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How to Change Someone’s Perspective | Buenos Aires | TED Idea Search

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The TED Idea Search arrives in Buenos Aires, a city with a fierce intellectual tradition, as 10 speakers deliver talks in a stunning warehouse that’s home to the city's iconic opera sets, competing for a chance to speak on the TED main stage. Watch as a Gen Z voice reframes "brain rot" as a secret diplomatic tool and a surgeon explores the future of robotic medicine, reminding us why the human touch still matters — and much more. Choosing just one to repre

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  1. Intro

  2. 00:01This group is pretty far ahead of what we've seen at other events. The
  3. 00:06adrenaline is so high. Get the shape. Get the
  4. 00:12rehearsals went terrible for me. Pause. Breathe and then start again.
  5. 00:18Getting within 6 minutes. That is a big challenge. He was someone that needed like a 20-minute talk.
  6. 00:24But you were not impressed, were you? I'm heartbroken about this for him. Democracy needs this agreement.
  7. 00:30Oh my god. I have to restructure everything. It's the things we call brain rot, right? Viral material.
  8. 00:37Your eyes are on fire. This is it.
  9. 00:44My name is Reggie Watts and my life changed forever when I got the opportunity to speak at TED.
  10. 00:51Now Ted is searching the globe for ideas that could change everything.
  11. 00:589 10x events around the world. Giving a global voice to the unknown.
  12. 01:056 minutes that can inspire, motivate, and change their lives forever.
  13. 01:11But that's not all. Coached by an expert panel, one lucky speaker will be
  14. 01:16surprised with the opportunity of a lifetime. A chance to speak on the TED Main stage
  15. 01:23and have their voices heard by millions. This is the TED idea search
  16. 01:42America and one of its cultural capitals, Buenosidis.
  17. 01:48A city of rhythm, expression, and ideas fueled by passion.
  18. 01:54From across Argentina, a group of speakers have been chosen to take to the TEDex stage to share ideas that could
  19. 02:01change the world. Sharing my idea with the world would be
  20. 02:07very exciting.
  21. 02:13My name is Yael Kovnikov. I am 23 years old. I'm from Buenosirus.
  22. 02:21I grew up on social media, especially finding community in social media around
  23. 02:26the things that I loved. My talk is about brain rot as a kind of
  24. 02:33social lubricant or emotional shortorthhand in political conflict situations for Gen Z.
  25. 02:43I think that a lot of the time these things that we underestimate a lot such as humor or art that we share through
  26. 02:50social media can help us talk to each other in a common language even when we are in situations where we disagree
  27. 02:56about a lot of things and they can be really important keys to having those difficult conversations.
  28. 03:07Sharing my idea with the world on the TED main stage would be very exciting.
  29. 03:13This is a conversation that is fitting for a global stage I guess because it is a very global conversation.
  30. 03:19If I would be selected to go to TED Vancouver, it would be such an honor
  31. 03:26seeking a spot in TED in Vancouver. The responsibility is large, but I'm eager to take it.
  32. 03:33With such a great opportunity on the line and 24 hours till showtime, the panel works closely with the speakers,
  33. 03:40helping finesse their talks and build confidence ahead of tomorrow's event.

  34. Rehearsals

  35. 03:46This is 100% about us supporting you. You'll probably see a spectrum of
  36. 03:53preparedness or some people may get up here and just nail it, some may not. But that's what today is for. It's okay.
  37. 03:58It's okay if you want to fully read your talk. It's okay if you stop and have notes. It does not matter. Today is a rehearsal day and that is what
  38. 04:04rehearsals are for and we are all here to support you and we are all here to support one another. Let's get that first rehearsal energy up
  39. 04:11for that big round of applause you're going to give to Yayo.
  40. 04:18It feels really nice to be navigating all this together with other people who are also excited and also afraid and
  41. 04:24also nervous. I think that tomorrow is going to be a big day, a party of ideas from
  42. 04:30Argentina. uh to the rest of the world. This year I traveled to Jerusalem to
  43. 04:35work as an instructor in a program called meet with Palestinian and Israeli teenagers. Yael has a really interesting talk that
  44. 04:42is a new way of thinking about social media. Also probably most young people
  45. 04:48kind of know the thing that she's saying. It was new to me as a not young person. So how that plays in the room,
  46. 04:55I'll be interested to see. They shared the same Tik Tok feed. whatever language barriers or political
  47. 05:02differences they had could not begin to measure up to that. More than ever
  48. 05:08before, young people growing up on opposite sides of any given political conflict share the same culture.
