TED march 31, 2011

Sebastian Thrun : Google's driverless car
-The reason that he started this project is that he lost his best friend in the car accident. He knows that he can not bring his friend back but he wants to save other peoples' lives by make this.
- many teenagers lose their lives due to car accidents and the cause of car accident is human's error, not because of machine.
- so they made one and did a test drive and it seemed quite successful
- I heard and saw many stories about a car accident and how it can terribly change many peoples' lives. It is really easy for humans to make a mistake, but when we are driving, these mistakes become quite deadly and fatal. It would be really great if computers can drive a car for us. It would be much more safer and we can even save our time. I remember my mom had to spend a lot of her time to just give me a ride and even had to wait for me when I am late. I bet driverless car will save many parents' time. furthermore, now adults can drink alcohol as much as they want if they have a driverless car.
- However, side effects of these cars are that police won't be able to make money from drivers and many car auto body shop will have to close their businesses.
-"convinience" this invention will make our lives much easier




Patricia Ryan: Don't insist on English!
world languages
-today : 6,000
-in 90 year : 600
-she wants to talk about language loss and globalization of english
-it is really important to communicate across generation
-sadly, today language are dying at a dramatic rate
-according to world university ranking, highest universities are to be found in the universitied of the UK and the US, so everybody wants to have an english education
-but if you are not a native speaker, you have to pass a test;, can it be right to reject a student just because of their linguistic ability? and her answer is no
- she believes that computer scientist, who might be genius does not need the same language as a lawyer.
- she is not against teaching english, global language is needed more than ever; however, she is against using as a barrier.
- For example, Einstein did not have to pass the english test, infact, his english skill was quite poor.
-Test itself cost around $200 and immediatly it becomes a barrier against millions of poor people. we are immediatly rejecting poor people.
- she wants to celebrate diversity
- just because of that test, we can never know what they know.
- this TED talk touch my heart and I can relate a lot to this ted talk because I am not a native speaker. I know that can not express my thoughts many times due to my lack of english skill.
- I love her idea but what can I do. I am going to live in Canada, so I just have to get close with english.
-"Unfairness" life itself is unfair. All I can do is to try my best in my situation.