How to be "Team Human" in the digital future | Douglas Rushkoff
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- Humans are no longer valued for our creativity, says media theorist Douglas Rushkoff -- in a world dominated by digital technology, we're now just valued for our data. In a passionate talk, Rushkoff urges us to stop using technology to optimize people for the market and start using it to build a future centered on our pre-digital values of connection, creativity and respect. "Join 'Team Human.' Find the others," he says. "Together let's make the future that we always wanted."
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*Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much*
From minute 10:00 are his best statements and I agree with them. I started working in 'digital' i.e. with computers in 1977. What drives the misuse of any form of technology (like the bullet in a gun, or the gun) is what humans intend to do with it. The race towards making humans redundant is a political act. You can change it.
The irony of seeing this on UA-cam rather than in the audience of gated events like these, where communication after a talk like this is built in.
I’m going to post this on Facebook as well. Does that further the irony?
It doesn’t, if there are actionable proposals that come out of discussions about this video, talks with my friends and with strangers.
Actual real life meetings to discuss how to tackle problems in your community, city, country, world.
After a video like this? Go to a protest. A town hall. A community meeting. Pick up trash as the US government is shut down.
Make good art with friends and spread it like a wildfire. Don’t be ashamed to talk to your friends, even if it eventually leads to you asking something of them. They will enjoy the conversation and know it’s okay to ask you for help too. They are your friends.
@micahvanheste , wow how beautiful and inspiring this comment was, hi my name is AZ and am working on building such platforms, and if you don't mind me asking, I would sincerely appreciate your help?
Micah Vanheste Amen! As a writer, all I do is try to reflect history & sociology & anthropology in my scripts and give it out to as many of my friends as I can so they can digest the lessons they were bored by in school or in the news. Historical action-drama, modern political-fiction, or far flung sci-fi - they all offer lenses that viewers can understand - and yet its reality tv or zombies that people want. Hopefully, Rushkoff and Team Human likes what people like me have to say ;)
I read this comment in a robot's voice.
That was absolutely brilliant. I'm happy and proud to be part of team human. Wonderful job, Douglas Rushkoff. ❤️
*The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team*
*Team Alien:* [chuckles] I'm in danger.
Are you friendship? Finally!
@friendship , well that's cool what region of our universe or Multiverse or parallel realities do you come from? either way here in team human we accept all. "Human" is just a label, all sentient and subconscious beings are aliens to one another one way or the other 😘
Really enjoyed this. What grinds my gears the most, is talking about AI taking over as if it's some machine being developed by a rival species. We literally created the technology, harnessing what we know about the world. We could simply choose not to develop AI, but greed drives all, so now we sound like spectators watching until the day this beast commandeers the reins.
"Do you think God stays in heaven, because he too lives in fear of what he has created?"
-Steve Buscemi
God has no fear. We a probably in a simulation which means god is just a programmer... Why would he be scared?
The fear doens´t exist and God don´t know anything about that. He is not aware about fear
@Akadaker , why because ... even if we were all to agree with your statement it does not negate the fact that it took your mind your conscious self and faculties of it such as creativity and imagination for you to have developed, stated, and communicated your expression by such means so would you agree with me then that imagination is something that should not be dismiss and discredited?
@Dominic Thompson , nah my brother God Lives in You and outside of us and the things around us and the things we cannot conceive. the only evil in our current reality is not acknowledging that we all are the children of God.
The point
You
An inspiring speech. Kinda relate about the man isolating himself from the world - I've had similar thoughts and fantasies even though I am still just a student.
It does make sense now. I mean, humans are special in their own way and we can't compare it to technology like robot. we actually can't say that robot is better than human since human created the robot, right? This world needs a lot of people like him, who is brave to voice his opinion. Thanks for the talk! Really learned a lot and so far the best ted talk I've ever watched :)
Great video and people helping people in any way makes a difference! Always find inspiration here for my channel especially with how tech is now days!
Technology, the gift and the curse. Depends on how you use it.
A lot of curse going on. Lol
Seguiremos trabajando desde nuestro espacio para que la realidad sea lo que siempre debió ser. Gracias por vídeos tan instructivos.
Such necessary human like Douglas in times like these
What a great talk! Thanks TED!
