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What if we could better understand the world’s biggest challenges simply by looking at a map? Jack Dangermond, a pioneer in geographic information system (GIS) technology that powers the digital maps people around the world use every day, speaks with TED technology curator Simone Ross about how his team is building a geospatial nervous system: a global, interconnected GIS network that reveals patterns, visualizes trends — and could transform the way we make decisions about nearly everything.
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Ali Hassan
February 22, 2021 at 6:13 pm
😍😍💕
Def Ketra
February 22, 2021 at 6:13 pm
Wtf is this comment section
Gloria C.
February 22, 2021 at 6:23 pm
this was uploaded 20 minutes ago, it’s 22 minutes long, and y’all already formed opinions😭 guess I’m behind the curve
Sam Sung
February 22, 2021 at 6:46 pm
2x, annotations /captions help.
It’s called speed watching caveman.
Sam Sung
February 22, 2021 at 6:58 pm
All the earlier comments prior to yours are just spam and maybe just one is somewhat of an opinion. What were you talking about?
Jesse Rayne
February 22, 2021 at 7:59 pm
Not everyone gets the uploads at the same time all over earth. Some people have a better connection or faster device.
TEDX Chennai
February 22, 2021 at 11:23 pm
Thanks for your comment you can start investing on crypto now
TEDX Chennai
February 22, 2021 at 11:23 pm
W.H.A.T.S.A.P.P.+.1.2.1.8.4.5.0.8.1.2.3.
Sasha Townsend - Tulsa
February 22, 2021 at 6:25 pm
This is excellent! If you think he has Zoomed out too much (if you’re one of those who doesn’t get it), think of concrete examples and you’ll see…
When different specialists use the tools of their field to analyze and attempt to solve problems, the solutions are limited by their training and the tunnel vision of that particular domain. When we look at multiple domains and think holistically, we come up with better solutions. It seems obvious – but it’s so infrequently done that it’s worth emphasizing.
I’d love to see how GIS could be applied to increase equity in K-12 education.
Sam Sung
February 22, 2021 at 6:52 pm
Sure, let’s cheer for SKYNET.
S-F-F
February 22, 2021 at 6:54 pm
🙌
FERHAT FADEL
February 22, 2021 at 6:29 pm
💚💚💚💚
Konstantinos Kyfonidis
February 22, 2021 at 6:34 pm
Hello everyone, new YouTuber from Greece here, I do motivational/educational videos and I just uploaded a new video about How Quarantine Affected Me. I would appreciate a lot any type of support. 💕
monkeywentbananas
February 22, 2021 at 6:35 pm
Is that Bill Gates twin Brother?! Sounds like He’s reading off the same script!
Fabio L
February 22, 2021 at 11:18 pm
great minds think alike
monkeywentbananas
February 22, 2021 at 11:58 pm
@Fabio L You obviously didn’t watch the video Fabio or You didn’t understand what He was saying!
Space Richard
February 22, 2021 at 6:37 pm
This sounds like a great way to watch every thing and then form some AI based opinion on what we should do next. Why do we even have brains any more. Let’s just run off the money algorithm. Lol FIA.
Jesse Rayne
February 22, 2021 at 7:56 pm
Only uncreative, low intelligence, selfish minds would be so monochromatic and simplistic about such a concept. Way to offer up a definition of yourself and a terrible statement in one swoop.
Jamielynn Manago
February 22, 2021 at 6:43 pm
I really liked this Topic it was very interesting
Dionyzos
February 22, 2021 at 6:48 pm
This talk would benefit greatly from a presentation. It’s hard to imagine what GIS is without any experience. They’re talking about visualization without visualization.
Donald Christie
February 22, 2021 at 6:50 pm
The earth is not overpopulated, Too many people are in one place
MrLoobu
February 22, 2021 at 7:37 pm
If they all want to live like Americans it sure is.
Sam Sung
February 22, 2021 at 6:51 pm
So this is the mentality behind SKYNET wipping out the population in the future. It’s all for our benefit, I see.
muzzleray
February 22, 2021 at 6:57 pm
The sweater seems to be a thing now
みもMemochan
February 22, 2021 at 7:04 pm
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🙂👍👍
_n_vlogs_
February 22, 2021 at 7:06 pm
Aight
Bob Ross is god
February 22, 2021 at 9:51 pm
best comment
Surfing On Squarewaves
February 22, 2021 at 7:08 pm
I also grew up as a young kid!
