How technology changes our sense of right and wrong | Juan Enriquez

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What drives society's understanding of right and wrong? In this thought-provoking talk, futurist Juan Enriquez offers a historical outlook on what humanity once deemed acceptable -- from human sacrifice and public executions to slavery and eating meat -- and makes a surprising case that exponential advances in technology leads to more ethical behavior.
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[@former.]

See you when this gets recommended in 10 years.

[@johncz66]

I will comment here so I might get some likes in the future for absolutely no reason.

[@edwardmao9792]

*Prophesy detected Gotta see if you are right

[@anroidanicver6783]

Chungus Papa will I live in 10 years?

[@thinkbeforeuact4457]

@Scott why do you think that way??

[@thinkbeforeuact4457]

@Scott okayyyyy

[@stefannikola]

Three words: humility, responsibility, and forgiveness. And be very careful with forgiveness because too much of it becomes permissiveness.

[@Dogbertforpresident]

Forgive but never forget.

[@thinkbeforeuact4457]

@@walperstyle i want to know.

[@dmitrizaslavski8480]

@@walperstyle you don't even need to name, they come themselves at first notion.

[@OleksiiTheAngry]

...or impunity

[@APKeyboards]

"When you judge the past, your ancestors, your forefathers, do so with a little bit more humility, because perhaps if you'd been educated in that time, if you'd lived in that time, you would've been done a lot of things wrong. Not because they're right. Not because we don't see they're wrong today, but simply because our notions, our understanding of right and wrong change across time." Chapeau 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@angelic8632002]

I think the most important realization Ive had so far is "you don't know what you don't know". That if anything demand a sense of humility. It is as true for me, as it is for you and everyone else. Judging gets us nowhere.

[@T-Bone93]

Judging is a natural instinct of being human, it's not about judge the judging.

[@HinnerkHesse]

Absolutely fundamental for a better internet culture! Goooood

[@willburr5198]

I came to write a reaction a paper and stayed for the eye opening insights. Thank you so much!

[@reikenzan1916]

Just marking my Attendance . I was here before this video exploded , and I definitely shared it with half a dozen people.

[@nicholashildenbrand8632]

I agree except that you're missing ONE key problem in your analysis. All of these social media sites are designed to drive engagement above everything else. If the website design remains the same then this kind of trench warfare will continue. Whatever they need to do to get consumers to keep using their product they will do. It doesn't matter how positive or negative the consequences.

[@Ofinfinitejest]

You're on to something valid here. throughout 2016 Facebook intentionally amplified hatred, fear, and disinformation of a paranoid and conspiratorial nature in American users of that platform (everyone should see the documentary "The Great Hack"). Ostensibly, this is because it improves their revenue--or so they would claim in attempted defense of their actions. Humans are genetically programmed to pay more attention to sources of fear and tribalism, and so social media with its rapid fire and fact-check-free formats are likely to make money and increase participation by such negative actions. Facebook was working in part for Putin and Russia, as well as making money. A powerful solution to the problems this video identifies is far better education--of both students and the general public--in cross-checking claims, rational and logical thinking, and teaching people to use the scientific method to evaluate what is true, and what is intended to amplify our most primitive instincts.

[@aoi_18]

This TED talk came at such a timely hour for me. I think many of us are facing dilemmas in cancel culture as we see the face of communication change with the shifting attitudes of new generations expecting answers and replies within seconds.

[@Achalacha]

Excellent video ! The world is changing exponentially so we can't lock ourselves with some absolute right and wrong but we need to be more open-minded, humble and forgiving.

[@buuoz]

An awe inspiring talk - well presented with humility and succinct reason... may our society take up this quest to achieve a better life for all. Thank you.

[@ivanildogalindodasilva5120]

That's all people living today need to hear and understand. Congratulations and thanks for making it available!

[@russianhorde]

If we can define ourselves as being humble and forgiving, help others develop ways of thinking that allow them to become more humble and forgiving so that we have a society that can be described as both humble and forgiving, then we will have left the world a better place for our descendants. All this happens through right relationships with one another and in knowing your own self as well.

[@KayKayshaw]

True, I think self-awareness must be taught since childhood.

[@johnrobichaud1983]

There are a lot of people who need to learn to forgive others in today's world especially for misunderstandings and mistakes.

[@jameskulevich8907]

Dream on...

