant to be taken literally
GreyAutumn 1 year ago
i really love the way she look at things ..
thanks for sharing :)
darcysgurl 1 year ago
@hwnzero Ya, you're right, studying the origin and development of human societies is pointless. Who cares where we came from or where we might be headed -- now that's a properly scientific outlook! /end sarcasm.
victor1eremita 1 year ago
Her fear is that the compression of time and space through technological prosthetics is robbing us of mental reflection. What concern is reflection when the meaningful content to be reflected on has long since been expunged. We are unconscious engineers working towards a technological reality that supercedes us, much like a protein cell nonconsciously repairing the tissue of an organ. There never was 'the human' or 'humanity' as such.
victor1eremita 1 year ago
Internet doesnt help us be more human..
what is being human?
is that doing nothing and checking facebook?
or is it working with nature and burn muscle's to get something done?
ninjapiratelover 1 year ago
@ninjapiratelover Presumably she means to take the human being as an essentially social being. But Its absurd to maintain that the content of that social interaction is unimportant, and all that matters is the form itself (content can be reduced to a bare minimum of twaddle to be consumed, like facebook or "LOL's" via texts, as long as were still affecting one another through 'communication'). and you are absolutely right: humanity should also be an ACTIVE being, not a sedentary hunk of meat.
victor1eremita 1 year ago
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victor1eremita 1 year ago
No communication of meaning, just the functional manipulation of information. It was a mistake to ever think man was the factor and not instead the factum.
victor1eremita 1 year ago
This is supposed to be science?
boxa78 1 year ago
Thanks for telling us all about our day to day life. GoodBye!
Mustang760 1 year ago
A brilliant talk and interesting talk. I've been thinking about this sort of "human networking" for some time now, and it's good to see that someone else has discovered the same phenomenon. Not to mention that she's absolutely adorable ^^
khatack 1 year ago
What a complete waste of time. Why did they give her the talking time just to talk about her very skewed opinions. She needs to rethink everything she's talking about because a lot of what she is saying is false and based solely on her opinions.
jiberish001 1 year ago
@jiberish001
Care to elaborate?
khatack 1 year ago
@jiberish001 why on earth are you so negative? these aren't "opinions", they're different ways of conceptualising things. it's not the best TED talk I've ever had, but -- I have to ask, what is it, exactly, that you disagree or take issue with in this video?
jemgrrargh 1 year ago
@jiberish001 cool "opinions". Only, the difference is hers are justified, yours are not. Maybe you can muster the intellect to tell us *why* they are 'skewed', 'false', etc?
victor1eremita 1 year ago
The hell is this crap, all this transhumanist BS is really starting to piss me off.
gosciu555 1 year ago
@gosciu555
Well, If you go outside and shoot yourself in the head, you won't be pissed anymore. Problem solved. This way we also avoid reading your idiotic comments, so it's clearly a win-win solution.
khatack 1 year ago
@khatack
Yeah genius, its not so "idiotic" when you get an idea of whats going on. Transhumanism comes from the same people as eugenics.
gosciu555 1 year ago
@gosciu555
Are you kidding me? If you seriously can't see the difference between eugenics and people who are just observing an ongoing phenomenon, then there is a third win in the solution I previously offered to you.
Next time you listen to a speech, try to understand what the speaker is trying to tell rather than bashing it over a few words you don't like and have taken out of context.
khatack 1 year ago
Interesting talk. It made me think of an animation called Serial experiments Lain which was very much inspired by this subject. Very thought provoking stuff... It might not be for everyone though, judging from some comments.
Verokomo 1 year ago
I'm ready for full conversion. Get my brain out of this meatbag!
sciencedoggy 1 year ago
lol.. some of u are ignoring the main points she said. She is most definitely not hating on technology... Shes trying to convey that technology is helping us evolve and grow in a positive way as a Species. The same way anything else would try to grow and better its self in nature. So now, how can we evolve the fastest most efficient way using technology? "Why cant humans zoom" =PPP
mrandersonniga 1 year ago
We are now a self evolving system. For quite a while .
LordOfTheObvious 1 year ago
trival
luszczi 1 year ago
@luszczi your comment? indeed.
victor1eremita 1 year ago
@victor1eremita
If you learned anything new, you didn't know much.
luszczi 1 year ago
Cisco, thanks for sponsoring TED.
Do you only have one ad?
kinsmed 1 year ago
In other words, we need to stop seeing 'technology' or 'modernity' as evils, and see them as rich sources of value we would not want to abandon, even if it were possible. What's in the way is the common assumption that binaries such as technology and nature, modernity and.. 'authenticity' I guess, cannot co-exist, when actually they clearly can.