  49. 05:17Last night I had a dream and it seems that many speakers had the same dream.
  50. 05:23I dreamed that we had rehearsals. So, I was wearing uh jeans and a hoodie and I
  51. 05:31just came to the rehearsals and then Kelly told me, "No, today is the day. You have to go on stage." And I was
  52. 05:36like, "No, but I'm not ready. I'm wearing jeans and a hoodie. I'm I'm not
  53. 05:41uh I'm I didn't think that it was today was the day." Letter forms are the gestures of language, our tone of voice
  54. 05:49in written form. My name is Martina Flor. I am passionate
  55. 05:55about opening the eyes of people to the world of letter homes.
  56. 06:04I'm going to talk about how the shape of words influences how we feel, what we
  57. 06:10trust, and how we move through the world. This idea is important to me because
  58. 06:17there's so many visual cues in the shape of the letters, in the visual images
  59. 06:23that we have around us that influence how we feel and the choices we make.
  60. 06:29Providing a global audience with that lens, the capability to see things that
  61. 06:35they couldn't see before. That's what I'm passionate about.
  62. 06:41I can draw the word love. So it feels airy and spontaneous or heavy and passionate the kind your friends warn
  63. 06:47you about. Oh or heavy and passionate the kind your friends warn you about.
  64. 06:53Rehearsals went terrible for me. Now if shape can
  65. 07:02they went terrible. I tripped into the middle of the of the talk and I forgot a
  66. 07:07few lines. Can the shape words can the way words look and you think like oh no
  67. 07:13my god I have to restructure everything like this is not going to land and you go through all this roller coaster of
  68. 07:19emotions. Shapes ah shapes influence an entire shape if
  69. 07:27shape can influence a moment it can influence the choice. I'm really interested to see what Martina Flor does
  70. 07:34tomorrow because today in rehearsals I felt like she didn't quite connect with the people in the room and I think
  71. 07:39that's because maybe she was nervous. This is not the first language for any of our speakers and I think that raises
  72. 07:46the stakes even more because everybody's just communicating not in their first language. I think you will be fine. But
  73. 07:52if this happens and you are struggling with the wording, my suggestion is to
  74. 07:57like pause, breathe, and then start the the sentence again. I hope she goes home tonight. I hope she
  75. 08:03really practices that talk. And I feel like there's a good chance that tomorrow she surprises us with a really powerful,
  76. 08:10beautiful delivery. Social media can be a superpower or a curse, but it
  77. 08:16undoubtedly has strengths we should harness. And yes, the downsides are real
  78. 08:21and worth talking about. I was very nervous. I don't think I was able to truly connect emotionally with the talk
  79. 08:28as much as I wanted. But overall, the feedback was really positive in this first part of the talk, make
  80. 08:35more eye contact, could maybe uh change the way you are you are studying that.
  81. 08:41That's it. Like I think it's great. The feedback is amazing. Uh, I felt a
  82. 08:47little bit in a talent show and so all the things that you normally watch on TV. Robots are assisting us today with
  83. 08:55the hardest parts of surgeries. Alex had a great idea, but it was like so many ideas in one. He was someone
  84. 09:01that needed like a 20-minute talk. I don't know if in the talk you ever explicitly said you were a surgeon. I I
  85. 09:07kind of wanted that cuz in the beginning I thought you were just like purely musician. So then the switch kind of like well I mean it was kind of a really
  86. 09:14delightful surprise but I wish there was like a a transition more into that. I am
  87. 09:21Alejandra Neopon. I am a surgeon from Buenosiris Argentina and I do a lot of
  88. 09:27work and research on robotic surgery.
  89. 09:34I will be sharing a very new concept that is called a virtual centralization.
