2024-08-12
30 分钟How often do you use your imagination? Anab Jain is on a mission to help us all dream bigger. As the co-founder and director of Superflux (a design and experience-creation company), she creates spaces and events that help people see, touch, and feel potential futures they may not have ever considered. In this episode, she discusses why exploring ideas that challenge your current reality can help you envision–and create–a brighter future.For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts
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I can remember when I was a little kid hearing so much about the invention of the Segway scooter.
There was all this talk about how the Segway was going to be the future of mobility and transportation would never be the same.
Cars were going to become obsolete as we each zipped about in our own personal mobility device.
Wed climb stairs without ever bending our knees, and city streets would be silent except for the sounds of laughter and friendly hellos.
Well, I think its fair to say that that has not panned out.
Transportation successfully held out against the revolutionary power of the Segway scooter.
And whether it is flying cars or VR headsets or giant two wheeled electric scooters, theres often a lot of talk about what the world is going to look like in the future.
And the truth is that there are always multiple possibilities, right?
Which hypothetical future world is the one that we are going to end up living in?
So many of our biggest decisions and our most important life choices are based on us trying to figure out the answers to those questions.
Todays guest, Anab Jain, spends her days trying to separate out signals from noise when it comes to predicting the future.
And on todays episode, shes going to share her strategies and her philosophy about planning and predicting for the worlds that may be coming down the road.
Heres a clip from her TED talk.
I visit the future for a living.
Not just one future, but many possible futures, bringing back evidences from those futures for you to experience today, like an archaeologist of the future.
Over the years, my many journeys have brought back things like a new species of synthetically engineered bees, a book named pets as protein, a machine that makes you rich by trading your genetic data, a lamp powered by sugar, a computer for growing food.
Okay, so I don't actually travel to different futures yet, but my husband John and I spend a lot of time thinking and creating visions of different futures.