[@barbsmart7373]

@@jameskulevich8907 Tena koe Brother, I got some good ideas from this video. I am a New Zealander with a huge interest in history. I have visited dozens of graveyards, large and small in my small country. It is impossible for me not to be unceasinly shocked by the numbers of men whose remains or memorials I visit, who died at France, Gallipoli at sea, or other places, while fighting for freedom and peace. If not the hundreds of battles, it is invariably November, 1918 on the headstones of previously healthy, active young people and their infants, that take much of my attention. My interest in history, and my interest in scapegoats have lead me to ponder deeply about the evils of this world. I have acquired much knowledge of the horrors of 31 years of last century. My deep interest in World War 1 (that 10 per cent of the population signed up to participate in), the resulting enormity of the flu epidemic, followed by a second world war and a holocaust that wiped out 6 million of people also related to me has had a very deep affect on me. I have had friends who were either a child and "shot at" and injured "while crossing a border", or "managed to get out", whose fathers were injured by shrapnel, were traumatized, lost mates, or turned i to hard, nasty, abusive, violent, or silent husbands and fathers. One friend's mother grew up in an orphanage and all her children suffered intergenerational neglect. The pain goes on, and on, and on. It has been very easy for me to create in myself a deep, deep illfilling for Germans. This happened. Two people, before they died, instructed me to "never forget". (The holocaust). I will write the end of my story here when I have time, later.

[@ubloo6289]

@@barbsmart7373 I would like to hear the rest of your story :)

[@barbsmart7373]

@@ubloo6289 Kia ora. Is there anything in particular that you are interested in?

[@Joe_A_Pace]

This is very enlightening. Thank you.

[@sevilaliyeva2029]

I was listening to a podcast, now I’m listening via KZbin:)

[@enriquekramer4590]

Wow! Juan, you did it again: shining a light into the darkness and hubris of our time.

[@admininfo536]

Right and wrong has never changed. Only our perception of it

[@Mrstudmad]

Also, what is changing is the priority given to individual freedom over moral duty .

[@azzamjaber7014]

Thanks for a great talk..

[@SirMorak]

This is the kind of video I subscribe to TED for. (at least the first half of it, because the 2nd part felt like promoting again)

[@Read_to_me_abook]

It's a very important topic 👍 Technology totally changed our lifes

[@scdhl3305]

For the worst

[@anroidanicver6783]

@@scdhl3305 With each new invention the positive results have outweighed the negative ones. Even so when we learned to harvest nuclear energy, yes it created the most devastating weapons known to menkind, but it also allowed further continuation of exploring space and understanding science - science and technology improves our way of living as they are focused on solving problems, not creating problems.

[@scdhl3305]

@@anroidanicver6783 Tell the people in Fukushima daiichi, that nuclear energy is the way to go, that thing has been leaking since March 3rd 2011 & after the recent 7.0 earthquake, they found more leakage - they have over a hundred tons of contaminated water that they eventually plan on draining into the Pacific. If you really want to move forward with technology and a reliable source of energy, start asking your Congress people to release Nikola Tesla energy. And as far as technology is concerned, it's making people stupider, half of them can't even remember a phone number anymore and depend on their device, for everyday things that we used to do on our own.

[@TheLivirus]

It's become fashionable to change society through technology, not necessarily for the better, more like a social experiment.

[@yc5887]

@@scdhl3305 bingo.

[@topolo19]

Amazing, simply amazing

[@Hemant_dhayal]

Fantastic 🙏🙏

[@ttbalog]

Thank you

[@dangoncalvesbr]

Cool, it’s been a long time since I couldn’t see a whole Ted Talk or not change the speed. Great idea, and it’s worth spreading!

[@hongnhungnguyen2474]

I love this talk!

[@cynthia587]

World need this message today ! Thanks 🙏

[@Hemant_dhayal]

Fantastic 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@NikkiVelazquez]

I couldn't agree more!

[@shahirkhan6344]

An insightful one!!

[@ram.p1395]

Excellent speech

[@pandale9427]

i prefer this way of presentation to the conventional one carried out in previous speeches. It's like watchig a documentary. Thumbs up to Ted

[@qwerty-et1iz]

Gracias.

[@hoangtri6635]

How could i find better??? Thanks, that absolutely changes my mind

[@steveknight9187]

So good

[@KayKayshaw]

This is great

[@user-uh9ni6ez5o]

amazing speech !!!!!!

[@coulterjb22]

I agree wholeheartedly.

[@Rosiecat677]

i like the ted talk like this

[@vthilton]

Sharing, Truth and Non-violence for All.

[@redsparks2025]

what a great talk :)

[@magnushabbestad18]

Good talk👌

[@NeonsStyleHD]

...and Empathy. Being able to look at another persons point of view with understanding of their emotional reality.

