The power to think ahead in a reckless age | Bina Venkataraman

[@nobleknight7472]

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

[@mrdragoon3344]

Who said that?

[@joshuaANDlauren]

I've seen this before, only yours is written much poorer please delete.

[@genericuser1546]

@@joshuaANDlauren “A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit” - So Called Greek proverb they stated it word for word. Edit: they did add "in" at the end, but I don't think that makes the quote "much poorer."

[@revspikejonez]

@@joshuaANDlaurenI've seen this before, only yours is written much poorer please delete.

[@blue_tetris]

Old men busily remove everything they relied upon, so no one else can have it. Society is busted.

[@pyre_flies]

"This instrument isn't mine... it's my role to shepherd it in time." :0 Beautiful.

[@Lunareon]

A truly beautiful talk with a beautiful message. We are all but shepherds to the world around us. Nothing can be taken along when we leave, and the following generations will only know us by what we left behind.

[@pyre_flies]

Lunareon beautifully said, thank you!

[@SimranKaur-jh3mh]

This is probably the first time I thought of myself as more than just the daughter of my parents. This is probably the first time I pictured myself as an ancestor. Great talk!

[@Lisa_Evers]

Same here. That was probably the most profound thing she said, IMHO.... that each of us is a future ANCESTOR. Wow...if that doesn't make you think very differently about how you live your life, today...how you might live your life, tomorrow...I don't know what will!

[@HeartfeltMomentsTGG]

It's amazing how moments like this can make us reflect on the legacy we leave behind. What kind of impact do you hope to make with your actions today? It's interesting to think about how even small decisions can ripple through time, shaping the future. I believe we often underestimate the power of our choices. What do you think we can do to ensure our legacy is one of positive change in this unpredictable world?

[@bijenatom3486]

11:09 Seriously? I got goosebumps hearing the sound!

[@xyonzpkm4183]

Same!! I need more!!!

[@bijenatom3486]

@ yeah😄

[@SirRuko]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJXCfZWdbs-lpbc Lower left corner of the screen, the deaf are talking about it.

[@evolvedcopper2205]

Man, I felt like I was watching a movie and my favourite character was about to die slowly, I have no other better way to explain it because that's how hard it hit

[@bijenatom3486]

@@evolvedcopper2205 I can get you BRo

[@sumayya003]

What we've done wrong (and where we should change perspective) 1) The things we measure measure: not immedeate profits but long term sustainability 2) The things we reawrd: not cleaning up a disaster, but mitigating a potentil one in the future 3) The things we fail to imagine: not keep information as data but act on it (for eg, the ebola crisis when it first showed up; doctors didn't think it would really spread ; but it did) Tools people are using today and we should spread: 1) Making the long game pay now: eg, George Washington Carver when he planted peanuts and promoted them to make them viable to the small farmer today 2)Keep the memory of the past alive: Yanasuke Hirai in the 1960s an engineer who decided to build the nuclear power plant on a height even tho it was tough to keep it safe. Later it was a safe house for flood victims. 3) Creating shared heirlooms: In fisheries, not taking out the breeding creatures. Not just taking out whatever they get. But taking out what the ocean can give. I never write video summaries but I did for this one, perhaps a future viewer might find it useful.

[@Cristianooo]

Praise bro

[@moodinfinite]

What I learned today: - We are measuring success in short-term, short-sighted ways like quarterly reports and test scores. They aren't accurate predictors of long-term success - We shouldn't be rewarding politicians for cleaning up disasters when we should be incentivizing them to put down payments on preventing them in the first place - We fail to imagine since we try to predict binary outcomes.

[@kibetronoh2376]

Great summary

[@HeartfeltMomentsTGG]

It's so true that we often focus on short-term measurements, like quarterly reports or test scores, when assessing success. Long-term success requires a more nuanced approach, one that takes into account the bigger picture. Your point about politicians rewarding disaster management instead of prevention resonates deeply. Isn't it interesting how we tend to look at problems after they happen, rather than focusing on solutions before they escalate? How do you think we can shift the focus from reactive measures to proactive ones in the policies that govern us?

[@hectortorres585]

My foresight is My Motto (Hope for the Best,But Prepare for the Worst of everything) Knowing your going to fail or fall Hurts a lot less than an unexpected one GO GRÊÊN 💚😀💯%

[@saidchahid1298]

Good .

[@shiitakestick]

Hector Torres - disagree

[@shiitakestick]

Vigilante Jake - you ; not so much

[@sleyaraze8916]

What she taught us was simple but applicable in every aspect of this life.

