Another Ted Talk video!
What point is Professor Gosling making with his finale? Does it work? Why or why not? And for whom might it work? Why or why not?
Thursday, November 15, 2007
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20 comments:
This is an excellent video. it gives me a much clear and easily understandable view of world economy and health. I think we shouldn't judge other nations' economical and health progress based on our standard. Because those changes might not be very significant to us; however, those changes can huge impact on the countries' economical and health issues.
I also agree with Hans Rosling's idea of "Seemingly impossible is possible." However when we are trying to achieve some thing seemingly impossible we shouldn't be focused on something big, perhapses we should be focused on small thing small where we can really make some differences.
I thought Hans Rosling’s finale was very interesting. I actually never thought of money as being a mean more than a goal. I agree with him that our main goals should be human rights and culture. After all, we go to college to achieve an education and to make money which we will use in the future to live joyfully and comfortably. However, this is only possible if will live in a safe world where human rights can be enforced.
david b
I think that was so bold of him to do something like that. Isn't it true that you can make a completly valid point, and if you lack the ability to convince your listener to listen to you, the information will fall on deaf ears. It is most important to learn to present yourself to others before you go attempting to change the world. Afterall, human are such creatures that they will believe almost anything if it sounds convincing enough- so it takes even more effort trying to spread the truth and information that can change the way we view thing, than it is to spread nonsense.
Valerie Grebenyuk
Hans makes pertinent remarks from information used in a way to show his points. the same information is available to many who use it for different purposes. And i believe that what Hans is saying is already known by a certain body of people, it is just not in their interest to expose it.
"the seemingly impossible is possible" is Professor Goslin overall message. His finale was a way of relating it to our modern culture, through what we perceive as magic. Its a strong argument because we are convinced that if he can put a a sword his mouth than the world can be saved. Its a good tactic to get people to pay attention. Especially the skepticals, the ones that believe that somethings are impossible.
Wow!!! There is no question in my mind that would go against anything he said. It is true that our biggest goals are our human rights and culture. Everyone has that inborn right to do what is best for you and your family but it is culture and society that stops some from getting anywhere. I believe that health though is important because without it we obviously have nothing. It's funny to hear when people speak about the past and how people used to live for a hundred years+ and now that we have all of this technology that is supposed to increase our life expectancy, people that live to be one hundred years old are seen as great forces of nature. Although the world's industrialism has helped humanity with its medicines and its comfortable technologies, it has also done other bad things. More people suffer from obesity because too many people are lazy and there is an immense portion of pollution. I think that if people where to realize that if there where an equal balance of all of the positive: exercise/good technologies, and pollution free air, we would live longer lives. Every time I say things like this people say "Oh that's impossible" but the man said it himself..."The seemingly impossible is possible."
I really enjoy watching these TED talk clips. It puts important economical informations into an easy, fun and understandable format. People dont like to read and analysis statistics. With this program you can do research on correlations of any factors that affects a countries well being.
These TED talks are really amazing, and surprising to see what new innovative ideas, these intellectual individuals come up with. I especially like talks from Hans Rosling, he is a funny man with a great idea that shouldn't be ignored. He makes a very good point in the end demonstrating how a seemingly impossible thing can be overcome be pure motivation and persistence.
I didn't feel his second presentation was as powerful as his first. It felt as if he just recycled ideas with his old one. He did introduce his idea about how our society or other mainstream governments, target economic benefits above health and cultural ones. I agree with this but, I don't believe he took population or history into his calculations, which doesn't make it seem as strong as an arguement.
His finale was soppose to imply that the "seeming impossible was impossible", I felt it didnt belong and he just wanted to show off. He does please the crowd though. If thats what you're aiming for.
This display of vital facts was brilliantly put together. It made a subject that may boring to some appealing to the masses and made it easy to comprehend. It was interesting to see that america in the upper echelon of nations have one of the worst health care systems while having the most economically sucessful country. Is that acceptable in our society? What can we do to solve this problem? Professor Goslings system is a great tool no matter what data is being presented and was the most interesting presentation of any such data i have seen to date.
This video is very inspiring. It showed the reality. It tells how AMerica should consider its progress and the arte at which other country's are improving in order to make itself an even better nation. This video also made me thought that why is it only the third world nation that has a very high rate of population. But China is not a third world country, but, still why does it still have the highest rate of population in the entire world? The economical gap between the peple of the coutnry needs to be narrowed down. You can find one of the most richest peson in the world in densly populated country and a person who is strving to death at the saem time. Teh question that arises is how can we narrow down this economical gap?
His remarks are brilliant. However, i dont think they should be surprising due to the fact that communication including traveling is on the rise. Therefore people should have a small grasp of what he is demonstrating as they observe around. But the fact of the matter is Those with power are happier in denial rather than face the truth. And i think thats what he is referring to when he talks about the whole information control issue.
This is an amazing video,so clear and nicely done.It has all the important ecomonical informations whic was clear and easy to understand.The message was long which every points were given briefly.While mentioning the third world country it had almost all the countries name and I was pleased to see my countries name in it as well.
I liked this video. It clearly contemplates the trends followed by many leading nations today. India, China, Soviet Union, Europe(as a whole) and lastly United States. If looked closely at the trend United States follows, it is evident that the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) per capita was always higher than most other industrialized nations.
Professor Gosling makes a very enlightening remark about the current global situation where he roughly says:
"This is the drama of this world which many refer to as globalism. Asia, Arabic countries, Latin America are much more ahead in being healthy, educated, having human resources than our economy"
This i consider as possibly the main reason why United States has always had a better GDP than most other nations but directed less attention to the infant mortality rate.
he said social progress is ahead of economic progress in asian arabic and latin american. i think that we are bias and think that we need money to have good health since we live in the united states, but money could be a big factor why we have sickness as well. i was watching Michael Moore's documentary sicko and in it he discussed how insurance companies held back money from its customers because the diseases they had lead to more serious one, thus leading the insurance companies to lose more money. in other countries around the world the insurance will pay the medical bill with pretty much no questions asked. an example of this is when people go up to canada to buy drugs at a extremely lower price, then buying them in the united states which makes the price so expensive people cant afford them.
That was an amazing finale!
IMHO he clearly demonstrated that a very old form of art that's both incredibly difficult to perform and quite dangerous can be done by anyone.
Including a Swedish grandfather.
Meaning, that if you're mind is put to it, one can accomplish anything.
-d
i agree with him that our main goals should be culture and human rights. seing these stats in a graph is so much more convincing than simply hearing them. this is an excellent way to copnvey an important/urgent message
i agree with him that our main goals should be culture and human rights. seing these stats in a graph is so much more convincing than simply hearing them. this is an excellent way to copnvey an important/urgent message
as usual, Hans Gosling's briefings are powerful. in order to produce, money is needed. modernized industry is needed, leading to the decrease of death rates. But time (and the determined) will make the difference.
TED talks are really interesting. They figured out a fun way to explain economical developments. All slights are understandable and make you think about it. it goes from general to simple and it apears that they worked a lot on these slights because you can see every single countrys development. excellent video
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