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0:01 This group is pretty far ahead of what we've seen at other events.
0:06 The adrenaline is so high.
0:08 Getting in the shape works.
0:10 Getting the Ah, rehearsals went terrible for me.
0:15 Pause, breathe, and then start again.
0:18 Getting within 6 minutes, that is a big challenge.
0:22 He was someone that needed like a 20-minute talk.
0:24 But you were not impressed, were you?
0:25 I'm heartbroken about this for him.
0:28 Democracy needs this upgrade.
0:30 Oh my god, I have to restructure everything.
0:32 It's the things we call brain rot, right?
0:34 viral material Your eyes are on fire.
0:39 This is it.
0:44 My name is Reggie Watts,
0:45 and my life changed forever when I got the opportunity to speak at TED.
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1:41 South America, and one of its cultural capitals, Buenos Aires.
1:48 A city of rhythm, expression, and ideas fueled by passion.
1:54 From across Argentina, a group of speakers have been chosen to take
1:58 to the TEDx stage to share ideas that could change the world.
2:03 Sharing my idea with the world would be very exciting.
2:13 My name is Yael Krupnikoff.
2:14 I am 23 years old.
2:15 I'm from Buenos Aires.
2:21 I grew up on social media.
2:24 Especially finding community in social media around the things that I loved.
2:29 My talk is about brain rot as a kind of social
2:34 lubricant or emotional shorthand in political conflict situations for Gen Z.
2:43 I think that a lot of the time these things that we underestimate a lot such
2:47 as humor or art that we share through social media can help us talk to each
2:52 other in a common language even when
2:54 we are in situations where we disagree about a lot of things and they can be
2:58 really important keys to having those difficult conversations.
3:06 Sharing my idea with the world on the TED main stage would be very exciting.
3:13 This is a conversation that is fitting for a global
3:15 stage I guess because it is a very global conversation.
3:19 If I would be selected to go to TED Vancouver, it would be such an honor.
3:26 Seeking a spot in TED in Vancouver,
3:28 the responsibility is large but I'm eager to take it.
3:33 With such a great opportunity on the line and 24 hours till showtime,
3:37 the panel works closely with the speakers helping finesse
3:41 their talks and build confidence ahead of tomorrow's event.
3:46 This is 100% about us supporting you.
3:50 You'll probably see a spectrum of preparedness some
3:54 people may get up here and just nail it.
3:55 Some may not, but that's what today is for.
3:58 It's okay.
3:58 It's okay if you want to fully read your talk.
4:00 It's okay if you stop and have notes.
4:02 It does not matter.
4:02 Today is a rehearsal day and that is what rehearsals are for and we
4:06 are all here to support you and we are all here to support one another.
4:09 Let's get that first rehearsal energy up for that big
4:12 round of applause you're going to GIVE TO YAEL.
4:18 IT FEELS REALLY NICE TO BE NAVIGATING ALL this together with other
4:21 people who are also excited and also afraid and also nervous.
4:25 I think that tomorrow is going to be a big day,
4:27 a party of ideas from Argentina to the rest of the world.
4:33 This year I traveled to Jerusalem to work as an instructor
4:36 in a program called MEET with Palestinian and Israeli teenagers.
4:40 Yael has a really interesting talk that is
4:42 a new way of thinking about social media.
4:45 Also, probably most young people kind of know the thing that she's saying.
4:50 It was new to me as a not young person.
4:53 So, how that plays in the room, I'll be interested to see.
4:57 They shared the same TikTok feed.
5:00 Whatever language barriers or political differences they had
5:04 could not begin to measure up to that.
5:07 More than ever before, young people growing up on opposite sides
5:10 of any given political conflict share the same culture.
5:17 Last night I had a dream and it seems that many speakers had the same dream.
5:23 I dreamed that we had rehearsals.
5:27 So, I was wearing uh jeans and a hoodie and I
5:31 just came to the rehearsals and then Kelly told me, "No, today's the day.
5:34 You have to go on stage." And I was like, "No, but I'm not ready.
5:38 I'm wearing jeans and a hoodie.
5:40 I'm I'm not uh I'm I didn't think that it was
5:43 today was the day." Letter forms are the gestures of language,
5:47 our tone of voice in written form.