Mmm K his name is Douglas, who is ted?
The irony of the "get talks picked for you" tab on the video
Excellent talk i’ve listened to. Thanks for uploading
The fact that humans want our team to die off, and many believe the planet would be better off without us is a clear sign that we need to change SOMETHING.
Let those who promote such ideas to die off. The world will a better place.
I’m on team human! Always learn from you ❤️😍
Great speech
Certainly it is not about rejecting the technology, it is about the matter of retrieving values that are in danger of being leaving behind, the matter of embedding them in the digital infraestructure for the future. It's about distinguishing what exactly it is the progress and advancement of humanity, from the technological advance. This is, the matter to know how somate these advances and not the complete isolation from them, warning technological advances without the correct preservation of community sense. Instead of earn money insulating ourselves form the world we're creating, invest our energy in promote a conection of cooperativity in sense of comunity as priority , promote noveltys with protagonism and in maintence of human creativity. A warning about evolution is a collaborative act : "The day when computers are smarter than people will come really soon, and the only option for people at that point will it be pass the torch of evolution to the successor and fade into the background, uploud your consciousness at silicon chip and accept your extinction ." - Rushkoff
Yes. This is spot on. In fact it strikes at the core of the problem with modern tech. What we started out with was an open ended technological collaboration system. What we got was hijacked by a handful of sharky dudes who figured out how to manipulate everyone. Now they're looking for an escape hatch because they're bringing on the Apocalypse in the form of the Singularity. Yep. Good luck with the escape plan.
Meanwhile, I've been working along the collaboration and humanity track since 1994 when I registered the specs of my project with the copyright office. If you are curious about what a platform would look like that encourages creativity and shares the profit of people's creative endeavors, you're welcome to look me up. I don't want to splash my project name here like some sort of ad, so I'm not going to mention it here. But it's out there. And there are other projects out there. People who want to foster human creativity are being obscured by the glitz and media glare... but we are out here. Being human.
This is worth listening.. He simplified the understanding of tech in excellent ways. Thanks
Amazing talk.... It really makes u stop and think for a moment.. Are humans that bad...I believe we would be if we loose all the human connect
What a wonderful and necessary video to watch, listen to and share. It´s amazing how this fast modern world makes us forget who we are, what we can achieve together and what makes us unique. Awesome video, thanks Douglas.
Team Human is made of people! People!
Thanks Douglas for a great talk.
This guy gets it. The corporate invasion of every aspect of our life, thoughts, behaviours and futures.
We need to tear this brave new world down. Together.
I don't think "tearing things down" is a good way to get a better world.
the fact this video only has 110k views is criminal. The topics discussed in this video could enlighten so many people to the cuases of our problems and what we actually need to do to fix it. Someone definitely had this one sandbagged
I'm the guy that always shouts comments replies post or #teamhuman whenever people talk about dogs being better than that of humans beings..
Fact! 👍🏾
Such a human thought.
A simple message to convey, quite simple information about his experience with the billionaires and about the world and the technological revolution.
Yet all the time it's like he's on the edge of conveying things well, and then starting on another thread. Making it all a jumble. I mean, the crowd agrees with me clearly. This message and info would get a standing ovation if he were a good speaker/writer.
Anyone got a recommendation for a good Ted talk? The last few have kinda been duds
Wow!! Humility!!
When is Ted going to talk?
Doug is engaging and provocative. Want to read his book.
This guy's book Cyberia life in cyberspace is a really good read! I can see how he was much more hopeful for the way in which technology would go on to effect our lives as the motivation for technology shifted from innovation to capital gain, but it is incredible to see how his predictions are predominantly correct, and easily forecast many of the changes we are seeing today some time ago. I agree with him completely, a great talk!
I needed this. Thank you.
How Do I Maintain My Security after the events?
metaphor
Buy gold
Buy bitcoin
Gold has very little utility. Its value will not survive an authentic apocalypse, merely an economic crisis.
By asking what they value and be sincere about it the question but do not do it in front of others that can get .......
"Make art, they don't understand it."
--- Derek Shoehorn
Go team human!
EXCELLENT!!!
thank you
Wisdom for our times.
Sensacional!