  90. 09:42We are trying to help patients that need very specialized surgery and that they
  91. 09:49need to travel to get that surgery. With the help of robotic surgery and AI,
  92. 09:55we are trying to bring that surgery to them. But the music plays uh a really
  93. 10:01important role in my life because it helps to give empathy with my patients.
  94. 10:18Being on time with the music and and the right words and getting within six
  95. 10:23minutes, that is a big challenge. How are we on time? Oh, we're a little bit over. Um,
  96. 10:29but I wasn't slow and I exchanged two paragraphs today because I didn't I
  97. 10:34don't remember them. Okay. The last three times I was six minutes shy. Okay. You probably should run through it
  98. 10:39a few more times. I love Alejandro's talk combining AI and the healthcare industry and music. It's
  99. 10:47a lot to put into six minutes. So, um, I'm just I'm really interested to see
  100. 10:52how that one plays out in the room. The biggest challenge for me preparing for this TED talk has been enduring the ups
  101. 11:00and downs of preparing a talk like this where you have six minutes and every word counts.
  102. 11:06It's an interesting format in which we have to compact all all of our ideas in in in 6 minutes.
  103. 11:12800 people at the country fair try to guess the weight of an ox. Each person
  104. 11:18was far off individually as wrong as any of us would be. So Wen's talk was about
  105. 11:24polarization and most of the time you hear how awful polarization is, but he
  106. 11:29brought this really great perspective about why it actually could be a good thing. Think about the sports fans from
  107. 11:35different rival teams. They hate each other. They fight over pride, but when
  108. 11:40they leave the stadium, they work and live together and build the country side by side. So disagreement and even
  109. 11:46emotional disagreement is clearly not the problem. Hi, I'm Hagin Nawahas. I'm a behavioral
  110. 11:52scientist working at Universella in Buenosiris, Argentina.
  111. 12:01My talk tomorrow is going to be about political polarization and political violence. It offers a new and quite
  112. 12:07controversial lens because we usually think about polarization as something bad. But I'm going to show that some
  113. 12:15aspects of polarization are actually good. This idea means a lot to me because it
  114. 12:21reflects on a change of mind that I had myself during the last decade.
  115. 12:28New research have led to this new idea that polarization is something not that
  116. 12:33we have to fight but maybe something that we need to protect rather than fear because it can help us live in more
  117. 12:40diverse society and societies may flourish with polarization because democracy needs disagreement
  118. 12:49but disagreement without violence. Wow, that was amazing. thought that was
  119. 12:56so cool. Like I don't know. I just I feel like weirdly inspired.
  120. 13:03You just delivered that so well. I like that it does make us think really differently and it's challenging and
  121. 13:08it's sparky and it's like, you know, you kind of want to go back and talk about this afterwards. Thank you.
  122. 13:13This group is pretty far ahead of what we've seen at other events.
  123. 13:20The other dogs were outstanding. They were truly amazing. You all were amazing. I loved being in
  124. 13:26audience. I I was much happier doing that than here. I respect these people
  125. 13:31and admire them so much and their way of thinking and looking at the world. So, if they think that I'm doing something
  126. 13:37right, then I'll I'll buy it. You know, this one is going to be tough. I think
  127. 13:42it could be honestly anyone's game. Whatever happens tomorrow, I think we already won because all the experience,
  128. 13:49the talks, being online, I think it's a winning situation no matter what.
  129. 13:56I'm feeling good about tomorrow. I think all of us who are experts at what we do and what we're talking about, I think
  130. 14:02that when you need to perform, you perform. And tomorrow the big stage is
  131. 14:09going to give that extra adrenaline and that extra push for us to do great.
  132. 14:30A new day dawn in Buenosiris and with it the moment our speakers have
  133. 14:35been preparing for an epic warehouse home to the city's iconic opera sets now
  134. 14:41becomes the stage for a different kind of performance. With the TEDex stage built, the red circle awaits. Speakers
  135. 14:49rehearse for the first time, feeling the scale and history of this epic venue. I think walking onto the red dot is
  136. 14:57going to feel like this roller coaster of emotions, a unique moment that I hopefully will
  137. 15:04treasure for the rest of my life. My hope is that I'm able to be present on the stage and be able to enjoy
  138. 15:10myself. Fears and anxieties are probably to
  139. 15:16screw up. My fears is that the talk won't resonate with
  140. 15:22people. Fears I would say definitely the time. I'm so scared of going over time.