5:52 My name is Martina Flor.
5:54 I'm passionate about opening the eyes of people to the world of letterforms.
6:04 I'm going to talk about how the shape of words influences how we feel,
6:09 what we trust, and how we move through the world.
6:14 This idea is important to me because there's so
6:18 many visual cues in the shape of the letters,
6:22 in the visual images that we have around us,
6:25 that influence how we feel and the choices we make.
6:29 Providing a global audience with that lens,
6:33 the capability to see things that they couldn't see before,
6:37 that's what I'm passionate about.
6:40 I can draw the word love so it feels airy and spontaneous,
6:44 or heavy and passionate, the kind your friends warn you about.
6:48 Oh.
6:49 Or heavy and passionate, the kind your friends warn you about.
6:53 Rehearsals went terrible for me.
6:57 Now, if shape can They went terrible.
7:03 I tripped into the middle of the of the talk and I forgot a few lines.
7:08 Can the shape words Can the way words look and you think like,
7:13 "Oh no, my god, I have to restructure everything.
7:15 Like, this is not going to land." And you
7:17 go through all this roller coaster of emotions.
7:19 Shapes Ah.
7:23 Shapes influence an entire Shape If shape can influence an a moment,
7:29 it can influence the choice.
7:31 I'm really interested to see what Martina
7:33 Flor does tomorrow because today in rehearsals,
7:35 I felt like she didn't quite connect with the people in the room,
7:39 and I think that's because maybe she was nervous.
7:42 This is the first language for any of our speakers.
7:45 And I think that raises the stakes even more
7:47 because everybody's just communicating not in their first language.
7:50 I think you will be fine,
7:52 but if this happens and you are struggling with the wording,
7:55 my suggestion is to like pause, breathe, and then start the the sentence again.
8:02 I hope she goes home tonight.
8:03 I hope she really practices that talk,
8:04 and I feel like there's a good chance that tomorrow
8:07 she surprises us with a really powerful, beautiful delivery.
8:12 Social media can be a superpower or a curse,
8:16 but it undoubtedly has strengths we should harness.
8:19 And yes, the downsides are real and worth talking about.
8:23 I was very nervous.
8:24 I don't think I was able to truly connect
8:27 emotionally with the talk as much as I wanted,
8:29 but overall the feedback was really positive.
8:31 In this first part of the talk,
8:34 uh make more eye contact could maybe change the way
8:38 you are you are starting that, but that's it.
8:41 Like I think it's great.
8:43 The feedback is amazing.
8:46 I felt a little bit in a talent show.
8:49 So all the things that you normally watch on TV.
8:52 Robots are assisting us today with the hardest parts of surgeries.
8:57 Alex had a great idea, but it was like so many ideas in one.
9:01 He was someone that needed like a 20-minute talk.
9:03 I don't know if in the talk you ever explicitly said you were a surgeon.
9:06 I I kind of wanted that cuz in the beginning
9:08 I thought you were just like purely a musician.
9:10 So then the switch kind of like well,
9:12 I mean it was kind of a really delightful surprise,
9:15 but I wish there was like a a transition more into that.
9:20 I am Alejandro Nieponice.
9:22 I am a surgeon from Buenos Aires, Argentina,
9:26 and I do a lot of work and research on robotic surgery.
9:34 I will be sharing a very new concept that is called a virtual centralization.
9:42 We are trying to help patients that need very specialized
9:48 surgery and that they need to travel to get that surgery.
9:52 With the help of robotic surgery and AI,
9:55 we are trying to bring that surgery to them.
9:59 But the music plays uh a really important role
10:02 in my life because it helps to give empathy with my patients.
10:17 Being on time with the music
10:19 and and the right words and getting within 6 minutes, that is a big challenge.
10:25 How are we on time?
10:26 Uh we're a little bit over.
10:28 Um But I was slow and I exchanged two
10:32 paragraphs today because I didn't I didn't remember them.
10:35 Okay.
10:35 The last three times I was 6 minutes short.
10:38 Okay.
10:38 You probably should run through it a few more times.
10:41 I love Alejandro's talk combining AI and the health care industry and music.
10:47 It's a lot to put into 6 minutes.
10:49 So um I'm just I'm really interested to see how that one plays out in the room.
