分类目录归档：future
Preparing for this talk has been scarier for me
than preparing for LSD therapy.
(Laughter)
"Psychedelics are to the study of the mind
what the microscope is to biology
and the telescope is to astronom
On Tuesday, January 16, 1996,
I walked into the office of the president
as head of state of the Republic of Sierra Leone.
I had not been elected.
Four years earlier,
I was one of 30 heavily armed mili
I'm going to tell you a story.
I'm going to tell you a story
about how the deadliest consumer product imaginable
came to be.
It's the cigarette.
The cigarette is the only consumer product
that, when u
Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Joanna Pietrulewicz
So if you live on planet Earth
and you're one of seven billion people that eats food every day,
I need you to pay attention,
because over the next
Every science fiction writer
has a story about a time when the future arrived too soon.
I have a lot of those stories.
Like, OK, for example:
years ago, I was writing a story where the government
star
Corey Hajim: Today, our guest is Dan Schulman, CEO of PayPal.
When most of us think of PayPal, we think of buying something online
or paying a friend back for a drink using Venmo.
But PayPal has also
When you imagine the architectural wonders of the world,
what do you see?
The greatness of the Pyramids of Giza
or maybe the amazing aqueducts of Ancient Rome?
Both of these are amazing feats of human
Transcriber: TED Translators Admin Reviewer: Rhonda Jacobs
It's time for humankind to recognize a disturbing truth:
we have colonized the future.
In wealthy countries, especially,
we treat it like a d
Transcriber: Leslie Gauthier Reviewer: Joanna Pietrulewicz
In this research lab,
I discovered a story that is swiftly changing our world.
A story that has the power to change the way we produce materi
Transcriber:
I work in aviation, but the truth is I don't much like flying.
Current commercial flights are inconvenient,
noisy, expensive and use ancient plane designs
that have hardly changed from t