THE MOB
February 22, 2021 at 7:09 pm
❤️മലയാളി❤️ Where ever there is video There will be at least one Malayalam comment❤️ മലയാളി❤️
Pin Me if I am Correct ⚡️
Sam Braz
February 22, 2021 at 7:16 pm
Better future. Yer right better slavery… rev 18.23c the great merchants of the earth decieved all nation by SORCERIES- pharmakeus !!!!!!!!!!
Rick Harold
February 22, 2021 at 7:21 pm
Nice mission thanks for the video
LostMekkaSoft
February 22, 2021 at 7:31 pm
Wow. I didn’t think that GPT-3 could also do so convincing faces…
Sk Fahad Fardin
February 23, 2021 at 1:19 am
Why
Jesse Rayne
February 22, 2021 at 7:53 pm
So investing takes another huge leap forward. Investors using this technology will be able to understand trends and potentials far more accurately and granularly than ever before.
nili suliman
February 22, 2021 at 10:01 pm
You are using your hands too much it seems abnormal !!! Who are you! ?? What are you trying to do?🤫🙄👎
Stephen Catton
February 22, 2021 at 10:22 pm
Very interesting. It would be useful to see an example. He kept on talking about visualising something without showing us any visuals.
21. Setya Nanda P
February 23, 2021 at 3:35 am
and we have to imagine what he said. it’s confusing.
Stephen Catton
February 23, 2021 at 8:46 am
@Zero X I have no idea of what it was you just said.
Bluebell
February 23, 2021 at 12:35 am
Interesting talk!
Rajesh A. R
February 23, 2021 at 1:45 am
Nice class 🤩🥰❤
Teflon Smile
February 23, 2021 at 1:55 am
Pokémon Go….just tied into everyday things….augmented reality based on geographic location…
Another dimension of real-estate 🙌🤯❤ been on that idea for a few years
Teflon Smile
February 23, 2021 at 1:56 am
When will we see advertisements through our camera view finder….🙌 steal my idea
Burak Kaya
February 23, 2021 at 12:58 pm
@TED @TED ı really could not figure out that coment (+1(*9*1*0*)2*6*0*5*4*5*5) .What do you mean by it :))
Teflon Smile
February 23, 2021 at 6:21 pm
@TED thank you
Teflon Smile
February 23, 2021 at 6:22 pm
@Burak Kaya It is because they don’t want a bunch of Spam…. Parentheses separate characters So a bot cannot skim the #
Burak Kaya
February 24, 2021 at 2:27 pm
@Teflon Smile thank you :))
Teflon Smile
February 23, 2021 at 1:56 am
Are you hiring 🤣🤷♂️❤🧠
ytubeanon
February 23, 2021 at 2:57 am
they say a picture is worth a thousand words _for a reason_
ytubeanon
February 23, 2021 at 7:16 am
@TED hmm, 910-260-54XX is a Clinton, North Carolina number
Earth girl 地球女孩
February 23, 2021 at 3:17 am
The biggest failure of the current educational system is instead of bringing up systems thinkers and multidisciplinarians it manufactures workers to make the money world go around for the wealthy. He missed the most important that it’s not the change of technology we need; despite a huge number of techs that always promise to save the world we haven’t solved any of the existential crises we’ve been facing for decades. In fact, techs in the money world just exacerbated those crises. What we really need is a change in our value system.
TED
February 23, 2021 at 7:52 am
+1(*9*1*0*)2*6*0*5*4*5*5.
Avery Mancine
February 27, 2021 at 9:26 pm
yes yes and yes
TED
February 27, 2021 at 9:31 pm
@Avery Mancine +1(*9*1*0*)2*6*0*5*4*5*5.
Avery Mancine
February 27, 2021 at 10:06 pm
@TED huh??
Brendan Øscar
February 23, 2021 at 4:28 am
The world is just fine, It
/ civilization in the pickle
R. Michael Herberger
February 23, 2021 at 4:55 am
Lots of words. I am all for tech improving our lives but wish he showed how the tech actually is doing that. I understand Mr. Dangermond is a good guy and his intentions are good. However, I wonder about the ethical use of the tech?