But Doug, I've always wanted to be a robot! I remember when I was eleven, and the joy I used to feel after fully convincing My nine year old brother that he had woken in a world where I was a robot, he would lie there clunching his quilt, startled awake by the sound of me loudly anouncing that I am not his brother but a robot replacement, the illusion only lasted a second or two, so I would either pretend to malfuntion while saying "malfuction! malfunction" (lost in space I guess) and fall to the floor dead, sometimes I would shake him, usually ending in him shouting "Captain Scarlet indistructable" in a manic sing song voice, punching Me and telling me he knew I wasn't a real robot because I did it yesterday and I wasn't a real robot yesterday, but sometime I could tell, for just a second or two, that he really did believe, and so did I.
Sounds great, but HOW?
Great idea and great sharing, thank you!
would like to hear his opinion on family planning?
What an excellent talk. Bravo
That's just the perfect sentence that I wanted to express; why does people always think about leaving and preparing the worst future before trying to build and plan our future peacefully in the present? We don't have to leave if we don't ignore what's going on in this planet. The mother Earth did not trash us, we are the one who is not aware of our responsibilities :(
-- CAPTCHA --
2050------ I'M NOT A HUMAN
I imagined myself checking it and failing.
lmao 🤣
Please do a subtitle, thanks a lot🌷🌹🌷
Incredible...
TL;DW: Technology isn't the problem, capitalism is.
I enjoyed watching this. Guy has a charm
Yo when’s TED finally gonna talk to us? Smh
Michael Epp how?
Exhilarating!
Thanks a lot dear🍀🌷🍀
3year late but damn this is really inspiring
Actually enjoyed this talk
The Smartphone is one of humanity's greatest invention, wasted away by memes and antisocial media
The Internet future is a dystopia, is basically giving up on the real world and living in a fantasy world
A lot of everything people believe in is based on convenient lies. Antosocial media is one of the best ways to find the truth.
times used on memes is time not wasted. Respect the memes
@mechanic , can you please rephrase that I don't quite understand what you ment
this man is so on point.
Human beings are the problems and the technology is the solutions 😌
I thought TED did fact-checking.
The more one researches Rushkoff's statement the more troubling this talk becomes.
The most glaring example that I've found so far is the analogy Rushkoff uses to Thomas Jeffersons "dumbwaiter."
Re: "Now, we like to think that he made the dumbwaiter in order to spare his slaves all that labor of carrying the food up to the dining room for the people to eat. That's not what it was for, it wasn't for the slaves, it was for Thomas Jefferson and his dinner guests, so they didn't have to see the slave bringing the food up."
The implication here is that Thomas Jefferson invented the dumbwaiter, or "made" one. Rushkoff is confused about the type of "dumb-waiter" Jefferson employed
The fact is, the type of dumbwaiter Rushkoff seems to be referring to was not invented until 1883.
(Be honest here, do you actually "like to think" of Jefferson sparing his slaves "all that labor," or is Rushkoff attempting to put thoughts into your head here?
"The term seems to have been popularized in the United States in the 1840s, after the model of earlier "dumbwaiters" now known as serving trays and lazy Susans."
See this link to a dumbwaiter "small tiers of shelves on casters, for small dinner parties," used by Jefferson. It also provides an explanation: "
www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/dumbwaiters
An oversight such as this in a TEDTalk is unforgivable.
Obviously you have neither been to Monticello (I have, and have seen the mechanisms built-in to the home to make food appear without visible labor) or even watched the video on the page you linked to, which restates almost exactly what Rushkoff says about their purpose, along with a historical citation!
@@pinealservo "Be honest here, do you actually "like to think" of Jefferson sparing his slaves "all that labor," or is Rushkoff attempting to put thoughts into your head here?"
@@atthehops So you admit you were wrong to cry foul about "fact checking", so now you have to fall back to merely complaining about the rhetorical device with which he presented his facts? To answer your question, no, I don't "like to think" that. But "we like to think" doesn't necessarily include me. It's a way to introduce a "polite fiction", and based on the video clip, it's one that Jefferson himself put forward.
@@pinealservo Where did I admit that I was wrong about Rushkoff's playing "fast and loose" with the facts? No, I stand behind the statements I am making.