[@HeartfeltMomentsTGG]

It’s incredible how something so simple can have such a profound impact on our lives. The ability to think ahead in a world that often feels reckless is something we can all benefit from, yet it’s so easy to forget in the rush of daily life. How do you personally make space to think ahead in your own life, especially when things feel chaotic?

[@gigglysamentz2021]

This talk really did make me think more about what I will pass down...

[@chevchelios3904]

Cheese burgers and Tacos with a ton of hot sauce, man it comes in hot , and oh boy, does it come out hot

[@evolvedcopper2205]

@Truthful Chap I like your name, off topic

[@evolvedcopper2205]

@Truthful Chap it's actually not an oxymoron, it's an exaggeration pertaining to a video game that I play now and again

[@HeartfeltMomentsTGG]

It's amazing how this talk opens up a deeper perspective on what truly matters to pass down. It makes me wonder-are we more focused on the immediate or thinking about the long-term impact? What do you think is the most valuable thing we can pass down in this fast-paced world?

[@gigglysamentz2021]

She's such a good speaker! :o

[@SamA-ob6gz]

She seems stressed out

[@gigglysamentz2021]

@@SamA-ob6gz Yeah a bit... It must be quite stressful to deliver a TED Talk :')

[@chevchelios3904]

@@gigglysamentz2021 y? its just a bunch of know nothings willing to fork over their pay checks, seems like a fun and exciting thing to do

[@mickyeverton]

One day we will all be a memory try and be a good one!! 🙏

[@ckilr01]

I want to start the zombie apocalypse....

[@divyamurugesan5557]

One of the greatest TED talks. ❤❤

[@evolvedcopper2205]

We need more talks from Bina

[@theodorevegh6030]

Stupidity, Lies and Cowardice are the problems we must solve with education, verification and inspiration. Only fools think we can go on as we have been living - with total disregard for the future. We must think ahead to make the World a better place for our children and grandchildren. - TAV ♥️🇺🇸🌎👍

[@urseldoran9782]

Excellent talk with great insights. "Those that do not know history....", further to the Japanese gentleman's wisdom that did not build his nuke plant on the coast. Much of what she is saying is indicating the society's loss of common sense, relying to much on technical wizardry when not appropriate.

[@wizzenberry]

My rule. Try your hardest to eliminate any bias when looking at evidence and formulating a opinion

[@ramzichouk4080]

I have evidence for you and it's about physics and it was written 1400 years ago [Quran 21.30] Do not those who disbelieve see that the heavens and the Earth were meshed together then We ripped them apart? And then We made of water everything living? Would they still not believe?

[@wizzenberry]

Ramzi Chouk that’s very vague, if the Quran explained something like gravity in depth, then I might actually be inclined to believe the Quran had something to it. Like all holy books, a lot of very vague things are written, it’s a probability fallacy, well it would be if what you quoted proved anything

[@ramzichouk4080]

@@wizzenberry who would've been able to guess those things 1400 years ago? Is the question you should ask yourself

[@ramzichouk4080]

@@wizzenberry [Quran 51.47] And the heaven, We built it with craftsmanship and We are still expanding.

[@ramzichouk4080]

@@wizzenberry the expansion of the universe

[@gigglysamentz2021]

We really needed that message :')

[@chevchelios3904]

Bin Laden!!! wut wuuuut, talk ab out future foresight, you people suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuk

[@harindersinghossan5857]

"Dilruba" was created some 300 years ago by our 10th Sikh guru, Guru Gobind Singh ji

[@kyabrammotors2125]

This should be shown over and over to every politician with clamps holding their eyes open like Alex in Clockwork.

[@ibrahimwahab7054]

Wow! That Dilruba music really hit home for me.Even though it was for awhile but it touches me deep inside..Awsome!!!

[@guruveercr7104]

Simple message. Yet so profound. Make the world a better place

[@kellyviolette1419]

“Do you understand? Man needs entertainment simply to hide his madness. If he was perfectly sane, he would not need entertainment. He could just sit and watch this bamboo grow. He does not really need entertainment.” ― Sadhguru, Mystic's Musings

[@RickfromVermont]

Foresight and the hope that acts positively are what we need to overcome division in politics, and enable us to work together to prevent climate change from becoming the ultimate disaster.

[@raychaudhuri6281]

A Veena is called BINA in Bengali....Yours is a Dilruba (close)..... Good talk!!

[@pyre_flies]

George Washington Carver... truly a great guy

[@shiitakestick]

Olivia Guilbert - he was a nut-job.

