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We have to be willing, as teachers and parents and entrepreneurs and scientists, we have to be willing to have proactive conversations about race with honesty and understanding and courage, not because it's the right thing to do, but because it's the smart thing to do, because our businesses and our products and our science, our research, all of that will be better with greater diversity.
It was
science
fiction made true, robotic engineering in a pre-electronic age, machines far in advance of anything that Victorian technology could create, a machine we would later know as the robot.
It's one of the leitmotifs of
science
fiction.
So, I have a feature on my website where every week people submit hypothetical questions for me to answer, and I try to answer them using math,
science
and comics.
This was one of the most brilliant breakthroughs in all of food
science.
And it's good reason for them to be obsessed with the idea of universals, because all of science, through the 19th century and much of the 20th, was obsessed with universals.
What is the great revolution in
science
of the last 10, 15 years?
Now in medical science, we don't want to know, necessarily, just how cancer works, we want to know how your cancer is different from my cancer.
There's a new field in brain science, social neuroscience.
There's a saying in the world of information science: ultimately everybody will know everything.
It gets better and better, and when you combine that with white lab coats, you must imagine that there is fantastic
science
behind this.
But sadly, these are fraudulent claims supported by dodgy
science.
When I was in eighth grade, our
science
teacher told us that all male homosexuals develop fecal incontinence because of the trauma to their anal sphincter.
Well, there's a new field, a relatively new field of social
science
that started looking at these questions and trying to unpack the powerful and sometimes pretty schizophrenic relationships that we have to animals, and I spent a lot of time looking through their academic journals, and all I can really say is that their findings are astonishingly wide-ranging.
When most people think about augmented reality, they think about "Minority Report" and Tom Cruise waving his hands in the air, but augmented reality is not
science
fiction.
What is this technology worth to a Commander Hadfield or a Neil deGrasse Tyson trying to inspire a generation of children to think more about space and
science
instead of quarterly reports and Kardashians?
And so here I am at TED, I suppose to tell that story, and I think it's appropriate to say the obvious that there's a symbiotic and intrinsic link between storytelling and community, between community and art, between community and
science
and technology, between community and economics.
It was actually adverted to earlier, but a very specific thing happened in the history of the kind of Christianity that we see around us mostly in the United States today, and it happened in the late 19th century, and that specific thing that happened in the late 19th century was a kind of deal that was cut between science, this new way of organizing intellectual authority, and religion.
This is not a world in which the separation between religion and
science
has occurred.
Religion has not being separated from any other areas of life, and in particular, what's crucial to understand about this world is that it's a world in which the job that
science
does for us is done by what Rattray is going to call religion, because if they want an explanation of something, if they want to know why the crop just failed, if they want to know why it's raining or not raining, if they need rain, if they want to know why their grandfather has died, they are going to appeal to the very same entities, the very same language, talk to the very same gods about that.
This great separation, in other words, between religion and
science
hasn't happened.
I devoured
science
fiction as a child.
And I found poems by Andrew Marvell and Matthew Arnold and Emily Dickinson and William Butler Yeats because they were quoted in
science
fiction, and I loved their sounds and I went on to read about ottava rima and medial caesuras and enjambment and all that other technical stuff that you care about if you already care about poems, because poems already made me happier and sadder and more alive.
E. Housman] Now, this poem has appealed to
science
fiction writers.
It's furnished at least three
science
fiction titles, I think because it says poems can brings us news from the future or the past or across the world, because their patterns can seem to tell you what's in somebody's heart.
It's a quantitative expansion of neocortex, but that additional quantity of thinking was the enabling factor for us to take a qualitative leap and invent language and art and
science
and technology and TED conferences.
I felt unworthy of stepping across the gates of the university, because I wasn't like Einstein or Newton or any other scientist whose results I had learned about, because in science, we just learn about the results, not the process.
We'd all studied
science
as if it's a series of logical steps between question and answer, but doing research is nothing like that.
Improvisation theater, just like science, goes into the unknown, because you have to make a scene onstage without a director, without a script, without having any idea what you'll portray or what the other characters will do.
But unlike science, in improvisation theater, they tell you from day one what's going to happen to you when you get onstage.
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