10:55 The biggest challenge for me preparing
10:57 for this TED Talk has been enduring the ups
11:00 and downs of preparing a talk like this where
11:03 you have 6 minutes and every word counts.
11:06 It's an interesting format in which we have to compact
11:09 all all of our ideas in in in 6 minutes.
11:12 800 people at the country fair tried to guess the weight of an ox.
11:17 Each person was far off individually, as wrong as any of us would be.
11:22 So Joaquin's talk was about polarization and most
11:26 of the time you hear how awful polarization is,
11:29 but he brought this really great perspective about
11:32 why it actually could be a good thing.
11:33 Think about the sports fans from different rival teams.
11:37 They hate each other.
11:38 They fight over pride, but when they leave the stadium,
11:42 they work and live together and build a country side by side.
11:44 So, disagreement, and even emotional disagreement, is clearly not the problem.
11:50 I am Joaquin Navajas.
11:51 I'm a behavioral scientist working at Universidad
11:54 Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
12:01 My talk tomorrow is going to be
12:02 about uh political polarization and political violence.
12:05 It offers a new and quite controversial lens
12:08 because we usually think about polarization as something bad,
12:12 but I'm going to show that some aspects of polarization are actually good.
12:19 This idea means a lot to me because it reflects
12:22 on a change of mind that I had myself during the last decade.
12:28 New research have led to this new idea
12:31 that polarization is something not that we have to fight,
12:34 but maybe something that we need to protect rather than
12:37 fear because it can help us living more diverse society,
12:42 and societies may flourish with polarization.
12:45 Because democracy needs disagreement.
12:49 But disagreement without violence.
12:53 Wow.
12:53 Wow.
12:54 That was amazing.
12:56 That was so cool.
12:59 Like I don't know.
13:00 I just I feel like weirdly inspired.
13:03 You just delivered that so well.
13:05 I like that it does make us think really
13:07 differently and it's challenging and it's sparky and it's like,
13:10 you know, you kind of want to go back and talk about this afterwards.
13:12 I think this group is pretty far ahead of what we've seen at other events.
13:19 The other talks were outstanding.
13:22 They were truly amazing.
13:24 You all were amazing.
13:25 I loved being an audience.
13:26 I would I was much happier doing that than I respect these people
13:31 and admire them so much and their way of thinking and looking at the world.
13:34 So, if they think that I'm doing something right,
13:37 then I'll I'll buy it, you know.
13:40 This one is going to be tough.
13:42 I think it could be, honestly, anyone's game.
13:44 Whatever happens tomorrow, I think we already won because all the experience,
13:49 the talks, being online, I think it's a winning situation, no matter what.
13:56 I'm feeling good about tomorrow.
13:57 I think all of us who are experts at what we do and what we're talking about,
14:02 I think that when you need to perform, you perform.
14:08 And tomorrow, the big stage is going to give that extra
14:11 adrenaline and that extra push for us to do great.
14:30 A new day dawns in Buenos Aires.
14:33 And with it, the moment our speakers have been preparing for.
14:37 An epic warehouse, home to the city's iconic opera sets,
14:41 now becomes the stage for a different kind of performance.
14:45 With the TEDx stage built, the red circle awaits.
14:48 Speakers rehearse for the first time,
14:51 feeling the scale and history of this epic venue.
14:54 I think walking onto the red dot is
14:56 going to feel like this roller coaster of emotions.
15:01 A unique moment that I, hopefully, will treasure for the rest of my life.
15:06 My hope is that I'm able to be present on the stage and be able to enjoy myself.
15:12 Fears and anxieties are probably to screw up.
15:16 My fears is that the talk won't resonate with people.
15:23 Fears, I would say definitely the time.
15:26 I'm so scared of going over time.
15:29 I will be precise on the music and the right tone and the right timing.
15:36 With tech rehearsals complete and the audience arriving,
15:39 nerves are at an all-time high for our speakers.
15:49 So now, we're just going to warm up
15:51 our bodies and prepare to give our best selves.
15:54 If I was selected to go to Vancouver, it would be a dream come true.
15:58 Start down at our lower left leg and that's going to tap our skin.
16:01 Tap, tap, tap.
16:02 Tap our legs all the way up, all the way up.