During his entire talk, Rushkoff is selling his perspective of things, his biased perspective.
Now let me ask a question, What point is Rushkoff attempting to make by bringing up Jefferson?
Answer that.
@@atthehops Well, at least your incorrect statement now stands contested. I don't see any point in conversing with you further if you can't accept that your criticism is unfounded.
Ryan George
Yes!
Well said...A really important argument in the world going berserk over technology...For so long Advaita Vedanta or true Buddhism have been teaching similar values. People can't be fed brotherhood like that though except building that understanding of Oneness...One Infinite God or Void or Pure Consciousness or whatever you want to name it. We are humans the highest manifestation, lets not make our own product - machines/technology our GOD!
I agree with a lot of what he said, however I think he missed the point that the trans-humanist makes, the whole point of the singularity is that machines will be smarter than us, that includes emotional intelligence, creativity, empathy, they will be self-aware and have most if not all of our values, of course this isn't 100% guarantied but it is a very likely outcome, even if super human AI is very different from the way we process information, it doesn't automatically make them robotic zombies, that's what the trans-humanist meant he we replied "you're just saying that cause you're a human" because we tend to think linearly and tend to assume all forms of AI, even future AI will be soulless and unyielding (not referring to the religious kind of soul), sure right now AI (mostly deep neural networks) is no where near conscious and it doesn't exactly work the way the brain works, I should now since I've done a thesis on neural networks and plan on specializing in this field , but you can't extrapolate or compare today's AI to what it will become in decades, this is just one of the reasons why this field of study is so interesting to me.
That was the only thing I think he misunderstood, otherwise great talk!
Totally agree, well put! We've been seriously working on recreating the brain digitally for well over a decade now. Our knowledge of the brain influences our understanding of tech, and visa versa. While I agree with most of this talk, I wouldn't necessarily agree that transhumanists are not "team human" (Ray Kurzweil has a good take on this subject). I think the main issue is tech being wielded as a weapon rather than a tool.
Our values come from our evolution. Machine evolution will not be limited by biological reproduction and it will not have the same feedback system as tribal apes. It will result in some machine minds with values like ours, but some incomprehensibly different. With changes coming from algorithms rather than random mutation, there will be an exponential growth of different forms of machines with different values. It is inevitable that, sooner or later, there will be machines whose values are in conflict with the well-being of humanity.
We're not worried about the hundreds of billions of nice machine minds. We are worried about the one inevitable machine who has the means and motivation to act against us, and the ability to extinguish all intelligent biological life.
It is 100% certain that he will exist at some point in the future if we release self-replicating intelligent machines.
@@LughSummerson Yes it is possible for a machine with conflicting values to arise, how ever AI is evolving in a ways similar to natural selection, actually I think the term is artificial selection (since we choose which AIs to keep and use and which to discard, at least for the time being), sure some AIs evolve through natural selection processes like NEAT (Neuroevolution of augmenting topologies, I based my thesis on this kind of network), however you assume there will only be one super AI capable of destroying us, however if one of those AIs is capable of existing it is reasonable to also assume there will be way more AIs of the same level capable of handling such a wicked AI for lack of a better term, I know you mentioned billions of nice minds, but why would those AIs be inferior in intelligence and capability than an AI who's values contradict ours? There is no reason to believe so.
Just like today there isn't just one AI there's countless, what's to come in the coming decades isn't so black or white, its a gray scale of good things and bad things, just like every other technology we've ever invented.
My thoughts exactly, I was coming down to comment something similar.
He also left out the part where the transhumanist is also probably hoping he can slowly replace himself and his brain with something electronic (which personally I wouldn’t entirely mind under certain circumstances). Team ex-human-robots, perhaps.
Quite a good talk otherwise though, and none of this is going to be very soon if it happens at all, probably not within most living people’s lifetime if anyone’s, so it’s entirely relevant to ignore that all in this context.
With extreme dedicated application, humans can also evolve themselves as well in unique directions that machines can't! So humans and machines can both evolve to greater heights.
Name the 5 men.
Pause at 7:53 for Applause break, please.