[@evolvedcopper2205]

I went for a holiday to the US when I was a kid, there was some dude in a crowd who spoke of him and asked the people surrounding him who knew who he was, I answered him, and he was so proud that a (definitely not American) kid knew it, moral of the story - George Washington Carver was a boss, and I want a green card 😂

[@Vlad-u3x]

Very common. Let’s preserve for future generations. Of course. Who can argue with that. Talking obvious things

[@shauljuri]

Wow! Gorgeous woman!

[@evolvedcopper2205]

I didn't want to the first person to say it 👀

[@aliqazilbash5231]

music makes me feel good when I listen to it, I will not deny that but I can't play it, except I played the guitar in the highschool's band/ choir. the most boring activity I ever took part in

[@johndemeritt3460]

We have tools for foresight -- great tools, tools that allow us not only anticipate what the future can be, but allow us to anticipate many ways things can go wrong and how to get back on the path to futures we want to pass on to our descendants. I know something about those tools: I have a MS in Studies of the Future, and I learned both theory and methodology about understanding and communicating future possibilities. What we truly lack is a social construction of time and equity that values the future as something we create in the present for people who will live or die by the decisions we make in the present. Our current mutually constructed social reality values the present and treats all other times as unreal. In this social construction, the past doesn't matter because it's done and can't be undone. In this social construction, the future is not real in that it doesn't yet exist and is beyond our control. Neither of these is true. We are constantly learning new things about the past that change how we think of our present. More importantly, what we learn of our pasts -- individually and collectively -- makes us more conscious of our connections to things beyond our control that make us who we are today. We desperately need those connections, because without them, we will unconsciously pass on the structural inequalities in our collective present to future generations. We also need to conceive of the future (actually, our futures -- note the plural!) as being as real as our present. We are creating the futures our descendants will live in, and the changes we make now will not easily be undone -- just as the changes we inherited from previous generations cannot be easily undone. We live with and continue to build around what we were left, be it physical or social infrastructure. We don't create the future as if it were a blank sheet of paper: the futures we create have to fit around what already exists -- unless we have plans for clearing the path of what's already there. All this means we have to reconstruct our ideas about how the futures we hand down come to pass. We need to seriously talk about the ways we talk about our futures. We need to dig up the assumptions about the future buried beneath our ideas about how our futures play out, and we need to deeply challenge those assumptions. We need to do this work soon. If we fail to think about and change the ways we act toward the futures we're creating, we may leave no agency for those who follow us to chart their own futures. Moreover, we may take away the very things that allow them to make meaning of the lives they live. After we've severed their connections to the past and dialed the future focus we leave them down to "now", what will they have as the basis for making sense of their lives? We are creatures who thrive on meaning: we die from lack of it. And if we leave future people nothing with which to make sense of their lives, how will they live?

[@agamerjourney9146]

To many young adult parents leads to less thinking ahead in life. Cause the young parents most likely not past on life knowledge. Yet older more mature adults will teach there children Financial, Mentalawareness, and there life’s past mistakes.

[@Cobalt_Dragon0716]

Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

[@SgtWinters77]

the future is now!

[@ravirajsinhpadhiyar5742]

....old man.

[@chevchelios3904]

So what your saying is, time travel!!! ye? :)

[@chevchelios3904]

does that mean you can smell your farts from the future?

[@emilyformstone4898]

I love her use of the feminine pronoun for the first person singular!

[@evolvedcopper2205]

Please tell me where, I'm so lost but I want to understand it

[@emilyformstone4898]

Evolved Copper 3:38

[@evolvedcopper2205]

I totally zipped past it when I saw the video, thanks Emily ✌

[@TruckTruckington]

lol why does it matter what pronoun is used when compared for he or she shouldnt they be used?

[@nerobautistaii6139]

love it!

[@letsknowmorebangla]

💘

[@PTBBme]

The comments here are infuriating. I thought it was good.

[@lolas6672]

KZbin is a cesspool of morons.

[@JJ-kl7eq]

Thinking ahead Bina there. Done that.

[@le-jaunemorgan6563]

No views? Hmmmm let's fix that...

[@dianabauer7412]

hahaha same over here

[@agamerjourney9146]

Learn that if your poor you most likely to think in the moment. Such why poor family won’t past on the knowledge. Yet family that doing decent or good. End teaching there kids knowledge they gained in life.

[@LadyPapaMayodora]

2 years ago explains why she said ebola. We will never learn..