  141. 15:29I will be precise on the music and the right tone and the right timing.
  142. 15:36With tech rehearsals complete and the audience arriving, nerves are at an all-time high for our speakers.
  143. 15:49So now we're just going to warm up our bodies and prepare to give our best selves.
  144. 15:54If I were selected to go to Vancouver, it would be a dream come true. Start down in our lower left leg and
  145. 15:59just going to tap our skin. Tap tap tap tap our legs all the way up. All the way up. I would be very proud because it's an
  146. 16:06amazing achievement and it would mean a lot to me to get a lot of people inspired. And we're going to do some
  147. 16:13tongue twisters. A simple something said to me. A simple something said to me.
  148. 16:20It would be very exciting to represent my generation on that stage.
  149. 16:33The adrenaline is so high. 1 2 3.
  150. 16:39This is it.
  151. 16:49With final checks complete, it's showtime in Buenocides.

  152. The Talks

  153. 16:55Let's welcome Yell Krypnikov.
  154. 17:05Oh my gosh, look at this venue. It's in a warehouse where they store props and
  155. 17:11it's making this whole thing feel very cinematic. Kelly. Kelly, good job hosting.
  156. 17:17Thanks. I love this audience. I love love this venue. I know. And the
  157. 17:22audience looks ready to give the speakers their all. So, first up, we have Yael, who's going to talk to
  158. 17:29us about social media actually as a unifier. And she delivered in rehearsal
  159. 17:35yesterday. She did really well yesterday in rehearsals. 6 years ago when I was in high school, I
  160. 17:42gave a talk on a stage much like this one. I was asked to say what I thought Jenz superpower was. And my answer was
  161. 17:51politics. Specifically, our determination to politicize every aspect of our lives,
  162. 17:58including our relationships, and to confront anyone we knew was wrong.
  163. 18:04On October 7th, 2023, Hamas attacked Israel. One of my new
  164. 18:11friends posted an Instagram story celebrating these attacks. And when I replied, trying to explain my
  165. 18:17perspective as an Argentinian Jew, she blocked me. She was far from the only
  166. 18:24one. I was determined to live by that principle I'd so subscribed to as a
  167. 18:30teen, but it didn't serve me at all. That relentless demand for political
  168. 18:36purity was leading us all to instant judgment and it left no room for nuance
  169. 18:42or conversation. This is like kind of this great thing to have learned so
  170. 18:49early, you know. So I went to try it again. This time straight to the middle of the conflict.
  171. 18:56This year, I traveled to Jerusalem to work as an instructor in a program called MEAT with Palestinian and Israeli
  172. 19:02teenagers. I'd never met someone from the other side of the conflict before. When I
  173. 19:08arrived, though, I saw one of the Palestinian counselors was wearing a Taylor Swift t-shirt.
  174. 19:16And that was it. I realized I knew her. Not her literally, of course, but many others like her from Instagram and Tik
  175. 19:24Tok. We spent our first night together, swapping tour stories, debating favorite
  176. 19:30eras, even blasting songs, screaming lyrics at each other like we were best friends. This didn't just happen to me.
  177. 19:37I saw it happen to the kids we were working with as well. These were 14-year-old Israelis and Palestinians.
  178. 19:45You would expect them to hate each other's guts. But here's the catch. They
  179. 19:50shared the same Tik Tok feed. This made me realize we have a unique opportunity.
  180. 19:56More than ever before, young people growing up on opposite sides of any given political conflict share the same
  181. 20:05culture. The same stupid little memes that we all look at all day long. It's
  182. 20:12the things we call brain rot, right? Mindless consumption. I love that it's the same things we
  183. 20:17think of as brain rot. the things that we've all just decided are bad, you know, have this good in them.
