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I was here four years ago,
and I remember, at the time,
that the talks weren't put online.
I think they were given to TEDsters in a box,
a box set of DVDs,
which they put on their shelves, where they
Over a million people are killed each year in disasters.
Two and a half million people will be permanently disabled or displaced,
and the communities will take 20 to 30 years to recover
and billions o
I'd like to introduce you to my mom.
(Laughter)
I'm guessing that's not what you expected,
and it's not what I expected either,
and thank goodness I realized that an Asian man was not my mom
before I
Someday, we may have robots as smart as people,
artificial intelligence, AI.
How could that happen?
One route is that we'll just keep accumulating better software,
like we've been doing for 70 years.
I will never forget the first time I visited a client in jail.
The heavy, metal door slammed behind me,
and I heard the key turn in the lock.
The cement floor underneath me had a sticky film on it
tha
The 2020s were a crux in human history.
They began with the first pandemic,
a slap to the face of everyone,
as they had to acknowledge that they were a single civilization
on a single biosphere,
utter
twelve years ago I found a Zipcar Zipcar
buys cars and parks them throughout
dense metropolitan areas for people to
use by the hour and by the day instead
of owning their own cars each zip car
replace
Imagine something small enough to float on a particle of dust
that holds the keys to understanding cancer, virology, and genetics.
Luckily for us,
such a thing exists in the form of trillions upon tr
The secrets of the X chromosome.
These women are identical twins.
They have the same nose,
the same hair color,
the same eye color.
But this one is color blind for green light,
and this one isn't.
How
In 19 B.C., the Roman poet Virgil was traveling from Greece to Rome
with the emperor Augustus.
On the way, he stopped to go sightseeing in Megara, a town in Greece.
Out in the sun for too long, he suf