16:04 I would be very proud because it's an amazing achievement and it
16:08 would mean a lot to me to get a lot of people inspired.
16:12 And we're going to do some tongue twisters.
16:15 A simple something said to me.
16:17 A simple something said to me.
16:20 It would be very exciting to represent my generation on that stage.
16:25 En el trigal tres tristes tigres tragaban trigo.
16:29 En el trigal tres tristes tigres tragaban trigo.
16:33 The adrenaline is so high.
16:35 1 2 3 I think that changes everything.
16:39 This is it.
16:49 With final checks complete, it's showtime in Buenos Aires.
16:55 Let's welcome Yael Krupnikoff.
17:05 Oh my gosh, look at this venue.
17:07 It's in a warehouse where they store props
17:11 and it's making this whole thing feel very cinematic.
17:14 Kelly!
17:15 Kelly!
17:16 Good job hosting.
17:17 Oh.
17:17 thanks.
17:18 I love this audience.
17:19 I love love this venue.
17:22 I know, and the audience looks ready to give the speakers their all.
17:26 So, first step, we have Yael,
17:28 who's going to talk to us about social media actually as a unifier.
17:34 And she delivered in rehearsal yesterday.
17:36 She did really well yesterday in rehearsals.
17:39 Six years ago, when I was in high school,
17:42 I gave a talk on a stage much like this one.
17:46 I was asked to say what I thought Gen Z's superpower was.
17:49 And my answer was politics.
17:52 Specifically, our determination to politicize every aspect of our lives,
17:58 including our relationships, and to confront anyone we knew was wrong.
18:04 On October 7th, 2023, Hamas attacked Israel.
18:10 One of my new friends posted an Instagram story celebrating these attacks,
18:14 and when I replied trying to explain
18:17 my perspective as an Argentinian Jew, she blocked me.
18:22 She was far from the only one.
18:25 I was determined to live by that principle I'd so subscribed to as a teen,
18:30 but it didn't serve me at all.
18:33 That relentless demand for political purity
18:37 was leading us all to instant judgment,
18:40 and it left no room for nuance or conversation.
18:44 This is like kind of this great thing to have learned so early, you know?
18:50 So, I went to try it again.
18:52 This time, straight to the middle of the conflict.
18:56 This year, I traveled to Jerusalem to work as an instructor
18:59 in a program called MEET with Palestinian and Israeli teenagers.
19:04 I'd never met someone from the other side of the conflict before.
19:08 When I arrived, though,
19:09 I saw one of the Palestinian counselors was wearing a Taylor Swift t-shirt.
19:16 And that was it.
19:17 I realized I knew her.
19:19 Not her literally, of course,
19:20 but many others like her from Instagram and TikTok.
19:25 We spent our first night together swapping tour stories, debating favorite eras,
19:30 even blasting songs, screaming lyrics at each other like we were best friends.
19:35 This didn't just happen to me.
19:37 I saw it happen to the kids we were working with as well.
19:41 These were 14-year-old Israelis and Palestinians.
19:45 You would expect them to hate each other's guts.
19:48 But here's the catch.
19:50 They shared the same TikTok feed.
19:53 This made me realize we have a unique opportunity.
19:56 More than ever before,
19:58 young people growing up on opposite sides
20:00 of any given political conflict share the same culture,
20:06 the same stupid little memes that we all look at all day long.
20:11 It's the things we call brain rot, right?
20:14 Mindless consumption.
20:15 I love that it's the same things we think of as brain rot,
20:18 the things that we've all just decided are bad,
20:21 you know, have this good in them.
20:23 Mhm.
20:24 For me and my peers, Taylor Swift wasn't a distraction from politics.
20:29 She was the entry point that made political discussion possible.
20:33 Our shared language gave us cues for how to interact
20:36 with each other in a way that wasn't stunted or threatening,
20:40 and it created the safety that we
20:42 needed to eventually have those hard conversations.
20:45 What if that is where our generational superpower has been all along?
20:52 Right now, the global conversation around
20:54 teenagers and phones is dominated by fear.
20:58 And the instinct among many adults is
21:01 to just ban teens from social media altogether.
21:04 And yes, the downsides are real and worth talking about.
21:09 But they aren't the whole story.
21:11 Social media can be a superpower or a curse,
21:15 but it undoubtedly has strengths we should harness.
