Ideas change everything

Why we need to imagine different futures

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Anab Jain |

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• April 2017

Anab Jain brings the future to life, creating experiences where people can touch, see and feel the potential of the world we're creating. Do we want a world where intelligent machines patrol our streets, for instance, or where our genetic heritage determines our health care? Jain's projects show why it's important to fight for the world we want. Catch a glimpse of possible futures in this eye-opening talk.

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Anab Jain brings the future to life, creating experiences where people can touch, see and feel the potential of the world we're creating. Do we want a world where intelligent machines patrol our streets, for instance, or where our genetic heritage determines our health care? Jain's projects show why it's important to fight for the world we want. Catch a glimpse of possible futures in this eye-opening talk.

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About the speaker

Futurist, designer

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TED Fellow Anab Jain imagines and builds future worlds we can experience in the present moment. By creating new ways of seeing, being and acting, she inspires and challenges us to look critically at the decisions and choices we make today.

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TED Radio Hour

Listen TED Radio Hour: "Future Consequences." From data collection to gene editing to AI, what we once considered science fiction is now becoming reality. Anab Jain, Juan Enriquez, Paul Knoepfler and Sam Harris explore the future consequences of our present actions.

"An unsettling peek into the reality of life in 2050"

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