Harrycurtin 1 year ago
@Harrycurtin "In other words, we need to stop seeing 'technology' or 'modernity' as evils, and see them as rich sources of value we would not want to abandon" - You said an awful lot of nothing in that sentence. I don't know a single person that would say technology is an evil, or even vexed to any level. I know arguments from popularity are quite poor but take a look around you. The whole world lives and breathes the stuff, we can't get enough of this shit....
TheSpankymonkey 1 year ago
@TheSpankymonkey Heroin addicts "can't get enough of their shit". Is that an argument in favor of using heroin?
victor1eremita 1 year ago
@victor1eremita - You thought you was really clever then didn't you. Did you sit there with a hardon whilst typing it. 1st, my comment was a reply to someone who claimed we should stop seeing technology as evils, which was something of a misnomer. 2nd my point was that people are not sitting there saying technology is evil. 3rd, I might concede that some people do, perhaps you... but then they would be absolute hypocrits, enjoying a life that would not be possible without such tech advancements.
TheSpankymonkey 1 year ago
@victor1eremita And finally, for the retarded amongst us..... you then go and make some absurd little jump from the argument that technology is not evil........... and then infer it as some kind of argument for the use of heroin. Please. Do stop, if you kept your mouth shut then i wouldn't of had to know how stupid you really are.
TheSpankymonkey 1 year ago
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drorjs 1 year ago
a little too far fetched. our "second self" on the net is not that developed yet. facebook is still very superficial.
drorjs 1 year ago
amazingly insightful
THINKER43 1 year ago
Uggghhh... the originator of this thread of theory already gave this up, why are they still pushing this? Fucking cyberpunks.
rajasmasala 1 year ago
@MRaverz and she "studied" this and probably makes a living out of it !!
yourtube20061 1 year ago
@MRaverz Step three: Add "cyborgy" to the English language.
Step four: Make it happen.
NsaneNtheNbrane 1 year ago
What bollocks. I want my 8 minutes and 24 seconds of life back.
joelwrussell 1 year ago
Technology should work For, instead of against us. Its not realy doing that now is it.
If we were to Somehow Integrate it with a form of Spirituality if you will., were we no longer fight against the rythem of life, but realy Co-operate, All should be Peachy.
lucius215 1 year ago
@MRaverz Hahaha! You made my day.
TheDanielWooi 1 year ago
...... I like her.
missprisss 1 year ago
The automobile is an extension of your feet, clothing an extension of your skin, glasses an extension of your eyes, the internet an extension of your nervous system. ~Marshall McLuhan
HigherPlanes 1 year ago 3
@HigherPlanes Hi HigherPlanes. That's a very interesting quote there. This has lead me to wonder: how exactly is "clothing an extension of your skin" in that context? The other analogies seem point to significant improvements and technological advances and how that has affected people's way of life. How should clothing be interpreted in that sense? It has been around for a while, now.
Creation0012 1 year ago
@Creation0012 Clothing works in a very similar fashion to the other technological advances but to a much lesser degree. You may ask to a much lesser degree of what? I remember Marshall McLuhan warning folks that when technology changes, man changes. Clothing has definitely changes man, but to a lesser degree than the others. But I'm more interested in how the electronic technology will change man.
HigherPlanes 1 year ago
@HigherPlanes And us killing innocent children in Iraq is an extension of our ? Individual rights for freedom? Since all that shit is made in china we are all extensions of the Chinese. I know a lot of guys compensate for getting older expected much more from someone on this board your argument is INVALID! Now run along and tell your mother you made a post!
Mystery207 1 year ago
@Mystery207 what jbohler33 said.
HigherPlanes 1 year ago
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@HigherPlanes And us killing innocent children in Iraq is an extension of our ? Individual rights for freedom? Since all that shit is made in china we are all extensions of the Chinese. I know a lot of guys compensate for getting older. expected much more from someone on this board your argument is INVALID! Now run along and tell your mother you made a post!
Mystery207 1 year ago
homo-interneticus!!!
digital revolution-bbc
frvfilms 1 year ago
yes it just a tool , just like other tools that have help us evolve!!!
frvfilms 1 year ago
Life is still beautiful with technology.. but at the same time technology is destroying the appreciation of that beauty. Hmm .. i still say bring on the technology! Its awesome!!
joshthemfhero 1 year ago
this is a lovely argument for meditation. and I love the idea that high-tech communication is a wormhole :-)
mimzywhimzy 1 year ago 4
ted women fail.
azndude108 1 year ago
@azndude108 wow.
smokehankwolfsanta97 1 year ago
@azndude108 Most but not all. But I agree...most of them do.
Rombizio 1 year ago
@azndude108 "ted women fail."
Please change your username then, you're giving 62% of the world a bad name!
:)
Creation0012 1 year ago
Stumbling upon a video where the person in it actually has public speaking skills makes my day.
silntdoogood 1 year ago 2
How does anything of what she said make us cyborgs? Cochlear impants and moveable prostetics and things like that make you a cyborg, not facebook.
