av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 26, 2022 | TED
An unnoticed industry worth two trillion dollars a year is influencing almost every carbon emission. Sustainability solution seeker Solitaire Townsend calls this sector the ”X industry” (where ”X” stands for influence), and it includes professional services like advertising and PR firms, management consultancies, corporate law firms, lobbyists and more.
In this eye-opening talk, she exposes the industry’s massive but largely invisible influence on the environment — and proposes ways they can use their creativity, inventiveness and knowledge to fix climate change instead of contributing to it.
av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 14, 2022 | TED
A self-declared ”repair geek,” Gay Gordon-Byrne is a driving force behind the right-to-repair movement, which aims to empower people to fix their stuff. She describes how the movement is gaining legislative momentum and breaks down how the global shift away from ”throwaway society” can literally turn trash into treasure in a circular economy — so we can all experience that ”Yes! I fixed it!” feeling.
av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 28, 2022 | TED
Author Jennifer 8. Lee explains how the chopstick spread from the East to the West — and was designed to give you the perfect bite.
av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 26, 2022 | TED
Without the internet, how would you have coped with the pandemic — from work and school, to maintaining your closest relationships? In the digital age, reliance on the internet is so common and seems ubiquitous, yet billions of people worldwide still go without it.
Digital transformation strategist Priscilla Chomba-Kinywa advocates for collective access to the opportunities and potential the internet provides, underscoring the necessity of free and fair digital rights for all.
av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 20, 2022 | TED
There’s a mistaken belief in today’s working world that leaders need to be serious all the time to be taken seriously. The research tells a different story. Based on the course they teach at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, behavioral scientist Jennifer Aaker and corporate strategist Naomi Bagdonas delve into the surprising power of humor: why it’s a secret weapon to build bonds, power, creativity and resilience — and how we can all have more of it.
av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 6, 2022 | TED
Artificial intelligence is getting smarter by leaps and bounds — within this century, research suggests, a computer AI could be as ”smart” as a human being.
And then, says Nick Bostrom, it will overtake us: ”Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.” A philosopher and technologist, Bostrom asks us to think hard about the world we’re building right now, driven by thinking machines. Will our smart machines help to preserve humanity and our values — or will they have values of their own?
