Scientists argued for 150 years that politicians needed to stop population growth, but it weren’t new laws that stopped its acceleration. No, it happened as the pill became widely available.
When we have a social agenda we still behave like those old scientists — we
agitate instead of innovate. So let’s rethink devoting resources to the zero-sum game of politics and instead focus on enabling technologies that change society!
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29 comments
I had to stop and check the date of this…
9 years ago? Damn!
Haven't seen the sea countries yet, but he was on the money otherwise.
Then you are preparing for an upcoming exam.
When your school recommended this video in the syllabus
HELLO MGA KA-STS HAHAHAHAHA
Great TEDx talk
Great TEDx talk is my opinien
speech audio is annoying
👌😁
Days when 1 bitcoin was equal to $11.
1 Bitcoin = 11 dollars…
Meanwhile, everyone who doesn't like the title and subject of this presentation uses their smartphone or computer to comment against it.
its the best ted talks of all time, front of his time, thank u Lasse and congratulations !!! salute from Brazil
This is a false choice/comparison. Not everything that glitters is gold. Don't get blinded by the glitter. You said in the comments, "But this shouldn't turn into a political discussion.". Well sorry, YOU did that when you put it in your title. Ted Talks, are by nature TALKS. And, talks are more political than technological. You can't remove the political nature of this talk. Just because you're smitten by technology, doesn't mean that it should rule your life. We have Guided Missiles, but misguided men.
revolution is you!
We live in a competitive system because it, very fittingly, drove other system types out of existence. It doesn't mean that it's the system people are happiest in. However, since we all live under it, we are also shaped by it, so we tend to favor it. If I could start a country (which people like me can't, because we don't have anything), people would just be given whatever they needed to live comfortable in a sustainable system, and they could do and build whatever they wanted. Of course, the most competitive country with the most insane working culture would eventually dominate, and my country would be picked apart and sold as scraps. That's just how the world works, sadly. People like this guy likes to glorify the competitive system and ascribe everything good to it, such as technology. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that we have had the technology and ressources to change the world for DECADES, and all we need is a little less selfishness and a little more empathy. I have some ideas for consumer oriented apps and services that could make it practical, but it's hard to find a marked it and I can't profit from them because, you know… I'm a commie ;(
we can print plastic things but he is crazy we cannot print meat or food stuff i don't know where in the world he got this idea it not possible no more than i can transport my self to mars idiot
liars and frauds one and all and they have done nothing of any value war mongers and political whores. And to Thomas ackerman it was Government that prevented Thorium reactors and gave us plutonium breeder reactors and all the mess you just mentioned. This man is somewhat right Government creates nothing but wars and lies
Horse-Shit all of it. Technology has brought us Nuclear Fission ( Fat Man, little Boy, Chernobyl, Fukushima). Why not clean up the mess your Heroes gave us before extolling its virtues. Steve "Chinese" Jobs pioneered the destruction of domestic production by outsourcing it to Slave Labor in China, India and Bangladesh.
Idiot – Subversive Sycophant for the Cartel of our destruction. Who gives a shit about money or Bitcoin when you ignore the environment that sustain us.
Take your sigmatism back to the heartless world you glorify.
So basically, anyone can do a Ted Talk now a days?
1 Bitcoin = 11 dollars 🙂
…in october 2012
Today (october 2013) 1 bitcoin is worth 137 dollars,
in year 2014 = 500 dollars?
in 3-5 years 5000-10000 dollars?
Dennisnritchie
Wow. Awesome speech.
Great TEDx talk. Seasteading and Bitcoins… I love it.
Bitcoin is trading at $30 today. I am drinking Lasse's Kool-Aid
The beauty of this guy's speech is that it is one of the best cases for limited government I've heard in the intellectual community: Limited governments are not capable of doling out favors, because their power does not extend far enough into the private sector of an economy. In such an environment, lobbying firms shrink because there is less money to be gotten through talking to or swaying politicians, leaving far more resources devoted to actual production.
Stop lobbyists; limit government.
i wish smart russians were not all stereotyped as pro communists…..the fake meats a good idea….free the cows…(but feed more of the human ones organic food or lab grown cow meat)
seasteading….
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I see you've given up on using arguments and now just claim stuff without backing it up.
I realize praising "black markets" is very controversial to most and the case for it will therefore take time for people to accept. Nonetheless, looking at history, it's pretty clear that often the solution to certain problems isn't the one most people are expecting. And luckily, these markets will continue to grow and feed people even if most first world citizens argue against it.
Thanks for commenting.