21:19 So, I'll keep speaking its language.
21:21 I'll keep blasting the songs and sharing the memes.
21:25 It may look like I'm wasting my time, but it may also just be changing my world.
21:31 Thank you.
21:33 Wow, what a delivery.
21:35 So bullish.
21:36 Oh, that was Not one hit done.
21:39 Well done.
21:40 audience loves it.
21:41 Yeah, they do.
21:42 They love her.
21:43 My reservation on this is like I love learning from her as an, you know,
21:48 I guess older adult,
21:50 I feel like learning from her, a young person, is incredible.
21:53 A good amount of people today have always grown up with social media,
21:58 so it is just part of their worlds.
22:00 And I think what she's saying might not be new to those people.
22:04 I feel very happy.
22:06 Uh I kind of want to cry for some reason, which is weird.
22:08 Um I I felt so so warm and so loved, and it's so nice.
22:15 Next up, we have Joaquin, and this is kind of a sparky idea,
22:19 because I think he researches polarization,
22:23 and he kind of had some surprising findings that I
22:27 think are going to provoke a lot of conversations.
22:31 It will maybe take in some people aback, but I think I don't know,
22:35 he delivers it in such a beautiful way, it's hard to argue with him.
22:38 Would you try to solve problem in mathematics by popular vote?
22:43 Probably not.
22:45 And if most people don't know much about math,
22:47 why do we assume that they know better about politics?
22:52 Those questions were asked by one of the best writers ever, Jorge Luis Borges,
22:58 and they came in the aftermath of a military coup that led
23:02 to the deadliest dictatorship in the history of my country, Argentina.
23:07 Borges believed that democracy was a superstition, that it has no value.
23:12 The idea is simple and even intuitive.
23:15 If most people are uninformed about politics,
23:18 then any collective outcome from that society has to be bad.
23:23 Borges was a genius.
23:25 There's no doubt about that.
23:27 But he was also a human.
23:29 And as a behavioral scientist, I know that humans,
23:32 and even the most brilliant ones, often have wrong intuitions,
23:36 especially when it comes to my field of expertise, collective intelligence.
23:40 And this intuition of Borges was wrong.
23:44 We know that because another brilliant person also felt the same way.
23:49 Sir Francis Galton, the founding father of modern statistics,
23:53 also believed that democracy was doomed because
23:56 too many people were ignorant about political matters.
24:00 But unlike Borges, he decided to test that belief.
24:04 In 1906, he ran an experiment.
24:07 800 people at a country fair tried to guess the weight of an ox.
24:14 Each person was far off individually, as wrong as any of us would be.
24:19 But when he averaged all the guesses, the answer was almost exactly right.
24:25 Without meaning to, he discovered something
24:27 that today we call the wisdom of crowds.
24:31 The idea that people can be wrong at individual level, but collectively wise.
24:37 So I decided to run my own experiment.
24:39 So I thought about another question.
24:42 How many jelly beans are there in a jar?
24:45 But I added a twist.
24:47 I framed the question so that half
24:49 of the crowd would believe that there were too few,
24:51 and the other half would believe that there were too many.
24:54 In other words, I created a perfectly polarized
24:58 crowd with no moderates left in the room.
25:01 This jelly bean example is really clever way of making
25:06 a story land in a single slide does the job.
25:10 Mhm.
25:10 When I combine both groups, the too few and the too many,
25:14 the average was closer to the truth than ever.
25:18 So, the collective mind of a divided crowd was wiser than that of a united one.
25:25 What if our intuition about polarization being bad is wrong?
25:29 Is as wrong as the intuition that Borges or Galton had before?
25:35 And political scientists have long noted
25:37 that with a healthy dose of polarization,
25:39 societies may thrive.
25:42 Citizens become more engaged, their choices become clear,
25:46 and democracy itself become more diverse.
25:49 The real danger begins somewhere else,
25:52 not with polarization, but with political violence.
25:56 So, it's kind of like polarization is
26:00 good on some topics except when there's hate.
26:03 Mhm.
26:05 And here's the key point.
26:07 Political violence doesn't only happen in divided countries.
26:11 It also happens in places where there's no polarization,
26:15 simply because disagreement is not allowed.