[@BonesTheCat]

That's why we dragged ourselves out of the dark ages. The value of the individual. We're heading back down that hole through identity politics.

[@elinope4745]

The other side of the dark ages was better. The spread of Christianity was a plague on the world. Jesus was cool, his followers are NOT.

[@HMALDANA]

Refreshing talk. Thank you, Juan!

[@noussablk8708]

I love it❤

[@yourcreativity3294]

That line really catch my intrest "oppressing people and have a doubling in lifespan"

[@chadphriday197]

Forgot the "you can quit" before the "oppressing" part.

[@joannot6706]

Me too but in a bad way, there is still oppression even though our lifespan doubled. He make it sound like we oppress other to increase lifespan when in fact it's irrelevant and history proves that.

[@cstalley]

This is great! As a progressive thinker I would definitely be open to allowing room for conversation about divisive issues with conservatives who are trapped in their dogmatic belief systems.

[@Mucving]

Idea worth spreading indeed.

[@logenlastname]

“We must create a space instead of a no man’s land.”

[@prakashbaskar4382]

So cute ....

[@zaaz1471]

both the space, and no man's land are the same.

[@jameskulevich8907]

Nope. Stop over population.

[@sonalsinha888]

Great

[@doblerollo7952]

Peace and love, fellas

[@devrajput5488]

Beautifully said!🌸🌻🌼 TED always brings great videos to enrich our lives!!!

[@erwinjessealjas2826]

If right is only a matter of popular opinion, then I wouldn't want to have anything to do with it. I take the truth as the highest value. I don't humble myself to evil people, and I certainly don't want to forgive them. Your arguments sets the stage for revising history to make the perpetuators look innocuous, and thus allow whole communities to go through a repeat of those wicked parts of their past. If we are really interested in building resilient communities we must stick with truth and justice. Humility and forgiveness always sounds good in other peoples lips, but never stopped the spawning of evil, in most cases meek and rescindable people were actively put to use by sinister groups. Humility and forgiveness give way to gratitude, which is the weapon of choice by the depraved.

[@nun_bel_eever]

*Great view & observational comments. Rooted in a very solid platform that unfortunately if one considers the US, is largely blind to their own involvement in stated societal ills.*

[@AgufanaMosesInjairu]

I listen to Ted talks, and I understand that there are really smart people out there.

[@ninyqin7086]

See you when this video becomes a high school English assignment 10 years later

[@clovern]

Ah, you're right! It does seem like it'd be that sort of landmark video, huh?

[@definitely_not_an_athlete1714]

Hiii So excited for this new episode !

[@mollypinto4666]

Absolutely

[@vincentvango5338]

He's absolutely right! This really validates the truth that there definitely is GOOD & EVIL...WRIGHT & WRONG ! no middle ground...and we really are just dust in the wind !

[@MiloMontang]

Adem banget cuy

[@isabellekeller2979]

So... I'm German. Idk about the ancestors thing :') I'm all here for finding similarities and not differences and for being understanding. But I think you should still be able to criticize. That's like the main reason why social morals changed over time. Because people were criticizing these things that were widely accepted.

[@theupl]

This is what humanity is all about. There is no right and wrong. Right and wrong is a missconception, failing to see the bigger picture. Its also a judgement based on preferences. It's another way to say "What about me".

[@elinope4745]

Social contract is real, environment is real. People can salt fields and ruin air. No man's land can be made. Cooperation or death will be had.

[@theupl]

@@elinope4745 Yes. A challange the more unconscious humans are, and the natural conscequence of unclarity is disaster. We can choose to destroy this beautyful world, or we can build a paradise for the benefit of all. We have resources to do it, but the will is missing. It becomes a judgemental game of who gets what, in turn limiting the outcome. So the context is real, in all directions. However, there is no right or wrong - there is only what works or not.

[@elinope4745]

@@theupl I agree, the will is missing.

[@kayaar00]

stay true to your truth and you won't have to choose sides

[@softy7745]

It's making our life easy and give all people opportunity to develop their self also make all people equal

[@gucci_good18]

What’s acceptable or not, what’s normal or not, does not determine what is right or wrong

[@djayjp]

Exactly. Can't stand this deference to cultural relativism.

[@lapka005]

The main idea is that tolerance is the key to the future

[@linadoo6237]

❤

[@GaasubaMeskhenet]

I suggest Peter Coffin's video on cancel culture

[@arlinegeorge6967]

Great talk . Technology is magical wonders. Society dictates right n wrong . Thank you, bless you. All your dreams come true .

