How a geospatial nervous system could help us design a better future | Jack Dangermond

What if we could better understand the world's biggest challenges simply by looking at a map? Jack Dangermond, a pioneer in geographic information system (GIS) technology that powers the digital maps people around the world use every day, speaks with TED technology curator Simone Ross about how his team is building a geospatial nervous system: a global, interconnected GIS network that reveals patterns, visualizes trends -- and could transform the way we make decisions about nearly everything.

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[scatton]

Very interesting. It would be useful to see an example. He kept on talking about visualising something without showing us any visuals.

[Dionyzos]

This talk would benefit greatly from a presentation. It's hard to imagine what GIS is without any experience. They're talking about visualization without visualization.

[Puckluck]

I wish we could use this for educational purposes where all ppl could share their knowledge and use it for our children but also for everyone that just wants to learn something new, and hopefully get away from the for profit educational system that we have, cause the more ppl in the world can learn the better chance humanity has to survive.

[CorporateRowingNZ]

An absolute genius human that's contributions to climate change cannot be understated! BRILLIANT story, thank you!

[varadasukanya]

That's a great talk regarding geospatial system.. This is something different which I gain some knowledge about demographics . Thanks TED!

[ToriBailey]

How would you like to see an individual become a part of this to change society Jack? I've had this idea the last year and it took this long to find you. Should individuals be using youtube more to take advantage of googles AI?

[ytubeanon]

they say a picture is worth a thousand words _for a reason_

[eternaldoorman]

I remember TED talks being by people who had something to say.

[SashaTownsendTulsa]

This is excellent! If you think he has Zoomed out too much (if you’re one of those who doesn’t get it), think of concrete examples and you’ll see...

When different specialists use the tools of their field to analyze and attempt to solve problems, the solutions are limited by their training and the tunnel vision of that particular domain. When we look at multiple domains and think holistically, we come up with better solutions. It seems obvious - but it’s so infrequently done that it’s worth emphasizing.

I’d love to see how GIS could be applied to increase equity in K-12 education.

[LostMekka]

Wow. I didn't think that GPT-3 could also do so convincing faces...

[NielvanSteenderen]

Now that is some real system wide thinking, where Earth is the system. Very interesting.

[earthgirl]

The biggest failure of the current educational system is instead of bringing up systems thinkers and multidisciplinarians it manufactures workers to make the money world go around for the wealthy. He missed the most important that it's not the change of technology we need; despite a huge number of techs that always promise to save the world we haven't solved any of the existential crises we've been facing for decades. In fact, techs in the money world just exacerbated those crises. What we really need is a change in our value system.

[Rezin_]

Pokémon Go....just tied into everyday things....augmented reality based on geographic location...

Another dimension of real-estate 🙌🤯❤ been on that idea for a few years

[Rezin_]

When will we see advertisements through our camera view finder....🙌 steal my idea

[gloriac.]

this was uploaded 20 minutes ago, it’s 22 minutes long, and y’all already formed opinions😭 guess I’m behind the curve

[Thematrix]

I pray for everyone’s success on YouTube

[jamielynnmanago]

I really liked this Topic it was very interesting

[Vctoria]

So investing takes another huge leap forward. Investors using this technology will be able to understand trends and potentials far more accurately and granularly than ever before.

[oscarzpeart]

The world is just fine, It
/ civilization in the pickle

[JackSparrow-reql]

Great; more power and control for governments and corporations... just what we fucking need...