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Ustopias invite us into a collective imagination where everyone has what they need to thrive #TED

When it comes to technology, we’re often presented with two contrasting visions of the future: one where technology fulfills all our desires, and another where it leads to chaos and conflict. Sociologist Ruha Benjamin is here with a more radical vision of the future — one where humanity isn’t saved or slayed by technology, but…

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When it comes to technology, we’re often presented with two contrasting visions of the future: one where technology fulfills all our desires, and another where it leads to chaos and conflict. Sociologist Ruha Benjamin is here with a more radical vision of the future — one where humanity isn’t saved or slayed by technology, but rather uses it to uplift ordinary people and make things like health care and housing for all a reality.

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23 Comments

  1. @SusanWillful

    February 1, 2026 at 12:08 pm

    I can’t wait to hear and learn more.

  2. @BhaiBhai-w4p

    February 1, 2026 at 1:23 pm

    Wow super nice 💯

  3. @Simple-me2gu

    February 1, 2026 at 2:35 pm

    I couldn’t agree more.

  4. @LeandromartinDoello

    February 1, 2026 at 3:16 pm

    You really know me

  5. @LeandromartinDoello

    February 1, 2026 at 3:16 pm

    I love ted

  6. @TaoPride

    February 1, 2026 at 3:31 pm

    I have a dream!

  7. @JSJSpeaks

    February 1, 2026 at 3:31 pm

    👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  8. @chrisleblanc581

    February 1, 2026 at 4:34 pm

    Well you know you are hear stupidity when bad acronyms come out.

  9. @alexallegood1040

    February 1, 2026 at 4:34 pm

    She’s daring the impossibilities

  10. @peterweller8583

    February 1, 2026 at 4:41 pm

    Nope I reject your assumption that it is impossible that there isn’t enough to go around, when it is obvious there is no reason it could not.

  11. @avoidrealnames

    February 1, 2026 at 6:18 pm

    I love her necklace!!

  12. @LE-gs9mo

    February 1, 2026 at 10:21 pm

    Ridiculous. As in the fact that the very elite you’re referencing, own the platform you’re using. You’re a bought-and-paid-for plant. You have nothing of any worth or merit to say in that ridiculous, sing-song, hypnotic, hypocrite voice of yours. Be gone with you.

  13. @someperson7

    February 1, 2026 at 11:02 pm

    I get so tired of politics on TED. Everyone is trying to tell everyone else how to think. I could turn in a circle and throw a rock and I would hit someone with strong opinions on what my opinion should be. TED was for geeks. If TED stops being TED who will be TED? Don’t be like the crowd. There was plenty of them and only one you.

  14. @MsLoila

    February 2, 2026 at 1:55 am

    Most of us struggle with having basic intelligence, an intelligent new sub-species of technology is gonna render us and our lives way meaningless than we recognise.

  15. @awlig

    February 2, 2026 at 2:00 am

    Sign me up to your ideals lady ❤

  16. @emmacampbell9728

    February 2, 2026 at 3:17 am

    Yes yes yes

  17. @GobblyGookus

    February 2, 2026 at 3:32 am

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤

  18. @kCohmJack

    February 2, 2026 at 10:41 am

    wheres the full version

    • @TED

      February 2, 2026 at 12:15 pm

      You can click the link attached to this Short to watch Ruha Benjamin’s full talk!

    • @aycha_1449

      February 2, 2026 at 7:38 pm

      @TED No link shown when watching over web … I looked everywhere. Also, the short is shown in regular format, for some reason…

  19. @KaliRaa96

    February 2, 2026 at 2:31 pm

    My take on it is that why not invest that money you putting in going out of space into saving the planet we live in instead

  20. @poet.in.flight

    February 2, 2026 at 7:42 pm

    Her premise is wrong, no one is expensed when some people spend their own money.

    Her collective imagination is meaningless.

    Her proposed utopia is possible with a free market revolution.

  21. @SpookyJohnathan

    February 3, 2026 at 5:45 pm

    If you live in a democratic society, you can build the kind of society you want. If you can’t, you don’t live in a democratic society. If you don’t live in a democratic society, you can do whatever you want to the ruling class, as their power over you is illegitimate.

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