Why haven't machines taken all our jobs yet?

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This week on TED.com December 26, 2016

Talk of the week David Autor: Why are there still so many jobs? 18:37 minutes · Filmed Sep 2016 · Posted Dec 2016 · TEDxCambridge Here's a paradox you don't hear about: Though machines and computers are constantly being created to do human jobs, the proportion of adults in the US with a job has consistently gone up for the past 125 years. Which begs the question: Why hasn't human labor become redundant and our skills obsolete? In this talk about the future of work, economist David Autor takes on the question of why there are still so many jobs -- and comes up with a surprising, hopeful answer. Watch now »

Playlist of the week Best science and tech of 2016 Get ready to have your mind blown ... Watch » 13 TED Talks • Total run time 2:43:38

This week's new TED Talks With words like shards of glass, Chinaka Hodge cuts open 2016 and lets 12 months of violence, grief, fear, shame, courage and hope spill out in this original poem about a year none of us will soon forget. Watch » Every minute, 400 pounds of hydrogen and almost 7 pounds of helium escape from Earth's atmosphere into outer space. Astrophysicist Anjali Tripathi studies the phenomenon of atmospheric escape, and in this fascinating and accessible talk, she considers how this process might one day (a few billion years from now) turn our blue planet red. Watch » At a moment when the world seems to be spinning out of control, religion might feel irrelevant -- or like part of the problem. But Rabbi Sharon Brous believes we can reinvent religion to meet the needs of modern life. In this impassioned talk, Brous shares four principles of a revitalized religious practice and offers faith of all kinds as a hopeful counter-narrative to the numbing realities of violence, extremism and pessimism. Watch » James Beacham looks for answers to the most important open questions of physics using the biggest science experiment ever mounted, CERN's Large Hadron Collider. In this fun and accessible talk about how science happens, Beacham takes us on a journey through extra-spatial dimensions in search of undiscovered fundamental particles (and an explanation for the mysteries of gravity) and details the drive to keep exploring. Watch »

Read more on ideas.ted.com Get ready for 2017: The ideas we'll be talking about in the upcoming year » TED's curators share the trends and projects they're watching Maps: These 7 new maps offer a fresh perspective on our world » And a new way of seeing ourselves ...  Culture: The 4 secrets to a really restorative holiday break » Research-backed advice on how to get the most from your time off

Quote of the Week “ It's foolish to say there's nothing to worry about. Clearly we can get this wrong. But it's equally foolish to say that our fates are sealed. That's not decided by the machines. It's not even decided by the market. It's decided by us." David Autor Why are there still so many jobs?

Curator's picks: The Must-watch TED Talks for 2016 We asked TED's head curator, Chris Anderson, to choose the 10 must-watch talks from this year -- the unmissable moments, from science to self, with the inspiration you need to close this year and look boldly ahead.  To watch all 10 of the full talks, just cue up this playlist: go.ted.com/2016 Watch on iTunes Listen to audio on iTunes Or watch this 3-minute supercut:

 

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How to gain control of your free time

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This week on TED.com December 17, 2016

Talk of the week Laura Vanderkam: How to gain control of your free time 11:54 minutes · Filmed Oct 2016 · Posted Dec 2016 · TEDWomen 2016 There are 168 hours in each week. How do we find time for what matters most? Time management expert Laura Vanderkam studies how busy people spend their lives, and she's discovered that many of us drastically overestimate our commitments each week, while underestimating the time we have to ourselves. She offers a few practical strategies to help find more time for what matters to us, so we can "build the lives we want in the time we've got." Watch now »

Quote of the Week “ "The most popular product 20 years from now, that everyone uses, has not been invented yet. That means that you're not late." Kevin Kelly How AI could bring on a second Industrial Revolution

This week's new TED Talks "The actual path of a raindrop as it goes down the valley is unpredictable, but the general direction is inevitable," says digital visionary Kevin Kelly -- and technology is much the same. Kelly explores three trends in tech we need to understand right now. Watch » In this well-told tale of how science happens, neuroscientist Rebecca Brachman shares news of a breakthrough treatment that may prevent disorders like depression and PTSD from ever developing. But listen for an unexpected -- and controversial -- twist. Watch » As a black woman from a tough part of the Bronx who grew up to attain all the markers of academic prestige, Dena Simmons knows that for students of color, success in school sometimes comes at the cost of living authentically. Now an educator herself, Simmons discusses how we might create a classroom that makes all students feel proud of who they are. Watch » Science is a learning process that involves experimentation, failure and revision -- and the science of medicine is no exception. Cancer researcher Kevin B. Jones faces the deep unknowns about surgery and medical care with a simple answer: honesty. In a thoughtful talk about the nature of knowledge, Jones shows how science is at its best when scientists humbly admit what they do not yet understand. Watch »

Read more on ideas.ted.com Media: Four tricky ways fake news can fool you >> A neuroscientist shows you how it works Culture: How a small museum celebrates one neighborhood >> What amazements hide in your neighborhood? Reading list: 70 books to make you feel hopeful >> TED speakers share the books that inspire and move them

reconciliation In a world that seems more divided than ever, how do we begin to find middle ground? This episode, TED speakers on how to look past anger, fear, and even violence to reconcile our differences. Get TED Radio Hour on iTunes »

Playlist of the week Most popular talks of 2016 Which TED Talks did you watch and share most in 2016? These talks about being a better listener, parent, person ... and spam email recipient. Watch » 10 TED Talks • Total run time 2:12:15

 

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What I learned from 100 days of rejection