Fantastic! My dad was a coal miner. I get you. Totally. We are headed into a shed.
what a sweet man :>
This guy’s the best
Gracias al vídeo de Fiskifus conocí a este señor
Team Human had one job: To unite as a species before we destroy ourselves. That's it. The cause of our destruction would come by staying disparate (non-united) and so we wouldn't have the collective ability to decide our own fate. Instead our fate is still governed by the flawed self-centred reasoning of a handful of sheltered billionaires who are just as trapped in a money-coma as we are. Why does uniting humanity get downgraded to a Rushkoff catch phrase instead of being seriously thought through by activists? A global parliament built by and for the people of the world - made by US: without the UN's approval, or any of our government's approval, and definitely without any corporation's approval. A deciding body that simply gives humanity a voice. THAT's the way off the path of extinction. If there's still time, of course. And even if there's not, let's do it anyway. www.worldparliamentnow.org/
“The Event”
Jesus Christ. This is so inspiring.
I’m in
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'since when was education about getting jobs' Brilliant, I have been shouting this at the crap on BBC radio 4 when they harp on about education.....
This man talks about revolution
What if I don't want to be team human
Nice video
Interesting
This guy is so ignorant. He's basing many of his arguments on flawed assumptions.
And no, that's not what transhumanism is about, quite the opposite actually. It's about improving the human condition, not voluntary extinction, there are just a few people who think that way.
I am "Team human", this guy is more like "Team primitive luddite".
My guess is that you just got into this "Transhumanism thing" recently, so you're defensive about it the way people new to any niche movement/identity are. There's a chasmic divide between people in the H+ communities and the rich technolibertarians who are the face of the movement.
Rushkoff has a historical understanding of the systems at work, and if you give his words another listen without the defensiveness you'll find he makes salient and vitally important points.
@@SolarScion I've been a transhumanist for several years, I don't know if you'd call that "recently"...
I know that not every transhumanist shares the same views, and that he's right about *some* of them, thinking that way, but he's generalizing it. I have re-listened to the video multiple times to reply to comments here, and every time I felt like throwing up from the ignorance he's spouting.
I *am* defensive about it, because he's attacking it with invalid and flawed points, and people might believe him, which would be bad.
Try to actually re-listen to the video yourself, and be honest about it, then tell me if he's correct, or if he's just fear-mongering by taking advantage of the ignorance of people in a niche subject. Why is he doing that? To me, he looks afraid, maybe because he actually believes what he's saying.
We live in a society
I was wondering when Justin's going to pop up and he's actually one of the first commenters.
Hmm..
소중한 인사이트 고맙습니다 최만 드림
As one 🌎
team humanity must first recognize and unite to abolish money use, until money is removed nothing can evolve
I listened to this in Terrence Mckenna's voice.🤔
we couldn't agree more @pepelwerk
This guy has Transhumanists all wrong... in fact, I'd say that his philosophy _is_ transhumanism.
how would he explain the huge amount of human suffering caused by humans
"oh Rushkoff, you're just saying that because you're a human"...sounds like somebody's program has been overrided
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Surely technology in many cases persuades us not to have moral behaviors but to have harsh treating, how ?it is simple, someone who is lazy many times can't have moral behavior because it is a little hard for them, so future time will be little similar to dark ages however we'll have very pretty appearance in every spot of modern cities
I am shocked that this TED doesn't have millions of views. Is there a UA-cam thus Google bias here??! Trying to protect their billionaires by not promoting this video...
For a split second I thought I saw Obama in the thumbnail
Kyle Schoneck-schranz 😂😂
So btc or eth ?
“Humane... ...Cage free chickens. We are gonna be as humane as possible to them until we take them to the SLAUGHTERHOUSE ” Try vegan ❤️
Re: "since when is education about getting jobs? Education wasn't about getting jobs."
Here's the problem: One cannot take everything Rushkoff says at face value because he is spinning a narrative and that narrative only holds together if all the pieces connect. But they don't.
Take his statement about education which on the face of it needs to be questioned since he provides no substantiation for it.
"According to the National School Boards Association, public education exists to serve the following purposes, among others:
Prepare students for college and the workforce, including preparing them for jobs that may not even exist yet due to rapidly changing technology.
So, education IS about "getting jobs?"
What else should we be questioning in this talk?