Next civilization: Dirk Helbing at TEDxMartigny

Dirk Helbing was born on January 19, 1965. He studied Physics and Mathematics, but was always interested in other fields of science as well. In the year 2000, he became Professor and Managing Director of the Institute for Transport & Economics at Dresden University of Technology, and in 2007 he was appointed Professor of Sociology, in particular of Modeling and Simulation, at ETH Zürich. Since 2008, he is elected member of the German Academy of Sciences "Leopoldina".
More than 200 publications in different scientific fields, 300 talks and more than 300 reports in the public media reflect his wide field of interest, reaching from traffic science over crowds and disaster management to biologically inspired logistics. He also had projects with Xerox PARC, Volkswagen, SCA Packaging, Siemens, PTV, further companies, and various foundations.
Helbings team developed a traffic assistance system and patented the principle of a self-organized traffic light control, which implements massively parallel, decentralized control concepts for the optimization of traffic flows. The resulting increase of performance and the higher flexibility are based on latest developments in the understanding of complex systems. Companies and societies are other examples of such complex systems. This is also the reason why Dirk Helbing is interested in sociology.
As scientific coordinator of the FuturICT project, he is promoting the collaboration of natural, social and engineering sciences to address the challenges of the complex and strongly interdependent global techno-socio-economic-environmental systems we have created. He believes that we need to develop a global systems science, a new data science and a systemic risk calculus. Therefore, he is also the founding vice chairman and strategic head of the ETH Risk Center.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

[Airbiscuitmaker]

Why hasn't this presentation have at least a million views? The message is quite of importance here.

[BrutusAlbion]

Terrible presentation skills but a genius in every other way!

You can't be the whole package but this man deserves a standing ovation for redeveloping the way we COULD and SHOULD organize our constantly increasing complex society.

You my man are a hero!

(tis a shame you didn't get more cheers, they are all fools who couldn't see how awesome your idea was simply because you had no strong charismatic appeal. Well fuck that. Truth always trumps bullshit!)

[l-y-d-s]

omg I burst out laughing at the paper break at the end, so corny. But besides that the message of this video is the most important message in the whole world bar none.