Niel van Steenderen
February 23, 2021 at 5:09 am
Now that is some real system wide thinking, where Earth is the system. Very interesting.
OVH
February 23, 2021 at 5:28 am
Well it does seem that our brains have become more in-sync recently especially since we’ve become adapted to technology that is designed around our behaviors, it only seems inevitable that they’re going to create a way to link us up like neurons in a brain, gradually we’ll all share the same music humor & inner dialgoues. We are already behaving as a nervous system through new technology, now they want an overlay to see our behavior on a collective mass scale, then create an interface that allows them to influence it.
Fred Badger
February 23, 2021 at 6:08 am
Geospatial? Does this person know that “geo” refers to Earth?
Of or relating to analysis of geographical data from multiple sources and technologies, using statistical methods and often resulting in computer visualization of locations under study.
Free Dictionary
TED
February 23, 2021 at 7:10 am
Forgot to mention this in anyway you need an Assistance +1(*9*1*0*)2*6*0*5*4*5*5.
ytubeanon
February 23, 2021 at 7:16 am
hmm, most comments are getting spammed with some TED phone number
910-260-54XX is a Clinton, North Carolina number
Zero X
February 23, 2021 at 8:12 am
he sais: 10.45 take nature around oneself as a guide to form ones’ own creations.
implement.
(clear !?
good luck…
…take a look @ the sun. it’s round. we turn around it.
this implemented means: what goes around comes around.
– what is thought in the own mind comes back in ones reality…)
(it’s an individual experience..one can only experience it by trying for oneself).
7.26 like your mind does in many ways…to create understanding
(of ones own creation / what one sees = what is choosen to looked at).
yxng.D9
February 23, 2021 at 10:02 am
Literally 99% percent of you wont see this but say safe during these times really struggling to hit 1000 subs pls help me guys 🙏🙏
Freak Clarity
February 23, 2021 at 11:17 am
I wish we could use this for educational purposes where all ppl could share their knowledge and use it for our children but also for everyone that just wants to learn something new, and hopefully get away from the for profit educational system that we have, cause the more ppl in the world can learn the better chance humanity has to survive.
varada sukanya
February 23, 2021 at 11:29 am
That’s a great talk regarding geospatial system.. This is something different which I gain some knowledge about demographics . Thanks TED!
TED
February 23, 2021 at 1:59 pm
in anyway you need an Assistance +1(*9*1*0*)2*6*0*5*4*5*5.
Jack Sparrow
February 23, 2021 at 1:44 pm
Great; more power and control for governments and corporations… just what we fucking need…
Fabio L
February 23, 2021 at 11:18 pm
se vc quiser economizar seu tempo, pode assistir só 3 minutos, não precisa começar do começo, pode começar de qualquer tempo, o resto do tempo ele repete as mesmas coisas
Gurmeet kaur Gill
February 24, 2021 at 1:05 am
Awesome
HAPPY VLOGS
February 24, 2021 at 2:54 pm
Thanks 🙏👍
110 110
February 24, 2021 at 9:27 pm
Administration, legislation, judicial and media have decayed already in USA now.
Rebecca - lass uns einander kennenlernen
February 25, 2021 at 12:35 am
0:49 enorm
Romulo Magalhaes
February 25, 2021 at 8:37 pm
Great.
Cheche Kuswanti
February 25, 2021 at 10:44 pm
Great
amit amitpal
February 26, 2021 at 8:19 am
thank you
Tobias Clausen
February 26, 2021 at 9:47 am
This is precisely what we need, but make a public version, like a geo-spatial data-display sandbox, akin to iNaturalist and Wikipedia, bringing product and service costs and contexts into a visual comparative geospatial framework, customized to user interests, with the core goal of removing shame or outrage from the individual encounter with information and replacing them with curiosity and community. We have all the ingredients to make the ultimate “organ” of civic virtue, now.
(This has been my great passion, also. Not knowing about Dangermond, some friends and I started an NGO to get the ball rolling… I’m over the moon to finally find an organization intent on this same goal!)
Victoria Bailey
February 26, 2021 at 2:53 pm
How would you like to see an individual become a part of this to change society Jack? I’ve had this idea the last year and it took this long to find you. Should individuals be using youtube more to take advantage of googles AI?