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Meditations on the intersection of humanity and technology | Olivia Arthur

Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. Documentary photographer Olivia Arthur has been exploring a new frontier: the evolution of the blurring line between humanity and technology. In this meditative talk, she shows her work documenting the remarkable ways humans have merged with machines — from…

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Documentary photographer Olivia Arthur has been exploring a new frontier: the evolution of the blurring line between humanity and technology. In this meditative talk, she shows her work documenting the remarkable ways humans have merged with machines — from bionics and motorized limbs to synthetic muscles and strikingly realistic robots — and offers wisdom on the complexity, adaptability and resilience of the human body.

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  1. 陳子愿

    March 17, 2021 at 3:21 pm

    im the first

  2. Mimi Marshmallow1

    March 17, 2021 at 3:22 pm

    hi

  3. Alicia Banks

    March 17, 2021 at 3:25 pm

    CC TRANSHUMANISM

  4. David Merwin

    March 17, 2021 at 3:25 pm

    ✨

  5. Sick Krakr

    March 17, 2021 at 3:26 pm

    To Ted McGrath know this nobody can make anybody do anything I don’t want to do fact no matter how much u continue to bootstrap them only forces them to achieve great things remember I said that

  6. Joshua Naville

    March 17, 2021 at 3:28 pm

    Olivia, I would love to hear more about what kinds of challenges the industry is facing towards making these technologies more affordable and accessible to the general public

  7. Jerwyn James

    March 17, 2021 at 3:29 pm

    I felt like this was too short…… Such a compact presentation….. Waw….. You work is amazing…… Waw again….. I am glad I got this notification from YouTube…..

    • Jerwyn James

      March 17, 2021 at 4:42 pm

      @T ED this is a scammer…… This is not the Ted channel

  8. Scot Fretwell

    March 17, 2021 at 3:31 pm

    Humanity has already lost out to technology. Your doom is at hand.

  9. troy milton

    March 17, 2021 at 3:33 pm

    Why r we so scared of death?.. if yr not happy with yr body.. die and be born a new..

    Enough with this earth destroying plastic mod bullsht

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  10. the guy on the couch x

    March 17, 2021 at 3:42 pm

    There is a horror movie called VHS and the guy has a camera for an eye. Its just a fun horror movie.???? By the way amazingly,scary .I mean that in the most respectful way I can. ????

    • death to a delicate ghoul

      March 17, 2021 at 10:08 pm

      Ghost in the Shell has a lot of subplots that revolve around recorded images from cybernetic eyes. For instance there’s a terrorist called The Laughing Man who hacks the eyes of the people around him to scramble his face so noone can see him when he commits crimes. I think your eyes getting hacked is more terrifying than the idea of camcorder eyes on it’s own ????

  11. Eli Nope

    March 17, 2021 at 3:47 pm

    1:21 “Sight, is the most…”

    No, that is a misconception. Your sense of smell is the most primal sense, and is the most personal and powerful. Go ahead and name the smells that move you. Try to do it by naming the smell instead of the object that gives off the smell. I will wait.

    We don’t have names for smells, no words to describe the scent independent of the source of the scent. That is why you don’t often consciously think of the importance of the sense of smell. Its easy to name what you see, that is why you think of sight. But your sense of smell recalls memory more strongly, impacts your emotions more strongly and is the first and most important sense chronologically speaking as far as evolution goes.

    • Snoop

      March 17, 2021 at 4:46 pm

      Smell can be important and overall all senses are as imoortant as the other as far as our revolution goes…otherwise we wouldnt have it. But the sense of a healthy person is definitely not smell. Just ask yourself the questions which sense you would remove. Maybe you have a strong emotional connection to smell but sight is kinda unbeatable for most people. You will never smell some things like clouds ever in your life but see them every day.

    • Thikosan

      March 17, 2021 at 5:39 pm

      Of course smell is the most primal of the senses, which was needed especially to warn ourselves about poisonous food, but our way to communicate and live life in general has drastically changed.
      You will remember more often a scene you really liked of a movie, you’ll remember more often a certain sound that reminds you of a certain music, you’ll remember more often the taste of a certain food and not even think about how it smelled.
      The smell memory connection still works better than our other senses, but it happens less and less often nowadays.
      We’re leading in a society sight-based and odorelss, we do everything with our sight and try to correct it with glasses if it doesn’t work properly. We ain’t trying to correct our smell, because we don’t need it anymore.
      Just think about when you’re going to work everyday or doing some other activity: you don’t care about smells and in fact most of the time you spend your time in odorless places.
      If I had any kind of smell problem, I wouldn’t even bother trying to correct it somehow, compared to other senses and I also don’t have many strong memories bound to certain kind of smells.

  12. Rose T

    March 17, 2021 at 4:19 pm

    Technology can be an amazing tool for amputees and these stories are very inspiring, but robots are robots. They are not humans, so I find it really weird to brush up on robots that replicate human faces IMO, that’s trans-humanism, which is far different then devices for amputees.

  13. Varun Steven

    March 17, 2021 at 4:32 pm

    Wow… this was more engaging than I thought. Great presentation.

  14. A Person

    March 17, 2021 at 4:36 pm

    Seemed very longwinded. 2 minutes and 37 seconds in and I’m done.

    • Xyz Same

      March 17, 2021 at 4:54 pm

      You just left when it got interesting. go to 7:10 uncanny I cannot say what it the real and the robot face

    • A Person

      March 17, 2021 at 5:22 pm

      @Xyz Same Pretty sure the top right is the human being

  15. Miguel Branco

    March 17, 2021 at 4:49 pm

    That relationship will evolve as much as we can imagine it and solving all the problems for it to work. There will no be no boundaries for it. In a near future all the new borns won’t leave the nursery without a chip implanted into the brain!