  184. 20:24For me and my peers, Taylor Swift wasn't a distraction from politics. She was the
  185. 20:30entry point that made political discussion possible. Our shared language gave us cues for how to interact with
  186. 20:37each other in a way that wasn't stunted or threatening. And it created the safety that we needed to eventually have
  187. 20:43those hard conversations. What if that is where our generational superpower has been all along?
  188. 20:52Right now, the global conversation around teenagers and phones is dominated
  189. 20:57by fear. And the instinct among many adults is to just ban teens from social
  190. 21:02media altogether. And yes, the downsides are real and worth talking about, but they aren't the
  191. 21:10whole story. Social media can be a superpower or a curse, but it
  192. 21:15undoubtedly has strengths we should harness. So, I'll keep speaking its language. I'll keep blasting the songs
  193. 21:22and sharing the memes. It may look like I'm wasting my time, but it may also
  194. 21:29just be changing my world. Thank you. Flawless delivery.
  195. 21:35So flawless. Oh, that was not one. Well done. Well done. And the audience
  196. 21:41loves it. Yeah, they do. They love her. My reservation on this is like I love
  197. 21:46learning from her as an, you know, I guess older adult. I feel like learning
  198. 21:51from her a young person is incredible. A good amount of people today have always
  199. 21:57grown up with social media. So, it is just part of their world. And I think what she's saying might not be new to
  200. 22:03those people. I feel very happy. Uh, I kind of want to cry for some reason, which is weird. Um,
  201. 22:09I I felt so so warm and so loved and it's so nice.
  202. 22:16Next up, we have Waqen. And this is kind of a sparky idea because I think he
  203. 22:21researches polarization and he kind of had some surprising findings that I
  204. 22:28think are going to provoke a lot of conversations. It will maybe taken some people back, but I think I don't know.
  205. 22:35He delivers it in such a beautiful way, it's hard to argue with him. We should try to solve problem in mathematics by
  206. 22:41popular vote. Probably not. And if most people don't know much about math, why
  207. 22:48do we assume that they know better about politics? Those questions were asked by one of the
  208. 22:54best writers ever, Horge Bouorge. And they came in the aftermath of a military
  209. 23:01coupe that led to the deadliest dictatorship in the history of my country, Argentina.
  210. 23:07Bourhees believed that democracy was a superstition that it has no value. The
  211. 23:13idea is simple and even intuitive. If most people are uninformed about politics, then any collective outcome
  212. 23:19from that society has to be valor was a genius. There's no doubt about
  213. 23:26that. But he was also a human. And as a behavioral scientist, I know that humans
  214. 23:32and even the most brilliant ones often have wrong intuitions. especially when it comes to my field of expertise,
  215. 23:38collective intelligence. And this intuition of Bourhees was wrong. We know that because another
  216. 23:46brilliant person also felt the same way. Sir Francis Galton, the founding father
  217. 23:51of modern statistics also believed that democracy was doomed because too many
  218. 23:56people were ignorant about political matters. But unlike Bourhees, he decided
  219. 24:02to test that belief. In 1906, he ran an experiment.
  220. 24:08800 people at the country fair tried to guess the weight of an ox. Each person
  221. 24:15was far off individually, as wrong as any of us would be. But when he averaged
  222. 24:20all the guesses, the answer was almost exactly right. Without meaning to, he
  223. 24:27discovered something that today we call the wisdom of crowds. the idea that
  224. 24:32people can be wrong at individual level but collectively wise.
  225. 24:37So I decided to run my own experiment. So I thought about another question. How
  226. 24:42many jelly beans are there in a jar? But I added a twist. I framed the question
  227. 24:48so that half of the crowd would believe that there were too few and the other half would believe that there were too
  228. 24:53many. In other words, I created a perfectly polarized crowd with no
  229. 24:59moderates left in the room. This jelly bean example is really clever way of making a story land and a single
  230. 25:07slide does the job. When I combine both groups, the two and
  231. 25:13the too many, the average was closer to the truth than ever. So the collective
  232. 25:19mind of a divided crowd was wiser than that of a united one. What if our
  233. 25:26intuition about polarization being bad is wrong? Is as wrong as the intuitions
  234. 25:32that Bourhees or Galton had before? And political scientists have long noted
  235. 25:37that with a healthy dose of polarization, societies may thrive.
