WE'VE stopped trusting institutions and started trusting strangers | Rachel Botsman
Length: 17:08
Quote: “Technology is creating new mechanisms that are enabling us to trust unknown people, companies, and ideas; and yet at the same time, trusts in institutions – banks, governments, and even churches --is collapsing.”
In this talk, author Rachel Botsman discusses how technology is changing trust between people and institutions or organizations. She explains how Airbnb, Uber, BlaBla Car, Tinder, and the likes are enabling people to trust strangers due to certain factors like details of the driver in Uber or homeowners of accommodations in Airbnb.
The beauty of what we'll never know | Pico Iyer
Length: 10:05
Quote: “I’ve been a full-time writer for 34 years and the one thing I have learned is transformation comes when I am not in charge, when I don’t know what’s coming next, when I can’t assume I am bigger than everything around me.”
In this wonderful talk, novelist and essayist Pico Iyer discusses how we can appreciate things that we will never know. He presents how, sometimes, not knowing things can help us to enjoy the little things in life.
Everything you hear on film is a lie | Tasos Frantzolas
Length: 16:33
Quote: “Sound is a language. It can trick us by transporting us geographically, it can change the mood, it can set the pace, can make us laugh or scared.”
Soundsnap creator Tasos Frantzolas shares to us an eargasmic talk on the hard work that goes into sound design for films. He shares how changes among common household items like a celery or frozen lettuce create the sound of breaking bones. It is also somehow mind-blowing to know that our brain can deceive us by the sounds we hear.
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