分类目录归档：social
I want to tell you three stories
about the power of relationships
to solve the deep and complex social problems of this century.
You know, sometimes it seems like all these problems
of poverty, inequa
I once said,
"If you want to liberate a society,
all you need is the Internet."
I was wrong.
I said those words back in 2011,
when a Facebook page I anonymously created
helped spark the Egyptian revol
When I moved to Harare in 1985,
social justice was at the core of Zimbabwe's national health policy.
The new government emerged from a long war of independence
and immediately proclaimed a socialist a
I'm here to offer you a new way to think about my field,
artificial intelligence.
I think the purpose of AI
is to empower humans with machine intelligence.
And as machines get smarter,
we get smarter.
Here's an intriguing fact.
In the developed world,
everywhere, women live an average of six to eight years longer than men do.
Six to eight years longer.
That's, like, a huge gap.
In 2015, the "Lancet
Who here is fascinated by life under the sea?
Fantastic.
Now, what did we just do?
Let's dissect this for a second.
The simple action of an individual raising a hand
led many others to do the same.
No
What is history?
It is something written by the winners.
There is a stereotype that history should be focused on the rulers,
like Lenin or Trotsky.
As a result, people in many countries, like mine, Ru
So, I want to talk to you about the forgotten middle.
To me, they are the students, coworkers and plain old regular folks
who are often overlooked
because they're seen as neither exceptional nor probl
I was talking to a guy at a party in California
about tech platforms
and the problems they're creating in society.
And he said, "Man, if the CEOs just did more drugs
and went to Burning Man,
we wouldn
For the past 15 years I've been trying to change your mind.
In my work I harness pop culture and emerging technology
to shift cultural norms.
I've made video games to promote human rights,
I've made a