Improved communication doesn't make you a cyborg, and cell phones are not worm holes. The stuff still travels in radio waves and wires, not instantaneous transfer.
It seems like her whole point is "I study social networking."
KemaTheAtheist 1 year ago
i enjoyed this...?
i think the cyborg was more or less so when youre sitting on youtube you go
"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA?!?!"
watch the video and then when youre done watching maybe learn somthing
and it worked for me
joelchils 1 year ago
i like her talk though :)
poob4633 1 year ago
silly girl. we will adapt. we always do. I did like the talk though.
azumaninjay 1 year ago
two minutes in, i'm impressed. this is a GREAT talk!!!
Ramsez 1 year ago
No one spends time to reflect anymore? I do it all the time.
MDude1350 1 year ago 41
@MDude1350 Well aren't you special
charmander4533 1 year ago 12
@MDude1350 mirrors do it all the time... :(
postal2600 1 year ago
@MDude1350 do you? OR do u think u do?
blue12384 1 year ago
@MDude1350 I'm sure she doesn't mean those moments where you catch yourself staring blankly at your blackberry waiting for new tweets.
victor1eremita 1 year ago
@MDude1350 Aye. Do you then feel compelled to share your reflections, as you have done here? Just a question worth asking, not an accusation.
LotsOMovies 1 year ago
@MDude1350 You should be GDude, cuz nigga u gay.
Nogard229 1 year ago
@MDude1350 i'm constantly reflecting.... light
sanewave 1 year ago
Am I the only one who noticed this lady talks and moves like a cyborg? She reminds me of a female version of Lieutenant Commander Data.
slinkycat321 1 year ago
@slinkycat321 LOL!
Creation0012 1 year ago
The preponderance of technology is yet another command upon the truly human to adopt rites of passage. In days of old, an adolescent was required to prove his worth to the society by surviving without it. In the same way, we can only come to the table of cyborg humanity if we are capable of bringing some identity that has form in absence of the other voices. The way to do this is to spend time alone, self-constructing, so that when we are with others, they will notice that we are unique.
gamp0001 1 year ago
very cool woman. loved the speech. :)
dootzky 1 year ago 4
great quote: "the most successful technology gets out of the way and helps us live our lives..."
KyleJosephSanders 1 year ago 4
The Internet is the brain of the earth; our computers are it's neurons; We are the neurotransmitters...
enotdetcelfer 1 year ago 4
I cannot believe how many people are dissing this talk. The woman had 8 minutes to introduce a lot of complex ideas, and does a fairly good job of it. If you want deeper, more intellectual and subject-specific talks, consider TED talks an introduction to those ideas ONLY.
This was a good talk. Yes, it mostly confirmed things I have thought/heard of already, but it sets my mind working and introduced a couple of new things, which is more than most things I watch do.
AtheistdotEDU 1 year ago 3
She doesn't have any downtime either. She's seems unable to complete a coherent thought for fear of not starting another one and missing saying something. A constant stream of half finished ideas badly put across with a conclusion that tells us nothing.
purgruv 1 year ago 3
I find her conclusions very drastic and kinda flawed in many ways. Will not point out which but I will say that the shape of crystallizeed cyanide may be beautiful but it still kills. Smoking might feel good but it is bad. The online mapping might look beautiful but...
vincentizghra 1 year ago
@vincentizghra Please, be more specific. :(
LostRituals 1 year ago
@LostRituals I'm very specific.
vincentizghra 1 year ago
@MRaverz Yes agree very bad analogy
Mystery207 1 year ago
"We are the Borg" I never knew "we" meant human. Well there is a twist to the whole Star Trek plot.
coollikeyodais 1 year ago
No we are not. Cops are cyborgs. this woman is a cyborg! Real people are not! We can cure you disillusionment with ex lax, because she is as stiff as a teenagers hard on in a pool of naked women or she received a good pounding the night before. That always make you walk funny. Either way good props on giving your first speech even if the concept is very stupid. I still have a hard time believing that walmart shoppers are cyborgs. She must have found a good toy at adult store
Mystery207 1 year ago
Like I don't know all of this already? This sounds like a general but articulate undergrad report.
Endemic to a over-sized university culture who passes through too many bright people who can't find space for their over-educated minds and inflated egos in the working world (aka...the Real World)
ealts 1 year ago
Until I'm Robocop, I can run with wicked ass super mechanical legs (not robocop) or I'm not a cyborg.
Fuck off wench.
Cheebzsta 1 year ago
An organism to which exogenous components have been ADDED. Not an organism which uses tools. Our technology exists in the form of tools. Very little of it is *added* to the organism. What a load of shit.
un2mensch 1 year ago