  236. 25:42citizens become more engaged, their choices become clear, and democracy itself become more diverse. The real
  237. 25:50danger begins somewhere else, not with polarization, but with political violence.
  238. 25:56So, it's kind of like polarization is good on some topics
  239. 26:02except when there's hate. And here's the key point. Political
  240. 26:08violence doesn't only happen in divided countries. It also happens in places
  241. 26:13where there's no polarization simply because disagreement is not allowed. And
  242. 26:19my country learned that lesson the hard way. The dictatorship left thousands of
  243. 26:25families searching for their loved ones who never came back. Bores, the very same man who distracted
  244. 26:34democracy, saw that Russia fall. He spoke out against the regime and later
  245. 26:41admitted the democracy of Argentina refuted me splendidly, amazingly. What refuted him
  246. 26:49wasn't an idea, not even an experiment. It was pain. It was real pain inflicted
  247. 26:57by political violence. So perhaps polarization is something that we might want to protect rather
  248. 27:04than fight or fear because democracy needs disagreement, but disagreement
  249. 27:12without violence. Thank you.
  250. 27:17I think some people will watch this and think he's wrong, you know, but I do think it will spark conversation. I
  251. 27:22think it's a stance that people should know about. He delivered that beautifully. I think it's a sparky one. I do and a good one and I could really
  252. 27:29imagine that playing so nicely in Vancouver. If I were selected, it would be a dream.
  253. 27:36I really really love the idea of engaging with that stage and and being
  254. 27:41there. It would be truly truly a dream. Next up, we have Martina Flor. She's
  255. 27:46talking to us about letter forms and the impact that letter forms make on how we receive messages. She has a lot of
  256. 27:53slides to click through. That was affecting her delivery yesterday and really connecting with us in the room.
  257. 27:59So, I'm hoping she rehearsed that a bunch last night so she can just bring the audience together.
  258. 28:06Imagine if starting today, every word you saw was written in Helvetica. Every
  259. 28:12bakery sign, every yogurt label. Imagine receiving a passionate love letter in
  260. 28:18Helvetica. It's clean. It's neutral. It's perfect. But would it make your
  261. 28:24heart race? Oh, she looks so confident up there today. Yesterday I left thinking if she can
  262. 28:30nail the delivery, she is going to be a top contender for me. Yeah. The shape of words influences how we
  263. 28:37feel, what we trust, and how we move through the world. Often before our
  264. 28:42brain reads a single word. When I design letter forms, I'm always aware of the
  265. 28:48messages hiding in their shape. Every curve, every angle carries meaning.
  266. 28:53We all share certain visual associations even without realizing. We read geometry, square, circles, triangles as
  267. 29:01rational and objective is why sans serif letters feel clean, efficient, modern.
  268. 29:07Something Helvetica does very well and Ted's logo as well. We read handwriting
  269. 29:14as human and warm. Her talk is one that I love because it's something that after
  270. 29:19you hear her, you cannot see the world the same. I can draw the word love so that it
  271. 29:24feels airy and spontaneous or heavy and passionate, the kind your friends warn
  272. 29:30you about. And it goes way beyond the style. Look at this handpainted bakery
  273. 29:37sign in Paris. Soft curves, tiny imperfections. You think warm, human.
  274. 29:44You just know that that bread is good. Look at this. Sharp angles, all caps.
  275. 29:50Your body knows instantly. Back off. Two signs, two opposite feelings
  276. 29:57delivering a fraction of a second. Because every message has two voices,
  277. 30:03the words and the way they are shaped. And most of the time, the shape speaks
  278. 30:09first. The language of letter forms is everywhere quietly shaping how we feel,
  279. 30:15what we trust, and how we understand the world. And once you see it, you can't
  280. 30:21unsee it. Thank you. Yes. Martina, you did so well. I'm so happy
  281. 30:28for her. For me, what I love is like that this talk will change the way, you know, we sort of move through the world,
  282. 30:34the way we see it and the way we look at letter forms and hopefully the decisions we make um when we use them. For me, the
  283. 30:41question is, you know, as beautiful as this is, is this idea big enough compared to some of the other talks?