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This week on TED.com December 10, 2016

Talk of the week Jia Jiang: What I learned from 100 days of rejection 15:31 minutes · Filmed May 2015 · Posted Dec 2016 · TEDxMtHood Jia Jiang goes boldly toward something many of us fear: rejection. By seeking out rejection for 100 days -- from asking a stranger for a $100 loan, to requesting a "burger refill" at a fast food place -- Jiang desensitized himself to the pain and shame that rejection can bring and, in the process, discovered something powerful: Simply asking for what you want can open up new possibilities. Watch now »

Playlist of the week What 2016 taught us about ourselves A year in reflection: What we learned about our personalities, health, hopes and world as we know it. Watch » 13 TED Talks • Total run time 2:54:56

This week's new TED Talks Our lives depend on a world we can't see: the satellites we use every day for communication, entertainment, navigation and so much more. But when satellites get old, break down, or run out of fuel, they turn into "space junk," drifting listlessly around the planet, endangering other spacecraft. Natalie Panek explains how our satellite ecosystem works -- and offers an idea of what we should do with our space junk. Watch » Love is a tool for revolutionary change for married activists Tiq and Kim Katrin Milan. They've imagined their marriage -- as a transgender man and cis woman -- a model of possibility and inclusivity for people of every kind. With infectious joy, Tiq and Kim question our assumptions about who they might be and offer a vision of an inclusive, challenging love that grows day by day. Watch » In a lyrical, unexpectedly funny talk, Elizabeth Lesser shares how she learned to put aside her pride and defensiveness to rebuild her relationship with her sister. "You don't have to wait for a life-or-death situation to clean up the relationships that matter to you," she says. "Be like a new kind of first responder ... the one to take the first courageous step toward the other." Watch » How do we define a parent -- or a family? Bioethicist Veerle Provoost explores these questions in the context of non-traditional families, specifically those brought together by sperm donations. Using stories from her research, she shows how parents and children create their own narratives and traditions, where everyone has a spot on the family tree. Watch »

Read more on ideas.ted.com Science: Deep in an ancient cave, an unexpected form of life Cave explorer Francisco Sauro shares an expedition into the unknown Health: What can we learn from Ebola about handling the next outbreak? 2017 TED Prize winner Raj Panjabi shares four things he learned Learning: What's required reading around the world? Teachers share the books that students are reading in their classrooms

Quote of the Week “ To me, education is what people do to you, and learning is what you do to yourself. [School] feels like they're trying to make you memorize the whole encyclopedia before they let you go out and play ... like they assume you're going to be on top of some mountain all by yourself with a number 2 pencil trying to figure out what to do, when in fact you're always going to be connected, you're always going to have friends, and you can pull Wikipedia up whenever you need it, and what you need to learn is how to learn." Joi Ito Want to innovate? Become a "now-ist"

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Maps that show us who we are (not just where we are)

Earth as it truly is ... Open in your browser

This week on TED.com December 3, 2016

Talk of the week Danny Dorling: Maps that show us who we are (not just where we are) 14:07 minutes · Filmed Apr 2016 · Posted Nov 2016 · TEDxExeter Danny Dorling invites us to see the world anew, with his captivating and insightful maps that use data in new ways, to show Earth as it truly is -- a connected, ever-changing and fascinating place in which we all belong. You'll never look at a map the same way again. Watch now »

Playlist of the week Adventures in mapping Maps don’t just tell you which street to turn left on. Maps convey information that shapes our lives -- and whisk our imaginations to new lands. Watch » 12 TED Talks • Total run time 2:28:47

This week's new TED Talks Born out of a social media post, the Black Lives Matter movement has sparked discussion about race and inequality across the world. In this spirited conversation with Mia Birdsong, the movement's three founders share what they've learned about leadership and what provides them with hope and inspiration in the face of painful realities. Their advice: Join something, start something and "sharpen each other, so that we all can rise." Watch » Joe Lassiter is a deep thinker and straight talker focused on developing clean, secure and carbon-neutral supplies of reliable, low-cost energy. His analysis of the world's energy realities puts a powerful lens on the stubbornly touchy issue of nuclear power, including new designs for plants that can compete economically with fossil fuels. We have the potential to make nuclear safer and cheaper than it's been in the past, Lassiter says. Now we have to make the choice to pursue it. Watch » Urban planner Ryan Gravel shares the story of how his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia, rallied to build a massive urban park that will transform an abandoned railroad track into 22 miles of public green space called the Atlanta BeltLine. The places we live aren't inevitable, he says -- and if we want something different, we need to speak up. Watch » Soap operas and telenovelas may be (ahem) overdramatic, but as Kate Adams shows us, their exaggerated stories and characters sometimes cast light on the problems of real life. In this sparkling, funny talk, Adams, a former assistant casting director for As the World Turns, share four lessons for life and business that we can learn from melodramas. Watch »

Read more on ideas.ted.com Science: What would you do with a home DNA testing machine? One answer: Grow better truffles. Read how one farmer is using science to grow one of nature's most prized wild foods. Wisdom: Ancient techniques to cope with climate change » How to cope with our new wild weather? By learning from our elders Culture: The strange, surprisingly radical roots of the shopping mall » How could an avant-garde European socialist inadvertently create the mall? Steven Johnson explains ...

Quote of the Week “ We create our "others." As parents, as neighbors, as citizens, we witness and sometimes ignore each other into being. We chose ways of relating to each other that got us here. We can choose ways of relating that get us out." Anand Giridharadas A letter to all who have lost in this era

 

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