26:19 And my country learned that lesson the hard way.
26:23 The dictatorship left thousands of families searching
26:26 for their loved ones who never came back.
26:30 Borges, the very same man who distrusted democracy, saw that tragedy unfold.
26:37 He spoke out against the regime and later admitted,
26:43 "The democracy of Argentina refuted me splendidly,
26:46 amazingly." What refuted him wasn't an idea, not even an experiment.
26:51 It was pain.
26:54 It was real pain inflicted by political violence.
27:00 So perhaps polarization is something that we might want
27:02 to protect rather than fight or fear because democracy needs disagreement.
27:09 But disagreement without violence.
27:14 Thank you.
27:17 I think some people will watch this and think he's wrong.
27:20 You know, but I do think it will spark conversation
27:22 and I think it's a stance that people should know about.
27:24 He delivered that beautifully.
27:26 I think it's a sparky one.
27:27 I do.
27:28 And a good one and I could really imagine that playing so nicely in Vancouver.
27:34 If I were selected, it would be a dream.
27:36 I really, really love the idea of engaging with that stage and that being there.
27:41 It would be truly, truly a dream.
27:44 Next up we have Martina Flor.
27:46 She's talking to us about letter forms and the impact
27:49 that letter forms make on how we receive messages.
27:52 She has a lot of slides to click through.
27:54 That was affecting her delivery yesterday
27:57 and really connecting with us in the room.
27:59 So I'm hoping she rehearsed that a bunch last
28:01 night so she can just bring the audience together.
28:06 Imagine if starting today every word you saw was written in Helvetica.
28:12 Every bakery sign, every yogurt label.
28:15 Imagine receiving a passionate love letter in Helvetica.
28:19 It's clean.
28:20 It's neutral.
28:21 It's perfect.
28:23 But would it make your heart race?
28:25 Oh, she looks so confident up there today.
28:27 Yesterday I left thinking if she can nail the delivery,
28:31 she is going to be a top contender for me.
28:34 Yeah.
28:35 The shape of words influences how we feel, what we trust,
28:39 and how we move through the world often before our brain reads a single word.
28:45 When I design letter forms,
28:46 I'm always aware of the messages hiding in their shape.
28:49 Every curve, every angle carries meaning.
28:53 We all share certain visual associations even without realizing.
28:58 We read geometry, squares, circles, triangles as rational and objective.
29:03 It's why a sans-serif letter feels clean, efficient, modern.
29:07 Something Helvetica does very well and that's logo as well.
29:12 We read handwriting as human and warm.
29:15 Her talk is one that I love because it's something
29:18 that after you hear her, you cannot see the world the same.
29:22 I can draw the word love so that it
29:24 feels airy and spontaneous or heavy and passionate,
29:28 the kind your friends warn you about.
29:31 And it goes way beyond the style.
29:35 Look at this hand-painted bakery sign in Paris.
29:38 Soft curves, tiny imperfections, you think warm, human.
29:44 You just know that that bread is good.
29:47 Look at this.
29:48 Sharp angles, all caps, your body knows instantly, back off.
29:54 Two signs, two opposite feelings delivered in a fraction of a second.
30:00 Because every message has two voices, the words and the way they are shaped.
30:06 And most of the time, the shape speaks first.
30:10 The language of letterforms is everywhere, quietly shaping how we feel,
30:15 who we trust, and how we understand the world.
30:18 And once you see it, you can't unsee it.
30:22 Thank you.
30:24 Yes.
30:25 Martina did so well.
30:27 I'm so happy for her.
30:28 For me, what I love is like that this talk will change the way,
30:32 you know, we sort of move through the world,
30:34 the way we see it, and the way we look at letterforms,
30:36 and hopefully the decisions we make um when we use them.
30:40 For me, the question is, you know, as beautiful as this is,
30:44 is this idea big enough compared to some of the other talks?
30:47 I'm feeling amazing.
30:48 I think even breathe.
30:50 And um I feel it all in all my body, you know, like all throughout my body.
30:54 So, yeah.
30:58 Next up, we're going to hear from Alejandro talking about remote medicine,
31:01 but then he also brings in music and the importance of humanity.
31:07 First rehearsal we had together, he did beautiful job.
