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How do companies like SpaceX make sudden breakthroughs on decades-old challenges? Emerging tech expert Antoine Gourévitch explains how deep tech — a new approach to innovation that merges science, engineering and design thinking — is unlocking solutions to problems in space exploration, biology, energy and more. As Gourévitch says: “[deep tech] is changing what was once considered impossible into something actively possible, today.”
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Joshua E. M. Massop
April 5, 2021 at 1:54 pm
Cooperation is understanding when Man tries to be God that’s when God takes away their gifts. Every man is equal as is the animals we coexist with we are all the same only to live in Harmony.
孙悟空
April 5, 2021 at 1:55 pm
Thank you
EPITOME
April 5, 2021 at 1:56 pm
Soo much beautiful
Akbar Gading
April 5, 2021 at 1:59 pm
This is the future
Athena Adventures
April 5, 2021 at 2:00 pm
this guy spent 18 months traveling the world while the rest of us can’t
Athena Adventures
April 5, 2021 at 2:09 pm
@Sir Derty flights canceled and waiting for approval. He did say he went to China and other countries?
Eli Nope
April 5, 2021 at 3:48 pm
That is what the actual white privileged patriarchy looks like. White privilege requires wealth and leadership to really exploit the people.
B-Mac
April 5, 2021 at 6:59 pm
@Eli Nope thats not white privilege thats just money
wiggledy toes
April 5, 2021 at 8:33 pm
Do what you like, realise your a free human being, make a choice, follow these fools and dont complain or do your own thing. Dont pretend your hands are tied.
Leftie Snowflake
April 5, 2021 at 9:30 pm
@Eli Nope Spot the loser who blames his failures on white people 😂😂😂😂. Take this L, you have earned it.
Danculea Lacramioara
April 5, 2021 at 2:14 pm
Frumos, deosebit.,.,
Kirstin Strand
April 5, 2021 at 11:56 pm
Eh?
Amir HH
April 5, 2021 at 2:27 pm
Got a headache just listening to this mumble. JeeZ, not everyone is destined for public speaking. Write that speech and have someone with coherent English read it. Here is an Idea worth spreading, public speech is an art.
xybp942
April 5, 2021 at 2:35 pm
Diptec – pretend term made by french BS scientist
there’s a good reason why the french are behind – they make up so much BS
Willy Wonka
April 5, 2021 at 5:46 pm
A good point ruined by needless racism.
Jack Sparrow
April 5, 2021 at 2:42 pm
SpaceX hasn’t made “sudden breakthroughs”, it’s using the same basic technology we’ve had for over 50 years.
David Skaliczky
April 5, 2021 at 2:58 pm
Sure… Hahahahaha XD
Stuzii
April 5, 2021 at 4:20 pm
Okay there guy maybe do some more research before you type things like that
Taeryon
April 5, 2021 at 5:56 pm
Also they didnt cut down the costs by a factor of ten. They are hardly cheaper than 50% and they are probably using inflated government contracts to make their service cheaper for the industry, which would be an unfair advantage against the competition
couchpoet1
April 5, 2021 at 2:42 pm
Subtitles
Sain D
April 5, 2021 at 2:43 pm
Throw morality out the door…. imagine how ill prepared we are for a solar flare!
Bobby Brooks
April 6, 2021 at 12:48 am
Bring it on ,,, your a real fear prooaganda sucker…. stay safe.. stay stupid
Sain D
April 5, 2021 at 2:44 pm
Stop trying to make a better world, and make better people!
Joe Smith
April 5, 2021 at 2:49 pm
Closed Captioning recommended!
Motivation 2Young
April 5, 2021 at 3:20 pm
Do not be afraid to give up the good to go for the great!!!!
MegaBaellchen
April 5, 2021 at 3:25 pm
Sorry, but what does the “deep” in “deep tech” mean? Kollaboration? How does copyright fit into this approach?
Kay Aar
April 5, 2021 at 6:40 pm
this video needed subtitles by default
Anton
April 5, 2021 at 6:56 pm
too many famous common words…
Bobby Brooks
April 5, 2021 at 7:44 pm
Garbage
Kirstin Strand
April 5, 2021 at 11:53 pm
Hopium?
bj0rn
April 5, 2021 at 7:49 pm
What is deep tech? It’s a new buzzword that Antoine is trying to popularize in order to promote business interests.
Kirstin Strand
April 6, 2021 at 9:34 pm
That was my first thought, too. Most on the net today is to geared for someone else’s profit.