  16. João Pinto

    March 17, 2021 at 5:27 pm

    Really great!

  17. Zero X

    March 17, 2021 at 5:58 pm

    time does NOT run away with US…it runs away with thinking (identified)…
    wake up …study mind !
    a*

  18. Nothing But The TRUTH

    March 17, 2021 at 6:26 pm

    Wow, forget humans huh? Something’s wrong with people who think robots are more than a hunk of metal. Keep pushing the De pop agenda!

  19. Sagar Barot

    March 17, 2021 at 6:49 pm

    She can see the future with this technology and that’s why she sounds nervous

    • Daniel Baylis

      March 19, 2021 at 1:00 am

      Why should she be though?

      Were people nervous when the Car was invented? The Television? The Phone?

      Like Elon Musk says (roughly): “We’re already basically Cyborgs…”

  20. Joe Doaks

    March 17, 2021 at 7:08 pm

    Nice sentiment with tech helping seriously debilitated humans. BS that it should go any further…

  21. Dima Logash

    March 17, 2021 at 8:03 pm

    Their fortitude is unbelievable!

  22. Marisol E.

    March 17, 2021 at 9:18 pm

    ‘ A cyborg manifesto’ by Haraway, brings great a theory about humans and machines, and how we have integrated technology in us in so many ways. Our phones for example, is a technological extension of us, and it will be fascinating to see how our brains will have adapted centuries down the line.

  23. Kelli Hicks

    March 17, 2021 at 9:36 pm

    This was so insightful.

  24. Ignacio Ferrentino

    March 17, 2021 at 11:50 pm

    Muy Interesante. Cada vez menos claro el limite entre humano y maquina.

  25. Jacob Evans

    March 18, 2021 at 12:53 am

    Whatever vulnerability or emotion you see in a piece of metal is really a reflection of your own emotions.

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    March 18, 2021 at 3:23 am

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  27. Teller’s Road

    March 18, 2021 at 3:30 am

    Meditation, ????

  28. takwa

    March 18, 2021 at 3:31 am

    “Whoever brings a virtue (good deed) will receive better than it. But whoever brings evil—the evildoers will be rewarded only according to what they used to do.” (Holy Quran 28::84)

    • Tushar Kumar

      March 18, 2021 at 4:13 am

      It just corresponds to law of karma

  29. PrK Zoomin

    March 18, 2021 at 6:46 am

    A Good Quote, The most dangerous person is the one who listens, thinks and observes

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    March 18, 2021 at 10:14 am

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  31. varada sukanya

    March 18, 2021 at 10:38 am

    nice actually!

  32. Sean O'Neill

    March 18, 2021 at 11:25 am

    I loved watching this video, thank you

  33. 苏年远

    March 18, 2021 at 12:35 pm

    the voice of the speaker is a
    little bit low and nervous which make me feel bad

  34. GuitarZombie

    March 18, 2021 at 12:36 pm

    good your documenting the end of time

  35. jennifer sportell

    March 18, 2021 at 1:25 pm

    Wow, pretty fascinating.????

  36. Ramblyn Rocketeer

    March 18, 2021 at 1:41 pm

    Super Amazing photography ????
    ✨ Intriguing & informative

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    March 18, 2021 at 1:45 pm

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  38. sheenng

    March 18, 2021 at 2:07 pm

    Glass eyes, motorized limbs, blade prosthesis, mechanical arms, synthetic muscles – these are all disruptive technologies that can impact the lives of many.

  39. Aaron VanFleet

    March 18, 2021 at 3:20 pm

    Isn’t there a blackmirror episode about the eye tech?

  40. Lichen Porifera

    March 18, 2021 at 7:44 pm

    Humanity is lost

    • Yash Pal Goyal

      March 20, 2021 at 5:58 pm

      most of it, sadly seems yes

  41. Dedu Tedy

    March 18, 2021 at 8:43 pm

    It is previsible that androids and cyborgs are the future of our species…we deffenetly are not fit to evolve otherwise

    • Daniel Baylis

      March 19, 2021 at 12:57 am

      I mean, look at society. People have their phones, their cars, their televisions, their lawn mowers, etc.. it’d just be more efficient to integrate it fully w/ the body. Imagine, a phone/watch downloaded into, say, your forearm. You’d never lose it!

    • Dedu Tedy

      March 19, 2021 at 6:26 am

      @Daniel Baylis dude… Modifying yourself to be integrated with your fridge or phone is not the point… You won’t be using those anymore, they will just stick an antenna up your…and you’re good to go ????

  42. Rohan Chaudhari

    March 19, 2021 at 1:07 am

    This empathy towards the inanimate objects will give rise to skynet.
    And they will not have robots that are devoid of expressions,
    actually the opposite,
    they will have them take advantage of this human bias.

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    March 19, 2021 at 10:35 am

    Regarding humans & tech, how to address the climate crisis:
    1) Autonomize existing ????
    2) Renewables (mostly nuclear)

  44. Oxydoz

    March 19, 2021 at 11:12 pm

    A great presentation and a great idea to think about.

  45. Yash Pal Goyal

    March 20, 2021 at 5:44 pm

    1:45

  46. Black Flame

    March 22, 2021 at 4:15 am

    That was actually a beautiful presentation. So succinct.

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    March 23, 2021 at 10:37 am

    “Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from moving to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.”
    – Sri Ravi Shankar

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  49. Lisa Love Ministries

    March 25, 2021 at 6:17 pm

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    5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart
    and lean not on your own understanding;
    6 in all your ways submit to him,
    and he will make your paths straight.

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