Hans Rosling’s answers to the TED and Reddit community interview
blog.ted.com Here, Hans Rosling answers the top 10 questions asked and voted on by the TED community through Reddit. See the original blog post here blog.ted.com And see all the questions here: www.reddit.com Look for similar community interviews in the next weeks!TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the „Sixth Sense“ wearable tech, and „Lost“ producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at www.ted.com Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com
He really likes that shirt
@descendantdan
You don’t realize that the global problems are individual problems. This will only come out of changing minds, not pointing the gun of governments at their people and each other.
@axelasdf
We face global problems, sovereignty is barley extant in a world where corporations have bigger balance sheets than governments, this is a fact we cannot change so we must adapt our modes of thinking to create new solutions.
What we do need to do is a address the problem of the massive increase in population and have a unified response to global warming or as a civilization and maybe even a species our time will soon run out.
The „Global Government“ comment at the start turned me off to the video immediately. I like sovereign competing states. „Friends with all, but allies with none“.
this is crazy. your data is amazing. but it would be nice if it doesn’t come with the propaganda behind it. but the solutions are totally skewed. just sounds like the idea is to still keep the top at the top and the bottom at the bottom. just at a „better“ level. aid is no good except for emergencies. ppl want to matter and want to learn to create and make things possible for themselves and others. not be permanent recipients (usually at the expense of themselves).
Actually Switzerland’s economy is more free then that of the US. They actually have the 4th freest economy according to the Frazer Institute’s Economic Freedom of the World Report. It is in part due to this freedom that they are so successful.
@ 8:12 – 17:51 nice answer
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LOL @ 11:18 – 12:20
i hope they have a blog to alert people when they start providing things to schools ..
i disagree…the U.S. does compte in health care
i want to see statistics on life satisfaction relative to health care.
To certain segments of the American population, yes it is. This segment is mostly of the older generations who lived through the cold war with Russia.
Rightly or Wrongly many view it this way.
Socialism = Old Soviet Union
Capitalism = United States
Socialism is the antithisis of Capitalism to many of the older generation and so its use conjures a negative emotions for those with this world view.
I would like to make a honest question to any American:
is the word „socialism“ combined necessarily with negative meaning?
the reason I’m asking (and I’m not taking sides now) is that in Europe, even within countries, public opinion is divided. (for example, everything shows that the next gov. here is going to be socialistic but many of the people are disappointed in it for not being socialistic enough)
Where the F do you get off comparing Sweden to the Soviet union? And 1984? It just shows your lack of insight…
there is NOT such thing like a free lunch….
You don’t know who said that and that’s why you are believing in socialist fairy tales. Wake up – educate yourself about economy and history instead of watching TED – 70% of pure socialist propaganda…
And don’t be offended – I was a slave too… well I’m in EU, so technically I’m still a slave
Slaves to bureaucracy…? your talking out of your arse. Badly slocialized?! Oh and I thought that free healthcare and free education was a good thing… And now, since sweden is paying for the rebuilding of your shit country…. FIX MY SINk BITCH!!!
Your comments are not only ridiculous, but also relevant because gives a notion of how rightwing propaganda distort reality. Sweden, Denmark and Finland (which are well known to be nanny state) are top 4, 5, 6 in the world in competitiveness. The bureaucracy is far less than in USA (in all levels), and we dont have a police state like in 1984, like in USA right now. Get the facts right and then you talk. The socialist Switzerland (healthcare and education are free) is top one in the world.
International collaboration is good. World government is bad (yet one could easily lead to the other). If we had a world government and at some point it goes sour or tyrranical — in our generation or another –, exactly where could one emmigrate to so they could get away from it? Leave the planet?
Many difference places with many different systems, so that we can learn from eachother and celebrate our diversity is the way to go. I shudder to think of a central world gov.
You are wrong grraadd. And it’s just ridiculous to compare Sweden to Russia, they are both very different states. It’s also ridiculous to compare Britain and Sweden. Look at Britain, you have really strained your freedom to a table as you have the new and fresh pedophelia law, the CCTV cameras, police officers everywhere. Sweden is nothing like this. Fine, let’s call Sweden a socialist country – but compare socialism to the right winged dominance in the US. What’s best? That’s an easy one.
I didnt say those things and two of those are contemporary conspiracies.
I say to myself: do we really have to wait for the perpetrators to come clean before we are sure? Usually thats long after the incident, when people had an ability to influence the outcome.
But no, the Reichstag ended in the construction of the third rich and WW2, the gulf of Tonkin ended with the US being pushed out of Vietnam. Many innocent people died.
I think your both right, Britain is a socialist country and we are successful because many tragedies are prevented. However it does lead to a 1984 centralised nanny state and i believe that people should be given greater freedom and allowed to be self sufficient. That is; they should choose to help their neighbours not because theres a system of coercion and force, but because they choose to.
I didn’t say Swedes, but Swedish (as a country which is badly socialized…) And most of it’s citizens are slaves of the bureaucracy – nanny state. „1984″ in action… Like Russians, only they never were free so they’ve got just handful of intellectuals knowing the idea of freedom.
The list of 4 different cases is incontrovertible evidence for my hypothesis, thank you.
Now you are at the stage where you can either refute the evidence or go back to sleep. This is precisely the stage which got me into critiquing other people conspiracies. (i produce no videos of my own.)
My experience is that many people cannot face the fact that conspiracies exist because it would effect their life. A good citizen of a democracy should always be willing to research to find the truth.
A1: Conspiracies *may* exist, yes, agreed.
A2: Your belief is that, and that alone: belief. You can believe whatever the heck you want as far as I’m concerned but belief is many steps away from proof and reality.
Draw a very sharp line between what you *believe* and what you *know*. differ between reality and fantasy. never mix up the two.
If you cannot or will not keep them separated, I suggest you seek professional help.