Rufus Florin
April 9, 2021 at 11:47 am
It’s a house music subgenre actually
Javier Arevalo
April 5, 2021 at 7:59 pm
This type of tech brings hope to solve so many problems nowdays! Excellent video content.
Awake 1975
April 5, 2021 at 8:02 pm
“Biotech is Godzilla”
Jason Binedell
April 6, 2021 at 9:17 am
Awwwwww great song!!
pierrech
April 5, 2021 at 8:10 pm
I’ve really tried, but just can’t listen to it.
Santhosh Kumar Manchikatla
April 5, 2021 at 8:27 pm
WTF is he even talking???
Mohamed Esam
April 5, 2021 at 8:55 pm
Is he from Germany?
Guangkai Ren
April 6, 2021 at 1:03 am
So did you invent some breathtaking deep tech?
SoSocial
April 6, 2021 at 2:09 am
The guy claims he “discovered” the term in a research lab while he actually just put a lot of buzzwords side by side around the term “deep tech”. Nothing actually new, just trying to rebrand the same old design think method of solving problems… Disappointed with TED for posting such a waste of time!!!
ROD
April 6, 2021 at 2:45 am
my first dislike on youtube sadly
Brad Ramey
April 6, 2021 at 4:55 am
0:49 the drug was developed and approved, not in d*ckheads or yours..
Reinier van Ramshorst
April 6, 2021 at 5:48 am
Maybe in the future deep tech will allow us to learn better English before we record Ted talks
hootsmin
April 6, 2021 at 6:38 am
Why dont we just call it industry 4.0 instead of deep tech?
shashikant jadhav
April 6, 2021 at 11:06 am
bilogy can make everything possible. a cell and deep tech partnership iwill change the world for better (vaccine) or worst (virus) based on minds and hand s that use them like nuclear energy or weapons of mass destruction . Antonine explained the stuff beautifully with few examples from his vast travel . kudos. thanks
Andrea C
April 6, 2021 at 5:28 pm
I am at 8:39 but still didn’t understand what’s different between Deep Tech and the Agile/Design Thinking approach. A bit disappointed.
LulaLeeful
April 6, 2021 at 8:50 pm
WOW. Not a single mention of precautionary principle. In 2021.
nurkle blurker
April 6, 2021 at 11:43 pm
Ok but how is it “deep” tech?
Eva
April 7, 2021 at 5:27 am
This TALK does not encourage contemplation, since all your energy goes into trying to keep track of every word he is saying, because he speaks English with French pronunciation. Quite impossible to listen to.
Jeremy Leblanc
April 9, 2021 at 3:19 am
I agree. This has to be the worst accent I’ve heard in a while and I’m from a country where English isn’t our first language.
Vame Animations
April 9, 2021 at 7:43 pm
Use subtitles.
Christen Riekert
April 7, 2021 at 7:14 am
Frequency and vibration indicate size of atom. Suns rays are so small they mutate RNA within 15 minutes of exposure. As do ultra-violet. Colors signal chemical release and/with holding. Infra- red is a free almost limitless energy force. We should be loyal to it. Infra-red is universally available. If we are to engineer a mechanism which extracts its energy through static via vibrational frequenting- we should look at keeping it simple, by placing and allowing infra-red to penetrate mechanism through sequenced entry paths. Helium is also cool.
..could the afore mentioned bacteria not feed off carbon dioxide based plastic? -would this not be the solution to incorporating this bacteria into its living eco-system. ..perhaps on Mars we could keep this idea in mind and derive something from there?
TSO
April 7, 2021 at 9:00 am
In 11 minutes he said nothing
Jeremie BP
April 7, 2021 at 7:12 pm
His channeling of William Shatner is excellent.
Robert Last
April 8, 2021 at 8:58 am
Technology brought us Covid.
Noukz
April 8, 2021 at 11:20 am
Don’t we have enough technologies? We need to work on social issues, injustices, inequalities between ALL the people of the world and take in account the nature from which we keep taking resources and throwing our waste back into. There needs to be more of these topics on TED and especially on physical and mental health!
Crazy Zaul
April 8, 2021 at 7:30 pm
Baguette du Fromage.
Kriss van petegem
April 8, 2021 at 9:15 pm
C’est l’accent American?
Dirk Nachbar
April 11, 2021 at 9:42 am
Interesting, but do unsuccessful ventures also adopt these principles?