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I work on helping computers communicate about the world around us.
I work on this problem thinking about how humans understand and process the world.
Technology built on understanding images and generating language, evolving into technology that helps people who are visually impaired be better able to access the visual world.
What I find fascinating is that we've actually wired our world to share, whether that's our neighborhood, our school, our office, or our Facebook network, and that's creating an economy of "what's mine is yours."
From the mighty eBay, the grandfather of exchange marketplaces, to car-sharing companies such as GoGet, where you pay a monthly fee to rent cars by the hour, to social lending platforms such as Zopa, that will take anyone in this audience with 100 dollars to lend, and match them with a borrower anywhere in the world, we're sharing and collaborating again in ways that I believe are more hip than hippie.
So my co-author, Roo Rogers, and I have actually gathered thousands of examples from all around the world of collaborative consumption.
And the World Health Organization also tells us that every 40 seconds, someone somewhere in the world commits suicide because they are unhappy, largely due to depression or kufungisisa.
But the problem is we just don't have enough psychiatrists or psychologists in the world to do the job.
Now, suicide is not an unusual event in the world of mental health.
There are more than 600 million people currently aged above 65 in the world.
Imagine if we could create a global network of grandmothers in every major city in the world, who are trained in evidence-based talk therapy, supported through digital platforms, networked.
In 1962, with Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," I think for people like me in the world of the making of things, the canary in the mine wasn't singing.
Well, in my world, this is a rubber duck.
We see that companies acting ethically in this world are outperforming those that don't.
On the other hand, we're working with Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett and Shaw Carpet, the largest carpet company in the world.
If we look at the world of architecture, we see with Mies' 1928 tower for Berlin, the question might be, "Well, where's the sun?"
Biological nutrition can supply about 500 million humans, which means that if we all wore Birkenstocks and cotton, the world would run out of cork and dry up.
So designers all over the world can analyze their products down to the parts per million for human and ecological health.
It's the world's largest green roof, 10 and a half acres.
We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.
And if you're in this room today, most of us grew up in a world where we have basic civil rights, and amazingly, we still live in a world where some women don't have them.
And the problem is this: Women are not making it to the top of any profession anywhere in the world.
Of all the people in parliament in the world, 13 percent are women.
And even in the non-profit world, a world we sometimes think of as being led by more women, women at the top: 20 percent.
We have to tell our daughters and our colleagues, we have to tell ourselves to believe we got the A, to reach for the promotion, to sit at the table, and we have to do it in a world where, for them, there are sacrifices they will make for that, even though for their brothers, there are not.
And that's a problem, because we have to make it as important a job, because it's the hardest job in the world to work inside the home, for people of both genders, if we're going to even things out and let women stay in the workforce.
I think a world where half of our countries and our companies were run by women, would be a better world.
I think it would be a better world.
And it's about leading in a world that really does seem to be operating on the basis of fear.
This is the world we live in.
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