av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 11, 2026 | Bluesky, Mastodon, TED, Threads, Twitter
You’ve heard that too much time online is bad for your mental health, but what is it doing to your body? In this energizing talk, journalist and author Manoush Zomorodi explains how tech habits (including sitting all day) affect your physical health, from making you feel exhausted to raising rates of chronic illness.
With early results from a 20,000-person experiment, she shares a practical solution to go from ”wired and tired” to feeling healthier and more productive.
av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 2, 2026 | Bluesky, Mastodon, TED, Threads
Algorithms and AI don’t just show us reality — they warp it in ways that benefit platforms built to exploit people for profit, says etymologist Adam Aleksic. From ChatGPT influencing our word choices to Spotify turning a data cluster into a new musical genre, he reveals how new technology subconsciously shapes our language, trends and sense of identity. ”These aren’t neutral tools,” he says, encouraging us to constantly ask ourselves: How am I being influenced?
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 24, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, TED, Threads, Twitter
With a billion mobile phone users and a median population age of 19, Africa isn’t catching up to the AI revolution — it’s writing an entirely different playbook, says business leader Hardy Pemhiwa.
He shows how a generation of entrepreneurs is using AI to teach classes, triage patients and boost farm yields through the power of local compute, local data and local languages.
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 17, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, TED, Threads
We are living through what may be the largest economic bubble in history, spanning AI, cryptocurrency and tech company stocks, says financial analyst Henrik Zeberg.
He explores why the current AI-crypto bubble mirrors the great economic frenzies of the past, revealing the psychological forces behind them — and why it looks like we’re repeating the same patterns again.
av Mikael Winterkvist | nov 21, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, TED, Threads
Two current US governors — Democrat Matt Meyer of Delaware and Republican J. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma — trade notes on how to rebuild trust without partisan theater. In this special segment of ”On the Spot” (TED’s rapid-fire Q&A format), they share thoughts on leading when people live in different realities, swapping outrage for outcomes and why we need to govern like neighbors, not enemies.
av Mikael Winterkvist | nov 12, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, TED, Threads
Artificiell intelligens förändrar allt – men till vilket pris? AI-experten Sasha Luccioni, som forskar om hållbarhet inom teknik, visar hur stora teknikföretags enorma datacenter förbrukar enorma mängder energi och skadar planeten. Hon presenterar ett starkt alternativ: små men kraftfulla AI-modeller som kan vända utvecklingen och göra tekniken smartare, rättvisare och mer hållbar.
Artificial intelligence is changing everything — but at what cost? AI sustainability expert Sasha Luccioni exposes how tech companies’ massive data centers are burning through energy and wrecking the planet. She introduces a powerful alternative: small but mighty AI models that could flip the script and make the technology smarter, fairer and sustainable.
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