31:11 But then in the dress rehearsal for the stage,
31:14 one of the keys got stuck on his instrument and it made it sound out of tune.
31:19 Hopefully, that's not going to happen today
31:21 and he delivers it like he did in rehearsal,
31:24 which I think I think did land really well.
31:27 Yeah, that would be super unfortunate.
31:30 As a surgeon, today I can operate with the help of a robot through a console.
31:39 A system where distance no longer defines the quality of care.
31:45 With this system, a small surgeon from a small
31:49 town can potentially partner with an expert
31:52 hundreds or thousands of miles away and together
31:57 perform a complex surgery as one team.
32:01 But let's pause for a moment.
32:05 Let me show you one of the robotic arms.
32:08 The tip is really delicate, very precise.
32:11 It can rotate in many directions.
32:13 It's soft, it's tireless, but it cannot feel.
32:19 I can't sense the pressure at the end of the instrument.
32:23 I need to rely only on my vision.
32:27 And feelings, both haptic and emotional, are essential for healing.
32:34 Just imagine what would happen if I would ask the robot to play Adios Nonino.
32:41 Bear with me in this one because it's
32:42 the biggest challenge we've given the robot so far.
32:58 Those were the right notes.
33:00 But you were not impressed, were you?
33:01 That like really lands because that doesn't
33:04 sound like music you want to listen to.
33:06 Robots are already assisting us with the hardest parts of surgery.
33:12 But for now and for a long while,
33:16 they won't be able to replace that connection that heals.
33:21 So yes, let's use technology to bridge distance.
33:28 But let's also make sure that we build international empathic teams.
33:34 Surgeons or any other profession that's been expanded remotely by AI
33:40 or robotics to share across borders but not just data.
33:47 Also trust, compassion, and humanity.
33:53 Because every note every note is important.
34:02 But it's the chord, the collaboration, that makes us a community.
34:10 And the rhythm and flow, that's what makes us human.
34:39 Oh, oh no, I think the key is stuck like it was yesterday.
34:43 This is that same sound it made when the key got stuck.
34:53 No.
35:08 I'm heartbroken about this for him because you know,
35:12 do you remember when he when he played it
35:13 in rehearsal and he and the time this did not happen,
35:17 he was like one with the music and you could just see the feeling
35:24 and you could feel it and I he's got to be just dying right now.
35:28 One key got stuck in the bandoneon and then it's like,
35:32 you know, having a note that it doesn't belong and needed to adapt.
35:36 Had not it been for that little key, it would have been an amazing performance.
35:42 A good metaphor can be a really, really great storytelling device.
35:47 But when you only have 6 minutes,
35:49 it just can sometimes feel like you're packing so much into one talk.
35:59 With the show's finale coming to an end,
36:01 the audience steps away considering which
36:04 performance they think stole the stage.
36:07 I thought the event was really mind-blowing.
36:09 I mean, I've been to TED Talks, but this was even a a level higher up.
36:14 Seems really well curated.
36:16 Like there were no overlaps and all the talks were amazing.
36:20 Nice ideas, original ideas that are from Argentinians,
36:24 but could really apply to to all around the world.
36:31 Yael was my favorite.
36:33 She speaks from her heart and she looks like so natural.
36:40 Alejandro and Vanessa that talk about surgery and sensitivity and how
36:46 we are humans and we can also work with robots.
36:50 It was an amazing idea.
36:51 He also played the bandoneon and so the the comparison uh the analogy
36:55 between medicine and uh the human touch with the bandoneon was really enjoyable.
37:01 Well, I like very much the polarization of politics of Joaquin Navajas.
37:08 Yael, she was so clear and so powerful.
37:12 Joaquin because the issue of the value of polarization besides all
37:18 the negative parts of polarization is that conflict is reviving democracy.
37:25 I would pick uh Yael,
37:27 the girl who spoke about you know this conflict resolution through social media.
37:34 But it's the TED panel who must decide which idea
37:38 and speaker will go on to take the TED main stage.
37:41 Incredible.
37:43 Wasn't it?
37:44 Let's bring them all to Vancouver.
37:45 I so agree.
37:48 Every speaker was just the top of the top.
37:50 They were incredible today.
37:54 They were.
37:54 And you guys we have a decision to make and it is not going to be easy.
38:01 Okay.