[@nevershoutnani7129]

not the whole human race needing to hear this

[@saeedsobhani4213]

I 100% agree with this opinion, however making another mankind suffer, sanction, war, torture and killing is always wrong, no matter what or when.

[@avicennam7708]

Your a cool guy

[@bilikdotid]

Technologi totally change our sense

[@albucarcassartist]

I wish people would really believe this but ignorant people who can't employ such ideas (although most would agree with them only to forget about them later) are extremely common. Lots of people are bullheaded and arrogant and the fact of the matter is that people like that are rewarded by society.

[@petthepizza]

This guy extremely underplays the role social movements played in shifting the overton window. All of the things we take for granted as "right" today were hard fought and certainly wouldn't have magically appeared just because of advancements in technology. Yes, technology can serve as the means by which activists further their cause, but they are not the driving force in and of themselves. Technology is simply a tool and in the end it is people who change our perceptions.

[@popcolgate9490]

I disagree, in the last part he talks about humility & forgiveness. I think he wants to say that the combination of human & technology would create the best situation. At the end of the day, it's not about how technology changes us, but it's about how we use technology to communicate, spread information & knowledge with humility and forgiveness.

[@petthepizza]

@@popcolgate9490 I think we are agreeing lol

[@nun_bel_eever]

@@petthepizza *I had to give you both thumbs up. Firstly he is talking from a position that was advanced by the very ills he descries. Humanity is humanity & as Pop stated that we ought to be aware of how tech changes our sense of morality but is not responsible for that part of society that has only been abated enough to meld to the current moral paradigm apprehension...*

[@BitBard302]

Out of this world! If this has you intrigued, a comparable book is my strong recommendation. "Game Theory and the Pursuit of Algorithmic Fairness" by Jack Frostwell

[@tay7300]

Wow

[@truhhhhhhhokIII3]

Listen to this guy...and then listen to Lt dangle from Reno911...they sound the exact same 😁

[@emmymoreno4929]

😂

[@bonkeykong1487]

i am a simple man. i see juan, i click

[@hafitalnmr8192]

This states another point, which is when we going to face our fears of what we don't know?!

[@Techykr]

Gud

[@logenlastname]

THIS IS AN AMAZING VIDEO

[@V1ctoria00]

Our generation will have to answer the questions: how long will a human be allowed to live, which microorganisms will we preserve/destroy, how will we rebuild the power grid, how will we prepare for the cold, what is the safest way to feed humans long term? Everything has to be rewritten. Because it has to be digitized and systemized.

[@israelcarvalho6736]

Uma coisa é errar e pedir desculpa sinceras. Outra coisa é manipular no famoso "morde e assopra". Para essas pessoas não se deve conceder perdão. Se tentar me manipular uma única vez, acabou, sem segunda chance. Como diz o ditado: "Se alguém te engana uma vez, essa pessoa merece uma surra. Se te enganam duas vezes, é você que merece a surra".

[@Alz426]

جميل

[@logenlastname]

“Technology changes ethics. Technology is exponential.”

[@Kongolox]

really it depends on "source" of the sense.. is it culture, religion or ideology other.

[@mariana703]

does anyone know wtf he says here - 7:13? "a middle ground, a ....????, and a space of empathy" ?????

[@nun_bel_eever]

*Religious moral conscience blindness to immediate personal proximal detection..?*

[@ligiasommers]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻💖🌷

[@Y0Uanonymous]

I am disappointed at the lack of non-voters, the more non-voters means the more initiative for different and/or better policies to be proposed by the politicians and therefore a better candidate.

[@imas1239]

The senses of right and wrong is human trait and easy to manupliat by a lot of things.

[@oliviao2238]

I like this video; unfortunately, some people need to make and keep friends by believing what's wrong. It snowballs into the momentum of an obligation of being right when it is clearly wrong. That's why America has become unrecognizable to the extent that we all become in the follower trap at someone else's expense.

[@srbinalek]

danke Juan!

[@blazayblazay8888]

IT’S PEOPLE!

[@user-cw8bf7ry4w]

アンビリバボーから

[@user-jj2gw2vn4x]

同じく

[@sitisadiyah6156]

Pls Indonesia subtitle 😭😭 I need that🙏

[@aly2041]

We are not happy that TED couldn't do it because of old concept Covid 19

[@haisesasaki3944]

Second! ❤ Love it.

[@user-hh2is9kg9j]

Very very insightful, also technology has facilitated women equality. With running water, vacuum cleaners, washing machine, gas stoves, ...etc house chores and child care became less and less demanding which freed women to pursue positions that are traditionally for men.

[@muhsinchill]

🙂