  284. 30:47I feel amazing. I think it went great and um I feel it all in all my body, you
  285. 30:53know, like all throughout my body. So, yeah. Next up, we're going to hear from
  286. 30:59Alejandro talking about remote medicine, but then he also brings in music and the
  287. 31:05importance of humanity. First rehearsal we had together, he did a beautiful job,
  288. 31:11but then in the dress rehearsal for the stage, one of the keys got stuck on his
  289. 31:16instrument and it made it sound out of tune. Hopefully that's not going to happen today. and he delivers it like he
  290. 31:23did in rehearsal which I think I think did land really well. Yeah, that would be super unfortunate.
  291. 31:30As a surgeon today, I can operate with the help of a robot
  292. 31:37through a console, a system where distance no longer defines the quality of care.
  293. 31:45With this system, a small s uh surgeon from a small town can potentially
  294. 31:50partner with an expert hundreds or thousands of miles away and together
  295. 31:57perform a complex surgery as one team. But let's pause for a moment.
  296. 32:05Let me show you one of the robotic arms. The tip is really delicate, very
  297. 32:11precise. It can rotate in many directions. It's soft. is tireless
  298. 32:16but it cannot feel. I can't sense the pressure at the end of
  299. 32:22the instrument. I need to rely only on my vision and feelings
  300. 32:29both haptic and emotional are essential for healing. Just imagine
  301. 32:36what would happen if I would ask the robot to play adios noonino. Bear with
  302. 32:41me in this one because it's the biggest challenge we've given the robot so far.
  303. 32:58Those were the right notes. But you were not impressed, were you? That like really lands because that
  304. 33:04doesn't sound like music you want to listen to. Robots are already assisting us with the hardest parts of surgery,
  305. 33:12but for now and for a long while, they won't be able to replace that connection
  306. 33:19that heals. So yes, let's use technology to bridge
  307. 33:25distance, but let's also make sure that we build
  308. 33:31international empathic teams, surgeons or any other profession that's been
  309. 33:38expanded remotely by AI or robotics to share across borders,
  310. 33:45but not just data, also trust, compassion, and humanity.
  311. 33:53Because every note,
  312. 34:00every note is important, but it's the chord,
  313. 34:06the collaboration that makes us a community and the rhythm and flow.
  314. 34:15That's what makes us human.
  315. 34:39Oh. Oh, no. I think the key is stuck like it was yesterday. This is that same sound it made when the key got stuck.
  316. 34:53No,
  317. 35:08I'm heartbroken about this for him because, you know, do you remember when he when he played it in rehearsal and
  318. 35:15and the time this did not happen. He was like one with the music and you could
  319. 35:21just see the feeling and you could feel it and he's got to be just dying right now.
  320. 35:28One key got stuck in the bandonian and uh then it's like you know having a note
  321. 35:33that doesn't belong and needed to adapt. Had not it been for that little key it
  322. 35:39would have been an amazing uh performance. A good metaphor can be a
  323. 35:44really, really great storytelling device, but when you only have six minutes, it just can sometimes feel like
  324. 35:51you're packing so much into one talk.
  325. 35:59With the show's finale coming to an end, the audience steps away considering which performance they think stole the
  326. 36:05stage. I thought the event was really mindblowing. I mean, I've been to TED
  327. 36:11talks, but this was even a a level higher up. Seemed really well curated, like there
  328. 36:17were no overlaps and and all the talks were amazing. Nice ideas, original ideas that are from
  329. 36:23Argentinians, but could really apply to to all around the world.
  330. 36:31G was my favorite. She speaks from her heart and she looks like so natural.
  331. 36:40Aleandro that talk about surgery and sensitivity and how we are humans and we can also
  332. 36:48work with robots was an amazing idea. He also played the bandon and so the the
  333. 36:54comparison the analogy between medicine and the human touch with the bandon was
  334. 37:00really enjoyable. Well, I like very much of the polarization of politics of Navajas.
  335. 37:08Yeah. She was so clear and so powerful
  336. 37:13because the issue of the value of polarization besides all the negative
  337. 37:19parts of polarization is that conflict is reviving democracy.