[@abdelhaykabani8264]

I am shocked when I knew she is not Hindi

[@ASMR-nk5km]

It sounds like naruto sad music

[@anickl2u]

Overpopulation where poverty breeds poverty (and crime ) , the major factor of today's misery . Yet no one seems to bother . Think ahead ???? (sic).

[@jamesbrown99991]

well, my heirloom is fricken huge

[@evolvedcopper2205]

Tell us more 👀

[@chevchelios3904]

Future foresight? ain't nobody got time fo dat

[@scatton61]

A women discovers things we have known and been doing for 1000's of years....

[@evolvedcopper2205]

Not everyone understands, many autopilot their actions in the name of traditions, ted talks as they say are about spreading ideas, not everyone grasps the concept

[@samhoehne8183]

fims was here

[@dadsonworldwide3238]

Our reform like a nation at risk act has obviously failed our kids and took away far to much from the future. We can look back and see what worked and dont but instead we try to reforn the reforms building mistakes . As far as what is in our power we are limited by tech. No matter how much money yoh through at science it doesnt advance any faster .this has plenty of proof to look up. 40% of all food is thrown away. Thats 40% of land, labor ,transportation,refridgeration and disposel plus greehouse gases all for nothing wasted.This can be addressed. instead of socialist trying to radically change what we cant fix work on this. free food gov controled agriculture. Left wimg socialist could tackle this with conservatives support. aceint civs fed people why cant we? This is within our control and our tech. abilty.

[@dadsonworldwide3238]

Our part is to advance the knowledge we was passed then our children do the same. We do this well.despite the negativity and alarmism thats spred we are doimg our share.

[@willmart6397]

Thos is true because I always think of the market price of my industry and keep a level so that there's a fair competition

[@revspikejonez]

So you're barely thinking. Think of the labor involved and the human suffering involved in labor.

[@wotwot6868]

Just another way of saying that Capitalism and Market is not the way to go. Ofc, saying that will get you called as a communist by those who bathe in money. They claim that they 'working hard'. Note that I alluded the not well known fact that Capitalism and Markets are not the same.

[@carolinaquanonne597]

Equipment too kill mosquito demand

[@NickTheGreat227]

Hi

[@prashantaggarwal6453]

Only inventions takes us ahead..otherwise..world from beginning to the time electricity came..was living in candles

[@rqaay2872]

Second

[@djwhite2115]

Jesus is Lord ...living inside out.

[@ramzichouk4080]

Jesus never said he was god

[@elishaberrios1706]

@@ramzichouk4080 You're right. He said we all are.

[@ramzichouk4080]

@@elishaberrios1706 nope, technically there could be only one creator of everything not 3 or more

[@elishaberrios1706]

@@ramzichouk4080 How can a creator create something without pulling from his image or the unkown within himself?

[@djwhite2115]

@@ramzichouk4080 lol..lower case g....no you right bc he is a Capitol G od....God is Good all the time in Jesus Christ Name Amen

[@CalLadyQED]

What's wrong is how she used "begs the question." :D

[@jaydoublegee2831]

Womansplaining. Boring...

[@HeresVivian]

Jay Double Gee I learnt something, hope you did too

[@dsmith2046]

Quite the opposite. I'm half way through and I can tell she's intelligent and passionate about what she does. A thought provoking presentation!

[@lolas6672]

A douchebag says what?

[@Jump-2-the-moon]

Talking wayyyyy too slow. Had to watch this on 1.5x.

[@harindersinghossan5857]

It's so an unfortunate that you introduced your Ancestors place so badly in the opening remarks and end the show with care of being Ancestor to all ! What lessons are your resonating ?

[@sf.5895]

Too boring. I did not finish video. I predicted I would continue to be bored and ended early ....to make this comment..

[@ramzichouk4080]

Just bla bla nothing special about this presentation

[@anamaria463]

That is actually so rude tho. She probably spend hours writing and putting together this presentation

[@ramzichouk4080]

@@anamaria463 she could do that with a camera and put it on KZbin

[@anamaria463]

@@ramzichouk4080 well it still is a video on KZbin, you could have clicked off at any point you've wanted to 🤷‍♀️ idk like her talk was interesting for some people

[@ramzichouk4080]

@@anamaria463 meh!

[@ramzichouk4080]

@@anamaria463 the ted platform is meant to present the new not the faded

[@DamyenLeFay]

You want the future? Go play fallout

[@mladenbacic]

All this people speak the same and the tematics are the same. Bring back spam email!

[@RexHalbeisen]

Snoozer... TED used to be good...

[@koolaid8737]

All that is left to do now is to hang ourselves.