38:02 Joaquin.
38:03 Joaquin is viral material on a YouTube Your eyes are on fire.
38:10 love his talk.
38:11 Like I think polarization is such a word that like is thrown
38:13 around so often and it's just it always has this negative connotation.
38:18 Yeah.
38:18 The interesting thing is it has deep science behind it.
38:21 He tells it in a very compelling way.
38:23 You can imagine this talk really sparking discussion.
38:27 I wonder if the 6-minute talk included enough science
38:33 to really get him over the finish line here.
38:35 Mhm.
38:35 That's a good concern.
38:37 That's a good concern.
38:38 Martina Floor.
38:39 Mhm.
38:40 Love her.
38:40 You love her.
38:41 Yeah, we love her.
38:42 We all love her.
38:43 It's I mean, she improved so much from rehearsal yesterday
38:46 where yesterday she was like you could tell she was nervous.
38:48 Yeah.
38:49 Yeah.
38:49 And today it was like It went very smoothly.
38:52 Went so smoothly.
38:52 And she had so many slides to click through.
38:54 Like that's hard.
38:55 You'll see the world in in a different way after listening to her talk.
38:59 My question is is this idea big enough?
39:01 I am not sure.
39:03 So, Alejandro, you guys.
39:04 He's good.
39:05 He's great and his instrument is amazing.
39:07 It got stuck.
39:08 It got stuck during his performance.
39:10 I wonder on this one if it was too much to try to fit into 6 minutes again.
39:16 Maybe.
39:16 You know, this Yeah.
39:17 Yael.
39:19 What a performance.
39:20 What a what a delivery.
39:21 Yeah, the delivery was perfect.
39:23 The idea of memes as a diplomatic channel I think is incredible.
39:28 And and I think she can bring a young perspective to a hard topic.
39:34 Maybe they don't say explicitly what her idea was,
39:37 but I think a lot of young people kind of know what she was talking about.
39:40 So, I wonder if this is a new idea to everyone.
39:43 Well, guys, that was tough, but I think we've made our decision.
39:47 I think we we have.
39:49 Should we go tell them?
39:50 Absolutely.
39:50 Let's let's go.
39:53 Deliberation complete and decision made.
39:56 And for one lucky speaker, their lives are about to be changed forever.
40:05 Speakers, congratulations because you all just did something so huge.
40:10 Huge congratulations to ALL OF YOU.
40:16 THE THE LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT AS I think you all could tell.
40:19 I mean people were very very very into each and every one of these talks.
40:25 Even though one person goes to Vancouver each and every
40:28 one of your talks is going to find its audience online.
40:31 We will make sure it is spread because every single
40:33 one deserves to be heard and deserves the biggest audience.
40:37 But we did have to choose just one person who will
40:43 go on to take the main stage at TED in Vancouver.
40:48 And the winner is Joaquin!
41:07 I'M SURPRISED.
41:08 IT'S LIKE A SALAD OF EMOTIONS.
41:10 I I I I don't really know how to express IT BUT OVERJOYED.
41:16 HIS WORK shows us a totally new way of thinking about polarization.
41:22 I could not be more excited for him as the winner.
41:28 His talk to me is something I truly want to spread.
41:32 You know, I think everyone needs to hear that message.
41:34 Joaquin's talk could start conversations in a better way
41:38 but sometimes academics we stay kind of like in a bubble
41:42 but now I have an amazing opportunity to to break
41:45 that bubble and try to spread my idea.
41:47 Joaquin!
41:52 With Joaquin winning the opportunity of a lifetime
41:54 and a spot on the TED main stage,
41:57 the curtain finally falls on our time here in Buenos Aires.
42:00 But the TED Idea Search continues.
42:04 Next time we arrive in a city where history and modern thinking meet.
42:08 Our final destination, Amman.
42:10 It's just so exciting.
42:12 Everything in my life has led me to this moment.
42:15 Ooh, see I forgot this.
42:16 I feel really nervous for them.
42:18 They're a mirror into the deep inequality shaping our world.
42:22 Sorry, emotion again.
42:23 It is wild out there.
42:25 How am I going to go through life again?
42:27 How am I going to move forward?
42:28 I died.
42:29 I died.
42:30 Oh.
42:31 God damn.