  338. 37:25I would pick Yael, the girl who spoke about, you know, this conflict resolution thing. social media,

  339. Deliberation

  340. 37:34but it's the TED panel who must decide which idea and speaker will go on to take the TED main stage.
  341. 37:42Incredible, wasn't it? Let's bring them all to Vancouver. I so agree.
  342. 37:48Every speaker was just the top of the top. They were incredible today.
  343. 37:54They were. And you guys, we have a decision to make and it is not going to
  344. 38:00be easy. Okay, we walk is viral material on a
  345. 38:06YouTube. Your eyes are on fire. I just love his talk. Like I think polarization is such a word that like is
  346. 38:13thrown around so often and it's just it always has this negative connotation. Yeah. The interesting thing is it has
  347. 38:19deep science behind it. He tells it in a very compelling way. You can imagine
  348. 38:25this talk really sparking discussion. I wonder if the six minute talk included
  349. 38:32enough science to really get him over the finish line here. That that's a good concern. That's a
  350. 38:37good concern. Martina Flor, love her. You love her. Yeah, we love her. We all
  351. 38:43love her. It's I mean, she improved so much from rehearsal yesterday where yesterday she was like, you could tell she was
  352. 38:48nervous. Yeah. And today it was like it went very smoothly. went so smoothly and she had so many slides to click
  353. 38:54through. Like that's hard. You see the world in in a different way after listening to her talk.
  354. 38:59My question is, is this idea big enough? I am not sure. So Alejandro, you guys,
  355. 39:05he's great and the instrument is amazing. It got stuck. It got stuck during his performance. I wonder on this one if it
  356. 39:12was too much to try to fit into six minutes. You know, this Yeah.
  357. 39:18Yel, what a performance. delivery. Yeah, delivery was perfect.
  358. 39:23The idea of memes as a diplomatic channel, I think is incredible. And and I think
  359. 39:29she can bring a young perspective to a hard topic. Maybe they don't say explicitly what her
  360. 39:36idea was, but I think a lot of young people kind of know what she was talking about. So, I wonder if this is a new
  361. 39:41idea to everyone. Well, guys, that was tough, but I think we've made our decision.
  362. 39:48I think we we have. Should we go tell them? Absolutely. Let's do it. Let's go.
  363. 39:53Deliberation complete and decision made. And for one lucky speaker, their lives
  364. 39:59are about to be changed forever.

  365. The Winner Is…

  366. 40:05Speakers, congratulations because you all just did something so huge. Huge
  367. 40:10congratulations to all of you.
  368. 40:16The audience loved every second of it as I think you all could tell. I mean, people were very, very, very into each
  369. 40:23and every one of these talks. Even though one person goes to Vancouver, each and every one of your talks is
  370. 40:29going to find its audience online. We will make sure it is spread because every single one deserves to be heard
  371. 40:35and deserves the biggest audience. But we did have to
  372. 40:40choose just one person who will go on to take the main stage at TED in Vancouver.
  373. 40:48And the winner is
  374. 41:07I'm surprised. I see like a salad of emotions. I I I don't really know how to express it, but overjoyed.
  375. 41:16His work shows us a totally new way of thinking about polarization. I could not
  376. 41:23be more excited for him as the winner.
  377. 41:28His talk to me is something I truly want to spread. You know, I think everyone needs to hear that message.
  378. 41:35Talk could start conversation in the better way possible. Sometimes academics
  379. 41:40we stay kind of like in a bubble. But now I have an amazing opportunity to to break that bubble and try to spread my
  380. 41:47idea. Within winning the opportunity of a
  381. 41:54lifetime and a spot on the TED main stage, the curtain finally falls on our time here in Buenosides. But the TED
  382. 42:01idea search continues. Next time we arrive in a city where
  383. 42:06history and modern thinking meet. Our final destination, Aman. It's just so exciting. Everything in my
  384. 42:12life has led me to this moment. See, I forgot this. I feel really nervous for them. They're a mirror into
  385. 42:19the deep inequality shaping our world. Sorry, emotionally again. It is wild out there. How am I going to
  386. 42:26go through life again? How am I going to move forward? I died. I died. Oh god.